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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 784 332 369
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.12% 8.88% 7.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.13% 32.55% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 237 221
10th Percentile £363 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £588
90th Percentile £617 £613 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 5
10th Percentile £28.50 - -
25th Percentile £30.00 - £20.77
Median hourly rate £45.50 - £46.18
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £87.00 - £59.72
England median hourly rate £55.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.00% -23.08% -0.38%

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 1,906 1,020 1,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.03% 27.29% 25.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,222 749 838
10th Percentile £350 £325 £317
25th Percentile £413 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £574
90th Percentile £640 £611 £625
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 10 52
10th Percentile £29.96 £31.32 £37.50
25th Percentile £46.66 £36.82 £41.25
Median hourly rate £69.75 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +47.37% +2.86%
75th Percentile £76.00 £87.69 £69.44
90th Percentile £84.60 £95.36 £80.82
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +2 428 £500 +1.44% 133
North West +5 279 £500 +5.26% 241
North East +6 89 £425 -2.86% 78
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 69 (8.80%) Apache Spark
2 41 (5.23%) Apache
3 37 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (4.46%) Confluence
5 26 (3.32%) Jupyter
6 17 (2.17%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.89%) SAS
8 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.51%) nginx
10 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 15 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 299 (38.14%) AWS
2 256 (32.65%) Azure
3 166 (21.17%) GCP
4 126 (16.07%) GitHub
5 71 (9.06%) OpenShift
6 61 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
7 59 (7.53%) Power Platform
8 46 (5.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 42 (5.36%) Serverless
10 38 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (4.34%) OCI
12 26 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (3.32%) SaaS
13 24 (3.06%) Amazon S3
14 22 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (2.55%) dbt
16 18 (2.30%) Entra ID
17 16 (2.04%) Vertex AI
18 15 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 15 (1.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 83 (10.59%) Firewall
2 57 (7.27%) DNS
3 45 (5.74%) BIG-IP
4 36 (4.59%) WAN
5 34 (4.34%) TCP/IP
6 31 (3.95%) BGP
7 28 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 27 (3.44%) OSPF
9 24 (3.06%) Network Security
10 23 (2.93%) SD-WAN
11 21 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (2.55%) Ethernet VPN
12 20 (2.55%) VXLAN
13 19 (2.42%) VPN
14 16 (2.04%) SAN
15 13 (1.66%) HTTP
15 13 (1.66%) NAS
15 13 (1.66%) SSL
15 13 (1.66%) WLAN
16 12 (1.53%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (5.99%) Power BI
3 32 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.19%) Hadoop
4 25 (3.19%) NoSQL
5 22 (2.81%) Metadata
6 21 (2.68%) Big Data
6 21 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.68%) Tableau
7 20 (2.55%) BigQuery
7 20 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.91%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.91%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.79%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.28%) Neo4j
12 9 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 150 (19.13%) Jenkins
2 95 (12.12%) JIRA
3 83 (10.59%) GitLab
4 64 (8.16%) Git
5 19 (2.42%) Postman
6 18 (2.30%) Gatling
7 14 (1.79%) Maven
8 11 (1.40%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.28%) Selenium
10 9 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.02%) JMeter
12 6 (0.77%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.77%) LoadRunner
12 6 (0.77%) NeoLoad
13 5 (0.64%) Liquibase
13 5 (0.64%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.64%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.51%) Fiddler
15 3 (0.38%) ERwin
General
1 159 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 131 (16.71%) Finance
3 104 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.53%) Banking
6 15 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.79%) Legal
8 10 (1.28%) Retail
9 9 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.15%) Publishing
10 7 (0.89%) Military
11 5 (0.64%) Games
11 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.64%) Marketing
12 4 (0.51%) Advertising
12 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.38%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.26%) Law
14 2 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (16.07%) Developer
2 111 (14.16%) Senior
3 85 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (9.82%) Python Developer
5 73 (9.31%) Data Engineer
6 55 (7.02%) Lead
7 50 (6.38%) Architect
8 45 (5.74%) Security Engineer
9 40 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (4.21%) Analyst
11 31 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 29 (3.70%) Network Engineer
14 27 (3.44%) Python Engineer
15 26 (3.32%) GCP Engineer
15 26 (3.32%) Software Engineer
