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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 233 183 167
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 7.73% 10.76% 7.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.80% 43.57% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 114 107
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £565 £638
90th Percentile £773 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 0 1
10th Percentile £43.03 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £71.00 - £28.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - £29.25
90th Percentile £85.05 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% +98.28% -56.23%

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 532 420 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.65% 24.71% 23.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 260 329
10th Percentile £326 £325 £380
25th Percentile £420 £403 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% -11.14% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £638
90th Percentile £700 £600 £663
South East median daily rate £525 £493 £515
% change year-on-year +6.60% -4.37% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 1 11
10th Percentile £33.70 - £35.58
25th Percentile £40.89 £18.75 £55.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £19.50 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +246.15% -66.66% +20.85%
75th Percentile £77.50 £20.25 £72.28
90th Percentile £84.13 - £87.50
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £64.76
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.07% +16.62%

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 10 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.

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 10 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 10 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -6 174 £550 +10.00% 153
Oxfordshire +1 40 £700 +55.56% 189
Buckinghamshire -40 19 £525 +16.67% 47
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 14 (6.01%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.00%) Confluence
3 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.29%) Apache
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.86%) JBoss
5 2 (0.86%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (2.58%) CPLEX
2 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 127 (54.51%) Azure
2 70 (30.04%) AWS
3 36 (15.45%) Entra ID
4 34 (14.59%) GCP
5 26 (11.16%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (10.73%) OpenShift
7 13 (5.58%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (5.15%) GitHub
8 12 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.72%) Azure AKS
9 11 (4.72%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.29%) Azure App Service
10 10 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (3.86%) Serverless
12 8 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.43%) SaaS
13 7 (3.00%) Amazon Bedrock
13 7 (3.00%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (3.00%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.58%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.73%) DNS
2 17 (7.30%) TCP/IP
3 16 (6.87%) BGP
3 16 (6.87%) Firewall
4 11 (4.72%) DHCP
4 11 (4.72%) WAN
5 10 (4.29%) MPLS
5 10 (4.29%) VPN
6 9 (3.86%) LAN
6 9 (3.86%) Network Security
7 7 (3.00%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (2.58%) 5G
8 6 (2.58%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (2.58%) DNSSEC
8 6 (2.58%) LTE
8 6 (2.58%) VoLTE
8 6 (2.58%) VoWiFi
8 6 (2.58%) VXLAN
8 6 (2.58%) Wireshark
9 5 (2.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.30%) NoSQL
2 14 (6.01%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.72%) Power BI
4 10 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.00%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.58%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.72%) Parquet
9 3 (1.29%) Big Data
9 3 (1.29%) GIS
9 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.29%) MySQL
9 3 (1.29%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.29%) Tableau
10 2 (0.86%) Metadata
10 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 24 (10.30%) Git
2 16 (6.87%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.29%) GitLab
4 7 (3.00%) JIRA
5 2 (0.86%) JMeter
5 2 (0.86%) MLflow
5 2 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.43%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.43%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 76 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.89%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (12.88%) Documentation Skills
4 27 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 24 (10.30%) Aerospace
6 11 (4.72%) Military
7 10 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.58%) Finance
8 6 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.86%) Banking
11 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.86%) Marketing
11 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 33 (14.16%) Developer
2 28 (12.02%) Senior
3 23 (9.87%) Data Engineer
4 21 (9.01%) Architect
4 21 (9.01%) Python Developer
5 13 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (5.15%) Data Scientist
6 12 (5.15%) IAM Specialist
6 12 (5.15%) Network Architect
7 10 (4.29%) Analyst
7 10 (4.29%) Lead
7 10 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (3.43%) React Developer
10 7 (3.00%) Consultant
10 7 (3.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (2.58%) .NET Developer
11 6 (2.58%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (2.58%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (23.18%) Terraform
2 25 (10.73%) REST
3 21 (9.01%) OAuth
4 20 (8.58%) LDAP
4 20 (8.58%) SAML
5 19 (8.15%) OpenID
6 16 (6.87%) PySpark
7 15 (6.44%) SailPoint
8 14 (6.01%) Web Services
9 13 (5.58%) .NET
9 13 (5.58%) ARM Templates
9 13 (5.58%) OAuth2
9 13 (5.58%) RESTful
10 11 (4.72%) .NET Core
10 11 (4.72%) FastAPI
10 11 (4.72%) React
11 10 (4.29%) NETCONF
12 8 (3.43%) .NET Framework
12 8 (3.43%) Entity Framework
12 8 (3.43%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 26 (11.16%) Onboarding
3 25 (10.73%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.58%) AI Agents
5 11 (4.72%) Algorithms
5 11 (4.72%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.86%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.86%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 7 (3.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (3.00%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.72%) Life Science
9 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.29%) SCADA
10 3 (1.29%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.74%) Linux
2 32 (13.73%) Windows
3 23 (9.87%) Unix
4 11 (4.72%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (34.76%) DevOps
2 71 (30.47%) CI/CD
3 56 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (23.61%) Analytics
5 47 (20.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (18.45%) Runbook
7 37 (15.88%) AI
8 34 (14.59%) Agile
8 34 (14.59%) Platform Engineering
9 32 (13.73%) Computer Science
10 31 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (13.30%) Machine Learning
10 31 (13.30%) SIEM
11 28 (12.02%) Data Science
11 28 (12.02%) ITSM
12 27 (11.59%) RBAC
13 26 (11.16%) Change Control
13 26 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (11.16%) Data Engineering
13 26 (11.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (39.06%) PowerShell
2 58 (24.89%) SQL
3 39 (16.74%) Bash
4 12 (5.15%) Bicep
5 11 (4.72%) C#
6 8 (3.43%) Java
7 5 (2.15%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.15%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.72%) Go
9 3 (1.29%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.29%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.86%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (44.64%) Security Cleared
2 92 (39.48%) SC Cleared
3 41 (17.60%) Degree
4 21 (9.01%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (7.30%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.30%) CISSP
6 12 (5.15%) CCIE
7 11 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.29%) AWS Certification
8 10 (4.29%) JNCIE
9 9 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (2.58%) CEH
13 5 (2.15%) CISM
13 5 (2.15%) DV Cleared
13 5 (2.15%) RHCE
13 5 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (1.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.31%) NIST
2 36 (15.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (10.73%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.43%) GDPR
5 7 (3.00%) SLA
6 6 (2.58%) NCSC
7 5 (2.15%) QA
8 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.43%) GRC
9 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.43%) JTAG
9 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (19.31%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.16%) Docker
3 8 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.58%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.86%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (24.89%) Kubernetes
2 43 (18.45%) Ansible
3 7 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.58%) Grafana
5 5 (2.15%) QRadar
6 4 (1.72%) Istio
6 4 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.29%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.29%) Puppet
8 2 (0.86%) CASB
8 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.43%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.43%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.43%) Rancher
9 1 (0.43%) SCOM
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 70 (30.04%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.30%) CyberArk
3 22 (9.44%) Databricks
4 18 (7.73%) BeyondTrust
5 15 (6.44%) Google
6 12 (5.15%) VMware
7 11 (4.72%) Cisco
7 11 (4.72%) Oracle
7 11 (4.72%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.43%) Nokia
9 7 (3.00%) F5
9 7 (3.00%) Splunk
10 6 (2.58%) BT
10 6 (2.58%) Ericsson
10 6 (2.58%) Huawei
10 6 (2.58%) Infoblox
11 5 (2.15%) Fortinet
11 5 (2.15%) Juniper
11 5 (2.15%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.72%) ServiceNow