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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 672 273 348
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.18% 8.49% 7.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.90% 30.13% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 204 211
10th Percentile £358 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £411 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% -2.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £606 £654 £650
England median daily rate £518 £560 £555
% change year-on-year -7.59% +0.90% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 5
10th Percentile £32.75 - -
25th Percentile £40.58 £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £68.13 £75.00 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +261.10% -57.21%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £87.50 - £59.72
England median hourly rate £56.50 £45.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.56% -21.74% -11.54%

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 1,643 906 1,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.32% 28.17% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 658 855
10th Percentile £344 £350 £319
25th Percentile £402 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £619 £638 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 15 47
10th Percentile £42.25 £35.66 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.81 £58.63 £43.57
Median hourly rate £66.25 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +57.89% +1.49%
75th Percentile £74.26 £92.70 £66.25
90th Percentile £84.65 £100.62 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% -1.44%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 0 377 £475 -5.00% 188
North West +2 249 £500 +5.26% 220
North East +9 55 £488 - 71
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 37 (5.51%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.76%) Confluence
3 17 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.93%) Apache
6 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.49%) SAS
8 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 14 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Odoo
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 249 (37.05%) AWS
2 196 (29.17%) Azure
3 141 (20.98%) GCP
4 116 (17.26%) GitHub
5 75 (11.16%) OpenShift
6 63 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (8.04%) Serverless
8 43 (6.40%) Power Platform
9 38 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 37 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.42%) Entra ID
13 21 (3.13%) Amazon S3
13 21 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.23%) Apigee
17 14 (2.08%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 51 (7.59%) DNS
2 40 (5.95%) Firewall
3 30 (4.46%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.38%) HTTP
5 15 (2.23%) BIG-IP
6 13 (1.93%) VPN
6 13 (1.93%) Wireshark
7 12 (1.79%) SAN
8 11 (1.64%) WAN
9 10 (1.49%) LAN
10 9 (1.34%) BGP
10 9 (1.34%) NAS
10 9 (1.34%) Network Security
10 9 (1.34%) SSL
10 9 (1.34%) VLAN
11 7 (1.04%) DHCP
12 6 (0.89%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.89%) WebEx
12 6 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.76%) Power BI
3 29 (4.32%) SQL Server
4 27 (4.02%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.42%) Hadoop
7 22 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.53%) BigQuery
8 17 (2.53%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.23%) Tableau
10 14 (2.08%) Metadata
11 12 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.79%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.64%) Big Data
12 11 (1.64%) MySQL
12 11 (1.64%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.49%) DynamoDB
14 8 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 137 (20.39%) Jenkins
2 70 (10.42%) JIRA
3 48 (7.14%) Git
3 48 (7.14%) GitLab
4 25 (3.72%) Postman
5 15 (2.23%) Selenium
6 13 (1.93%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.79%) Gatling
8 11 (1.64%) Maven
9 9 (1.34%) Fiddler
10 8 (1.19%) TestRail
11 7 (1.04%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.04%) Liquibase
12 6 (0.89%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.74%) JMeter
14 4 (0.60%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.60%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 132 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 105 (15.63%) Finance
3 97 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.78%) Banking
6 18 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.08%) Legal
8 6 (0.89%) Retail
9 5 (0.74%) Publishing
10 4 (0.60%) Advertising
10 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.60%) Law
11 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.45%) Marketing
12 2 (0.30%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.30%) Military
12 2 (0.30%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (18.01%) Developer
2 78 (11.61%) Senior
3 66 (9.82%) Data Engineer
4 61 (9.08%) Python Developer
5 58 (8.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 56 (8.33%) Lead
7 51 (7.59%) Architect
8 40 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
9 39 (5.80%) Analyst
10 33 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
10 33 (4.91%) Security Engineer
11 29 (4.32%) GCP Engineer
12 22 (3.27%) Software Engineer
13 21 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 21 (3.13%) Network Engineer
