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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 721 427 305
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 9.55% 10.64% 7.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.91% 37.96% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 298 207
10th Percentile £363 £337 £374
25th Percentile £413 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -5.85% -6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £610 £650
England median daily rate £549 £537 £577
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.97% -3.79%
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 £71.33 £59.44 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.13 £59.72
England median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £67.02
% change year-on-year +26.27% -25.40% +3.11%

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 1,853 1,125 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.54% 28.02% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 800 721
10th Percentile £350 £315 £338
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -5.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 13 28
10th Percentile £28.50 £30.35 £37.05
25th Percentile £46.66 £36.00 £37.55
Median hourly rate £66.25 £66.50 £50.13
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +32.67% +8.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £84.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £76.70 £93.75 £75.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -1 369 £500 - 73
North West -2 269 £500 +5.26% 141
North East -1 94 £425 -5.56% 57
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 56 (7.77%) Apache Spark
2 44 (6.10%) Apache
3 38 (5.27%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (4.02%) Jupyter
5 20 (2.77%) Confluence
6 13 (1.80%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.25%) SAS
8 4 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.42%) nginx
9 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.28%) Camunda
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 14 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.14%) Odoo
2 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 322 (44.66%) AWS
2 254 (35.23%) Azure
3 150 (20.80%) GCP
4 121 (16.78%) GitHub
5 69 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
6 58 (8.04%) Power Platform
7 56 (7.77%) Serverless
8 41 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (5.27%) OCI
10 37 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 32 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 29 (4.02%) SaaS
13 28 (3.88%) OpenShift
14 26 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (2.64%) dbt
17 15 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 82 (11.37%) Firewall
2 45 (6.24%) DNS
3 38 (5.27%) BIG-IP
4 37 (5.13%) Network Security
5 35 (4.85%) WAN
6 33 (4.58%) BGP
7 30 (4.16%) OSPF
8 29 (4.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 27 (3.74%) SD-WAN
10 26 (3.61%) TCP/IP
11 21 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
11 21 (2.91%) VXLAN
12 17 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (2.22%) VPN
14 13 (1.80%) WLAN
15 11 (1.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 11 (1.53%) Wireless
16 10 (1.39%) DHCP
16 10 (1.39%) SAN
16 10 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.35%) Power BI
2 34 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.02%) BigQuery
4 29 (4.02%) Metadata
5 23 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (2.77%) Big Data
7 18 (2.50%) DynamoDB
7 18 (2.50%) Tableau
8 17 (2.36%) NoSQL
9 15 (2.08%) MongoDB
10 13 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.66%) Data Lake
12 11 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (1.25%) Delta Lake
15 8 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.97%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.97%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 113 (15.67%) Jenkins
2 86 (11.93%) GitLab
3 69 (9.57%) Git
4 66 (9.15%) JIRA
5 19 (2.64%) Gatling
6 15 (2.08%) Maven
7 13 (1.80%) Postman
7 13 (1.80%) Selenium
8 12 (1.66%) JMeter
8 12 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.53%) LoadRunner
9 11 (1.53%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.97%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.97%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.83%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.83%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.55%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 142 (19.69%) Social Skills
2 138 (19.14%) Finance
3 102 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (13.59%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.18%) Banking
6 15 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.80%) Legal
8 12 (1.66%) Retail
9 10 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.39%) Publishing
10 9 (1.25%) Games
11 5 (0.69%) Military
12 4 (0.55%) Law
12 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.55%) Marketing
13 3 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.42%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.42%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (16.37%) Senior
2 101 (14.01%) Developer
3 82 (11.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 71 (9.85%) Python Developer
5 63 (8.74%) Data Engineer
6 59 (8.18%) Lead
7 43 (5.96%) Security Engineer
8 40 (5.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 40 (5.55%) Python Engineer
9 32 (4.44%) Architect
9 32 (4.44%) Network Engineer
10 30 (4.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (3.88%) Analyst
