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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 774 380 299
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 10.69% 9.67% 6.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.17% 35.92% 27.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 266 203
10th Percentile £363 £342 £377
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -6.31% -11.83%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £600
90th Percentile £625 £617 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 4
10th Percentile £28.50 - -
25th Percentile £29.63 - -
Median hourly rate £47.75 - £46.18
75th Percentile £71.07 - £51.82
90th Percentile £87.50 - £61.98
England median hourly rate £57.50 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.37% -21.97% -

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 1,880 1,058 1,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.96% 26.93% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 761 761
10th Percentile £350 £315 £323
25th Percentile £413 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +8.06% -7.22% -5.37%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £520 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +0.97% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 10 34
10th Percentile £29.96 £29.28 £37.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.82 £42.41
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year - +30.23% +16.39%
75th Percentile £76.00 £87.69 £71.78
90th Percentile £83.43 £95.36 £81.85
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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +2 409 £500 +1.75% 119
North West +2 288 £525 +10.53% 219
North East 0 88 £425 -2.86% 88
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 (8.91%) Apache Spark
2 41 (5.30%) Apache
3 37 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (4.52%) Confluence
5 26 (3.36%) Jupyter
6 17 (2.20%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.03%) SAS
8 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.52%) nginx
10 2 (0.26%) Camunda
10 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 15 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 317 (40.96%) AWS
2 251 (32.43%) Azure
3 157 (20.28%) GCP
4 131 (16.93%) GitHub
5 71 (9.17%) OpenShift
6 62 (8.01%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (7.36%) Power Platform
8 48 (6.20%) Serverless
9 42 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 38 (4.91%) OCI
12 30 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (3.62%) SaaS
14 27 (3.49%) Amazon S3
15 22 (2.84%) dbt
16 21 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 16 (2.07%) Vertex AI
19 15 (1.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 86 (11.11%) Firewall
2 55 (7.11%) DNS
3 43 (5.56%) BIG-IP
4 35 (4.52%) WAN
5 34 (4.39%) BGP
6 32 (4.13%) TCP/IP
7 30 (3.88%) OSPF
8 28 (3.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 27 (3.49%) Network Security
10 24 (3.10%) SD-WAN
11 21 (2.71%) Ethernet VPN
11 21 (2.71%) VXLAN
11 21 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (2.45%) VPN
13 16 (2.07%) SAN
14 13 (1.68%) DHCP
14 13 (1.68%) NAS
14 13 (1.68%) WLAN
15 11 (1.42%) HTTP
15 11 (1.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
1 47 (6.07%) Power BI
2 33 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.36%) Metadata
4 25 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.10%) BigQuery
5 24 (3.10%) Hadoop
6 21 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.71%) MongoDB
7 20 (2.58%) Tableau
8 19 (2.45%) Big Data
9 15 (1.94%) DynamoDB
10 14 (1.81%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.55%) Delta Lake
12 11 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 139 (17.96%) Jenkins
2 90 (11.63%) JIRA
3 80 (10.34%) GitLab
4 64 (8.27%) Git
5 15 (1.94%) Maven
6 14 (1.81%) Gatling
7 12 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.42%) Selenium
9 10 (1.29%) Postman
10 9 (1.16%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.90%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.78%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.65%) Liquibase
13 5 (0.65%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.52%) JMeter
14 4 (0.52%) MSBuild
14 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio
15 3 (0.39%) Bugzilla
15 3 (0.39%) ERwin
General
1 157 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 140 (18.09%) Finance
3 106 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.62%) Banking
6 14 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (1.81%) Legal
7 11 (1.42%) Retail
8 10 (1.29%) Publishing
9 9 (1.16%) Games
9 9 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.90%) Military
11 4 (0.52%) Advertising
11 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.52%) Marketing
12 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 115 (14.86%) Senior
2 112 (14.47%) Developer
3 93 (12.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 73 (9.43%) Python Developer
5 72 (9.30%) Data Engineer
6 58 (7.49%) Lead
7 51 (6.59%) Security Engineer
8 41 (5.30%) Architect
9 40 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (4.39%) Python Engineer
11 32 (4.13%) Analyst
11 32 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
12 29 (3.75%) Network Engineer
12 29 (3.75%) Software Engineer
13 28 (3.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 27 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