14 20 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 20 (2.98%) Python Engineer
15 18 (2.68%) Data Analyst
15 18 (2.68%) Senior Developer
16 17 (2.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.14%) REST
2 44 (6.55%) OpenTelemetry
3 38 (5.65%) Node.js
4 36 (5.36%) React
5 35 (5.21%) Kafka
6 33 (4.91%) JSON
7 29 (4.32%) YAML
8 24 (3.57%) FastAPI
8 24 (3.57%) Playwright
9 23 (3.42%) Spring
10 22 (3.27%) PySpark
11 21 (3.13%) Spring Boot
12 18 (2.68%) .NET
13 17 (2.53%) PyTorch
14 15 (2.23%) LDAP
14 15 (2.23%) RESTful
15 14 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (2.08%) LangChain
16 13 (1.93%) JWT
16 13 (1.93%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
4 26 (3.87%) Data Centre
5 25 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (3.13%) Security Posture
8 20 (2.98%) NHS
9 15 (2.23%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.93%) Replication
11 10 (1.49%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.34%) Credit Risk
12 9 (1.34%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.19%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.04%) Clustering
14 7 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 7 (1.04%) IoT
15 6 (0.89%) Cloud Security Posture
15 6 (0.89%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 114 (16.96%) Linux
2 54 (8.04%) Windows
3 36 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (4.02%) Unix
5 20 (2.98%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.93%) Solaris
6 13 (1.93%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.34%) CentOS
8 6 (0.89%) VMS
9 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) AIX
11 1 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (46.28%) CI/CD
2 259 (38.54%) DevOps
3 159 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (21.58%) Agile
5 141 (20.98%) Containerisation
6 135 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (16.22%) Analytics
8 97 (14.43%) Observability
9 86 (12.80%) Test Automation
10 84 (12.50%) Migration
11 80 (11.90%) AI
12 74 (11.01%) Data Pipeline
13 72 (10.71%) ETL
14 68 (10.12%) Data Engineering
14 68 (10.12%) Machine Learning
15 66 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (9.82%) Data Modelling
15 66 (9.82%) High Availability
16 64 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
17 59 (8.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (20.39%) SQL
2 121 (18.01%) Java
3 119 (17.71%) Bash
4 78 (11.61%) PowerShell
5 60 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 55 (8.18%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.57%) Go
8 23 (3.42%) Scala
9 21 (3.13%) C#
9 21 (3.13%) Perl
10 18 (2.68%) Groovy
11 16 (2.38%) Ruby
12 15 (2.23%) R
12 15 (2.23%) Shell Script
13 14 (2.08%) Bicep
14 13 (1.93%) VBA
15 10 (1.49%) PHP
16 7 (1.04%) Rust
17 4 (0.60%) Cypher
17 4 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 127 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 105 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.76%) Degree
4 23 (3.42%) AWS Certification
5 20 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.53%) CISSP
7 14 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.93%) CCNA
8 13 (1.93%) CCNP
9 12 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.34%) CCDP
11 9 (1.34%) CISM
12 8 (1.19%) RHCE
13 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.60%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.21%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.53%) GDPR
4 16 (2.38%) QA
5 12 (1.79%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.19%) WCAG
7 7 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.04%) NIST
8 6 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.60%) PMO
9 4 (0.60%) SLA
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.30%) PSD2
10 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) SEPA
11 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 137 (20.39%) Docker
2 34 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.87%) VMware NSX
4 24 (3.57%) vSphere
5 23 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (3.13%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.49%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.49%) KVM
8 8 (1.19%) Firmware
8 8 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.45%) SRDF
11 2 (0.30%) NFS
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.15%) Ceph
12 1 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.15%) QEMU
12 1 (0.15%) Snort
Systems Management
1 218 (32.44%) Terraform
2 208 (30.95%) Kubernetes
3 131 (19.49%) Ansible
4 73 (10.86%) Grafana
5 64 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.13%) vCenter Server
7 20 (2.98%) Argo
8 18 (2.68%) Puppet
9 17 (2.53%) Istio
10 15 (2.23%) Control-M
11 14 (2.08%) IBM Guardium
11 14 (2.08%) Nessus
12 8 (1.19%) HAProxy
13 7 (1.04%) NetBackup
14 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.89%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.60%) vRealize
17 3 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 75 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 63 (9.38%) Red Hat
2 63 (9.38%) Splunk
3 56 (8.33%) VMware
4 53 (7.89%) Google
5 43 (6.40%) Databricks
6 27 (4.02%) Cisco
7 25 (3.72%) ServiceNow
8 23 (3.42%) Oracle
9 19 (2.83%) Pure Storage
10 18 (2.68%) F5
11 14 (2.08%) Tenable
12 12 (1.79%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.49%) Citrix
14 9 (1.34%) Blue Coat
14 9 (1.34%) McAfee
15 8 (1.19%) CyberArk
15 8 (1.19%) IBM
16 7 (1.04%) Dell
16 7 (1.04%) Infoblox