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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 244 133 163
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 7.92% 8.94% 6.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.81% 32.76% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 82 122
10th Percentile £325 £350 £330
25th Percentile £394 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.47% -5.82%
75th Percentile £592 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £505 £513
% change year-on-year +3.96% -1.56% -6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 8
10th Percentile £40.62 - £59.38
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £81.60 - £67.50
90th Percentile £84.00 - £70.50
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -13.46% +165.74%

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 570 406 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.51% 27.28% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 254 376
10th Percentile £310 £341 £350
25th Percentile £392 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £583 £588 £608
90th Percentile £650 £696 £650
South East median daily rate £505 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.15% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 32
10th Percentile £26.58 £23.67 £36.13
25th Percentile £43.81 £27.90 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £42.00 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -28.19% -0.44%
75th Percentile £82.25 £59.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.16 £69.59
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £54.94 £62.50
% change year-on-year +9.22% -12.10% +9.68%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -2 158 £450 -10.00% 48
Oxfordshire +5 45 £592 +41.37% 39
Buckinghamshire -17 41 £525 +31.25% 24
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 13 (5.33%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.64%) WebSphere
2 4 (1.64%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.82%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.82%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.82%) JBoss
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.82%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.69%) CPLEX
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 111 (45.49%) Azure
2 84 (34.43%) AWS
3 46 (18.85%) GCP
4 22 (9.02%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.33%) GitHub
7 11 (4.51%) OpenShift
8 10 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.28%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.05%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.05%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (2.05%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (2.05%) dbt
12 4 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.64%) Datadog
12 4 (1.64%) SaaS
12 4 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.74%) BGP
2 11 (4.51%) MPLS
2 11 (4.51%) WAN
3 8 (3.28%) LAN
3 8 (3.28%) Wireshark
4 7 (2.87%) Firewall
5 6 (2.46%) 5G
5 6 (2.46%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (2.46%) LTE
5 6 (2.46%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (2.46%) VoLTE
5 6 (2.46%) VoWiFi
6 5 (2.05%) SSH
7 4 (1.64%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.64%) Network Security
7 4 (1.64%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.64%) VXLAN
8 3 (1.23%) HTTP
8 3 (1.23%) SSL
8 3 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.89%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.97%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.33%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.51%) MySQL
6 10 (4.10%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.28%) Power BI
8 7 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.87%) Big Data
9 6 (2.46%) Tableau
10 5 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.64%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.23%) Parquet
13 2 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (11.48%) Git
2 11 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.87%) GitLab
4 6 (2.46%) JIRA
5 4 (1.64%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.82%) Introscope
6 2 (0.82%) MLflow
7 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.41%) JMeter
7 1 (0.41%) JUnit
7 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.41%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Developer 2000
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.41%) Storybook
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 73 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.62%) Public Sector
3 39 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (13.93%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.28%) Aerospace
6 7 (2.87%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.64%) Military
8 3 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.82%) Advertising
9 2 (0.82%) Marketing
9 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Finance
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (17.21%) Senior
2 41 (16.80%) Developer
3 31 (12.70%) Python Developer
4 22 (9.02%) Data Engineer
5 13 (5.33%) SIEM Engineer
6 11 (4.51%) Analyst
7 10 (4.10%) Architect
7 10 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
7 10 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (3.69%) IAM Specialist
8 9 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (3.69%) Senior Developer
8 9 (3.69%) Site Engineer
9 7 (2.87%) Data Scientist
9 7 (2.87%) DBA
9 7 (2.87%) Network Architect
10 6 (2.46%) IP Architect
10 6 (2.46%) Tester
11 5 (2.05%) Security Engineer
11 5 (2.05%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.02%) RESTful
2 20 (8.20%) LDAP
3 19 (7.79%) .NET
4 15 (6.15%) FastAPI
5 13 (5.33%) Kafka
5 13 (5.33%) OAuth
6 12 (4.92%) REST
7 11 (4.51%) Flask
7 11 (4.51%) OAuth2
7 11 (4.51%) SailPoint
7 11 (4.51%) Web Services
8 10 (4.10%) OpenAPI
8 10 (4.10%) OpenID
8 10 (4.10%) Pandas
8 10 (4.10%) PySpark
8 10 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (4.10%) SAML
8 10 (4.10%) Swagger
9 9 (3.69%) NETCONF
9 9 (3.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.16%) Onboarding
2 30 (12.30%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (9.84%) Cloud Native
4 18 (7.38%) Algorithms
5 17 (6.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (4.92%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.69%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.05%) Clustering
10 5 (2.05%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.64%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.23%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.23%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 60 (24.59%) Linux
2 38 (15.57%) Windows
3 36 (14.75%) Unix
4 12 (4.92%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.82%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (29.51%) CI/CD
2 70 (28.69%) DevOps
3 67 (27.46%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (21.72%) SIEM
5 50 (20.49%) Analytics
6 40 (16.39%) Runbook
7 32 (13.11%) Agile
7 32 (13.11%) Computer Science
8 31 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (12.30%) Change Control
10 29 (11.89%) ITSM
11 26 (10.66%) Data Pipeline
11 26 (10.66%) Machine Learning
12 25 (10.25%) High Availability
12 25 (10.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 24 (9.84%) AI
13 24 (9.84%) Microservices
14 23 (9.43%) Data Science
15 22 (9.02%) Information Security
16 21 (8.61%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 96 (39.34%) PowerShell
2 49 (20.08%) SQL
3 36 (14.75%) Bash
4 30 (12.30%) Go
5 20 (8.20%) Java
6 15 (6.15%) C#
6 15 (6.15%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (3.69%) Perl
9 5 (2.05%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.05%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.23%) R
10 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.82%) Bicep
11 2 (0.82%) Jython
11 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.82%) Scala
12 1 (0.41%) C++
12 1 (0.41%) Groovy
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 119 (48.77%) Security Cleared
2 100 (40.98%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.34%) Degree
4 19 (7.79%) CISSP
5 12 (4.92%) CISM
5 12 (4.92%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (4.10%) CCIE
6 10 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.69%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.69%) JNCIE
8 8 (3.28%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.46%) RHCE
10 4 (1.64%) CEH
10 4 (1.64%) GIAC
11 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (18.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (18.44%) NIST
3 17 (6.97%) GDPR
4 14 (5.74%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.46%) SLA
6 5 (2.05%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.05%) QA
7 4 (1.64%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) JTAG
8 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (19.26%) Active Directory
2 24 (9.84%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.43%) Ansible
3 22 (9.02%) Terraform
4 14 (5.74%) Grafana
4 14 (5.74%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.46%) Rancher
6 4 (1.64%) Argo
6 4 (1.64%) Istio
6 4 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.23%) Kibana
7 3 (1.23%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.23%) Nessus
7 3 (1.23%) OpenVAS
7 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.23%) Puppet
8 2 (0.82%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.82%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (13.93%) BeyondTrust
1 34 (13.93%) CyberArk
1 34 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.02%) Oracle
3 18 (7.38%) Databricks
4 10 (4.10%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.28%) Splunk
6 7 (2.87%) Nokia
7 6 (2.46%) AppDynamics
7 6 (2.46%) BT
7 6 (2.46%) Ericsson
7 6 (2.46%) Huawei
8 5 (2.05%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.05%) Tanium
9 4 (1.64%) Arista
9 4 (1.64%) Cisco
9 4 (1.64%) IBM
9 4 (1.64%) Juniper
9 4 (1.64%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.23%) Google