12 27 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
13 25 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.47%) Software Engineer
14 23 (3.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 21 (2.91%) Test Engineer
17 17 (2.36%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (37.31%) Terraform
2 43 (5.96%) REST
3 42 (5.83%) Node.js
3 42 (5.83%) PySpark
4 38 (5.27%) Kafka
5 34 (4.72%) React
6 32 (4.44%) JSON
7 22 (3.05%) Playwright
8 18 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
9 17 (2.36%) CSS
9 17 (2.36%) HTML
10 16 (2.22%) Spring
11 15 (2.08%) YAML
12 14 (1.94%) .NET
12 14 (1.94%) pytest
12 14 (1.94%) Vue
13 12 (1.66%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.66%) Spring Boot
14 11 (1.53%) Flask
14 11 (1.53%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.75%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 34 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
5 31 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 23 (3.19%) Security Posture
8 21 (2.91%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.91%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.50%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.50%) NHS
9 18 (2.50%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.50%) Replication
10 15 (2.08%) Data Structures
10 15 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (2.08%) PKI
11 13 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 107 (14.84%) Linux
2 63 (8.74%) Windows
3 36 (4.99%) Unix
4 32 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.22%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.80%) Solaris
7 7 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.97%) VMS
8 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.42%) zOS
10 2 (0.28%) AIX
10 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (50.07%) CI/CD
2 273 (37.86%) DevOps
3 230 (31.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 181 (25.10%) Agile
5 135 (18.72%) Observability
6 126 (17.48%) AI
7 123 (17.06%) Analytics
8 120 (16.64%) Containerisation
9 109 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
10 100 (13.87%) Data Engineering
11 92 (12.76%) Data Pipeline
11 92 (12.76%) Test Automation
12 89 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 74 (10.26%) Software Engineering
14 71 (9.85%) Migration
14 71 (9.85%) Platform Engineering
15 68 (9.43%) High Availability
16 65 (9.02%) Data Modelling
16 65 (9.02%) Machine Learning
16 65 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 168 (23.30%) SQL
2 140 (19.42%) Bash
3 137 (19.00%) Java
4 120 (16.64%) PowerShell
5 50 (6.93%) JavaScript
6 33 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 31 (4.30%) Go
8 24 (3.33%) Bicep
9 22 (3.05%) Scala
10 17 (2.36%) Groovy
11 12 (1.66%) C#
12 10 (1.39%) Rust
12 10 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.25%) ActionScript
13 9 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.25%) R
14 7 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.83%) VBA
16 5 (0.69%) Perl
17 4 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 160 (22.19%) Security Cleared
2 145 (20.11%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.63%) Degree
4 33 (4.58%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.16%) CISSP
6 28 (3.88%) Azure Certification
7 23 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.39%) CCNP
12 9 (1.25%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.97%) GCIH
14 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.69%) CCNA
15 5 (0.69%) GCFA
16 4 (0.55%) CCIE
16 4 (0.55%) GIAC
16 4 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.42%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.02%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.77%) QA
3 19 (2.64%) GDPR
4 12 (1.66%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.53%) NIST
6 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.69%) HL7
9 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.55%) SLA
9 4 (0.55%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 151 (20.94%) Docker
2 21 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.80%) vSphere
6 9 (1.25%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.83%) Firmware
7 6 (0.83%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.55%) NFS
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.28%) SRDF
10 2 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.14%) Ceph
11 1 (0.14%) KVM
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.14%) Snort
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 178 (24.69%) Kubernetes
2 139 (19.28%) Ansible
3 54 (7.49%) Grafana
4 46 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.74%) Progress Chef
6 18 (2.50%) Argo
7 10 (1.39%) vCenter Server
8 9 (1.25%) HAProxy
9 8 (1.11%) Control-M
10 7 (0.97%) IBM Guardium
10 7 (0.97%) Nessus
11 6 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.69%) CASB
12 5 (0.69%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.55%) Istio
13 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.55%) Puppet
13 4 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (0.55%) vRealize
14 3 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 92 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.29%) Google
3 62 (8.60%) Databricks
4 49 (6.80%) Splunk
5 40 (5.55%) F5
6 36 (4.99%) Palo Alto
7 33 (4.58%) Red Hat
8 28 (3.88%) Cisco
8 28 (3.88%) ServiceNow
9 25 (3.47%) Arista
9 25 (3.47%) VMware
10 24 (3.33%) Aruba
10 24 (3.33%) Dynatrace
11 23 (3.19%) IBM
12 22 (3.05%) Oracle
13 13 (1.80%) Trend Micro
14 12 (1.66%) SAP
15 10 (1.39%) Fortinet
16 9 (1.25%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.25%) Pure Storage