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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 21 31
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Python 579 276 245
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.16% 7.76% 5.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.90% 30.84% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 183 159
10th Percentile £338 £361 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £616 £615
90th Percentile £613 £723 £692
England median daily rate £525 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 29
10th Percentile £40.16 - £44.70
25th Percentile £41.94 - -
Median hourly rate £70.38 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +52.40% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 -
90th Percentile - £83.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 1,382 895 1,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.03% 25.15% 25.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 581 853
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £386 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -1.04% -8.57%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £575
90th Percentile £626 £650 £650
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 24 52
10th Percentile £41.22 £33.13 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.01 £46.11
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +23.43% +3.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £50.06
90th Percentile £74.26 £98.99 £66.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +8 294 £500 -6.98% 370
North West +6 245 £450 -7.55% 445
North East +8 45 £475 -15.93% 100
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 (5.87%) Confluence
2 25 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.94%) Apache
3 17 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.76%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.90%) SAS
6 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.04%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.86%) Apache Pig
9 3 (0.52%) JBoss
10 2 (0.35%) IIS
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Documentum
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.90%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) SPSS
4 1 (0.17%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
1 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 251 (43.35%) AWS
2 157 (27.12%) Azure
3 134 (23.14%) GCP
4 85 (14.68%) Serverless
5 68 (11.74%) GitHub
6 50 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (7.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (7.60%) Power Platform
9 42 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (6.04%) Amazon S3
11 35 (6.04%) OpenShift
12 34 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (2.76%) SaaS
14 16 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (2.59%) Datadog
16 12 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (1.90%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (9.84%) Firewall
2 33 (5.70%) TCP/IP
3 29 (5.01%) DNS
4 16 (2.76%) SSL
5 14 (2.42%) Wireshark
6 13 (2.25%) HTTP
6 13 (2.25%) VPN
7 11 (1.90%) BIG-IP
7 11 (1.90%) Network Security
8 9 (1.55%) BGP
8 9 (1.55%) SSH
9 8 (1.38%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.38%) WAN
10 6 (1.04%) DMZ
10 6 (1.04%) VLAN
10 6 (1.04%) WebEx
11 5 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.86%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.86%) LAN
11 5 (0.86%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (8.81%) NoSQL
3 43 (7.43%) Power BI
4 29 (5.01%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (4.15%) MySQL
5 24 (4.15%) SQL Server
6 19 (3.28%) DynamoDB
7 18 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.42%) Oracle Database
8 14 (2.42%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.25%) Hadoop
9 13 (2.25%) Tableau
10 12 (2.07%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.07%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.07%) Power Query
10 12 (2.07%) Redis
11 10 (1.73%) Big Data
11 10 (1.73%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.55%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 163 (28.15%) Jenkins
2 107 (18.48%) GitLab
3 78 (13.47%) Git
4 70 (12.09%) JIRA
5 31 (5.35%) Liquibase
6 14 (2.42%) Postman
7 12 (2.07%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.07%) Selenium
8 11 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.73%) Fiddler
10 9 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.38%) Gradle
11 8 (1.38%) TestRail
12 6 (1.04%) Maven
12 6 (1.04%) PyCharm
12 6 (1.04%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.86%) MLflow
13 5 (0.86%) SonarLint
14 3 (0.52%) Xcode
General
1 152 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 130 (22.45%) Finance
3 96 (16.58%) Banking
4 86 (14.85%) Public Sector
5 81 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.15%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.73%) Legal
9 5 (0.86%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.69%) Games
10 4 (0.69%) Law
10 4 (0.69%) Marketing
10 4 (0.69%) Retail
10 4 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.35%) Police
12 2 (0.35%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (13.99%) Developer
2 67 (11.57%) Senior
3 63 (10.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (9.15%) Data Engineer
5 52 (8.98%) AWS Engineer
6 44 (7.60%) Analyst
7 37 (6.39%) Python Developer
8 33 (5.70%) Software Engineer
9 31 (5.35%) Lead
9 31 (5.35%) Network Engineer
10 30 (5.18%) Automation Engineer
10 30 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (5.01%) Architect
11 29 (5.01%) Python Engineer
12 25 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
15 19 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.28%) Data Analyst
16 17 (2.94%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (9.84%) REST
2 55 (9.50%) RESTful
3 51 (8.81%) Elastic Stack
4 33 (5.70%) Node.js
5 28 (4.84%) FastAPI
6 26 (4.49%) React
7 20 (3.45%) PySpark
8 19 (3.28%) TensorFlow
9 15 (2.59%) HTML
9 15 (2.59%) Kafka
9 15 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
9 15 (2.59%) Spring Boot
10 14 (2.42%) Flask
11 13 (2.25%) .NET
11 13 (2.25%) AngularJS
12 12 (2.07%) JWT
13 11 (1.90%) PyTorch
14 9 (1.55%) OAuth
15 8 (1.38%) Django
15 8 (1.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.05%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.74%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.53%) Public Cloud
5 23 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 22 (3.80%) NHS
7 21 (3.63%) Algorithms
8 20 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.90%) Credit Risk
11 9 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.04%) Clustering
14 6 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (1.04%) N-Tier
14 6 (1.04%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.04%) Tandem
15 5 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 141 (24.35%) Linux
2 47 (8.12%) Windows
3 25 (4.32%) Unix
4 15 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.86%) Solaris
6 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.52%) Android
7 3 (0.52%) VMS
8 1 (0.17%) CentOS
8 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (41.28%) CI/CD
2 236 (40.76%) DevOps
3 173 (29.88%) Agile
4 161 (27.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 150 (25.91%) Containerisation
6 108 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (13.13%) Analytics
7 76 (13.13%) Test Automation
8 69 (11.92%) Infrastructure Automation
9 68 (11.74%) Microservices
10 65 (11.23%) Machine Learning
10 65 (11.23%) Software Engineering
11 64 (11.05%) Computer Science
12 63 (10.88%) Observability
13 60 (10.36%) AI
13 60 (10.36%) Cybersecurity
14 57 (9.84%) High Availability
15 54 (9.33%) Root Cause Analysis
16 53 (9.15%) ETL
17 51 (8.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 140 (24.18%) Bash
2 117 (20.21%) SQL
3 87 (15.03%) Java
4 61 (10.54%) Go
4 61 (10.54%) PowerShell
5 47 (8.12%) JavaScript
6 33 (5.70%) Perl
7 32 (5.53%) Shell Script
7 32 (5.53%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.59%) PHP
8 15 (2.59%) R
8 15 (2.59%) Scala
9 14 (2.42%) C#
10 12 (2.07%) C++
10 12 (2.07%) Ruby
11 11 (1.90%) VBA
12 7 (1.21%) C
13 5 (0.86%) Bicep
14 4 (0.69%) Groovy
14 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 118 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 95 (16.41%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.40%) Degree
4 50 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (5.87%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.42%) CCNP
9 11 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.90%) CCDP
10 10 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.73%) CCNA
11 7 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.86%) CISSP
14 4 (0.69%) CISM
14 4 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.52%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.63%) Data Quality
2 17 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.59%) QA
4 5 (0.86%) GDPR
5 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.69%) SLA
6 3 (0.52%) NIST
6 3 (0.52%) PMO
6 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.35%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 166 (28.67%) Docker
2 30 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.28%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.07%) vSphere
5 10 (1.73%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.55%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.52%) 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 (0.17%) Ceph
9 1 (0.17%) Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 214 (36.96%) Terraform
2 196 (33.85%) Kubernetes
3 166 (28.67%) Ansible
4 90 (15.54%) Grafana
5 73 (12.61%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.45%) NetBackup
7 13 (2.25%) Argo
7 13 (2.25%) Puppet
8 12 (2.07%) Control-M
8 12 (2.07%) Istio
9 10 (1.73%) Data Guard
9 10 (1.73%) IBM Guardium
9 10 (1.73%) Nessus
9 10 (1.73%) yum
10 7 (1.21%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (1.04%) Packer
11 6 (1.04%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.86%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 68 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 66 (11.40%) Splunk
3 50 (8.64%) VMware
4 45 (7.77%) Oracle
5 43 (7.43%) Google
6 36 (6.22%) Red Hat
7 30 (5.18%) F5
8 25 (4.32%) Cisco
9 23 (3.97%) ServiceNow
10 22 (3.80%) Databricks
11 20 (3.45%) Palo Alto
12 16 (2.76%) Veritas
13 13 (2.25%) Commvault
14 12 (2.07%) Pega
15 11 (1.90%) AppDynamics
15 11 (1.90%) Blue Coat
15 11 (1.90%) McAfee
16 10 (1.73%) Tenable
17 9 (1.55%) IBM
17 9 (1.55%) Meraki