Python Contracts in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 36 24
Rank change year-on-year +19 -12 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 143 139 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.46% 5.17% 7.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.02% 26.08% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 101 167
10th Percentile £350 £359 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £638 £675 £735
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - £61.25 £15.60
25th Percentile - - £19.49
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £41.03
Median % change year-on-year - +58.44% -
75th Percentile - £67.50 £64.41
90th Percentile - £71.50 £71.21
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -13.46% +49.43% +19.18%

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 397 533 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.27% 19.84% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 364 521
10th Percentile £350 £352 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £700 £668 £680
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 20
10th Percentile £26.49 £33.94 £25.64
25th Percentile £40.75 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.30 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +2.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.00 £76.61
90th Percentile £70.25 £67.63 £79.41
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +26 125 £500 - 154
Buckinghamshire -6 14 £400 -27.27% 130
Oxfordshire +3 6 £393 -31.74% 124
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (11.19%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.40%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) CATIA
2 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (55.94%) Azure
2 44 (30.77%) AWS
3 32 (22.38%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (14.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (13.29%) GCP
5 19 (13.29%) GitHub
6 17 (11.89%) Serverless
7 13 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (8.39%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (6.29%) Azure AKS
9 9 (6.29%) Azure API Management
9 9 (6.29%) Entra ID
10 8 (5.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.90%) Azure Functions
12 6 (4.20%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (4.20%) Power Platform
12 6 (4.20%) Snowflake
13 5 (3.50%) IaaS
13 5 (3.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.69%) BGP
2 10 (6.99%) TCP/IP
3 9 (6.29%) Firewall
3 9 (6.29%) VLAN
4 6 (4.20%) MPLS
4 6 (4.20%) Network Security
5 5 (3.50%) OSPF
5 5 (3.50%) VPN
6 2 (1.40%) BIG-IP
6 2 (1.40%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (1.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (1.40%) SSL
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.70%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.69%) Big Data
2 14 (9.79%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (8.39%) Data Lake
4 11 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (6.99%) MongoDB
6 9 (6.29%) NoSQL
6 9 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (6.29%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.90%) MySQL
7 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.20%) Power BI
9 5 (3.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.50%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.80%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.10%) Tableau
12 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.40%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (21.68%) Git
2 22 (15.38%) Selenium
3 9 (6.29%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.20%) GitLab
5 5 (3.50%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.10%) JIRA
7 2 (1.40%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.40%) JMeter
7 2 (1.40%) JUnit
7 2 (1.40%) Metasploit
7 2 (1.40%) Mockito
8 1 (0.70%) CMake
8 1 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.70%) VectorCAST
General
1 36 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.29%) Telecoms
4 11 (7.69%) Finance
5 10 (6.99%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.50%) Electronics
6 5 (3.50%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.50%) Marketing
7 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.70%) Automotive
7 1 (0.70%) Games
7 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Publishing
7 1 (0.70%) Retail
7 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (24.48%) Developer
2 16 (11.19%) Azure Developer
3 15 (10.49%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (10.49%) Python Developer
4 14 (9.79%) Data Engineer
5 13 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Architect
8 9 (6.29%) Senior
9 8 (5.59%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 7 (4.90%) React Developer
10 7 (4.90%) Tester
11 6 (4.20%) Analyst
11 6 (4.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 5 (3.50%) Automation Tester
12 5 (3.50%) Consultant
12 5 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.19%) PySpark
2 11 (7.69%) JSON
3 10 (6.99%) React
4 9 (6.29%) .NET
5 8 (5.59%) ADO
5 8 (5.59%) HTML
6 6 (4.20%) CSS
6 6 (4.20%) OAuth
6 6 (4.20%) REST
7 4 (2.80%) Django
7 4 (2.80%) FastAPI
7 4 (2.80%) Kafka
7 4 (2.80%) RESTful
7 4 (2.80%) scikit-learn
7 4 (2.80%) TensorFlow
8 3 (2.10%) Apache Axis
8 3 (2.10%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.10%) OpenID
8 3 (2.10%) SOAP
8 3 (2.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.89%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.39%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.20%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.80%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.40%) CMDB
9 2 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.40%) Replication
9 2 (1.40%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.70%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.99%) Windows
2 15 (10.49%) Linux
3 8 (5.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.50%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.80%) Unix
6 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.70%) Android
7 1 (0.70%) CentOS
7 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.66%) DevOps
2 48 (33.57%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (27.97%) CI/CD
4 33 (23.08%) Agile
5 26 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 26 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 19 (13.29%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (12.59%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (11.89%) Data Modelling
9 16 (11.19%) Migration
10 15 (10.49%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (10.49%) Data Engineering
10 15 (10.49%) ETL
10 15 (10.49%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (10.49%) LLM
11 14 (9.79%) Configuration Management
11 14 (9.79%) Machine Learning
11 14 (9.79%) Microservices
12 13 (9.09%) High Availability
12 13 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.66%) SQL
2 33 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 28 (19.58%) Java
4 21 (14.69%) Bash
5 16 (11.19%) C#
6 15 (10.49%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.59%) Bicep
8 5 (3.50%) R
9 4 (2.80%) C++
9 4 (2.80%) Ruby
9 4 (2.80%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.10%) C
11 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.70%) ABAP
12 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.70%) Magik
12 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.70%) Scala
12 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (7.69%) Degree
2 9 (6.29%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.59%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.20%) CCNP
4 6 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.50%) CISSP
5 5 (3.50%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.80%) CCSA
6 4 (2.80%) CCSE
6 4 (2.80%) Check Point Certification
7 3 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.40%) GCIH
8 2 (1.40%) GPEN
8 2 (1.40%) GWAPT
8 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.40%) OSCE
8 2 (1.40%) OSCP
9 1 (0.70%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.59%) QA
2 11 (7.69%) GDPR
3 8 (5.59%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.70%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 20 (13.99%) Docker
2 13 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (15.38%) Ansible
2 17 (11.89%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.79%) Terraform
4 5 (3.50%) Puppet
5 3 (2.10%) Grafana
5 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.40%) Kibana
6 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.40%) SCCM
6 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.40%) WSUS
7 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 30 (20.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.99%) Databricks
3 9 (6.29%) OpenAI
4 8 (5.59%) Cisco
5 6 (4.20%) SAP
6 5 (3.50%) Virgin Media
7 4 (2.80%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.80%) Foundry
7 4 (2.80%) Palantir
7 4 (2.80%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.80%) Splunk
8 3 (2.10%) F5
8 3 (2.10%) Google
9 2 (1.40%) BMC
9 2 (1.40%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.40%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.40%) Remedy
10 1 (0.70%) Citrix
10 1 (0.70%) Juniper
10 1 (0.70%) VMware