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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 749 416 297
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 10.01% 10.43% 7.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.38% 37.34% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 290 204
10th Percentile £363 £337 £373
25th Percentile £413 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -4.17% -7.27%
75th Percentile £588 £548 £600
90th Percentile £638 £613 £650
England median daily rate £550 £537 £578
% change year-on-year +2.42% -7.13% -3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile £28.50 £38.98 -
25th Percentile £29.25 £43.44 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +10.98% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £59.44 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £64.13 £59.72
England median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% -19.23% -

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 1,855 1,114 1,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.78% 27.94% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 794 716
10th Percentile £351 £315 £350
25th Percentile £413 £378 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% -4.62% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 13 31
10th Percentile £28.65 £30.35 £37.50
25th Percentile £46.98 £36.00 £41.86
Median hourly rate £68.25 £66.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +26.67% +13.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £84.50 £70.13
90th Percentile £76.90 £93.75 £83.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +8.14%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 0 382 £500 - 106
North West -2 286 £525 +10.53% 177
North East -1 93 £425 -18.27% 77
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 63 (8.41%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.61%) Apache
3 37 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (3.74%) Jupyter
5 26 (3.47%) Confluence
6 13 (1.74%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.20%) SAS
8 4 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.27%) Camunda
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 336 (44.86%) AWS
2 268 (35.78%) Azure
3 158 (21.09%) GCP
4 127 (16.96%) GitHub
5 72 (9.61%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (7.34%) Power Platform
7 53 (7.08%) Serverless
8 44 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (5.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 38 (5.07%) OCI
10 38 (5.07%) OpenShift
11 34 (4.54%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (3.87%) Amazon S3
12 29 (3.87%) SaaS
13 25 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (2.80%) dbt
15 19 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (2.40%) Vertex AI
17 16 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 91 (12.15%) Firewall
2 49 (6.54%) DNS
3 38 (5.07%) BIG-IP
4 35 (4.67%) Network Security
5 34 (4.54%) BGP
5 34 (4.54%) WAN
6 30 (4.01%) OSPF
7 29 (3.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 28 (3.74%) TCP/IP
9 26 (3.47%) SD-WAN
10 21 (2.80%) Ethernet VPN
10 21 (2.80%) VXLAN
11 19 (2.54%) VPN
12 17 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (1.74%) SAN
13 13 (1.74%) WLAN
14 11 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 10 (1.34%) DHCP
15 10 (1.34%) HTTP
15 10 (1.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.68%) Power BI
2 38 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.67%) SQL Server
4 29 (3.87%) BigQuery
4 29 (3.87%) Metadata
5 25 (3.34%) NoSQL
6 23 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (2.67%) Big Data
8 18 (2.40%) Tableau
9 17 (2.27%) MongoDB
10 16 (2.14%) DynamoDB
10 16 (2.14%) Hadoop
11 12 (1.60%) Data Lake
12 11 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.34%) Delta Lake
13 10 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.07%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 123 (16.42%) Jenkins
2 86 (11.48%) GitLab
3 73 (9.75%) JIRA
4 71 (9.48%) Git
5 19 (2.54%) Gatling
6 14 (1.87%) Maven
7 13 (1.74%) Postman
7 13 (1.74%) Selenium
8 12 (1.60%) JMeter
9 11 (1.47%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.47%) LoadRunner
9 11 (1.47%) SonarQube
9 11 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.93%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.80%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.80%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.80%) NeoLoad
11 6 (0.80%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.53%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.53%) Robot Framework
General
1 148 (19.76%) Social Skills
2 147 (19.63%) Finance
3 110 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (12.95%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.68%) Banking
6 13 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (1.74%) Legal
6 13 (1.74%) Retail
7 10 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.34%) Publishing
8 9 (1.20%) Games
9 6 (0.80%) Military
10 5 (0.67%) Marketing
11 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.53%) Law
11 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.27%) Advertising
13 2 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (16.42%) Senior
2 105 (14.02%) Developer
3 86 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 72 (9.61%) Python Developer
5 67 (8.95%) Data Engineer
5 67 (8.95%) Lead
6 57 (7.61%) Security Engineer
7 42 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (5.61%) Python Engineer
8 34 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
9 33 (4.41%) Architect
10 32 (4.27%) Network Engineer
11 29 (3.87%) Analyst
12 27 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (3.60%) Software Engineer
