Python Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Python
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 684 286 349
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.12% 8.66% 7.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.84% 30.30% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 214 213
10th Percentile £358 £374 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.99% -1.80% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £618 £650 £649
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 5
10th Percentile £31.84 - -
25th Percentile £37.86 - -
Median hourly rate £46.50 - £20.77
75th Percentile £71.20 - £46.18
90th Percentile £88.50 - £59.72
England median hourly rate £55.00 £39.66 £62.50
% change year-on-year +38.68% -36.54% -3.85%

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 1,675 944 1,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.22% 28.58% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,127 691 855
10th Percentile £344 £356 £316
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
England median daily rate £507 £525 £542
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.05% -4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 14 48
10th Percentile £41.94 £34.68 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.31 £44.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +60.53% -2.06%
75th Percentile £74.26 £94.67 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.40 £100.97 £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.56%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Python job vacancy trend in the North of England

Python
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Python

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 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 5 May 2026. 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 0 385 £475 -5.00% 130
North West +1 248 £500 +5.26% 239
North East +8 60 £475 +2.70% 84
Python
England

Python
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 39 (5.70%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.95%) Confluence
3 15 (2.19%) Apache
4 14 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.02%) SAS
7 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.44%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 15 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.29%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.15%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 256 (37.43%) AWS
2 204 (29.82%) Azure
3 140 (20.47%) GCP
4 106 (15.50%) GitHub
5 78 (11.40%) OpenShift
6 55 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (7.60%) Power Platform
8 48 (7.02%) Serverless
9 39 (5.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 31 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (2.78%) SaaS
14 17 (2.49%) Amazon S3
14 17 (2.49%) OCI
15 15 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (2.19%) Apigee
15 15 (2.19%) Entra ID
16 14 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.60%) DNS
2 44 (6.43%) Firewall
3 34 (4.97%) TCP/IP
4 27 (3.95%) BIG-IP
5 19 (2.78%) WAN
6 16 (2.34%) HTTP
7 13 (1.90%) BGP
7 13 (1.90%) VPN
7 13 (1.90%) Wireshark
8 12 (1.75%) SAN
8 12 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.61%) Network Security
9 11 (1.61%) OSPF
9 11 (1.61%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.46%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (1.46%) LAN
10 10 (1.46%) SSL
10 10 (1.46%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.32%) DHCP
11 9 (1.32%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.14%) Power BI
3 31 (4.53%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.65%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.51%) Hadoop
5 24 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.36%) Tableau
7 21 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.78%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.49%) Data Lake
10 15 (2.19%) Metadata
11 14 (2.05%) Big Data
12 12 (1.75%) Delta Lake
12 12 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.46%) MySQL
14 9 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.32%) DynamoDB
15 8 (1.17%) Relational Database
16 7 (1.02%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 131 (19.15%) Jenkins
2 65 (9.50%) JIRA
3 56 (8.19%) GitLab
4 46 (6.73%) Git
5 24 (3.51%) Postman
6 13 (1.90%) Gatling
7 12 (1.75%) Maven
8 11 (1.61%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.61%) Selenium
9 9 (1.32%) Fiddler
10 7 (1.02%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.88%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.88%) Liquibase
11 6 (0.88%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.88%) TestRail
12 5 (0.73%) JMeter
13 4 (0.58%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.58%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 132 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 107 (15.64%) Finance
3 95 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.19%) Banking
6 17 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.17%) Legal
8 7 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.88%) Retail
10 5 (0.73%) Publishing
11 4 (0.58%) Advertising
11 4 (0.58%) Law
11 4 (0.58%) Marketing
12 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.44%) Military
13 2 (0.29%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.29%) Games
13 2 (0.29%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.29%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (17.84%) Developer
2 93 (13.60%) Senior
3 63 (9.21%) Data Engineer
3 63 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (8.92%) Lead