16 25 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
17 23 (2.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 21 (2.68%) Data Analyst
19 20 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.38%) Node.js
1 50 (6.38%) REST
2 46 (5.87%) OpenTelemetry
3 44 (5.61%) PySpark
4 41 (5.23%) JSON
5 37 (4.72%) Kafka
6 36 (4.59%) React
7 30 (3.83%) Playwright
8 23 (2.93%) FastAPI
9 20 (2.55%) Spring
10 19 (2.42%) PyTorch
11 18 (2.30%) LangChain
11 18 (2.30%) YAML
12 16 (2.04%) Spring Boot
13 15 (1.91%) RESTful
14 13 (1.66%) LDAP
15 12 (1.53%) .NET
15 12 (1.53%) OpenID
15 12 (1.53%) Pandas
16 11 (1.40%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 129 (16.45%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.27%) Data Centre
3 41 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
5 31 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.32%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.19%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.68%) Replication
10 17 (2.17%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.91%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.91%) PKI
13 14 (1.79%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.79%) NHS
14 13 (1.66%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 116 (14.80%) Linux
2 71 (9.06%) Windows
3 35 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (4.08%) Unix
5 18 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.53%) Solaris
7 10 (1.28%) VMS
8 8 (1.02%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.38%) AIX
10 3 (0.38%) zOS
11 2 (0.26%) CentOS
11 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (50.38%) CI/CD
2 303 (38.65%) DevOps
3 203 (25.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 196 (25.00%) Agile
5 140 (17.86%) Containerisation
6 130 (16.58%) Analytics
7 127 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 121 (15.43%) Observability
9 117 (14.92%) AI
10 101 (12.88%) Data Engineering
11 99 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
12 98 (12.50%) Test Automation
13 88 (11.22%) Migration
14 80 (10.20%) Machine Learning
15 75 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 74 (9.44%) Software Engineering
17 72 (9.18%) High Availability
18 69 (8.80%) ETL
19 68 (8.67%) Platform Engineering
20 66 (8.42%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 163 (20.79%) SQL
2 140 (17.86%) Java
3 133 (16.96%) Bash
4 107 (13.65%) PowerShell
5 50 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 44 (5.61%) TypeScript
7 35 (4.46%) Go
8 26 (3.32%) Scala
9 20 (2.55%) Groovy
10 17 (2.17%) Bicep
11 16 (2.04%) C#
12 15 (1.91%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.79%) Rust
14 12 (1.53%) R
15 11 (1.40%) ActionScript
16 9 (1.15%) VBA
17 8 (1.02%) Perl
18 6 (0.77%) C++
18 6 (0.77%) Cypher
19 3 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 145 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 117 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.38%) Degree
4 34 (4.34%) AWS Certification
5 26 (3.32%) CISSP
6 24 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (2.93%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (2.04%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.02%) CCNP
12 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.77%) CCNA
13 6 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (0.51%) CISM
14 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.51%) OCP
14 4 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.04%) GDPR
3 14 (1.79%) QA
4 12 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.53%) HIPAA
5 9 (1.15%) NIST
6 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.89%) WCAG
7 6 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.38%) HL7
9 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.26%) SLA
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 153 (19.52%) Docker
2 33 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (3.19%) vSphere
5 21 (2.68%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.53%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.28%) Firmware
7 10 (1.28%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.02%) KVM
10 5 (0.64%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 5 (0.64%) NFS
11 4 (0.51%) SRDF
12 3 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.13%) Ceph
14 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 264 (33.67%) Terraform
2 204 (26.02%) Kubernetes
3 165 (21.05%) Ansible
4 65 (8.29%) Grafana
5 61 (7.78%) Prometheus
6 25 (3.19%) Argo
7 22 (2.81%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.04%) Control-M
9 15 (1.91%) IBM Guardium
9 15 (1.91%) Nessus
10 14 (1.79%) Istio
11 12 (1.53%) Progress Chef
12 10 (1.28%) Puppet
13 9 (1.15%) HAProxy
14 8 (1.02%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
16 6 (0.77%) PowerCLI
17 5 (0.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
18 4 (0.51%) vRealize
19 3 (0.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 86 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 80 (10.20%) Google
3 65 (8.29%) Databricks
4 62 (7.91%) Splunk
5 49 (6.25%) Red Hat
6 48 (6.12%) F5
7 46 (5.87%) VMware
8 32 (4.08%) Palo Alto
8 32 (4.08%) ServiceNow
9 27 (3.44%) Cisco
10 25 (3.19%) Arista
11 23 (2.93%) Aruba
12 21 (2.68%) IBM
13 20 (2.55%) Dynatrace
13 20 (2.55%) Pure Storage
14 19 (2.42%) Oracle
15 15 (1.91%) Tenable
16 12 (1.53%) Infoblox
16 12 (1.53%) Trend Micro
17 11 (1.40%) SAP