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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 23 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 216 180 166
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 11.31% 8.37% 6.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.58% 33.52% 29.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 111 126
10th Percentile £385 £383 £338
25th Percentile £419 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £565 £638 £638
90th Percentile £600 £651 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £28.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -59.29% -
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year +3.45% -56.23% +1.92%

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 454 537 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 23.77% 24.98% 21.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 349 429
10th Percentile £340 £385 £325
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% - -
75th Percentile £565 £638 £615
90th Percentile £613 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £486 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 11
10th Percentile £24.38 £34.80 £32.32
25th Percentile £32.81 £55.87 £40.36
Median hourly rate £47.25 £57.62 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -17.99% +19.04% -21.30%
75th Percentile £61.31 £66.89 £55.31
90th Percentile £69.53 £76.13 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -13.67%

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 14 November 2025.

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
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 14 November 2025. 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 +7 167 £500 -11.11% 96
Buckinghamshire +13 40 £521 -5.27% 45
Oxfordshire -14 9 £500 - 108
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 16 (7.41%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.39%) Apache
5 2 (0.93%) Appian
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
5 2 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.46%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 92 (42.59%) AWS
2 83 (38.43%) Azure
3 47 (21.76%) GCP
4 20 (9.26%) GitHub
4 20 (9.26%) OpenShift
5 17 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (7.87%) Serverless
6 16 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (6.02%) Power Platform
8 11 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (4.63%) IaaS
10 8 (3.70%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.24%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (3.24%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (3.24%) dbt
12 6 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (2.31%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.31%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.48%) BGP
1 14 (6.48%) MPLS
2 13 (6.02%) WAN
3 12 (5.56%) LAN
4 11 (5.09%) Network Security
5 9 (4.17%) DNS
6 7 (3.24%) Firewall
6 7 (3.24%) SNMP
6 7 (3.24%) TACACS
6 7 (3.24%) Wireshark
7 6 (2.78%) OSPF
7 6 (2.78%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.78%) Wireless
8 5 (2.31%) SAN
9 3 (1.39%) 2G
9 3 (1.39%) 5G
9 3 (1.39%) HTTP
9 3 (1.39%) SSL
9 3 (1.39%) VoIP
10 2 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 17 (7.87%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.02%) Power BI
4 11 (5.09%) Big Data
4 11 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.63%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.63%) Tableau
6 9 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 8 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.24%) MySQL
9 6 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.31%) Couchbase
10 5 (2.31%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.85%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.93%) Redis
13 1 (0.46%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 18 (8.33%) Git
2 16 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.94%) JIRA
4 8 (3.70%) GitLab
5 7 (3.24%) Burp Suite
5 7 (3.24%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.93%) MLflow
6 2 (0.93%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.93%) Selenium
6 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) Mocha
General
1 103 (47.69%) Social Skills
2 52 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 18 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 8 (3.70%) Finance
5 8 (3.70%) Legal
6 3 (1.39%) Retail
7 2 (0.93%) Billing
8 1 (0.46%) Banking
8 1 (0.46%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (14.35%) Developer
2 26 (12.04%) Senior
3 19 (8.80%) Architect
4 17 (7.87%) Analyst
4 17 (7.87%) Data Engineer
4 17 (7.87%) Python Developer
5 16 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.02%) Data Scientist
7 12 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.63%) SOC Analyst
9 9 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.17%) Consultant
