Python Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Python Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median Python Software Engineer 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 198 160 184
Rank change year-on-year -38 +24 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 8 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.16% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.17% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £394 - £529
25th Percentile £489 £463 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -12.95% +12.00%
75th Percentile £603 £500 £579
90th Percentile £681 £538 £580
England median daily rate £750 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% +8.33%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Python Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Python Software Engineer in the North of England

Python Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer 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 -37 5 £500 -
North West -16 3 £625 +31.58%
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Python Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Terraform
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) Serverless
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (25.00%) Ansible
6 2 (25.00%) Django
6 2 (25.00%) GitLab
6 2 (25.00%) Java
6 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (25.00%) Linux
6 2 (25.00%) pytest
6 2 (25.00%) React
6 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS

Python Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) Azure
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Liquibase
2 1 (12.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Django
1 2 (25.00%) pytest
1 2 (25.00%) React
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS3
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 1 (12.50%) Flask
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (12.50%) API Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
6 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Microservices
6 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk
1 1 (12.50%) VMware