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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 21 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 683 286 348
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.09% 8.70% 7.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.82% 30.59% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 215 212
10th Percentile £358 £370 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £617 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £567
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.96% -5.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 5
10th Percentile £31.84 - -
25th Percentile £37.86 - -
Median hourly rate £46.50 - £20.77
75th Percentile £71.20 - £46.18
90th Percentile £88.50 - £59.72
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% -36.00% -3.85%

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 1,673 935 1,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.17% 28.44% 25.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 685 836
10th Percentile £343 £353 £314
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £563
90th Percentile £625 £635 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 15 49
10th Percentile £40.74 £35.66 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.72% +66.32% -2.06%
75th Percentile £74.26 £92.70 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.62 £75.43
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.97%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 0 383 £475 -5.00% 131
North West 0 247 £500 +4.17% 256
North East +7 62 £475 +2.70% 86
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 39 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.95%) Confluence
3 16 (2.34%) Apache
4 15 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.02%) SAS
7 6 (0.88%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 15 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.29%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.15%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 255 (37.34%) AWS
2 205 (30.01%) Azure
3 141 (20.64%) GCP
4 104 (15.23%) GitHub
5 78 (11.42%) OpenShift
6 55 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (7.76%) Power Platform
8 45 (6.59%) Serverless
9 39 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 31 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (2.78%) SaaS
15 18 (2.64%) OCI
16 16 (2.34%) Amazon S3
16 16 (2.34%) Apigee
17 15 (2.20%) dbt
17 15 (2.20%) Entra ID
18 14 (2.05%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.61%) DNS
2 44 (6.44%) Firewall
3 34 (4.98%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.10%) BIG-IP
5 19 (2.78%) WAN
6 16 (2.34%) HTTP
7 13 (1.90%) BGP
7 13 (1.90%) SAN
7 13 (1.90%) VPN
7 13 (1.90%) Wireshark
8 12 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.61%) Network Security
9 11 (1.61%) OSPF
9 11 (1.61%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.46%) DHCP
10 10 (1.46%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (1.46%) LAN
10 10 (1.46%) NAS
10 10 (1.46%) SSL
10 10 (1.46%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (6.30%) Power BI
3 30 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.51%) Hadoop
5 23 (3.37%) Tableau
6 22 (3.22%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.22%) NoSQL
7 21 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.78%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.49%) Data Lake
10 15 (2.20%) Big Data
10 15 (2.20%) Metadata
11 12 (1.76%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.32%) MySQL
13 8 (1.17%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.02%) Power Query
15 6 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 129 (18.89%) Jenkins
2 64 (9.37%) JIRA
3 57 (8.35%) GitLab
4 45 (6.59%) Git
5 24 (3.51%) Postman
6 13 (1.90%) Gatling
7 12 (1.76%) Maven
8 11 (1.61%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.61%) Selenium
9 9 (1.32%) Fiddler
10 7 (1.02%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.88%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.88%) Liquibase
11 6 (0.88%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.88%) TestRail
12 5 (0.73%) JMeter
13 4 (0.59%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.59%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 132 (19.33%) Social Skills
2 107 (15.67%) Finance
3 93 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.20%) Banking
6 17 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.17%) Legal
8 6 (0.88%) Retail
9 5 (0.73%) Law
9 5 (0.73%) Publishing
10 4 (0.59%) Advertising
10 4 (0.59%) Marketing
11 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.44%) Military
12 2 (0.29%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.29%) Games
12 2 (0.29%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.29%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (17.28%) Developer
2 87 (12.74%) Senior
3 65 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (8.93%) Data Engineer
4 61 (8.93%) Lead
5 58 (8.49%) Python Developer
6 50 (7.32%) Architect
7 42 (6.15%) Analyst
8 39 (5.71%) Security Engineer
9 29 (4.25%) GCP Engineer
10 26 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 21 (3.07%) Data Analyst
12 21 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (2.93%) Network Engineer
