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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 19 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 25 15 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 8.59% 6.15% 10.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.46% 23.08% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 22
10th Percentile £403 £240 £478
25th Percentile £410 £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -10.64%
75th Percentile £556 £625 £756
90th Percentile £575 £640 £849
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £34.24
25th Percentile - - £38.72
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -20.05% - +18.18%

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 65 65 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 22.34% 26.64% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 38 63
10th Percentile £378 £303 £350
25th Percentile £419 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.96% -0.38%
75th Percentile £544 £499 £594
90th Percentile £583 £541 £730
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £39.85 £34.24
25th Percentile - - £38.72
Median hourly rate £52.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% - -6.71%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £65.97 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +15 22 £475 -24.00% 58
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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (12.00%) dbt
3 3 (12.00%) Serverless
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (8.00%) Power BI
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.00%) Flink
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) Git
3 4 (16.00%) JIRA
4 3 (12.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (36.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Subject Matter Expert
5 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.00%) JPA
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (4.00%) Next.js
2 1 (4.00%) Node.js
2 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (36.00%) DevOps
4 8 (32.00%) Validation
5 7 (28.00%) Agile
6 6 (24.00%) GitOps
6 6 (24.00%) Migration
6 6 (24.00%) TDD
7 5 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (12.00%) Analytics
9 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
9 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
9 3 (12.00%) Data Science
9 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
9 3 (12.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 3 (12.00%) ETL
9 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
9 3 (12.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Bash
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Go
3 4 (16.00%) Perl
4 3 (12.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) Groovy
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) SnowPro
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (68.00%) Terraform
2 13 (52.00%) Ansible
2 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (24.00%) Argo
3 6 (24.00%) Istio
4 2 (8.00%) Packer
5 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (4.00%) Grafana
5 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace