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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 52 22 40
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 7.77% 5.68% 6.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.26% 20.37% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 29
10th Percentile £490 £404 £375
25th Percentile £513 £463 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +31.43% -20.45%
75th Percentile £680 £663 £525
90th Percentile £748 £675 £630
East of England median daily rate £525 £495 £475
% change year-on-year +6.06% +4.21% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 2
10th Percentile £41.25 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile £76.25 - £73.75
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
East of England median hourly rate £54.70 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +56.29% -51.72% +26.09%

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 198 108 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.60% 27.91% 29.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 36 82
10th Percentile £445 £338 £400
25th Percentile £463 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £679 £578 £609
90th Percentile £756 £669 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 34 85
10th Percentile £52.92 £62.18 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £73.75 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% +6.88% +6.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £88.75
90th Percentile £76.75 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £66.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.52% +0.76% +0.77%

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 25 December 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 25 December 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 25 December 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 +17 32 £575 - 69
Welwyn Garden City +4 4 £825 -
Watford -1 4 £550 +67.94% 45
Hemel Hempstead -3 3 £500 -16.67% 44
Hatfield - 3 £650 - 4
Broxbourne - 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 2 (3.85%) Apache
1 2 (3.85%) IIS
1 2 (3.85%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) Azure
2 7 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.62%) AWS
4 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (5.77%) GitHub
5 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.85%) dbt
6 2 (3.85%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.92%) GCP
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.92%) IaaS
7 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (30.77%) DNS
2 13 (25.00%) FTP
2 13 (25.00%) HTTP
2 13 (25.00%) Network Security
2 13 (25.00%) SMTP
2 13 (25.00%) SSL
3 4 (7.69%) RS-232
3 4 (7.69%) SpaceWire
4 3 (5.77%) DHCP
4 3 (5.77%) Firewall
4 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.92%) Internet
5 1 (1.92%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.92%) NAS
5 1 (1.92%) SAN
5 1 (1.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.77%) Power BI
3 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.85%) DB2
4 1 (1.92%) GIS
4 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.92%) Parquet
4 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.92%) Rational DOORS
General
1 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (21.15%) Electronics
4 7 (13.46%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Law
6 4 (7.69%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.85%) Marketing
7 2 (3.85%) Retail
8 1 (1.92%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.92%) Agrochemical
8 1 (1.92%) Finance
8 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Analyst
2 13 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) Design Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Digital Design Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Lead
4 4 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (5.77%) Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Maximo Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) Python Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Technical Leader
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) LDAP
2 10 (19.23%) Flash
3 9 (17.31%) REST
4 4 (7.69%) SOAP
5 2 (3.85%) .NET
5 2 (3.85%) React
5 2 (3.85%) Web Services
5 2 (3.85%) XML
6 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.92%) Django
6 1 (1.92%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.92%) Jest
6 1 (1.92%) JSON
6 1 (1.92%) Next.js
6 1 (1.92%) Node.js
6 1 (1.92%) OAuth
6 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.92%) pytest
6 1 (1.92%) RESTful
6 1 (1.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 13 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 13 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 12 (23.08%) CSOC
2 12 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (23.08%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (19.23%) FPGA
3 10 (19.23%) VHDL
4 6 (11.54%) Analogue Electronics
5 4 (7.69%) CAN bus
6 2 (3.85%) IoT
6 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.85%) PKI
6 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.92%) Life Science
7 1 (1.92%) Replication
7 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
1 11 (21.15%) Windows
2 5 (9.62%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) AI
2 16 (30.77%) SOAR
3 15 (28.85%) Analytics
3 15 (28.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (28.85%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (26.92%) SIEM
5 13 (25.00%) Information Security
5 13 (25.00%) Network Packet Capture
5 13 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 13 (25.00%) Runbook
5 13 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 13 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
6 12 (23.08%) Behavioural Analytics
6 12 (23.08%) Incident Response
6 12 (23.08%) Information Management
6 12 (23.08%) Machine Learning
6 12 (23.08%) Threat Detection
7 11 (21.15%) DevOps
8 10 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 10 (19.23%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) PowerShell
2 15 (28.85%) C
3 11 (21.15%) C++
4 8 (15.38%) SQL
5 6 (11.54%) Bash
5 6 (11.54%) Java
5 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.69%) Tcl
6 4 (7.69%) VBA
7 3 (5.77%) C#
8 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.92%) Bicep
9 1 (1.92%) PHP
9 1 (1.92%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (17.31%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.92%) PhD
6 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Firmware
2 4 (7.69%) Docker
3 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.85%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.92%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) VMware
3 3 (5.77%) Citrix
4 2 (3.85%) Databricks
4 2 (3.85%) Google
4 2 (3.85%) IBM
4 2 (3.85%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.85%) Pega
4 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.85%) SAP
4 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.85%) Wyse
5 1 (1.92%) Adobe
5 1 (1.92%) Aruba
5 1 (1.92%) Cribl.io
5 1 (1.92%) HP
5 1 (1.92%) Tealium
5 1 (1.92%) Veeam