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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 24 32
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 232 177 164
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 11.88% 8.27% 6.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.43% 33.15% 29.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 105 125
10th Percentile £376 £384 £335
25th Percentile £414 £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 £730
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 £27.75 -
Median hourly rate £79.50 £28.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +178.95% -59.29% -
75th Percentile £84.50 £29.25 -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year +81.03% -56.23% +5.22%

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 460 534 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 23.55% 24.94% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 342 425
10th Percentile £337 £386 £325
25th Percentile £406 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.98% - -
75th Percentile £562 £638 £620
90th Percentile £604 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £481 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -6.22% -2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 11
10th Percentile £34.13 £34.80 £32.32
25th Percentile £57.19 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £75.00 £57.62 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year +30.17% +15.86% -17.12%
75th Percentile £81.50 £66.89 £57.27
90th Percentile £84.20 £76.13 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 21 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 21 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 +10 180 £500 -11.11% 91
Buckinghamshire +12 42 £496 -9.82% 41
Oxfordshire -13 10 £500 - 102
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 15 (6.47%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.86%) Appian
5 2 (0.86%) Confluence
5 2 (0.86%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.86%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.43%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 103 (44.40%) AWS
2 94 (40.52%) Azure
3 52 (22.41%) GCP
4 20 (8.62%) GitHub
4 20 (8.62%) OpenShift
5 17 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (7.33%) Serverless
6 16 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (6.03%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (4.31%) IaaS
10 8 (3.45%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.02%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (3.02%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (3.02%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (3.02%) dbt
12 5 (2.16%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.16%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.03%) BGP
1 14 (6.03%) MPLS
2 13 (5.60%) DNS
2 13 (5.60%) WAN
3 12 (5.17%) LAN
4 11 (4.74%) Firewall
4 11 (4.74%) Network Security
5 10 (4.31%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.02%) SNMP
6 7 (3.02%) TACACS
6 7 (3.02%) Wireshark
7 6 (2.59%) OSPF
7 6 (2.59%) Wireless
8 5 (2.16%) SAN
9 4 (1.72%) DHCP
10 3 (1.29%) 2G
10 3 (1.29%) 5G
10 3 (1.29%) HTTP
10 3 (1.29%) SSL
10 3 (1.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.76%) Relational Database
2 17 (7.33%) NoSQL
3 14 (6.03%) Power BI
4 12 (5.17%) Big Data
5 11 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.31%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.31%) Tableau
7 8 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.02%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.02%) MySQL
9 6 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.59%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.16%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.86%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.86%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (7.76%) Git
2 16 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.47%) JIRA
4 8 (3.45%) GitLab
5 7 (3.02%) Burp Suite
5 7 (3.02%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.86%) MLflow
6 2 (0.86%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.86%) Selenium
6 2 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) Mocha
General
1 111 (47.84%) Social Skills
2 53 (22.84%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.76%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.31%) Finance
7 8 (3.45%) Legal
8 3 (1.29%) Billing
8 3 (1.29%) Retail
9 2 (0.86%) Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (13.79%) Senior
2 28 (12.07%) Developer
3 20 (8.62%) Architect
4 18 (7.76%) Data Engineer
5 17 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (7.33%) Python Developer
6 15 (6.47%) Analyst
6 15 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (6.03%) Data Scientist
8 12 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 12 (5.17%) SIEM Engineer
9 10 (4.31%) SOC Analyst
