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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 234 135 163
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 7.75% 9.07% 6.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.39% 33.17% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 84 122
10th Percentile £331 £350 £330
25th Percentile £394 £443 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £590 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £513 £520
% change year-on-year +2.44% -1.44% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 8
10th Percentile £35.85 - £59.38
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £67.50
90th Percentile £81.98 - £70.50
South East median hourly rate £50.25 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.67% -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 552 407 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.27% 27.35% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 255 371
10th Percentile £310 £350 £350
25th Percentile £392 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £608
90th Percentile £650 £695 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £501
% change year-on-year -0.10% -0.10% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 30
10th Percentile £27.88 £25.55 £33.94
25th Percentile £43.81 £35.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £58.12 £58.40
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% -0.47% +2.67%
75th Percentile £82.25 £65.62 £65.00
90th Percentile - £71.40 £67.63
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +10.25%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -4 149 £450 -10.00% 42
Oxfordshire +5 44 £584 +39.34% 35
Buckinghamshire -15 41 £525 +31.25% 18
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 12 (5.13%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.71%) WebSphere
2 4 (1.71%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.85%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.85%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.85%) JBoss
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.85%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (2.99%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 104 (44.44%) Azure
2 79 (33.76%) AWS
3 43 (18.38%) GCP
4 22 (9.40%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.56%) GitHub
7 11 (4.70%) OpenShift
8 10 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.99%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.14%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.14%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (2.14%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.14%) dbt
11 4 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.71%) Datadog
11 4 (1.71%) SaaS
11 4 (1.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.13%) BGP
2 10 (4.27%) MPLS
2 10 (4.27%) WAN
3 8 (3.42%) Wireshark
4 7 (2.99%) Firewall
4 7 (2.99%) LAN
5 6 (2.56%) 5G
5 6 (2.56%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (2.56%) LTE
5 6 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (2.56%) VoLTE
5 6 (2.56%) VoWiFi
6 5 (2.14%) SSH
7 4 (1.71%) Network Security
7 4 (1.71%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.28%) DNS
8 3 (1.28%) HTTP
8 3 (1.28%) SNMP
8 3 (1.28%) SSL
8 3 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.97%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.41%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.13%) MySQL
6 8 (3.42%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.99%) Big Data
7 7 (2.99%) Power BI
8 5 (2.14%) Tableau
9 4 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.71%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.28%) Parquet
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (11.54%) Git
2 12 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.99%) GitLab
4 5 (2.14%) JIRA
5 4 (1.71%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.85%) Introscope
6 2 (0.85%) MLflow
7 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.43%) JMeter
7 1 (0.43%) JUnit
7 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.43%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Developer 2000
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.43%) Storybook
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 35 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.53%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.56%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.71%) Aerospace
6 4 (1.71%) Military
7 3 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.85%) Advertising
8 2 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (17.52%) Senior
2 39 (16.67%) Developer
3 29 (12.39%) Python Developer
4 20 (8.55%) Data Engineer
5 13 (5.56%) SIEM Engineer
6 10 (4.27%) Analyst
6 10 (4.27%) Senior Data Engineer
6 10 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (3.85%) Architect
7 9 (3.85%) IAM Specialist
7 9 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (3.85%) Senior Developer
7 9 (3.85%) Site Engineer
8 7 (2.99%) Data Scientist
8 7 (2.99%) DBA
9 6 (2.56%) Network Architect
9 6 (2.56%) Tester
10 5 (2.14%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.14%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (2.14%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.55%) LDAP
1 20 (8.55%) RESTful
2 19 (8.12%) .NET
3 13 (5.56%) FastAPI
3 13 (5.56%) OAuth
4 11 (4.70%) Kafka
4 11 (4.70%) OAuth2
4 11 (4.70%) REST
4 11 (4.70%) SailPoint
4 11 (4.70%) Web Services
5 10 (4.27%) OpenID
5 10 (4.27%) SAML
6 9 (3.85%) Flask
7 8 (3.42%) Middleware
7 8 (3.42%) OpenAPI
7 8 (3.42%) Pandas
7 8 (3.42%) PySpark
7 8 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (3.42%) React
7 8 (3.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 29 (12.39%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (9.40%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.84%) Algorithms
5 15 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.70%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.99%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.14%) Clustering
10 5 (2.14%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.28%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.28%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.85%) Replication
13 2 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 60 (25.64%) Linux
2 38 (16.24%) Windows
3 36 (15.38%) Unix
4 12 (5.13%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 66 (28.21%) DevOps
3 61 (26.07%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (22.22%) SIEM
5 46 (19.66%) Analytics
6 39 (16.67%) Runbook
7 30 (12.82%) Computer Science
7 30 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
8 28 (11.97%) Change Control
8 28 (11.97%) ITSM
9 26 (11.11%) Machine Learning
10 25 (10.68%) Agile
10 25 (10.68%) High Availability
10 25 (10.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 24 (10.26%) AI
12 23 (9.83%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (9.40%) Data Science
13 22 (9.40%) Information Security
13 22 (9.40%) Microservices
14 20 (8.55%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (40.60%) PowerShell
2 43 (18.38%) SQL
3 37 (15.81%) Bash
4 30 (12.82%) Go
5 21 (8.97%) Java
6 16 (6.84%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.41%) C#
8 13 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (4.27%) Perl
10 5 (2.14%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.14%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.85%) Bicep
12 2 (0.85%) Jython
12 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.85%) R
12 2 (0.85%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 115 (49.15%) Security Cleared
2 96 (41.03%) SC Cleared
3 33 (14.10%) Degree
4 16 (6.84%) CISSP
5 12 (5.13%) CISM
5 12 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.85%) CCIE
6 9 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.42%) JNCIE
8 6 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.56%) RHCE
9 5 (2.14%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.71%) CEH
10 4 (1.71%) GIAC
11 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (18.80%) NIST
3 17 (7.26%) GDPR
4 13 (5.56%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.56%) SLA
6 5 (2.14%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.71%) GRC
7 4 (1.71%) QA
8 1 (0.43%) JTAG
8 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (19.66%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.26%) Docker
3 2 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.83%) Terraform
3 22 (9.40%) Ansible
4 15 (6.41%) Grafana
4 15 (6.41%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.56%) Rancher
6 4 (1.71%) Argo
6 4 (1.71%) Istio
6 4 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.28%) Kibana
7 3 (1.28%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.28%) Nessus
7 3 (1.28%) OpenVAS
7 3 (1.28%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.28%) Puppet
8 2 (0.85%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.85%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (14.10%) BeyondTrust
1 33 (14.10%) CyberArk
2 32 (13.68%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.40%) Oracle
4 16 (6.84%) Databricks
5 10 (4.27%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.42%) Splunk
7 7 (2.99%) Nokia
8 6 (2.56%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.56%) BT
8 6 (2.56%) Ericsson
8 6 (2.56%) Huawei
9 5 (2.14%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.14%) Tanium
10 4 (1.71%) Cisco
10 4 (1.71%) IBM
10 4 (1.71%) Juniper
10 4 (1.71%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.28%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.28%) Qualys