13 20 (2.93%) Python Engineer
13 20 (2.93%) Software Engineer
14 18 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (2.49%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.59%) OpenTelemetry
2 44 (6.44%) REST
3 39 (5.71%) Node.js
4 38 (5.56%) Kafka
4 38 (5.56%) React
5 33 (4.83%) JSON
6 31 (4.54%) YAML
7 26 (3.81%) PySpark
8 25 (3.66%) FastAPI
8 25 (3.66%) Spring
9 23 (3.37%) Playwright
10 22 (3.22%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.49%) .NET
11 17 (2.49%) PyTorch
12 15 (2.20%) LDAP
13 14 (2.05%) LangChain
13 14 (2.05%) OpenID
14 13 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (1.90%) Pandas
15 12 (1.76%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.01%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.27%) Data Protection Act
3 34 (4.98%) Data Centre
4 31 (4.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.05%) NHS
8 14 (2.05%) Replication
9 13 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 7 (1.02%) IoT
14 6 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
14 6 (0.88%) Clustering
14 6 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 110 (16.11%) Linux
2 55 (8.05%) Windows
3 33 (4.83%) Unix
4 28 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.49%) Solaris
6 14 (2.05%) Windows Server
7 13 (1.90%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.17%) CentOS
8 8 (1.17%) VMS
9 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.29%) AIX
10 2 (0.29%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.29%) zOS
11 1 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (46.27%) CI/CD
2 256 (37.48%) DevOps
3 166 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (20.94%) Agile
5 134 (19.62%) Containerisation
6 127 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (16.11%) Analytics
8 94 (13.76%) Observability
9 93 (13.62%) Migration
10 87 (12.74%) Test Automation
11 85 (12.45%) AI
12 77 (11.27%) Data Pipeline
13 72 (10.54%) ETL
14 69 (10.10%) High Availability
15 67 (9.81%) Data Engineering
16 65 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (9.08%) Machine Learning
18 61 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
18 61 (8.93%) Data Modelling
19 55 (8.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 143 (20.94%) SQL
2 129 (18.89%) Java
3 114 (16.69%) Bash
4 76 (11.13%) PowerShell
5 55 (8.05%) JavaScript
6 50 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 29 (4.25%) Go
8 25 (3.66%) Scala
9 18 (2.64%) Groovy
10 17 (2.49%) C#
11 16 (2.34%) R
11 16 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.20%) Bicep
12 15 (2.20%) Ruby
13 12 (1.76%) VBA
14 11 (1.61%) Perl
15 10 (1.46%) PHP
16 9 (1.32%) Rust
17 4 (0.59%) Cypher
17 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 114 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 27 (3.95%) Degree
4 26 (3.81%) AWS Certification
5 21 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.78%) CISSP
7 18 (2.64%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.76%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.32%) CISM
10 9 (1.32%) RHCE
11 7 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.73%) CCNA
12 5 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.59%) CCNP
13 4 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.59%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.49%) GDPR
3 17 (2.49%) QA
4 13 (1.90%) HIPAA
5 9 (1.32%) WCAG
6 8 (1.17%) NIST
7 7 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.59%) PMO
10 4 (0.59%) SLA
11 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.29%) PSD2
13 1 (0.15%) GRC
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) SEPA
13 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 131 (19.18%) Docker
2 33 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (3.81%) VMware NSX
4 24 (3.51%) vSphere
5 11 (1.61%) Active Directory
6 10 (1.46%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.32%) Firmware
7 9 (1.32%) KVM
8 8 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.44%) NFS
10 3 (0.44%) SRDF
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.15%) Ceph
12 1 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.15%) Snort
12 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 217 (31.77%) Terraform
2 205 (30.01%) Kubernetes
3 155 (22.69%) Ansible
4 71 (10.40%) Grafana
5 62 (9.08%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.07%) Argo
6 21 (3.07%) vCenter Server
7 18 (2.64%) Puppet
8 16 (2.34%) Istio
9 15 (2.20%) Control-M
10 14 (2.05%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (2.05%) Nessus
11 9 (1.32%) HAProxy
12 7 (1.02%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.88%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.88%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.59%) vRealize
15 3 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 68 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 58 (8.49%) Splunk
3 55 (8.05%) Google
3 55 (8.05%) Red Hat
4 51 (7.47%) VMware
5 43 (6.30%) Databricks
6 31 (4.54%) F5
7 28 (4.10%) ServiceNow
8 27 (3.95%) Oracle
9 19 (2.78%) Cisco
9 19 (2.78%) Pure Storage
10 14 (2.05%) Palo Alto
10 14 (2.05%) Tenable
11 13 (1.90%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.76%) IBM
13 11 (1.61%) Arista
14 10 (1.46%) Aruba
14 10 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
14 10 (1.46%) Infoblox
15 9 (1.32%) McAfee