Python Contracts in the North East

Python
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 11 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Python 19 30 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 5.94% 8.88% 9.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.59% 35.71% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 35
10th Percentile £401 £415 £470
25th Percentile £412 £425 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £516 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% -23.63% +22.73%
75th Percentile £546 £613 £775
90th Percentile £575 £635 £848
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - -36.09% -
75th Percentile - £27.12 £33.75
90th Percentile - £38.56 -
England median hourly rate £40.91 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.62% +27.83%

All Programming Languages
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 88 84 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 27.50% 24.85% 44.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 34 151
10th Percentile £326 £354 £388
25th Percentile £359 £403 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £465 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% -17.79% +13.00%
75th Percentile £490 £523 £653
90th Percentile £574 £635 £760
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 2
10th Percentile - £20.77 £32.98
25th Percentile - £46.18 £35.56
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +16.56% -4.12%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £45.56
90th Percentile - £68.75 £47.93
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North East

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Python in the North East

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North East

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the North East

Python
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Tyne and Wear -4 19 £481 -6.64% 82
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Jupyter
1 2 (10.53%) nginx
1 2 (10.53%) Traefik
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (26.32%) Serverless
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (10.53%) dbt
6 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
6 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (5.26%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) SMS
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Metadata
1 3 (15.79%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.26%) Flink
3 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) GitLab
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) Selenium
4 2 (10.53%) Git
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Electronics
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Data Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Kafka
2 3 (15.79%) pytest
3 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.53%) cloud-init
3 2 (10.53%) Keycloak
3 2 (10.53%) Micronaut
3 2 (10.53%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
3 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Unix
4 1 (5.26%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.79%) ETL
7 2 (10.53%) Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
7 2 (10.53%) Mobile Device Management
7 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
7 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Bash
1 5 (26.32%) Java
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Go
3 1 (5.26%) Bicep
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Terraform
2 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (26.32%) Grafana
3 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.79%) Packer
5 2 (10.53%) Ansible
5 2 (10.53%) Consul
5 2 (10.53%) HAProxy
5 2 (10.53%) Istio
5 2 (10.53%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (10.53%) linkerd
5 2 (10.53%) Rancher
5 2 (10.53%) ZABBIX
6 1 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Apple
2 2 (10.53%) ESET
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Okta
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) New Relic