Python Contracts in the North of England

Python
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 18 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Python 282 356 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.56% 7.47% 7.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.29% 29.35% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 217 313
10th Percentile £373 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £35.63
25th Percentile - - £41.54
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £48.54
Median % change year-on-year - -57.21% +86.67%
75th Percentile - £46.18 £55.55
90th Percentile - £59.72 £61.08
England median hourly rate £40.91 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.62% +27.83%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the North of England

Python
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 within the North of England 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
North West +1 144 £475 -5.00% 485
Yorkshire +7 122 £500 - 231
North East -8 19 £481 -6.64% 103
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 18 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.90%) Apache
2 11 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.84%) Confluence
4 7 (2.48%) nginx
4 7 (2.48%) Traefik
5 5 (1.77%) JBoss
6 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.35%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Kondor
2 2 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 136 (48.23%) AWS
2 73 (25.89%) Azure
3 43 (15.25%) GCP
4 23 (8.16%) GitHub
5 21 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (7.45%) Serverless
6 16 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (5.32%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (4.96%) dbt
9 13 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (4.61%) Power Platform
10 12 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.90%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.55%) AWS Fargate
13 9 (3.19%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.22%) DNS
2 17 (6.03%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.90%) Firewall
4 9 (3.19%) Network Security
5 8 (2.84%) SAN
6 6 (2.13%) DHCP
6 6 (2.13%) NAS
6 6 (2.13%) VPN
7 5 (1.77%) HTTP
7 5 (1.77%) WAN
8 4 (1.42%) DWDM
8 4 (1.42%) LAN
9 3 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.71%) BGP
10 2 (0.71%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.71%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.71%) OSPF
10 2 (0.71%) SMS
10 2 (0.71%) SSH
10 2 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (7.45%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.09%) MongoDB
4 14 (4.96%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.61%) Power BI
6 12 (4.26%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.90%) Tableau
8 10 (3.55%) MySQL
9 9 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.84%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.84%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.48%) Oracle Database
12 6 (2.13%) Big Data
12 6 (2.13%) Flink
12 6 (2.13%) Metadata
13 5 (1.77%) Data Mining
13 5 (1.77%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (21.99%) Jenkins
2 60 (21.28%) GitLab
3 57 (20.21%) Git
4 24 (8.51%) JIRA
5 9 (3.19%) Selenium
6 8 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.48%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.48%) Visual Studio
8 6 (2.13%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.77%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.77%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.77%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.06%) Maven
10 3 (1.06%) Vagrant
10 3 (1.06%) webpack
11 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.71%) ERwin
11 2 (0.71%) TestNG
12 1 (0.35%) ScriptRunner
General
1 72 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.31%) Finance
3 34 (12.06%) Public Sector
4 32 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.16%) Banking
6 6 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.77%) Legal
8 4 (1.42%) Military
9 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Marketing
10 2 (0.71%) Electronics
10 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Retail
10 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (23.05%) Senior
2 50 (17.73%) Data Engineer
3 45 (15.96%) Developer
4 44 (15.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (7.80%) Python Engineer
6 21 (7.45%) Senior DevOps
7 17 (6.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 15 (5.32%) Lead
9 14 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
10 13 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (4.61%) Python Developer
11 11 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
12 10 (3.55%) Data Scientist
12 10 (3.55%) Python Data Engineer
12 10 (3.55%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.19%) Architect
13 9 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (2.84%) Analyst
14 8 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.64%) Kafka
2 18 (6.38%) REST
3 17 (6.03%) cloud-init
4 16 (5.67%) PySpark
4 16 (5.67%) RESTful
5 15 (5.32%) React
6 12 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.90%) Node.js
7 11 (3.90%) pytest
8 10 (3.55%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.19%) Keycloak
9 9 (3.19%) TensorFlow
10 8 (2.84%) CSS
10 8 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.84%) HTML
10 8 (2.84%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.48%) Gherkin
12 6 (2.13%) FastAPI
12 6 (2.13%) Pandas
13 5 (1.77%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.67%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (3.90%) PKI
3 10 (3.55%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.77%) Derivative
6 5 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.06%) NHS
8 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.71%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.71%) IoT
9 2 (0.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 72 (25.53%) Linux
2 35 (12.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 32 (11.35%) Unix
4 21 (7.45%) CentOS
5 14 (4.96%) Windows
6 5 (1.77%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.06%) AIX
7 3 (1.06%) Solaris
7 3 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.71%) Android
8 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.71%) HPUX
8 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.71%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (45.04%) CI/CD
2 90 (31.91%) DevOps
3 87 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (24.11%) Agile
5 51 (18.09%) Containerisation
6 45 (15.96%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (13.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (13.12%) ETL
9 35 (12.41%) Analytics
10 33 (11.70%) Data Modelling
11 28 (9.93%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (9.93%) Microservices
12 27 (9.57%) Test Automation
13 25 (8.87%) Visualisation
14 23 (8.16%) Data Engineering
14 23 (8.16%) Data Protection
14 23 (8.16%) Machine Learning
14 23 (8.16%) Migration
15 21 (7.45%) Software Engineering
16 19 (6.74%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 79 (28.01%) SQL
2 52 (18.44%) Bash
3 32 (11.35%) JavaScript
4 31 (10.99%) Java
5 27 (9.57%) PowerShell
5 27 (9.57%) Shell Script
6 20 (7.09%) Go
7 15 (5.32%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.26%) Ruby
9 11 (3.90%) Perl
10 8 (2.84%) Scala
11 6 (2.13%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.77%) R
13 4 (1.42%) SPARQL
14 3 (1.06%) Clojure
14 3 (1.06%) Groovy
15 2 (0.71%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.71%) C#
15 2 (0.71%) C++
15 2 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 59 (20.92%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.38%) Degree
4 12 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.13%) CCNP
7 5 (1.77%) CCNA
8 4 (1.42%) RHCE
9 3 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.71%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.71%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.71%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.71%) OCP
10 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.55%) QA
3 9 (3.19%) NCSC
4 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.77%) Basel III
4 5 (1.77%) MiFID
5 3 (1.06%) GDPR
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.35%) NIST
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 63 (22.34%) Docker
2 14 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.48%) vSphere
5 4 (1.42%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.06%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.71%) KVM
7 2 (0.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 102 (36.17%) Kubernetes
2 78 (27.66%) Terraform
3 54 (19.15%) Ansible
4 24 (8.51%) Progress Chef
5 23 (8.16%) Grafana
6 21 (7.45%) Prometheus
7 20 (7.09%) Packer
8 15 (5.32%) Puppet
9 12 (4.26%) ZABBIX
10 11 (3.90%) Istio
11 10 (3.55%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (3.19%) Consul
12 9 (3.19%) linkerd
12 9 (3.19%) Rancher
13 7 (2.48%) HAProxy
14 6 (2.13%) vRealize
15 5 (1.77%) Kibana
16 4 (1.42%) vCenter Server
17 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
17 2 (0.71%) Graylog
Vendors
1 27 (9.57%) Oracle
2 23 (8.16%) Splunk
3 22 (7.80%) Databricks
4 19 (6.74%) Google
5 16 (5.67%) Microsoft
5 16 (5.67%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.90%) VMware
7 10 (3.55%) Cisco
8 9 (3.19%) Okta
9 8 (2.84%) Apple
9 8 (2.84%) Infoblox
10 7 (2.48%) ESET
11 6 (2.13%) Commvault
11 6 (2.13%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.13%) IBM
11 6 (2.13%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.77%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.77%) Sybase
13 4 (1.42%) Arista
13 4 (1.42%) Cloudera