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 citing Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	27	13	26
Rank change year-on-year	-14	+13	+2
Contract jobs citing Python	215	203	173
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley	6.94%	11.46%	8.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category	41.67%	45.52%	33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted	134	132	107
10^th Percentile	£400	£393	£370
25^th Percentile	£490	£431	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+15.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£638	£565	£638
90^th Percentile	£784	£600	£651
South East median daily rate	£567	£500	£518
% change year-on-year	+13.30%	-3.38%	-1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted	25	0	1
10^th Percentile	£41.47	-	-
25^th Percentile	£63.50	-	£27.75
Median hourly rate	£75.00	-	£28.50
75^th Percentile	£83.62	-	£29.25
90^th Percentile	£88.24	-	-
South East median hourly rate	£68.22	-	£29.00
% change year-on-year	-	-	-57.04%

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 citing coding skills in the Thames Valley.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing coding skills	516	446	522
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley	16.66%	25.18%	24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted	335	281	339
10^th Percentile	£332	£350	£373
25^th Percentile	£428	£410	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-
75^th Percentile	£603	£558	£638
90^th Percentile	£700	£609	£663
South East median daily rate	£525	£492	£513
% change year-on-year	+6.65%	-3.95%	-2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted	36	2	11
10^th Percentile	£33.70	£24.38	£35.58
25^th Percentile	£39.91	£32.81	£55.87
Median hourly rate	£68.11	£47.25	£58.49
Median % change year-on-year	+44.14%	-19.22%	+20.85%
75^th Percentile	£77.50	£61.31	£72.28
90^th Percentile	£86.63	£69.53	£87.50
South East median hourly rate	£60.00	£55.00	£67.02
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	-17.93%	+21.85%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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 24 October 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.

Python Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 October 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 24 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Berkshire	-12	166	£555	+10.90%	134
Oxfordshire	+2	35	£750	+57.89%	169
Buckinghamshire	-44	14	£538	+3.17%	32
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Python Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Python also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region citing Python.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	54.4%	117
2	Security Cleared	41.9%	90
3	PowerShell	36.7%	79
4	DevOps	35.8%	77
5	SC Cleared	34.4%	74
6	CI/CD	32.6%	70
7	Microsoft	30.2%	65
8	AWS	29.3%	63
9	SQL	27.9%	60
10	Problem-Solving	26.0%	56
11	Terraform	25.6%	55
12	Analytics	25.1%	54
13	Kubernetes	24.7%	53
14	Infrastructure as Code	22.3%	48
15	Ansible	20.9%	45
16	Linux	18.6%	40
17	Agile	17.2%	37
17	AI	17.2%	37
17	Continuous Improvement	17.2%	37
17	Degree	17.2%	37
21	Active Directory	16.7%	36
21	Bash	16.7%	36
23	Runbook	15.3%	33
24	Platform Engineering	14.9%	32
25	GCP	14.4%	31
26	Entra ID	14.0%	30
26	NIST	14.0%	30
28	Data Engineering	13.5%	29
28	Machine Learning	13.5%	29
28	Windows	13.5%	29

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	PowerShell	36.7%	79
2	SQL	27.9%	60
3	Bash	16.7%	36
4	Bicep	5.6%	12
5	C#	5.1%	11
6	Java	2.8%	6
6	JavaScript	2.8%	6
8	C	1.9%	4
9	Shell Script	1.4%	3
9	TypeScript	1.4%	3
11	C++	0.9%	2
11	MATLAB	0.9%	2
11	PHP	0.9%	2
11	PL/SQL	0.9%	2
11	R	0.9%	2
16	Gremlin	0.5%	1
16	Groovy	0.5%	1
16	Scala	0.5%	1