Python Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Python
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside 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 24 28 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +18
Contract jobs citing Python 15 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 6.10% 2.55% 4.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.09% 16.67% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £160 - £222
25th Percentile £274 - £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% - -20.93%
75th Percentile £492 - £625
90th Percentile £604 - £738
North West median daily rate £450 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -9.04% -5.76% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 44 36 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 17.89% 15.32% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 25
10th Percentile £266 £206 £245
25th Percentile £303 £296 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -15.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £500 £481 £563
90th Percentile £510 £638 £578
North West median daily rate £425 £453 £488
% change year-on-year -6.08% -7.18% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.00% -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.25% +40.75% +20.26%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Python job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Merseyside over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Merseyside

Python
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 13 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
Liverpool +4 13 £433 +1.76% 29
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 3 (20.00%) Vertex AI
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Firebase
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) BIG-IP
1 5 (33.33%) DMZ
1 5 (33.33%) DNS
1 5 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 5 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (33.33%) HTTP
1 5 (33.33%) SSL
1 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 5 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Pinecone
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Data Hub
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Fiddler
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (40.00%) Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Automotive
5 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Junior
2 4 (26.67%) Python Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Junior Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IP Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) LangChain
2 3 (20.00%) CrewAI
3 2 (13.33%) Gradio
3 2 (13.33%) Streamlit
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) D3.js
4 1 (6.67%) Faiss
4 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.67%) Flask
4 1 (6.67%) Flutter
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) LangGraph
4 1 (6.67%) Material-UI
4 1 (6.67%) Next.js
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) React Native
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (20.00%) AI Agents
3 3 (20.00%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 5 (33.33%) Migration
1 5 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (26.67%) AI
2 4 (26.67%) Conversational UI
2 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
2 4 (26.67%) LLM
2 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
2 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
2 4 (26.67%) Use Case
3 3 (20.00%) API Integration
3 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Memory Management
3 3 (20.00%) Multi-Agent System
3 3 (20.00%) Observability
3 3 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (20.00%) Semantic Search
4 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Go
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) MCP
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) Firmware
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Blue Coat
1 5 (33.33%) F5
1 5 (33.33%) McAfee
1 5 (33.33%) NetApp
2 3 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Netlify
3 1 (6.67%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.67%) VMware