9 9 (4.17%) Senior Python Developer
9 9 (4.17%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (3.70%) SIEM Engineer
11 7 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.24%) IP Specialist
11 7 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.26%) REST
1 20 (9.26%) scikit-learn
2 16 (7.41%) PyTorch
3 14 (6.48%) Pandas
4 13 (6.02%) NumPy
5 11 (5.09%) LDAP
5 11 (5.09%) TensorFlow
6 10 (4.63%) NETCONF
6 10 (4.63%) PySpark
7 9 (4.17%) OAuth
7 9 (4.17%) YANG
8 8 (3.70%) FastAPI
8 8 (3.70%) Kafka
8 8 (3.70%) Loki
9 7 (3.24%) GraphQL
9 7 (3.24%) RESTful
10 6 (2.78%) JSON
10 6 (2.78%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.78%) React
11 5 (2.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.80%) Algorithms
3 14 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.70%) Cyber Security Posture
5 8 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.70%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.24%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.78%) Replication
7 6 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.39%) IoT
10 3 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.39%) PKI
11 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 60 (27.78%) Linux
2 21 (9.72%) Windows
3 13 (6.02%) Unix
4 8 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.24%) Kali Linux
5 7 (3.24%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.31%) Debian
6 5 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.46%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (44.91%) CI/CD
2 81 (37.50%) DevOps
3 72 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (17.59%) SIEM
5 36 (16.67%) Agile
5 36 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 31 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (14.35%) Machine Learning
7 30 (13.89%) Incident Response
8 28 (12.96%) Data Modelling
9 26 (12.04%) AI
10 25 (11.57%) Containerisation
10 25 (11.57%) Data Engineering
11 24 (11.11%) High Availability
12 23 (10.65%) Data Science
12 23 (10.65%) Validation
12 23 (10.65%) Visualisation
13 22 (10.19%) Test Automation
14 21 (9.72%) Computer Science
15 19 (8.80%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 58 (26.85%) SQL
2 54 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 40 (18.52%) Bash
4 25 (11.57%) Java
5 18 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.94%) R
7 14 (6.48%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.78%) Go
9 5 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.85%) C
10 4 (1.85%) C++
10 4 (1.85%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.39%) C#
11 3 (1.39%) PHP
12 2 (0.93%) Korn
12 2 (0.93%) Perl
13 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.46%) Ruby
13 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.39%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.89%) CISSP
4 25 (11.57%) Degree
5 18 (8.33%) CEH
6 17 (7.87%) AWS Certification
7 15 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (6.48%) CCIE
8 14 (6.48%) GIAC
9 13 (6.02%) JNCIE
10 12 (5.56%) CISM
10 12 (5.56%) GCFA
10 12 (5.56%) GCIA
10 12 (5.56%) GCIH
11 10 (4.63%) Master's Degree
12 8 (3.70%) CFCE
13 7 (3.24%) DV Cleared
13 7 (3.24%) GPEN
13 7 (3.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.35%) GDPR
2 27 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (12.04%) NIST
4 16 (7.41%) Data Quality
5 11 (5.09%) HIPAA
5 11 (5.09%) QA
6 5 (2.31%) EU AI Act
7 4 (1.85%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.93%) GRC
9 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (12.50%) Docker
2 19 (8.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (8.80%) vSphere
3 17 (7.87%) Active Directory
4 13 (6.02%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.46%) NDS
6 1 (0.46%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 48 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 37 (17.13%) Ansible
2 37 (17.13%) Terraform
3 15 (6.94%) Argo
4 10 (4.63%) Grafana
5 9 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.70%) Kustomize
7 7 (3.24%) Nmap
8 6 (2.78%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (2.31%) Kibana
10 4 (1.85%) QRadar
11 3 (1.39%) Podman
11 3 (1.39%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.93%) logstash
12 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.46%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.46%) Cisco UCCE
13 1 (0.46%) Puppet
13 1 (0.46%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (12.04%) Microsoft
1 26 (12.04%) VMware
2 22 (10.19%) Splunk
3 20 (9.26%) Red Hat
4 17 (7.87%) Databricks
5 12 (5.56%) ArcSight
6 11 (5.09%) BeyondTrust
6 11 (5.09%) Cisco
6 11 (5.09%) CyberArk
7 10 (4.63%) Google
8 9 (4.17%) Virgin Media
9 8 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (3.24%) F5
10 7 (3.24%) Fortinet
10 7 (3.24%) IBM
10 7 (3.24%) Juniper
10 7 (3.24%) LogRhythm
11 6 (2.78%) Pure Storage
12 5 (2.31%) Confluent
12 5 (2.31%) Tanium