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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 22 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 567 274 251
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.24% 7.57% 5.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.06% 30.24% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 182 159
10th Percentile £327 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% -1.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £622
90th Percentile £613 £724 £688
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 29
10th Percentile £39.56 - £44.70
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 £54.70 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.19% -12.50% -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 1,348 906 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.10% 25.03% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 585 872
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £383 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £575
90th Percentile £626 £650 £650
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 51
10th Percentile £40.25 £34.10 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.84 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% +6.11% +11.28%
75th Percentile £73.20 £81.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £74.26 £97.99 £66.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -0.79%

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 December 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 December 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 December 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 +9 291 £500 -6.98% 272
North West +8 238 £450 -8.16% 370
North East +3 43 £475 -15.93% 89
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 (6.00%) Confluence
2 25 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.17%) Apache
4 17 (3.00%) SharePoint
5 15 (2.65%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.94%) SAS
7 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.06%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
10 3 (0.53%) IIS
10 3 (0.53%) JBoss
11 1 (0.18%) CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Documentum
11 1 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.94%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) SPSS
4 1 (0.18%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Finacle
1 1 (0.18%) Maximo
1 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 251 (44.27%) AWS
2 152 (26.81%) Azure
3 133 (23.46%) GCP
4 82 (14.46%) Serverless
5 67 (11.82%) GitHub
6 51 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (7.41%) Power Platform
8 41 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 37 (6.53%) Amazon ECS
9 37 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
10 36 (6.35%) OpenShift
11 35 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (6.17%) Amazon S3
12 30 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (3.00%) SaaS
14 16 (2.82%) Datadog
14 16 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (1.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (9.52%) Firewall
2 29 (5.11%) TCP/IP
3 25 (4.41%) DNS
4 15 (2.65%) SSL
5 13 (2.29%) VPN
5 13 (2.29%) Wireshark
6 12 (2.12%) HTTP
7 11 (1.94%) Network Security
8 10 (1.76%) BIG-IP
9 9 (1.59%) BGP
9 9 (1.59%) SSH
10 8 (1.41%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.41%) WAN
11 6 (1.06%) DMZ
11 6 (1.06%) VLAN
11 6 (1.06%) WebEx
12 5 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.88%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.88%) LAN
12 5 (0.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (12.17%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (9.70%) NoSQL
3 41 (7.23%) Power BI
4 30 (5.29%) Relational Database
5 25 (4.41%) SQL Server
6 24 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (4.23%) MySQL
7 20 (3.53%) DynamoDB
8 18 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (2.47%) Oracle Database
9 14 (2.47%) RDBMS
10 13 (2.29%) Hadoop
11 12 (2.12%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.12%) MongoDB
11 12 (2.12%) Power Query
11 12 (2.12%) Redis
11 12 (2.12%) Tableau
12 10 (1.76%) Big Data
12 10 (1.76%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.59%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 168 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 109 (19.22%) GitLab
3 80 (14.11%) Git
4 72 (12.70%) JIRA
5 31 (5.47%) Liquibase
6 15 (2.65%) Cucumber
6 15 (2.65%) Postman
7 12 (2.12%) Selenium
8 10 (1.76%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.59%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.59%) Fiddler
10 8 (1.41%) Gradle
10 8 (1.41%) TestRail
11 6 (1.06%) Maven
11 6 (1.06%) PyCharm
11 6 (1.06%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.88%) MLflow
12 5 (0.88%) SonarLint
13 4 (0.71%) JUnit
General
1 150 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 123 (21.69%) Finance
3 92 (16.23%) Banking
4 85 (14.99%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (14.99%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.23%) Financial Institution
6 11 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.76%) Legal
8 5 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.71%) Games
9 4 (0.71%) Marketing
9 4 (0.71%) Retail
9 4 (0.71%) Wholesale Banking
10 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.35%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.35%) Police
