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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 233 128 156
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 7.81% 8.80% 5.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.60% 32.82% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 80 116
10th Percentile £325 £350 £328
25th Percentile £393 £443 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £606
90th Percentile £650 £604 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 8
10th Percentile £37.44 - £59.38
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £67.50
90th Percentile £82.70 - £70.50
South East median hourly rate £50.25 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.67% -13.46% +178.97%

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 547 390 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.32% 26.82% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 248 358
10th Percentile £306 £360 £337
25th Percentile £392 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £608
90th Percentile £638 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.20% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 30
10th Percentile £29.47 £25.55 £33.94
25th Percentile £43.81 £35.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £58.12 £58.40
Median % change year-on-year -7.52% -0.47% +2.67%
75th Percentile £82.19 £65.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.40 £67.63
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +12.00%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -3 152 £439 -12.30% 61
Oxfordshire +7 41 £575 +37.31% 61
Buckinghamshire -15 40 £525 +50.00% 31
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 11 (4.72%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.72%) WebSphere
2 4 (1.72%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.86%) Apache
3 2 (0.86%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.86%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.86%) JBoss
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.86%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.58%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 100 (42.92%) Azure
2 77 (33.05%) AWS
3 44 (18.88%) GCP
4 20 (8.58%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.58%) GitHub
7 10 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (4.29%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.00%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.15%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.15%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (2.15%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.72%) Datadog
10 4 (1.72%) dbt
10 4 (1.72%) SaaS
10 4 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.29%) BGP
2 9 (3.86%) MPLS
2 9 (3.86%) Network Security
2 9 (3.86%) WAN
3 8 (3.43%) Wireshark
4 7 (3.00%) Firewall
5 6 (2.58%) 5G
5 6 (2.58%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (2.58%) LAN
5 6 (2.58%) LTE
5 6 (2.58%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (2.58%) VoLTE
5 6 (2.58%) VoWiFi
6 5 (2.15%) SSH
7 4 (1.72%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.29%) DNS
8 3 (1.29%) HTTP
8 3 (1.29%) SNMP
8 3 (1.29%) SSL
8 3 (1.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.73%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.01%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.58%) MySQL
4 13 (5.58%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.00%) Big Data
5 7 (3.00%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.00%) Power BI
6 5 (2.15%) Tableau
7 4 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.72%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.29%) Parquet
9 2 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.86%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (11.16%) Git
2 11 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.43%) GitLab
4 4 (1.72%) Jaeger
4 4 (1.72%) JIRA
5 2 (0.86%) Introscope
5 2 (0.86%) MLflow
6 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.43%) JMeter
6 1 (0.43%) JUnit
6 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.43%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Storybook
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.31%) Public Sector
3 36 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.73%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.15%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.72%) Aerospace
6 4 (1.72%) Military
7 3 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.86%) Advertising
8 2 (0.86%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (16.74%) Senior
2 38 (16.31%) Developer
3 28 (12.02%) Python Developer
4 19 (8.15%) Data Engineer
4 19 (8.15%) SIEM Engineer
5 10 (4.29%) Analyst
5 10 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (3.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (3.86%) Senior Developer
6 9 (3.86%) Site Engineer
7 8 (3.43%) Architect
7 8 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (3.00%) Data Scientist
8 7 (3.00%) DBA
8 7 (3.00%) IAM Specialist
9 6 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.58%) Security Engineer
9 6 (2.58%) Technical Support
9 6 (2.58%) Tester
10 5 (2.15%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.15%) .NET
1 19 (8.15%) LDAP
1 19 (8.15%) RESTful
2 12 (5.15%) FastAPI
3 11 (4.72%) OAuth
3 11 (4.72%) REST
3 11 (4.72%) Web Services
4 10 (4.29%) Kafka
5 9 (3.86%) OAuth2
5 9 (3.86%) SailPoint
6 8 (3.43%) Flask
6 8 (3.43%) Middleware
6 8 (3.43%) OpenID
6 8 (3.43%) React
6 8 (3.43%) SAML
7 7 (3.00%) Loki
7 7 (3.00%) OpenAPI
7 7 (3.00%) Pandas
7 7 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (3.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.16%) Onboarding
2 28 (12.02%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.73%) Cloud Native
4 15 (6.44%) Algorithms
5 14 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.29%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.00%) Cyber Security Posture
9 6 (2.58%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.15%) Clustering
10 5 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.15%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.72%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.29%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.86%) Replication
13 2 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 57 (24.46%) Linux
2 35 (15.02%) Windows
3 34 (14.59%) Unix
4 11 (4.72%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (30.90%) CI/CD
2 66 (28.33%) DevOps
3 63 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (24.03%) SIEM
5 43 (18.45%) Analytics
6 35 (15.02%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (14.16%) Runbook
8 28 (12.02%) Computer Science
9 26 (11.16%) Machine Learning
10 25 (10.73%) High Availability
11 24 (10.30%) Agile
11 24 (10.30%) AI
11 24 (10.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (9.87%) Change Control
12 23 (9.87%) ITSM
13 22 (9.44%) Data Science
13 22 (9.44%) Microservices
14 21 (9.01%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (8.58%) Information Security
15 20 (8.58%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (40.77%) PowerShell
2 43 (18.45%) SQL
3 34 (14.59%) Bash
4 30 (12.88%) Go
5 22 (9.44%) Java
6 18 (7.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 17 (7.30%) JavaScript
8 15 (6.44%) C#
9 11 (4.72%) Perl
10 5 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.15%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.86%) Bicep
12 2 (0.86%) Jython
12 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.86%) R
12 2 (0.86%) Rust
12 2 (0.86%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 118 (50.64%) Security Cleared
2 99 (42.49%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.30%) Degree
4 22 (9.44%) CISSP
5 13 (5.58%) CISM
6 12 (5.15%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.86%) CEH
7 9 (3.86%) GIAC
8 8 (3.43%) CCIE
8 8 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.00%) JNCIE
10 6 (2.58%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.15%) RHCE
12 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (17.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (17.17%) NIST
3 18 (7.73%) GDPR
4 12 (5.15%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.58%) SLA
6 5 (2.15%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.72%) GRC
7 4 (1.72%) QA
8 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.43%) JTAG
8 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (18.03%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.30%) Docker
3 2 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (21.03%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.44%) Terraform
3 19 (8.15%) Ansible
4 15 (6.44%) Grafana
4 15 (6.44%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.43%) Kibana
6 6 (2.58%) Rancher
7 4 (1.72%) Argo
7 4 (1.72%) Istio
7 4 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.29%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.29%) Nessus
8 3 (1.29%) OpenVAS
9 2 (0.86%) CA Wily
9 2 (0.86%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (13.30%) BeyondTrust
1 31 (13.30%) CyberArk
2 30 (12.88%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.58%) Oracle
4 15 (6.44%) Databricks
5 10 (4.29%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.29%) Tanium
6 8 (3.43%) Splunk
7 7 (3.00%) FireEye
7 7 (3.00%) Nokia
8 6 (2.58%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.58%) BT
8 6 (2.58%) Ericsson
8 6 (2.58%) Huawei
9 5 (2.15%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.72%) Cisco
10 4 (1.72%) IBM
10 4 (1.72%) Juniper
10 4 (1.72%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.29%) Fortinet