10 9 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.88%) Consultant
10 9 (3.88%) Senior Python Developer
10 9 (3.88%) Site Engineer
10 9 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.02%) IP Specialist
12 7 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.62%) REST
1 20 (8.62%) scikit-learn
2 18 (7.76%) LDAP
3 16 (6.90%) PyTorch
4 14 (6.03%) Pandas
5 13 (5.60%) NumPy
6 11 (4.74%) TensorFlow
7 10 (4.31%) NETCONF
7 10 (4.31%) PySpark
8 9 (3.88%) OAuth
8 9 (3.88%) YANG
9 8 (3.45%) FastAPI
9 8 (3.45%) Kafka
9 8 (3.45%) Loki
10 7 (3.02%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.02%) RESTful
11 6 (2.59%) JSON
11 6 (2.59%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.59%) React
12 5 (2.16%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.05%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.62%) Algorithms
3 16 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 14 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.45%) Cyber Security Posture
5 8 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.02%) PKI
6 7 (3.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.02%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.59%) Replication
8 5 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.72%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 63 (27.16%) Linux
2 26 (11.21%) Windows
3 13 (5.60%) Unix
4 8 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.02%) Kali Linux
5 7 (3.02%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.16%) Debian
6 5 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.43%) CentOS
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (45.26%) CI/CD
2 85 (36.64%) DevOps
3 80 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (22.41%) SIEM
5 46 (19.83%) Cybersecurity
6 38 (16.38%) Agile
7 35 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (13.79%) Machine Learning
9 30 (12.93%) Containerisation
10 29 (12.50%) Incident Response
11 28 (12.07%) Data Modelling
12 26 (11.21%) AI
13 25 (10.78%) Data Engineering
13 25 (10.78%) DevSecOps
14 24 (10.34%) Data Science
14 24 (10.34%) High Availability
14 24 (10.34%) Validation
14 24 (10.34%) Visualisation
15 22 (9.48%) Test Automation
16 21 (9.05%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 71 (30.60%) PowerShell
2 57 (24.57%) SQL
3 43 (18.53%) Bash
4 23 (9.91%) Java
5 16 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.03%) R
6 14 (6.03%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.59%) Go
7 6 (2.59%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.72%) C
8 4 (1.72%) C++
8 4 (1.72%) PHP
8 4 (1.72%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (1.29%) C#
10 2 (0.86%) Korn
10 2 (0.86%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.43%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (35.34%) Security Cleared
2 65 (28.02%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.52%) CISSP
4 25 (10.78%) Degree
5 21 (9.05%) AWS Certification
6 18 (7.76%) CEH
7 17 (7.33%) CISM
8 15 (6.47%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (6.47%) GIAC
9 14 (6.03%) CCIE
10 13 (5.60%) JNCIE
11 11 (4.74%) GCFA
11 11 (4.74%) GCIA
11 11 (4.74%) GCIH
12 10 (4.31%) Master's Degree
13 8 (3.45%) CFCE
14 7 (3.02%) DV Cleared
14 7 (3.02%) GPEN
14 7 (3.02%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.38%) GDPR
2 34 (14.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (14.22%) NIST
4 15 (6.47%) Data Quality
5 11 (4.74%) HIPAA
5 11 (4.74%) QA
6 5 (2.16%) EU AI Act
7 4 (1.72%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.86%) GRC
9 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (13.79%) Docker
2 28 (12.07%) Active Directory
3 23 (9.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (7.76%) vSphere
5 13 (5.60%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.72%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.43%) NDS
8 1 (0.43%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 52 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 41 (17.67%) Terraform
3 40 (17.24%) Ansible
4 15 (6.47%) Argo
5 10 (4.31%) Grafana
6 9 (3.88%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.45%) Kustomize
8 7 (3.02%) Nmap
9 6 (2.59%) Kibana
9 6 (2.59%) vCenter Server
10 5 (2.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (1.72%) QRadar
12 3 (1.29%) Podman
12 3 (1.29%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.86%) logstash
13 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.43%) Cisco UCCE
14 1 (0.43%) Puppet
14 1 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (12.93%) Microsoft
1 30 (12.93%) VMware
2 21 (9.05%) Splunk
3 20 (8.62%) Red Hat
4 18 (7.76%) BeyondTrust
4 18 (7.76%) CyberArk
4 18 (7.76%) Databricks
5 12 (5.17%) ArcSight
6 11 (4.74%) Cisco
7 10 (4.31%) Google
8 9 (3.88%) Virgin Media
9 8 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (3.45%) LogRhythm
10 7 (3.02%) F5
10 7 (3.02%) Fortinet
10 7 (3.02%) Juniper
11 6 (2.59%) FireEye
11 6 (2.59%) IBM
11 6 (2.59%) Pure Storage
11 6 (2.59%) Tanium