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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 20 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 554 301 267
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.11% 7.52% 5.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.56% 30.53% 22.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 192 174
10th Percentile £316 £356 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £505 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -6.05% -2.27%
75th Percentile £544 £581 £638
90th Percentile £614 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £595 £588
% change year-on-year -11.76% +1.28% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 30
10th Percentile £39.56 - £45.29
25th Percentile £53.85 - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile - £69.67 -
90th Percentile - £82.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £51.44 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.27% - -7.69%

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 1,333 986 1,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.14% 24.64% 25.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 632 889
10th Percentile £315 £325 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £539 £563 £586
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 52
10th Percentile £37.19 £33.44 £30.75
25th Percentile £50.25 £37.51 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - +12.53%
75th Percentile £74.26 £62.81 £50.06
90th Percentile £85.10 £92.07 £66.13
England median hourly rate £62.75 £64.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -1.95% +3.23% -0.80%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 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 +9 299 £500 -2.44% 195
North West +11 221 £438 -9.98% 432
North East +3 38 £520 -12.97% 75
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 34 (6.14%) Confluence
2 27 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.61%) Apache
4 19 (3.43%) Apache Spark
5 15 (2.71%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.44%) SAS
7 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.08%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.90%) Apache Pig
10 4 (0.72%) IIS
10 4 (0.72%) JBoss
10 4 (0.72%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.18%) CMS
12 1 (0.18%) Documentum
12 1 (0.18%) nginx
12 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.99%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.36%) Maple
5 1 (0.18%) SPSS
5 1 (0.18%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Kondor
1 2 (0.36%) Maximo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 227 (40.97%) AWS
2 134 (24.19%) Azure
3 119 (21.48%) GCP
4 79 (14.26%) Serverless
5 66 (11.91%) GitHub
6 48 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
7 44 (7.94%) Power Platform
8 38 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (6.14%) Amazon S3
12 30 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (5.05%) OpenShift
14 18 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.89%) Datadog
15 16 (2.89%) SaaS
16 15 (2.71%) PaaS
17 12 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (11.91%) Firewall
2 41 (7.40%) TCP/IP
3 24 (4.33%) DNS
4 15 (2.71%) SSL
5 14 (2.53%) VPN
6 12 (2.17%) Network Security
7 10 (1.81%) Wireshark
8 9 (1.62%) BGP
8 9 (1.62%) HTTP
9 8 (1.44%) BIG-IP
9 8 (1.44%) WAN
10 7 (1.26%) SD-WAN
11 6 (1.08%) DMZ
11 6 (1.08%) SSH
11 6 (1.08%) VLAN
11 6 (1.08%) WebEx
12 5 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 5 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 5 (0.90%) LAN
12 5 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (12.27%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (9.93%) NoSQL
3 43 (7.76%) Power BI
4 38 (6.86%) Relational Database
5 26 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (3.97%) SQL Server
7 20 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (3.61%) DynamoDB
8 18 (3.25%) MySQL
9 17 (3.07%) RDBMS
10 16 (2.89%) BigQuery
11 15 (2.71%) Oracle Database
11 15 (2.71%) Tableau
12 14 (2.53%) Hadoop
13 11 (1.99%) MongoDB
13 11 (1.99%) Power Query
13 11 (1.99%) Redis
14 10 (1.81%) Big Data
14 10 (1.81%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.62%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 179 (32.31%) Jenkins
2 102 (18.41%) GitLab
3 99 (17.87%) Git
4 70 (12.64%) JIRA
5 30 (5.42%) Liquibase
6 19 (3.43%) Postman
7 12 (2.17%) Gradle
8 11 (1.99%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.44%) Maven
11 7 (1.26%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.26%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.26%) Fiddler
11 7 (1.26%) Xcode
12 6 (1.08%) MLflow
12 6 (1.08%) PyCharm
12 6 (1.08%) Selenium
13 5 (0.90%) SonarLint
14 4 (0.72%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
General
1 143 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 122 (22.02%) Finance
3 91 (16.43%) Banking
4 83 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (14.08%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.87%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.81%) Legal
9 6 (1.08%) Retail
10 5 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.72%) Games
11 4 (0.72%) Marketing
11 4 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.36%) Back Office
13 2 (0.36%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.36%) Law
13 2 (0.36%) Police
13 2 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (14.08%) Developer
2 73 (13.18%) Senior
3 61 (11.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (9.03%) AWS Engineer
5 49 (8.84%) Data Engineer
6 36 (6.50%) Analyst
7 33 (5.96%) Architect
7 33 (5.96%) Python Developer
7 33 (5.96%) Software Engineer
