Python Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Python
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 18 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 127 81 106
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 10.73% 7.69% 6.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.23% 28.72% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 61 73
10th Percentile £325 £400 £370
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £673
90th Percentile £650 £713 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £481 £513
% change year-on-year -6.35% -6.24% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £62.00
25th Percentile - - £63.13
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +9.75% +31.20% -2.78%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 394 282 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.28% 26.76% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 205 391
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £550
90th Percentile £613 £588 £650
North West median daily rate £446 £461 £475
% change year-on-year -3.31% -2.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 10
10th Percentile - - £61.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -11.86% +55.26%
75th Percentile £63.50 - £80.44
90th Percentile £70.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -6.15% +40.75% +13.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Python job vacancy trend in Manchester

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Manchester

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 January 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
Oldham - 4 - -
Cheadle - 2 £650 - 1
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 12 (9.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.15%) Apache
2 4 (3.15%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.15%) SAS
3 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.79%) SPSS
2 1 (0.79%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (55.12%) AWS
2 42 (33.07%) Azure
3 37 (29.13%) GCP
4 24 (18.90%) Serverless
5 20 (15.75%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (14.96%) GitHub
7 16 (12.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (11.81%) Power Platform
9 13 (10.24%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (9.45%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (8.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (8.66%) Datadog
11 11 (8.66%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (7.87%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (6.30%) AWS Fargate
14 7 (5.51%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (5.51%) Apigee
14 7 (5.51%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (4.72%) Amazon S3
15 6 (4.72%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.51%) Firewall
2 3 (2.36%) DNS
2 3 (2.36%) Network Security
2 3 (2.36%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (1.57%) VPN
3 2 (1.57%) WAN
4 1 (0.79%) 802.11
4 1 (0.79%) BGP
4 1 (0.79%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.79%) DMZ
4 1 (0.79%) LAN
4 1 (0.79%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.79%) SSL
4 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.02%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (11.02%) Power BI
2 12 (9.45%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.87%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.87%) BigQuery
3 10 (7.87%) Redis
4 8 (6.30%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.72%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.72%) MySQL
6 6 (4.72%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.94%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.15%) Tableau
9 3 (2.36%) Big Data
9 3 (2.36%) Cognos Framework Manager
9 3 (2.36%) Cognos Report Studio
9 3 (2.36%) Cognos Transformer
9 3 (2.36%) Looker
9 3 (2.36%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 22 (17.32%) Jenkins
2 18 (14.17%) Git
3 16 (12.60%) GitLab
4 6 (4.72%) JIRA
5 5 (3.94%) Gradle
5 5 (3.94%) Maven
5 5 (3.94%) SonarLint
5 5 (3.94%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.15%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.15%) Postman
7 3 (2.36%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.79%) Selenium
9 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.79%) Spinnaker
General
1 29 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.54%) Public Sector
3 19 (14.96%) Finance
4 13 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.09%) Banking
6 4 (3.15%) Games
7 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.36%) Marketing
7 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Retail
9 1 (0.79%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (15.75%) Developer
2 19 (14.96%) Data Engineer
3 18 (14.17%) Senior
4 12 (9.45%) Architect
5 10 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) Data Scientist
7 8 (6.30%) AWS Developer
7 8 (6.30%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) Lead
8 7 (5.51%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.72%) Java Architect
9 6 (4.72%) Java Technical Architect
9 6 (4.72%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.94%) GCP Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Node.js Developer
11 4 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.45%) Node.js
2 9 (7.09%) RESTful
3 8 (6.30%) React
4 7 (5.51%) Kafka
4 7 (5.51%) PySpark
4 7 (5.51%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.72%) Dropwizard
5 6 (4.72%) J2EE
5 6 (4.72%) JWT
5 6 (4.72%) Micronaut
5 6 (4.72%) REST
6 5 (3.94%) Celery
6 5 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.94%) XGBoost
7 4 (3.15%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.15%) pytest
8 3 (2.36%) OAuth
8 3 (2.36%) Web Services
9 2 (1.57%) NestJS
9 2 (1.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.66%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.09%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.72%) N-Tier
5 3 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.36%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.57%) Clustering
6 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.79%) CUDA
7 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.75%) Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (38.58%) CI/CD
2 41 (32.28%) Containerisation
3 37 (29.13%) Agile
3 37 (29.13%) DevOps
4 35 (27.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (23.62%) ETL
6 26 (20.47%) Analytics
7 22 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.96%) Data Engineering
8 19 (14.96%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (14.17%) Data Modelling
10 17 (13.39%) Machine Learning
10 17 (13.39%) Observability
11 16 (12.60%) AI
11 16 (12.60%) Data Science
12 14 (11.02%) Software Engineering
13 13 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (10.24%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (9.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (29.92%) SQL
2 22 (17.32%) Java
3 20 (15.75%) Bash
4 12 (9.45%) TypeScript
5 11 (8.66%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.30%) Go
7 6 (4.72%) Ruby
8 4 (3.15%) C++
9 3 (2.36%) Perl
9 3 (2.36%) PHP
9 3 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.36%) Scala
10 2 (1.57%) C#
10 2 (1.57%) R
10 2 (1.57%) Rust
10 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.79%) Bicep
11 1 (0.79%) C
11 1 (0.79%) Clojure
11 1 (0.79%) LookML
Qualifications
1 25 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.51%) Degree
4 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.57%) CCNP
7 2 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.79%) CCDP
8 1 (0.79%) CCIE
8 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.79%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.66%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (32.28%) Docker
2 4 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (34.65%) Kubernetes
2 42 (33.07%) Terraform
3 14 (11.02%) Ansible
4 11 (8.66%) Grafana
5 8 (6.30%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.36%) Istio
6 3 (2.36%) Podman
6 3 (2.36%) SELinux
7 2 (1.57%) Control-M
7 2 (1.57%) Packer
8 1 (0.79%) Argo
8 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.79%) Puppet
8 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (7.09%) Databricks
1 9 (7.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.30%) F5
2 8 (6.30%) Palo Alto
3 7 (5.51%) Google
3 7 (5.51%) Oracle
4 5 (3.94%) Dynatrace
4 5 (3.94%) Gigya
4 5 (3.94%) Pega
4 5 (3.94%) VMware
5 4 (3.15%) Confluent
5 4 (3.15%) Informatica
6 3 (2.36%) Cognos
7 2 (1.57%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.57%) Cisco
7 2 (1.57%) IBM
7 2 (1.57%) Meraki
7 2 (1.57%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.57%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow