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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 753 399 292
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 10.29% 10.15% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.70% 36.91% 28.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 282 198
10th Percentile £363 £339 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.86% -12.26%
75th Percentile £587 £538 £598
90th Percentile £638 £613 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 4
10th Percentile £28.50 - -
25th Percentile £29.25 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £46.18
75th Percentile £72.13 - £51.82
90th Percentile £88.00 - £61.98
England median hourly rate £58.13 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.86% -20.05% -

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 1,850 1,081 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.29% 27.50% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 778 733
10th Percentile £354 £314 £338
25th Percentile £413 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -5.15% -5.37%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 10 32
10th Percentile £29.38 £29.28 £37.50
25th Percentile £48.75 £36.82 £43.80
Median hourly rate £69.50 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +27.27% +19.10%
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.69 £71.87
90th Percentile £77.20 £95.36 £82.62
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +1 387 £500 +1.44% 172
North West +5 290 £525 +10.53% 312
North East +1 87 £425 -12.37% 108
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 67 (8.90%) Apache Spark
2 41 (5.44%) Apache
3 37 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.85%) Confluence
5 27 (3.59%) Jupyter
6 13 (1.73%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.06%) SAS
8 2 (0.27%) Camunda
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 14 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 327 (43.43%) AWS
2 252 (33.47%) Azure
3 156 (20.72%) GCP
4 126 (16.73%) GitHub
5 65 (8.63%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (7.30%) Power Platform
7 54 (7.17%) OpenShift
8 48 (6.37%) Serverless
9 42 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (5.18%) OCI
11 38 (5.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 30 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (3.59%) Amazon S3
13 27 (3.59%) SaaS
14 23 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (2.92%) dbt
16 21 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (2.39%) Vertex AI
18 16 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 15 (1.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 87 (11.55%) Firewall
2 46 (6.11%) DNS
3 38 (5.05%) BIG-IP
4 34 (4.52%) BGP
5 33 (4.38%) WAN
6 30 (3.98%) OSPF
7 29 (3.85%) Network Security
8 28 (3.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 28 (3.72%) TCP/IP
9 25 (3.32%) SD-WAN
10 21 (2.79%) Ethernet VPN
10 21 (2.79%) VXLAN
11 17 (2.26%) VPN
11 17 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (1.73%) SAN
12 13 (1.73%) WLAN
13 10 (1.33%) DHCP
13 10 (1.33%) HTTP
13 10 (1.33%) SSL
13 10 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.37%) Power BI
2 44 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.32%) Metadata
5 24 (3.19%) BigQuery
5 24 (3.19%) NoSQL
6 21 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.79%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.52%) Big Data
7 19 (2.52%) Hadoop
8 16 (2.12%) DynamoDB
8 16 (2.12%) Tableau
9 12 (1.59%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.59%) Delta Lake
9 12 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.93%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 125 (16.60%) Jenkins
2 79 (10.49%) GitLab
2 79 (10.49%) JIRA
3 68 (9.03%) Git
4 18 (2.39%) Gatling
5 15 (1.99%) Maven
6 12 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.46%) Selenium
8 10 (1.33%) Postman
8 10 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.93%) JMeter
10 7 (0.93%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.80%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.80%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.80%) NeoLoad
12 5 (0.66%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.53%) Liquibase
13 4 (0.53%) MSBuild
13 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 149 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 140 (18.59%) Finance
3 110 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (11.95%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.57%) Banking
6 15 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.86%) Legal
7 14 (1.86%) Retail
8 11 (1.46%) Publishing
9 9 (1.20%) Games
9 9 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.93%) Military
11 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.53%) Law
11 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.53%) Marketing
12 3 (0.40%) Advertising
12 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (15.41%) Developer
1 116 (15.41%) Senior
2 86 (11.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 79 (10.49%) Python Developer
4 72 (9.56%) Data Engineer
5 63 (8.37%) Lead
6 53 (7.04%) Security Engineer
7 42 (5.58%) Python Engineer
8 41 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (4.65%) Architect
10 32 (4.25%) Software Engineer
11 30 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (3.85%) Analyst
12 29 (3.85%) Network Engineer
