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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Python 757 413 292
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 10.18% 10.36% 7.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.59% 37.01% 28.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 290 201
10th Percentile £363 £337 £376
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -3.69% -8.76%
75th Percentile £588 £548 £600
90th Percentile £638 £613 £650
England median daily rate £545 £537 £578
% change year-on-year +1.49% -7.13% -3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile £28.50 £38.98 -
25th Percentile £29.25 £43.44 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +10.98% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £59.44 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £64.13 £59.72
England median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% -19.23% -

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 1,865 1,116 1,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.08% 27.98% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 799 712
10th Percentile £352 £315 £350
25th Percentile £413 £379 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -4.76% -2.35%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £603 £638
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 13 32
10th Percentile £28.65 £30.35 £37.50
25th Percentile £46.98 £36.00 £44.02
Median hourly rate £68.25 £66.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +23.72% +16.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £84.50 £71.59
90th Percentile £76.90 £93.75 £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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +1 388 £500 - 196
North West -2 286 £525 +10.53% 414
North East -2 94 £425 -18.27% 132
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 65 (8.59%) Apache Spark
2 43 (5.68%) Apache
3 38 (5.02%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (3.70%) Jupyter
5 27 (3.57%) Confluence
6 13 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.06%) SAS
8 2 (0.26%) Camunda
8 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.26%) nginx
8 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 338 (44.65%) AWS
2 266 (35.14%) Azure
3 161 (21.27%) GCP
4 130 (17.17%) GitHub
5 72 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
6 56 (7.40%) Power Platform
7 53 (7.00%) Serverless
8 43 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (5.55%) OpenShift
10 41 (5.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 38 (5.02%) OCI
12 33 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (3.96%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.83%) SaaS
15 24 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (2.91%) dbt
17 19 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 18 (2.38%) Vertex AI
19 16 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 90 (11.89%) Firewall
2 50 (6.61%) DNS
3 38 (5.02%) BIG-IP
4 34 (4.49%) BGP
4 34 (4.49%) Network Security
4 34 (4.49%) WAN
5 30 (3.96%) OSPF
6 29 (3.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 28 (3.70%) TCP/IP
8 26 (3.43%) SD-WAN
9 21 (2.77%) Ethernet VPN
9 21 (2.77%) VXLAN
10 19 (2.51%) VPN
11 17 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (1.72%) SAN
12 13 (1.72%) WLAN
13 11 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 10 (1.32%) DHCP
14 10 (1.32%) HTTP
14 10 (1.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.61%) Power BI
2 37 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.62%) SQL Server
4 30 (3.96%) BigQuery
5 27 (3.57%) Metadata
6 24 (3.17%) NoSQL
7 23 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (2.77%) Big Data
9 18 (2.38%) Tableau
10 17 (2.25%) Hadoop
10 17 (2.25%) MongoDB
11 16 (2.11%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.59%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.45%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 126 (16.64%) Jenkins
2 86 (11.36%) GitLab
3 74 (9.78%) JIRA
4 72 (9.51%) Git
5 19 (2.51%) Gatling
6 14 (1.85%) Maven
7 13 (1.72%) Postman
7 13 (1.72%) Selenium
8 12 (1.59%) JMeter
9 11 (1.45%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.45%) LoadRunner
9 11 (1.45%) SonarQube
9 11 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.92%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.79%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.79%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.79%) NeoLoad
11 6 (0.79%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.53%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.53%) Robot Framework
General
1 151 (19.95%) Social Skills
2 147 (19.42%) Finance
3 108 (14.27%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (12.55%) Public Sector
5 64 (8.45%) Banking
6 13 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (1.72%) Legal
6 13 (1.72%) Retail
7 10 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.32%) Publishing
8 9 (1.19%) Games
9 6 (0.79%) Military
10 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.53%) Law
10 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.53%) Marketing
11 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.26%) Advertising
12 2 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (16.25%) Senior
2 108 (14.27%) Developer
3 86 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 74 (9.78%) Python Developer
5 67 (8.85%) Data Engineer
5 67 (8.85%) Lead
6 56 (7.40%) Security Engineer
7 42 (5.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (5.55%) Python Engineer
8 33 (4.36%) Architect
8 33 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (4.23%) Network Engineer