8 31 (5.60%) Automation Engineer
8 31 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
9 29 (5.23%) Lead
10 28 (5.05%) Python Engineer
11 27 (4.87%) Network Engineer
12 23 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (3.97%) AWS DevOps
14 19 (3.43%) Data Analyst
15 18 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 17 (3.07%) GCP Engineer
17 16 (2.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.37%) RESTful
2 50 (9.03%) REST
3 49 (8.84%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (5.60%) Node.js
5 29 (5.23%) FastAPI
6 24 (4.33%) React
7 19 (3.43%) TensorFlow
8 18 (3.25%) HTML
8 18 (3.25%) PySpark
9 17 (3.07%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.89%) Kafka
10 16 (2.89%) Spring Boot
11 15 (2.71%) Flask
11 15 (2.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (2.17%) CSS
13 11 (1.99%) JWT
13 11 (1.99%) PyTorch
14 10 (1.81%) Django
15 9 (1.62%) Celery
15 9 (1.62%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.19%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (5.60%) Public Cloud
5 22 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.61%) Algorithms
6 20 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (3.43%) NHS
8 14 (2.53%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.81%) Credit Risk
10 9 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.62%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.44%) Mobile Banking
12 6 (1.08%) N-Tier
12 6 (1.08%) Tandem
13 5 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.90%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 141 (25.45%) Linux
2 58 (10.47%) Windows
3 25 (4.51%) Unix
4 22 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (3.07%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.81%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.62%) Android
8 4 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.54%) AIX
9 3 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.54%) Solaris
9 3 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.36%) CentOS
10 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.18%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (41.88%) DevOps
2 223 (40.25%) CI/CD
3 184 (33.21%) Agile
4 139 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 138 (24.91%) Containerisation
6 107 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (13.36%) Microservices
8 66 (11.91%) Infrastructure Automation
9 65 (11.73%) Machine Learning
9 65 (11.73%) Software Engineering
10 64 (11.55%) Analytics
11 63 (11.37%) AI
12 62 (11.19%) Observability
13 61 (11.01%) Computer Science
13 61 (11.01%) Test Automation
14 55 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
15 52 (9.39%) Migration
16 47 (8.48%) Data Protection
16 47 (8.48%) ETL
17 45 (8.12%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (23.29%) Bash
2 110 (19.86%) SQL
3 74 (13.36%) Java
4 56 (10.11%) Go
5 52 (9.39%) PowerShell
6 38 (6.86%) JavaScript
7 36 (6.50%) Shell Script
8 35 (6.32%) Perl
9 25 (4.51%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.79%) Scala
11 15 (2.71%) C++
12 13 (2.35%) PHP
13 12 (2.17%) R
14 11 (1.99%) C
15 10 (1.81%) Ruby
16 9 (1.62%) C#
16 9 (1.62%) VBA
17 7 (1.26%) Kotlin
17 7 (1.26%) Objective-C
17 7 (1.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 113 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 88 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 62 (11.19%) Degree
4 47 (8.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (5.96%) Master's Degree
6 23 (4.15%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.53%) CCNP
9 12 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.99%) CCDP
11 10 (1.81%) CCNA
12 8 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.90%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.54%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.54%) GCIH
15 3 (0.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.89%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.71%) QA
3 11 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.08%) GDPR
4 6 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.08%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.90%) NIST
6 3 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.36%) Basel III
7 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 160 (28.88%) Docker
2 43 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.43%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.17%) vSphere
5 10 (1.81%) Oracle RAC
6 9 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 6 (1.08%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.54%) HDFS
9 2 (0.36%) KVM
9 2 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.18%) Ceph
10 1 (0.18%) Firmware
10 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 193 (34.84%) Terraform
2 184 (33.21%) Kubernetes
3 170 (30.69%) Ansible
4 84 (15.16%) Grafana
5 68 (12.27%) Prometheus
6 27 (4.87%) Puppet
7 20 (3.61%) NetBackup
8 14 (2.53%) Control-M
9 13 (2.35%) Argo
10 12 (2.17%) Istio
11 10 (1.81%) Data Guard
11 10 (1.81%) IBM Guardium
11 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Clustering
11 10 (1.81%) Nessus
11 10 (1.81%) yum
12 8 (1.44%) SCCM
13 7 (1.26%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (1.26%) Packer
14 6 (1.08%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 66 (11.91%) Splunk
3 59 (10.65%) VMware
4 45 (8.12%) Google
4 45 (8.12%) Oracle
5 41 (7.40%) Red Hat
6 27 (4.87%) F5
7 23 (4.15%) Cisco
8 22 (3.97%) Databricks
9 20 (3.61%) Palo Alto
10 17 (3.07%) MuleSoft
11 16 (2.89%) AppDynamics
11 16 (2.89%) Veritas
12 14 (2.53%) Commvault
12 14 (2.53%) ServiceNow
13 12 (2.17%) IBM
14 11 (1.99%) Pega
15 10 (1.81%) Tenable
16 9 (1.62%) Citrix
17 8 (1.44%) Juniper