12 1 (0.18%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (14.11%) Developer
2 63 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (11.11%) Senior
3 53 (9.35%) Data Engineer
4 52 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
5 43 (7.58%) Analyst
6 35 (6.17%) Python Developer
7 34 (6.00%) Architect
8 33 (5.82%) Software Engineer
9 30 (5.29%) Automation Engineer
9 30 (5.29%) Network Engineer
9 30 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
10 29 (5.11%) Lead
11 28 (4.94%) Python Engineer
12 25 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (3.53%) GCP Engineer
15 19 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.35%) Data Analyst
16 16 (2.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.29%) RESTful
2 60 (10.58%) REST
3 51 (8.99%) Elastic Stack
4 34 (6.00%) Node.js
5 31 (5.47%) FastAPI
6 27 (4.76%) React
7 19 (3.35%) TensorFlow
8 18 (3.17%) Kafka
8 18 (3.17%) PySpark
9 17 (3.00%) Flask
9 17 (3.00%) Spring Boot
10 15 (2.65%) HTML
10 15 (2.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 13 (2.29%) AngularJS
12 12 (2.12%) .NET
12 12 (2.12%) JWT
13 11 (1.94%) Django
13 11 (1.94%) PyTorch
14 9 (1.59%) OAuth
14 9 (1.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.64%) Public Cloud
5 22 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 21 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (3.70%) NHS
7 16 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.94%) Credit Risk
9 10 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.06%) Clustering
11 6 (1.06%) N-Tier
11 6 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.06%) Tandem
12 5 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.88%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 136 (23.99%) Linux
2 45 (7.94%) Windows
3 18 (3.17%) Unix
4 15 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.53%) Android
6 3 (0.53%) VMS
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (41.62%) CI/CD
2 233 (41.09%) DevOps
3 178 (31.39%) Agile
4 154 (27.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 149 (26.28%) Containerisation
6 110 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (13.23%) Microservices
7 75 (13.23%) Test Automation
8 74 (13.05%) Analytics
9 67 (11.82%) Machine Learning
10 65 (11.46%) AI
10 65 (11.46%) Infrastructure Automation
10 65 (11.46%) Software Engineering
11 63 (11.11%) Computer Science
12 61 (10.76%) Observability
13 55 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
14 52 (9.17%) High Availability
15 51 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 50 (8.82%) ETL
16 50 (8.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 138 (24.34%) Bash
2 116 (20.46%) SQL
3 82 (14.46%) Java
4 58 (10.23%) PowerShell
5 57 (10.05%) Go
6 44 (7.76%) JavaScript
7 33 (5.82%) Perl
8 29 (5.11%) Shell Script
8 29 (5.11%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.82%) PHP
10 15 (2.65%) R
10 15 (2.65%) Scala
11 12 (2.12%) C#
11 12 (2.12%) C++
12 11 (1.94%) Ruby
12 11 (1.94%) VBA
13 7 (1.23%) C
14 5 (0.88%) Groovy
15 4 (0.71%) Bicep
15 4 (0.71%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 112 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 90 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 65 (11.46%) Degree
4 49 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (6.00%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.47%) CCNP
9 13 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.94%) CCDP
11 10 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.76%) CCNA
12 7 (1.23%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (0.71%) CISSP
14 4 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (0.53%) CISM
15 3 (0.53%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.53%) GCIH
15 3 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.53%) QA
2 19 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.71%) GDPR
4 4 (0.71%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.53%) NIST
5 3 (0.53%) PMO
5 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) NCSC
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) SLA
7 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 165 (29.10%) Docker
2 31 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.12%) vSphere
5 10 (1.76%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.41%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.53%) HDFS
8 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.35%) KVM
8 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.18%) Ceph
9 1 (0.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 208 (36.68%) Terraform
2 196 (34.57%) Kubernetes
3 164 (28.92%) Ansible
4 88 (15.52%) Grafana
5 73 (12.87%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.53%) NetBackup
7 14 (2.47%) Puppet
8 13 (2.29%) Argo
9 12 (2.12%) Control-M
9 12 (2.12%) Istio
10 10 (1.76%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.76%) IBM Guardium
10 10 (1.76%) Nessus
10 10 (1.76%) yum
11 7 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (1.23%) Packer
12 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.88%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.71%) Podman
Vendors
1 71 (12.52%) Microsoft
2 63 (11.11%) Splunk
3 50 (8.82%) VMware
4 44 (7.76%) Google
5 38 (6.70%) Oracle
6 36 (6.35%) Red Hat
7 29 (5.11%) F5
8 24 (4.23%) Cisco
9 20 (3.53%) Palo Alto
9 20 (3.53%) ServiceNow
10 19 (3.35%) Databricks
11 16 (2.82%) Veritas
12 13 (2.29%) Commvault
13 12 (2.12%) Pega
14 11 (1.94%) AppDynamics
15 10 (1.76%) Blue Coat
15 10 (1.76%) IBM
15 10 (1.76%) McAfee
15 10 (1.76%) Tenable
16 9 (1.59%) Citrix