5 60 (8.77%) Python Developer
6 49 (7.16%) Architect
7 42 (6.14%) Analyst
8 39 (5.70%) Security Engineer
9 29 (4.24%) GCP Engineer
10 27 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 21 (3.07%) Senior Developer
14 20 (2.92%) Data Analyst
14 20 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (2.92%) Network Engineer
14 20 (2.92%) Python Engineer
14 20 (2.92%) Software Engineer
15 18 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.73%) REST
2 45 (6.58%) OpenTelemetry
3 40 (5.85%) Node.js
4 38 (5.56%) Kafka
5 36 (5.26%) React
6 33 (4.82%) JSON
7 30 (4.39%) YAML
8 25 (3.65%) FastAPI
8 25 (3.65%) PySpark
8 25 (3.65%) Spring
9 23 (3.36%) Playwright
10 22 (3.22%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.49%) .NET
11 17 (2.49%) PyTorch
12 15 (2.19%) LDAP
13 14 (2.05%) LangChain
13 14 (2.05%) OpenID
13 14 (2.05%) Pandas
13 14 (2.05%) RESTful
14 13 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.97%) Data Protection Act
3 32 (4.68%) Data Centre
4 31 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.34%) NHS
9 13 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.90%) Replication
10 11 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.32%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.02%) Clustering
13 7 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 7 (1.02%) IoT
13 7 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.88%) Credit Risk
14 6 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 108 (15.79%) Linux
2 52 (7.60%) Windows
3 32 (4.68%) Unix
4 28 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.34%) Solaris
6 13 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.75%) Windows Server
8 8 (1.17%) CentOS
8 8 (1.17%) VMS
9 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.29%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.29%) zOS
11 1 (0.15%) AIX
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (46.49%) CI/CD
2 256 (37.43%) DevOps
3 167 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (21.64%) Agile
5 135 (19.74%) Containerisation
6 130 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (16.08%) Analytics
8 96 (14.04%) Observability
9 90 (13.16%) Migration
10 87 (12.72%) Test Automation
11 86 (12.57%) AI
12 78 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
13 73 (10.67%) ETL
14 68 (9.94%) Data Engineering
15 67 (9.80%) High Availability
16 66 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 64 (9.36%) Data Modelling
18 63 (9.21%) Machine Learning
19 60 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
20 55 (8.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (21.20%) SQL
2 128 (18.71%) Java
3 116 (16.96%) Bash
4 72 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 55 (8.04%) JavaScript
6 52 (7.60%) TypeScript
7 29 (4.24%) Go
8 25 (3.65%) Scala
9 18 (2.63%) Groovy
10 17 (2.49%) C#
11 16 (2.34%) R
11 16 (2.34%) Ruby
11 16 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.19%) Bicep
13 12 (1.75%) VBA
14 10 (1.46%) Perl
14 10 (1.46%) PHP
15 8 (1.17%) Rust
16 4 (0.58%) Cypher
16 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 115 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.24%) Degree
4 26 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 21 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.78%) CISSP
7 18 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.32%) CISM
10 9 (1.32%) RHCE
11 7 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.73%) CCNA
12 5 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.58%) CCNP
13 4 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.58%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.14%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.49%) GDPR
3 17 (2.49%) QA
4 13 (1.90%) HIPAA
5 9 (1.32%) WCAG
6 8 (1.17%) NIST
7 7 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.58%) PMO
10 4 (0.58%) SLA
11 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.29%) PSD2
13 1 (0.15%) GRC
13 1 (0.15%) SEPA
13 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 135 (19.74%) Docker
2 33 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (3.80%) VMware NSX
4 24 (3.51%) vSphere
5 10 (1.46%) Active Directory
5 10 (1.46%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.32%) KVM
7 8 (1.17%) Firmware
7 8 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.44%) NFS
9 3 (0.44%) SRDF
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.15%) Ceph
11 1 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.15%) Snort
11 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 221 (32.31%) Terraform
2 209 (30.56%) Kubernetes
3 152 (22.22%) Ansible
4 71 (10.38%) Grafana
5 64 (9.36%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.07%) Argo
6 21 (3.07%) vCenter Server
7 18 (2.63%) Puppet
8 16 (2.34%) Istio
9 15 (2.19%) Control-M
10 14 (2.05%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (2.05%) Nessus
11 9 (1.32%) HAProxy
12 7 (1.02%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.88%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.88%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.58%) vRealize
15 3 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.63%) Splunk
3 55 (8.04%) Red Hat
4 54 (7.89%) Google
5 50 (7.31%) VMware
6 44 (6.43%) Databricks
7 30 (4.39%) F5
8 28 (4.09%) ServiceNow
9 26 (3.80%) Oracle
10 19 (2.78%) Pure Storage
11 18 (2.63%) Cisco
12 14 (2.05%) Tenable
13 13 (1.90%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.90%) Palo Alto
14 11 (1.61%) Arista
14 11 (1.61%) IBM
15 10 (1.46%) Aruba
15 10 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
16 9 (1.32%) Infoblox
16 9 (1.32%) McAfee