13 28 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 23 (3.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 18 (2.39%) Full-Stack Developer
17 18 (2.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.98%) REST
2 43 (5.71%) Node.js
3 42 (5.58%) PySpark
4 40 (5.31%) Kafka
5 38 (5.05%) JSON
6 36 (4.78%) React
7 33 (4.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 22 (2.92%) Playwright
9 21 (2.79%) FastAPI
10 18 (2.39%) Spring
11 17 (2.26%) LangChain
12 16 (2.12%) PyTorch
13 15 (1.99%) CSS
13 15 (1.99%) HTML
13 15 (1.99%) YAML
14 14 (1.86%) Spring Boot
15 13 (1.73%) .NET
15 13 (1.73%) Pandas
16 12 (1.59%) Vue
17 11 (1.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 135 (17.93%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.64%) Data Centre
3 39 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
5 31 (4.12%) Security Posture
6 30 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (3.32%) Product Ownership
8 23 (3.05%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.52%) Replication
10 18 (2.39%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.26%) AI Agents
11 17 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (2.26%) NHS
12 15 (1.99%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.99%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.86%) PKI
14 13 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
17 8 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (15.14%) Linux
2 66 (8.76%) Windows
3 36 (4.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (4.38%) Unix
5 17 (2.26%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.73%) Solaris
7 7 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.93%) VMS
8 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.40%) AIX
9 3 (0.40%) zOS
10 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (50.73%) CI/CD
2 296 (39.31%) DevOps
3 220 (29.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 191 (25.37%) Agile
5 134 (17.80%) Observability
6 130 (17.26%) Containerisation
7 129 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (16.87%) AI
8 127 (16.87%) Analytics
9 103 (13.68%) Data Engineering
10 101 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
11 91 (12.08%) Test Automation
12 86 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 79 (10.49%) Software Engineering
14 77 (10.23%) Machine Learning
15 76 (10.09%) Migration
16 73 (9.69%) High Availability
17 71 (9.43%) Data Modelling
18 70 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
19 65 (8.63%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 171 (22.71%) SQL
2 141 (18.73%) Bash
3 136 (18.06%) Java
4 113 (15.01%) PowerShell
5 52 (6.91%) JavaScript
6 36 (4.78%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.59%) Go
8 26 (3.45%) Bicep
9 21 (2.79%) Scala
10 19 (2.52%) Groovy
11 15 (1.99%) Rust
12 12 (1.59%) C#
13 11 (1.46%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.20%) ActionScript
14 9 (1.20%) R
15 7 (0.93%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.80%) Perl
16 6 (0.80%) VBA
17 5 (0.66%) C++
18 4 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 155 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 132 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.17%) Degree
4 37 (4.91%) AWS Certification
5 31 (4.12%) CISSP
6 27 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 23 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (2.26%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.20%) CCNP
11 9 (1.20%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.80%) CCNA
14 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (0.53%) GCIH
15 4 (0.53%) OCP
15 4 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
16 3 (0.40%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (7.57%) Data Quality
2 22 (2.92%) GDPR
3 20 (2.66%) QA
4 10 (1.33%) HIPAA
4 10 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.20%) NIST
6 8 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.66%) HL7
8 5 (0.66%) WCAG
9 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) SLA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 153 (20.32%) Docker
2 27 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (2.39%) vSphere
5 17 (2.26%) Active Directory
6 14 (1.86%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.06%) Firmware
8 7 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.80%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.53%) KVM
10 4 (0.53%) NFS
10 4 (0.53%) SRDF
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 271 (35.99%) Terraform
2 193 (25.63%) Kubernetes
3 143 (18.99%) Ansible
4 59 (7.84%) Grafana
5 55 (7.30%) Prometheus
6 25 (3.32%) Argo
7 19 (2.52%) Progress Chef
8 16 (2.12%) vCenter Server
9 13 (1.73%) Control-M
10 12 (1.59%) IBM Guardium
10 12 (1.59%) Nessus
11 9 (1.20%) HAProxy
11 9 (1.20%) Puppet
12 8 (1.06%) Istio
12 8 (1.06%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (0.53%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.53%) PowerCLI
14 4 (0.53%) vRealize
15 3 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 87 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.56%) Google
3 62 (8.23%) Databricks
4 55 (7.30%) Splunk
5 41 (5.44%) F5
5 41 (5.44%) Red Hat
6 35 (4.65%) Palo Alto
6 35 (4.65%) VMware
7 28 (3.72%) ServiceNow
8 27 (3.59%) Cisco
9 24 (3.19%) Arista
9 24 (3.19%) Aruba
10 21 (2.79%) IBM
11 20 (2.66%) Dynatrace
11 20 (2.66%) Oracle
12 14 (1.86%) Pure Storage
13 12 (1.59%) Tenable
13 12 (1.59%) Trend Micro
14 11 (1.46%) SAP
15 10 (1.33%) Dell