Python Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Python
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 19 30
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 36 25 46
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 4.95% 6.68% 6.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.15% 26.60% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 27
10th Percentile £475 £463 £338
25th Percentile £513 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £430
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +39.53% -21.82%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £484
90th Percentile £688 - £603
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.25
25th Percentile £41.25 - £63.13
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £76.25 - £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 - -
East of England median hourly rate £55.50 £42.50 £66.50
% change year-on-year +30.59% -36.09% +2.31%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 188 94 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 25.86% 25.13% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 37 69
10th Percentile £392 £378 £363
25th Percentile £460 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +15.61% -21.36%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £613
90th Percentile £713 £675 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £452 £477
% change year-on-year +10.62% -5.24% -4.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 31 110
10th Percentile £57.50 £61.50 £62.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £80.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +15.94% +6.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £84.36
90th Percentile £77.00 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £68.21 £66.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.19% +2.69% -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Python job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Stevenage +4 21 £525 +5.00% 7
Watford -2 3 £675 +106.11% 6
Hatfield - 3 £650 -
Hemel Hempstead -5 2 £525 -12.50% 4
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £750 -
Harpenden - 1 - -
Python
East of England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.11%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (5.56%) dbt
5 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
5 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.56%) SaaS
5 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.78%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) DNS
2 5 (13.89%) FTP
2 5 (13.89%) HTTP
2 5 (13.89%) Network Security
2 5 (13.89%) SMTP
2 5 (13.89%) SSL
3 4 (11.11%) RS-232
3 4 (11.11%) SpaceWire
4 2 (5.56%) DHCP
4 2 (5.56%) Firewall
4 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) GIS
3 1 (2.78%) MS Access
3 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Parquet
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Rational DOORS
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Electronics
3 7 (19.44%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 4 (11.11%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.78%) Agrochemical
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Design Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Digital Design Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) IoT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Flash
1 7 (19.44%) REST
2 5 (13.89%) LDAP
3 2 (5.56%) .NET
3 2 (5.56%) SOAP
4 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.78%) Jest
4 1 (2.78%) JSON
4 1 (2.78%) Next.js
4 1 (2.78%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) pytest
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) FPGA
1 7 (19.44%) VHDL
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 5 (13.89%) CSOC
3 5 (13.89%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (13.89%) Cyberattack
3 5 (13.89%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (11.11%) CAN bus
5 2 (5.56%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (5.56%) IoT
5 2 (5.56%) Low-Code
5 2 (5.56%) PKI
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.78%) Life Science
6 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (19.44%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) VMS
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) AI
2 8 (22.22%) Analytics
2 8 (22.22%) DevOps
3 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
3 7 (19.44%) Signal Processing
3 7 (19.44%) SOAR
3 7 (19.44%) Validation
4 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 6 (16.67%) SIEM
4 6 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (13.89%) Behavioural Analytics
5 5 (13.89%) Incident Response
5 5 (13.89%) Machine Learning
5 5 (13.89%) Network Packet Capture
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (13.89%) Runbook
5 5 (13.89%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) C
2 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (22.22%) C++
4 6 (16.67%) Java
5 5 (13.89%) Bash
5 5 (13.89%) SQL
6 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.11%) Tcl
6 4 (11.11%) VBA
7 3 (8.33%) C#
8 1 (2.78%) Bicep
8 1 (2.78%) PHP
8 1 (2.78%) R
8 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) Degree
5 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.78%) PhD
6 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Firmware
2 3 (8.33%) Docker
3 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) VMware
3 2 (5.56%) Citrix
3 2 (5.56%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.56%) Pega
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
3 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.56%) Wyse
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe
4 1 (2.78%) Cribl.io
4 1 (2.78%) Tealium