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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 20 33
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 263 150 139
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 8.17% 9.14% 5.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.83% 34.09% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 92 104
10th Percentile £349 £350 £340
25th Percentile £400 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.19% -8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £623
90th Percentile £650 £600 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.20% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 6
10th Percentile £40.62 - £55.63
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £81.60 - -
90th Percentile £84.00 - £71.25
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 614 440 521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.07% 26.81% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 270 362
10th Percentile £310 £336 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £501
% change year-on-year +1.90% -0.10% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 27
10th Percentile £27.02 £23.67 £41.98
25th Percentile £43.81 £27.90 £46.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.00 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -28.19% +8.82%
75th Percentile £82.25 £59.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.16 £72.81
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £54.88 £62.50
% change year-on-year +9.34% -12.20% +13.64%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -3 173 £500 - 41
Oxfordshire +5 46 £592 +41.37% 52
Buckinghamshire -15 44 £525 +23.53% 20
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 15 (5.70%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.52%) WebSphere
2 4 (1.52%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.76%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.76%) JBoss
3 2 (0.76%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.76%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.42%) CPLEX
2 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 123 (46.77%) Azure
2 94 (35.74%) AWS
3 52 (19.77%) GCP
4 24 (9.13%) Entra ID
5 18 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.32%) OpenShift
7 12 (4.56%) GitHub
8 10 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (3.42%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.28%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.28%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (2.28%) dbt
11 6 (2.28%) Route 53
11 6 (2.28%) SaaS
11 6 (2.28%) Serverless
12 5 (1.90%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.84%) BGP
2 15 (5.70%) Firewall
2 15 (5.70%) MPLS
2 15 (5.70%) TCP/IP
2 15 (5.70%) WAN
3 13 (4.94%) DNS
4 12 (4.56%) LAN
5 8 (3.04%) Network Security
5 8 (3.04%) Wireshark
6 6 (2.28%) 5G
6 6 (2.28%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (2.28%) DNSSEC
6 6 (2.28%) LTE
6 6 (2.28%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (2.28%) SNMP
6 6 (2.28%) SSH
6 6 (2.28%) VoLTE
6 6 (2.28%) VoWiFi
7 5 (1.90%) DHCP
7 5 (1.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.41%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.46%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.18%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.42%) MySQL
6 9 (3.42%) Power BI
7 7 (2.66%) Big Data
7 7 (2.66%) Tableau
8 6 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.52%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.14%) Parquet
12 2 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (11.03%) Git
2 13 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.66%) GitLab
4 6 (2.28%) JIRA
5 4 (1.52%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.76%) Introscope
7 2 (0.76%) MLflow
8 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.38%) JMeter
8 1 (0.38%) JUnit
8 1 (0.38%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.38%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.38%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Developer 2000
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 84 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (17.11%) Public Sector
4 39 (14.83%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (4.56%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.42%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.52%) Military
8 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.76%) Advertising
9 2 (0.76%) Finance
9 2 (0.76%) Marketing
9 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (16.73%) Senior
2 40 (15.21%) Developer
3 31 (11.79%) Python Developer
4 23 (8.75%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.37%) Architect
6 13 (4.94%) SIEM Engineer
7 11 (4.18%) Network Architect
7 11 (4.18%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (3.80%) Analyst
8 10 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (3.42%) Data Scientist
9 9 (3.42%) IAM Specialist
9 9 (3.42%) Site Engineer
10 8 (3.04%) Senior Developer
11 7 (2.66%) DBA
12 6 (2.28%) Consultant
12 6 (2.28%) IP Architect
13 5 (1.90%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (1.90%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.75%) RESTful
2 21 (7.98%) LDAP
3 19 (7.22%) .NET
4 15 (5.70%) FastAPI
4 15 (5.70%) REST
5 13 (4.94%) Kafka
5 13 (4.94%) OAuth
6 11 (4.18%) Flask
6 11 (4.18%) NETCONF
6 11 (4.18%) OAuth2
6 11 (4.18%) PySpark
6 11 (4.18%) SailPoint
6 11 (4.18%) Web Services
6 11 (4.18%) YANG
7 10 (3.80%) OpenAPI
7 10 (3.80%) OpenID
7 10 (3.80%) Pandas
7 10 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (3.80%) SAML
7 10 (3.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.07%) Onboarding
2 31 (11.79%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (9.13%) Cloud Native
3 24 (9.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.22%) Algorithms
5 12 (4.56%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.42%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.66%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 7 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.90%) Clustering
8 5 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.90%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.52%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.14%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 63 (23.95%) Linux
2 44 (16.73%) Windows
3 35 (13.31%) Unix
4 13 (4.94%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.76%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.38%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (28.52%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (28.14%) CI/CD
2 74 (28.14%) DevOps
3 57 (21.67%) Analytics
4 55 (20.91%) SIEM
5 44 (16.73%) Runbook
6 39 (14.83%) Agile
7 35 (13.31%) Computer Science
8 34 (12.93%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (12.17%) ITSM
10 31 (11.79%) Change Control
11 30 (11.41%) High Availability
12 29 (11.03%) Machine Learning
13 28 (10.65%) Data Science
13 28 (10.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (10.27%) AI
14 27 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (9.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (8.75%) Data Engineering
16 23 (8.75%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (40.30%) PowerShell
2 50 (19.01%) SQL
3 43 (16.35%) Bash
4 30 (11.41%) Go
5 20 (7.60%) Java
6 14 (5.32%) C#
7 12 (4.56%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (2.66%) Perl
9 5 (1.90%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.90%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.90%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.14%) R
11 2 (0.76%) Bicep
11 2 (0.76%) Jython
11 2 (0.76%) Scala
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 132 (50.19%) Security Cleared
2 110 (41.83%) SC Cleared
3 38 (14.45%) Degree
4 21 (7.98%) CISSP
5 18 (6.84%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (5.32%) CCIE
6 14 (5.32%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (4.56%) CISM
8 11 (4.18%) Azure Certification
8 11 (4.18%) JNCIE
9 9 (3.42%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.66%) RHCE
11 5 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.52%) CCNP
12 4 (1.52%) CEH
12 4 (1.52%) GIAC
13 3 (1.14%) CCNA
13 3 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (18.25%) NIST
2 47 (17.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 17 (6.46%) GDPR
4 7 (2.66%) QA
5 6 (2.28%) SLA
6 5 (1.90%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.52%) GRC
8 3 (1.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.38%) JTAG
System Software
1 50 (19.01%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.98%) Docker
3 2 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (19.01%) Kubernetes
2 32 (12.17%) Terraform
3 29 (11.03%) Ansible
4 10 (3.80%) Grafana
4 10 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.28%) Rancher
6 4 (1.52%) Argo
6 4 (1.52%) Istio
7 3 (1.14%) CASB
7 3 (1.14%) Kibana
7 3 (1.14%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.14%) Nessus
7 3 (1.14%) OpenVAS
7 3 (1.14%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.14%) Puppet
7 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.76%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.76%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 47 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.69%) CyberArk
3 35 (13.31%) BeyondTrust
4 22 (8.37%) Oracle
5 19 (7.22%) Databricks
6 12 (4.56%) Google
7 11 (4.18%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.80%) Cisco
9 8 (3.04%) Nokia
10 7 (2.66%) F5
11 6 (2.28%) BT
11 6 (2.28%) Ericsson
11 6 (2.28%) Huawei
11 6 (2.28%) Infoblox
11 6 (2.28%) Juniper
11 6 (2.28%) Splunk
11 6 (2.28%) VMware
12 5 (1.90%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.90%) Tanium
13 4 (1.52%) Arista