Python Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 19 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 249 135 152
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 8.00% 9.01% 5.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.38% 33.33% 28.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 82 113
10th Percentile £339 £350 £360
25th Percentile £400 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £571 £623
90th Percentile £650 £600 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 7
10th Percentile £40.62 - £57.50
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £81.60 - £66.25
90th Percentile £84.00 - £71.50
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -13.46% +165.74%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 574 405 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.43% 27.02% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 250 370
10th Percentile £310 £325 £362
25th Percentile £394 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.45% -2.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 30
10th Percentile £26.58 £23.67 £33.94
25th Percentile £43.81 £27.90 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £42.00 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -28.19% +2.84%
75th Percentile £82.25 £59.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.16 £70.47
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £54.94 £62.50
% change year-on-year +9.22% -12.10% +10.68%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -2 161 £492 -1.60% 43
Oxfordshire +4 45 £592 +41.37% 34
Buckinghamshire -16 43 £525 +31.25% 23
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.22%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.61%) WebSphere
2 4 (1.61%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.80%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.80%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.80%) JBoss
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.61%) CPLEX
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 115 (46.18%) Azure
2 88 (35.34%) AWS
3 49 (19.68%) GCP
4 21 (8.43%) Entra ID
5 16 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.82%) GitHub
6 12 (4.82%) OpenShift
7 10 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.21%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.41%) dbt
10 6 (2.41%) Route 53
11 5 (2.01%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.01%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.61%) SaaS
12 4 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.43%) BGP
2 15 (6.02%) Firewall
3 13 (5.22%) MPLS
3 13 (5.22%) WAN
4 12 (4.82%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.02%) DNS
5 10 (4.02%) LAN
6 8 (3.21%) Wireshark
7 6 (2.41%) 5G
7 6 (2.41%) Diameter Protocol
7 6 (2.41%) DNSSEC
7 6 (2.41%) LTE
7 6 (2.41%) Radio Access Network
7 6 (2.41%) VoLTE
7 6 (2.41%) VoWiFi
8 5 (2.01%) DHCP
8 5 (2.01%) SSH
8 5 (2.01%) VPN
9 4 (1.61%) Network Security
9 4 (1.61%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.83%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.22%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.42%) MySQL
6 10 (4.02%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.21%) Power BI
8 7 (2.81%) Big Data
9 6 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.41%) Tableau
10 5 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.61%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.20%) Parquet
13 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.80%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (10.44%) Git
2 12 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.81%) GitLab
4 6 (2.41%) JIRA
5 4 (1.61%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.80%) Introscope
7 2 (0.80%) MLflow
8 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.40%) JMeter
8 1 (0.40%) JUnit
8 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.40%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.40%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Developer 2000
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.40%) Storybook
General
1 76 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.27%) Public Sector
3 41 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (14.86%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (3.61%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.21%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.61%) Military
8 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.80%) Advertising
9 2 (0.80%) Marketing
9 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Finance
Job Titles
1 42 (16.87%) Senior
2 40 (16.06%) Developer
3 31 (12.45%) Python Developer
4 22 (8.84%) Data Engineer
5 18 (7.23%) Architect
6 13 (5.22%) SIEM Engineer
7 11 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (4.02%) Analyst
8 10 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (3.61%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (3.61%) Network Architect
9 9 (3.61%) Site Engineer
10 8 (3.21%) Senior Developer
11 7 (2.81%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.81%) DBA
12 6 (2.41%) IP Architect
12 6 (2.41%) Tester
13 5 (2.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.01%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.84%) RESTful
2 20 (8.03%) LDAP
3 19 (7.63%) .NET
4 15 (6.02%) FastAPI
5 13 (5.22%) Kafka
5 13 (5.22%) OAuth
6 12 (4.82%) REST
7 11 (4.42%) Flask
7 11 (4.42%) OAuth2
7 11 (4.42%) PySpark
7 11 (4.42%) SailPoint
7 11 (4.42%) Web Services
8 10 (4.02%) OpenAPI
8 10 (4.02%) OpenID
8 10 (4.02%) Pandas
8 10 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (4.02%) SAML
8 10 (4.02%) Swagger
9 9 (3.61%) Django
9 9 (3.61%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.46%) Onboarding
2 31 (12.45%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (9.24%) Cloud Native
4 19 (7.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (7.23%) Algorithms
6 12 (4.82%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.61%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.01%) Clustering
9 5 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.01%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.20%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.20%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (24.50%) Linux
2 42 (16.87%) Windows
3 36 (14.46%) Unix
4 12 (4.82%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (28.51%) CI/CD
3 67 (26.91%) DevOps
4 52 (20.88%) SIEM
5 51 (20.48%) Analytics
6 40 (16.06%) Runbook
7 35 (14.06%) Computer Science
8 34 (13.65%) Agile
9 33 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
10 30 (12.05%) Change Control
11 29 (11.65%) High Availability
11 29 (11.65%) ITSM
12 27 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (10.44%) AI
13 26 (10.44%) Machine Learning
13 26 (10.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (9.64%) Data Science
14 24 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (8.84%) Information Security
16 21 (8.43%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 99 (39.76%) PowerShell
2 48 (19.28%) SQL
3 39 (15.66%) Bash
4 30 (12.05%) Go
5 21 (8.43%) Java
6 15 (6.02%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.62%) C#
8 12 (4.82%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (3.61%) Perl
10 5 (2.01%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.01%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.20%) R
11 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.80%) Bicep
12 2 (0.80%) Jython
12 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.80%) Scala
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 125 (50.20%) Security Cleared
2 104 (41.77%) SC Cleared
3 38 (15.26%) Degree
4 19 (7.63%) CISSP
5 14 (5.62%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.82%) CCIE
6 12 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (4.82%) CISM
7 10 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.61%) JNCIE
9 8 (3.21%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.81%) RHCE
11 6 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.61%) CEH
12 4 (1.61%) GIAC
13 3 (1.20%) CCNP
14 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (18.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (18.07%) NIST
3 17 (6.83%) GDPR
4 15 (6.02%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.41%) QA
5 6 (2.41%) SLA
6 5 (2.01%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.61%) GRC
8 3 (1.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.40%) JTAG
System Software
1 47 (18.88%) Active Directory
2 21 (8.43%) Docker
3 2 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (18.47%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.65%) Terraform
3 25 (10.04%) Ansible
4 11 (4.42%) Grafana
4 11 (4.42%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.41%) Rancher
6 4 (1.61%) Argo
6 4 (1.61%) Istio
7 3 (1.20%) Kibana
7 3 (1.20%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.20%) Nessus
7 3 (1.20%) OpenVAS
7 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.20%) Puppet
7 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.80%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.80%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 41 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.65%) BeyondTrust
2 34 (13.65%) CyberArk
3 22 (8.84%) Oracle
4 18 (7.23%) Databricks
5 11 (4.42%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.61%) Google
7 7 (2.81%) Nokia
8 6 (2.41%) BT
8 6 (2.41%) Cisco
8 6 (2.41%) Ericsson
8 6 (2.41%) Huawei
8 6 (2.41%) Infoblox
9 5 (2.01%) F5
9 5 (2.01%) Splunk
9 5 (2.01%) Tanium
10 4 (1.61%) Arista
10 4 (1.61%) IBM
10 4 (1.61%) Juniper
10 4 (1.61%) OpenAI