16 23 (2.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (2.71%) Data Analyst
17 21 (2.71%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.33%) REST
2 46 (5.94%) Node.js
3 43 (5.56%) JSON
3 43 (5.56%) PySpark
4 42 (5.43%) Kafka
5 40 (5.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 36 (4.65%) React
7 22 (2.84%) Playwright
8 21 (2.71%) FastAPI
9 19 (2.45%) Spring
10 18 (2.33%) PyTorch
11 17 (2.20%) LangChain
12 16 (2.07%) YAML
13 15 (1.94%) Spring Boot
14 14 (1.81%) Pandas
15 13 (1.68%) .NET
15 13 (1.68%) CSS
15 13 (1.68%) HTML
16 12 (1.55%) RESTful
16 12 (1.55%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 131 (16.93%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.11%) Data Centre
3 44 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
5 32 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (3.88%) Security Posture
7 28 (3.62%) Product Ownership
8 23 (2.97%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.71%) Replication
10 18 (2.33%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (2.20%) NHS
12 15 (1.94%) PKI
13 14 (1.81%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.81%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.68%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
17 7 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (16.41%) Linux
2 76 (9.82%) Windows
3 38 (4.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (4.01%) Unix
5 18 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.42%) Solaris
7 9 (1.16%) VMS
8 7 (0.90%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.39%) AIX
10 3 (0.39%) zOS
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
1 382 (49.35%) CI/CD
2 305 (39.41%) DevOps
3 218 (28.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 200 (25.84%) Agile
5 136 (17.57%) Containerisation
6 133 (17.18%) Observability
6 133 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
7 129 (16.67%) Analytics
8 126 (16.28%) AI
9 103 (13.31%) Data Engineering
10 101 (13.05%) Data Pipeline
11 94 (12.14%) Test Automation
12 90 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 81 (10.47%) Machine Learning
14 80 (10.34%) Migration
15 75 (9.69%) Software Engineering
16 73 (9.43%) High Availability
17 71 (9.17%) Platform Engineering
18 68 (8.79%) Data Modelling
19 66 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 166 (21.45%) SQL
2 149 (19.25%) Bash
3 133 (17.18%) Java
4 119 (15.37%) PowerShell
5 54 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.91%) TypeScript
7 32 (4.13%) Go
8 24 (3.10%) Bicep
9 21 (2.71%) Groovy
10 18 (2.33%) Scala
11 16 (2.07%) Rust
12 15 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.81%) C#
14 11 (1.42%) R
15 10 (1.29%) ActionScript
16 8 (1.03%) VBA
17 6 (0.78%) Perl
18 5 (0.65%) C++
19 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
19 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 146 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 119 (15.37%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.85%) Degree
4 40 (5.17%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.75%) CISSP
6 27 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.33%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.16%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.03%) CCNP
13 6 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (0.65%) CCNA
14 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.52%) CISM
15 4 (0.52%) OCP
15 4 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.45%) QA
3 18 (2.33%) GDPR
4 11 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.29%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.16%) NIST
7 7 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.78%) WCAG
9 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.52%) HL7
10 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.26%) SLA
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.13%) PSD2
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 154 (19.90%) Docker
2 34 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (3.23%) vSphere
5 19 (2.45%) VMware NSX
6 15 (1.94%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.29%) Firmware
7 10 (1.29%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.03%) KVM
10 5 (0.65%) NFS
11 4 (0.52%) SRDF
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 1 (0.13%) Ceph
14 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 279 (36.05%) Terraform
2 208 (26.87%) Kubernetes
3 158 (20.41%) Ansible
4 64 (8.27%) Grafana
5 60 (7.75%) Prometheus
6 29 (3.75%) Argo
7 22 (2.84%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.07%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.68%) Control-M
10 12 (1.55%) IBM Guardium
10 12 (1.55%) Nessus
11 10 (1.29%) Istio
12 9 (1.16%) HAProxy
12 9 (1.16%) Puppet
13 8 (1.03%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.78%) PowerCLI
16 5 (0.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
17 4 (0.52%) Kustomize
17 4 (0.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 86 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.30%) Google
3 62 (8.01%) Databricks
4 58 (7.49%) Splunk
5 47 (6.07%) Red Hat
6 46 (5.94%) F5
7 44 (5.68%) VMware
8 35 (4.52%) Palo Alto
9 27 (3.49%) Cisco
9 27 (3.49%) ServiceNow
10 24 (3.10%) Aruba
11 23 (2.97%) Arista
12 21 (2.71%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.71%) IBM
13 20 (2.58%) Pure Storage
14 18 (2.33%) Oracle
15 12 (1.55%) Infoblox
15 12 (1.55%) Tenable
15 12 (1.55%) Trend Micro
16 11 (1.42%) SAP