10 29 (3.83%) Software Engineer
11 28 (3.70%) Analyst
11 28 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (3.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 24 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (3.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (2.77%) Test Engineer
16 18 (2.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.94%) REST
2 44 (5.81%) Node.js
3 40 (5.28%) Kafka
4 39 (5.15%) PySpark
5 36 (4.76%) React
6 33 (4.36%) JSON
7 22 (2.91%) Playwright
8 20 (2.64%) OpenTelemetry
9 17 (2.25%) CSS
9 17 (2.25%) HTML
9 17 (2.25%) LangChain
9 17 (2.25%) Spring
10 16 (2.11%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.98%) FastAPI
11 15 (1.98%) YAML
12 14 (1.85%) .NET
12 14 (1.85%) Vue
13 13 (1.72%) Spring Boot
14 11 (1.45%) pytest
14 11 (1.45%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 138 (18.23%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.34%) Data Centre
3 33 (4.36%) Data Protection Act
3 33 (4.36%) Security Posture
4 32 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
6 19 (2.51%) Replication
7 18 (2.38%) AI Agents
7 18 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.25%) NHS
9 16 (2.11%) PKI
9 16 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.98%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
13 11 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 117 (15.46%) Linux
2 66 (8.72%) Windows
3 37 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (4.76%) Unix
5 16 (2.11%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.72%) Solaris
7 8 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.92%) VMS
9 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.40%) AIX
10 3 (0.40%) zOS
11 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.13%) CentOS
12 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (51.78%) CI/CD
2 298 (39.37%) DevOps
3 235 (31.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 197 (26.02%) Agile
5 137 (18.10%) Observability
6 131 (17.31%) Containerisation
7 130 (17.17%) Analytics
8 129 (17.04%) AI
9 117 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (13.87%) Data Engineering
11 103 (13.61%) Test Automation
12 101 (13.34%) Data Pipeline
13 92 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 79 (10.44%) Software Engineering
15 74 (9.78%) Machine Learning
15 74 (9.78%) Migration
16 72 (9.51%) Cloud Security
16 72 (9.51%) High Availability
17 69 (9.11%) Platform Engineering
18 67 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 177 (23.38%) SQL
2 149 (19.68%) Bash
3 138 (18.23%) Java
4 120 (15.85%) PowerShell
5 55 (7.27%) JavaScript
6 36 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 32 (4.23%) Go
8 26 (3.43%) Bicep
9 22 (2.91%) Scala
10 17 (2.25%) Groovy
11 13 (1.72%) Rust
11 13 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.59%) C#
13 9 (1.19%) ActionScript
13 9 (1.19%) R
13 9 (1.19%) Search Processing Language
14 8 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.79%) VBA
16 5 (0.66%) Perl
17 4 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 162 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 141 (18.63%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.27%) Degree
4 39 (5.15%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.49%) CISSP
6 32 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.19%) CCNP
11 9 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.92%) GCIH
13 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.66%) CCNA
14 5 (0.66%) GCFA
14 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (0.53%) OCP
15 4 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.04%) GDPR
3 20 (2.64%) QA
4 12 (1.59%) NIST
4 12 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.45%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.32%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.19%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.66%) HL7
10 5 (0.66%) WCAG
11 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.40%) SLA
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.13%) PSD2
13 1 (0.13%) SEPA
13 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 161 (21.27%) Docker
2 26 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.38%) Active Directory
4 17 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.11%) vSphere
6 11 (1.45%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.92%) Firmware
7 7 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.79%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.53%) NFS
9 4 (0.53%) SRDF
10 3 (0.40%) KVM
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.13%) Snort
12 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 279 (36.86%) Terraform
2 192 (25.36%) Kubernetes
3 146 (19.29%) Ansible
4 59 (7.79%) Grafana
5 48 (6.34%) Prometheus
6 25 (3.30%) Progress Chef
7 22 (2.91%) Argo
8 13 (1.72%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.19%) Control-M
9 9 (1.19%) HAProxy
10 8 (1.06%) IBM Guardium
10 8 (1.06%) Nessus
10 8 (1.06%) Puppet
11 7 (0.92%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.79%) Istio
13 5 (0.66%) CASB
13 5 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (0.53%) PowerCLI
14 4 (0.53%) vRealize
Vendors
1 93 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 77 (10.17%) Google
3 62 (8.19%) Databricks
4 56 (7.40%) Splunk
5 41 (5.42%) F5
6 38 (5.02%) Red Hat
7 36 (4.76%) Palo Alto
8 31 (4.10%) Cisco
8 31 (4.10%) VMware
9 28 (3.70%) IBM
9 28 (3.70%) ServiceNow
10 25 (3.30%) Arista
11 24 (3.17%) Aruba
11 24 (3.17%) Dynatrace
12 20 (2.64%) Oracle
13 13 (1.72%) Trend Micro
14 12 (1.59%) SAP
15 11 (1.45%) Pure Storage
16 10 (1.32%) Dell
16 10 (1.32%) Fortinet