Python Developer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Python Developer
England > North of England

The median Python Developer daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 143 165
Rank change year-on-year -28 +22 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 35 23 21
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.76% 0.61% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.66% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 14 17
10th Percentile £400 £383 £450
25th Percentile £406 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £550 £597 £588
90th Percentile £644 £618 £640
England median daily rate £584 £650 £644
% change year-on-year -10.19% +0.97% +0.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,226 3,485 4,420
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.00% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,846 1,960 2,985
10th Percentile £213 £239 £265
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 195 205
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.36 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.36 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.76 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -9.96% +30.95%
75th Percentile £53.44 £44.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £67.91 £61.19
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Python Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Python Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Python Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in the North of England

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in the North of England

Python Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in the North of England

Python Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Developer within the North of England 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
Yorkshire -28 25 £525 -4.55% 6
North West -19 6 £475 -20.83% 6
North East - 5 £400 -
Python Developer
England

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (65.71%) AWS
2 23 (65.71%) Terraform
3 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 15 (42.86%) Docker
4 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
5 11 (31.43%) Agile
5 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
6 10 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 10 (28.57%) Grafana
6 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
7 9 (25.71%) FastAPI
7 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (20.00%) DevOps
8 7 (20.00%) Observability
8 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
9 6 (17.14%) Control-M
9 6 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (17.14%) GitLab
9 6 (17.14%) IBM Guardium
9 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
9 6 (17.14%) JIRA
9 6 (17.14%) Nessus
9 6 (17.14%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (17.14%) Tenable
10 5 (14.29%) Ansible
10 5 (14.29%) API Development
10 5 (14.29%) Node.js

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (5.71%) Apache
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.57%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) Serverless
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.86%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Data Hub
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) GitLab
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Liquibase
General
1 16 (45.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) FastAPI
2 6 (17.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (14.29%) Node.js
4 4 (11.43%) Flask
5 3 (8.57%) Django
6 2 (5.71%) Vue
7 1 (2.86%) React
7 1 (2.86%) REST
7 1 (2.86%) RESTful
7 1 (2.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) NHS
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) CUDA
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 11 (31.43%) Agile
3 10 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (20.00%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) Observability
6 6 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.29%) API Development
8 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (8.57%) Data Security
9 3 (8.57%) Machine Learning
10 2 (5.71%) API Integration
10 2 (5.71%) Data Protection
10 2 (5.71%) Data Science
10 2 (5.71%) Front End Development
10 2 (5.71%) Scrum
10 2 (5.71%) Service Design
10 2 (5.71%) Software Engineering
10 2 (5.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.43%) Bash
4 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (2.86%) C
5 1 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (2.86%) Go
5 1 (2.86%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.86%) Ruby
5 1 (2.86%) Scala
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (65.71%) Terraform
2 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
3 10 (28.57%) Grafana
4 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 6 (17.14%) Control-M
5 6 (17.14%) IBM Guardium
5 6 (17.14%) Nessus
6 5 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Tenable
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.86%) OpenAI