Python Contract Job Trends in Worcester

Python
Worcestershire > Worcester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcester requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Python 16 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcester 29.63% - 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 76.19% - 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 - £575
75th Percentile £634 - £588
90th Percentile £675 - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £600 - £590
% change year-on-year - - -7.45%

All Programming Languages
Worcester

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 Worcester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester 38.89% 12.20% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £625 £469 £475
90th Percentile £675 £510 £543
Worcestershire median daily rate £575 £406 £581
% change year-on-year +41.54% -30.11% -3.13%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester.

Python job vacancy trend in Worcester

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Worcester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcester 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 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) Azure Data Factory
2 11 (68.75%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (68.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Data Engineer
1 11 (68.75%) Senior
1 11 (68.75%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Application Integration Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Kafka
1 11 (68.75%) Keycloak
2 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) DevOps
2 11 (68.75%) Batch Processing
2 11 (68.75%) Data Engineering
2 11 (68.75%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (68.75%) DataOps
2 11 (68.75%) ETL
3 10 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 10 (62.50%) Data Architecture
4 4 (25.00%) SIEM
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Application Packaging
5 2 (12.50%) Case Management
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 2 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Go
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (68.75%) Azure Certification
4 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
2 2 (12.50%) logstash
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) ArcSight
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk