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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 24 27
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 58 24 54
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 10.94% 5.11% 7.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.73% 19.35% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 40
10th Percentile £428 £405 £400
25th Percentile £505 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% -3.11%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £704
90th Percentile £680 £640 £726
East of England median daily rate £525 £465 £498
% change year-on-year +13.02% -6.63% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 10
10th Percentile £41.25 - £66.25
25th Percentile £45.00 - £70.31
Median hourly rate £54.25 - £72.50
75th Percentile £76.25 - £73.75
90th Percentile £79.75 - £73.88
East of England median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% -31.03% +31.82%

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 167 124 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 31.51% 26.38% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 44 105
10th Percentile £442 £316 £400
25th Percentile £488 £342 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £423 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% -15.50% -10.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £675 £618 £725
East of England median daily rate £501 £420 £493
% change year-on-year +19.17% -14.72% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 36 91
10th Percentile £52.00 £60.00 -
25th Percentile - £63.44 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.81 £84.36
90th Percentile £76.00 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +11.67%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 +25 33 £525 - 34
Watford +3 6 £550 +67.94% 27
Hemel Hempstead -4 4 £525 -12.50% 5
Welwyn Garden City +4 3 £825 - 3
Hatfield - 3 £650 - 3
Broxbourne - 1 - -
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
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 5 (8.62%) Apache
1 5 (8.62%) IIS
1 5 (8.62%) WebSphere
2 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) AWS
3 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.90%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.17%) dbt
5 3 (5.17%) GitHub
5 3 (5.17%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.45%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.72%) GCP
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.72%) IaaS
7 1 (1.72%) PaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) DNS
2 9 (15.52%) Network Security
3 8 (13.79%) FTP
3 8 (13.79%) HTTP
3 8 (13.79%) SMTP
3 8 (13.79%) SSL
4 5 (8.62%) Firewall
4 5 (8.62%) SpaceWire
5 4 (6.90%) RS-232
6 3 (5.17%) DHCP
6 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
6 3 (5.17%) VLAN
7 2 (3.45%) BGP
7 2 (3.45%) OSPF
7 2 (3.45%) VPN
8 1 (1.72%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.72%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.72%) SAN
8 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.62%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (8.62%) DB2
3 4 (6.90%) Big Data
3 4 (6.90%) Tableau
4 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.45%) Power BI
6 1 (1.72%) GIS
6 1 (1.72%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Electronics
4 6 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.90%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.72%) Agrochemical
6 1 (1.72%) Finance
6 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) Analyst
2 8 (13.79%) Design Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) Developer
2 8 (13.79%) Digital Design Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (10.34%) Lead
4 5 (8.62%) Consultant
4 5 (8.62%) Maximo Consultant
4 5 (8.62%) Senior
5 4 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Data Science Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Technical Leader
6 3 (5.17%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Administrator
7 2 (3.45%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.45%) Network Administrator
7 2 (3.45%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) Flash
2 8 (13.79%) LDAP
3 7 (12.07%) REST
4 6 (10.34%) SOAP
5 5 (8.62%) Web Services
5 5 (8.62%) XML
6 4 (6.90%) Matplotlib
6 4 (6.90%) PyTorch
6 4 (6.90%) scikit-learn
6 4 (6.90%) Seaborn
6 4 (6.90%) TensorFlow
7 3 (5.17%) NumPy
7 3 (5.17%) Pandas
8 2 (3.45%) React
9 1 (1.72%) .NET
9 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.72%) OAuth
9 1 (1.72%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.72%) pytest
9 1 (1.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) FPGA
1 10 (17.24%) VHDL
2 8 (13.79%) Cyberattack
3 7 (12.07%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (12.07%) CSOC
3 7 (12.07%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (12.07%) Management Information System
3 7 (12.07%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (10.34%) Analogue Electronics
5 4 (6.90%) CAN bus
6 3 (5.17%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.45%) Life Science
7 2 (3.45%) PKI
7 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.72%) Replication
8 1 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.86%) Linux
2 14 (24.14%) Windows
3 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.90%) VMS
5 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) AI
2 15 (25.86%) DevOps
3 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 13 (22.41%) Analytics
5 11 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (18.97%) Machine Learning
5 11 (18.97%) SOAR
6 10 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (17.24%) Signal Processing
7 9 (15.52%) SIEM
8 8 (13.79%) Information Security
8 8 (13.79%) Network Packet Capture
8 8 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (13.79%) Runbook
8 8 (13.79%) Security Operations
8 8 (13.79%) Sensor Fusion
8 8 (13.79%) Threat Modelling
9 7 (12.07%) Agile
9 7 (12.07%) Incident Response
9 7 (12.07%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) C
2 14 (24.14%) PowerShell
3 11 (18.97%) SQL
4 10 (17.24%) C++
5 9 (15.52%) Bash
6 8 (13.79%) R
7 7 (12.07%) Java
7 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
8 5 (8.62%) Tcl
8 5 (8.62%) VBA
9 2 (3.45%) C#
9 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.72%) Bicep
10 1 (1.72%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 17 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Degree
4 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.90%) PhD
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Firmware
2 6 (10.34%) Docker
3 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Terraform
2 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.17%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.45%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.72%) Nagios
5 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) IBM
2 5 (8.62%) VMware
3 4 (6.90%) Databricks
4 3 (5.17%) Citrix
5 2 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.45%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) Huawei
5 2 (3.45%) Wyse
6 1 (1.72%) Aruba
6 1 (1.72%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.72%) HP
6 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.72%) Pega
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.72%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.72%) Veeam