13 26 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 24 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
15 23 (3.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (2.80%) Test Engineer
17 18 (2.40%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.87%) Node.js
2 43 (5.74%) REST
3 41 (5.47%) PySpark
4 38 (5.07%) Kafka
5 36 (4.81%) React
6 33 (4.41%) JSON
7 22 (2.94%) Playwright
8 19 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
9 17 (2.27%) CSS
9 17 (2.27%) HTML
9 17 (2.27%) LangChain
10 16 (2.14%) PyTorch
10 16 (2.14%) Spring
11 15 (2.00%) FastAPI
11 15 (2.00%) YAML
12 14 (1.87%) .NET
12 14 (1.87%) Vue
13 12 (1.60%) Spring Boot
14 11 (1.47%) pytest
14 11 (1.47%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 140 (18.69%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.28%) Data Centre
3 34 (4.54%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
5 32 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 26 (3.47%) Management Information System
8 25 (3.34%) Product Ownership
9 19 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (2.54%) Replication
10 18 (2.40%) AI Agents
10 18 (2.40%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.27%) NHS
12 16 (2.14%) PKI
12 16 (2.14%) Public Cloud
13 15 (2.00%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
14 13 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 116 (15.49%) Linux
2 67 (8.95%) Windows
3 38 (5.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (4.81%) Unix
5 16 (2.14%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.74%) Solaris
7 8 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.93%) VMS
9 5 (0.67%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.67%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.40%) AIX
10 3 (0.40%) zOS
11 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.13%) CentOS
12 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (51.54%) CI/CD
2 292 (38.99%) DevOps
3 234 (31.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 197 (26.30%) Agile
5 137 (18.29%) Observability
6 133 (17.76%) Analytics
7 130 (17.36%) Containerisation
8 127 (16.96%) AI
9 116 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (14.15%) Data Engineering
11 102 (13.62%) Data Pipeline
11 102 (13.62%) Test Automation
12 90 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 76 (10.15%) Software Engineering
14 72 (9.61%) Cloud Security
14 72 (9.61%) Migration
15 71 (9.48%) Machine Learning
16 70 (9.35%) High Availability
17 69 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
18 67 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 178 (23.77%) SQL
2 148 (19.76%) Bash
3 137 (18.29%) Java
4 121 (16.15%) PowerShell
5 52 (6.94%) JavaScript
6 34 (4.54%) TypeScript
7 32 (4.27%) Go
8 27 (3.60%) Bicep
9 22 (2.94%) Scala
10 17 (2.27%) Groovy
11 13 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.60%) C#
13 11 (1.47%) Rust
14 9 (1.20%) ActionScript
14 9 (1.20%) R
14 9 (1.20%) Search Processing Language
15 8 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.80%) VBA
17 5 (0.67%) Perl
18 4 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 159 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 139 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.61%) Degree
4 38 (5.07%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.67%) CISSP
6 33 (4.41%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.20%) CCNP
10 9 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.93%) GCIH
12 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.67%) CCNA
13 5 (0.67%) GCFA
14 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.53%) CCIE
14 4 (0.53%) GIAC
14 4 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.07%) GDPR
3 20 (2.67%) QA
4 12 (1.60%) NIST
4 12 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.34%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.67%) HL7
10 5 (0.67%) WCAG
11 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.40%) SLA
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.13%) PSD2
13 1 (0.13%) SEPA
13 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 161 (21.50%) Docker
2 24 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.54%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.87%) vSphere
6 10 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.93%) Firmware
8 6 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.67%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.53%) NFS
10 4 (0.53%) SRDF
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.27%) KVM
12 2 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.13%) Snort
13 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 275 (36.72%) Terraform
2 189 (25.23%) Kubernetes
3 142 (18.96%) Ansible
4 58 (7.74%) Grafana
5 48 (6.41%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.47%) Progress Chef
7 21 (2.80%) Argo
8 11 (1.47%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.20%) Control-M
9 9 (1.20%) HAProxy
10 8 (1.07%) IBM Guardium
10 8 (1.07%) Nessus
11 7 (0.93%) Puppet
12 6 (0.80%) Istio
12 6 (0.80%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.67%) CASB
13 5 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (0.53%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.53%) vRealize
Vendors
1 95 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 77 (10.28%) Google
3 61 (8.14%) Databricks
4 56 (7.48%) Splunk
5 41 (5.47%) F5
6 37 (4.94%) Red Hat
7 36 (4.81%) Palo Alto
8 31 (4.14%) Cisco
9 29 (3.87%) VMware
10 28 (3.74%) IBM
10 28 (3.74%) ServiceNow
11 25 (3.34%) Arista
12 24 (3.20%) Aruba
12 24 (3.20%) Dynatrace
13 20 (2.67%) Oracle
14 13 (1.74%) Trend Micro
15 12 (1.60%) SAP
16 10 (1.34%) Dell
16 10 (1.34%) Fortinet
16 10 (1.34%) Pure Storage