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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 725 420 306
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 9.59% 10.62% 7.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.02% 37.20% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 291 207
10th Percentile £363 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -9.89%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
England median daily rate £550 £537 £580
% change year-on-year +2.42% -7.41% -3.33%
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 £71.33 £59.44 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.13 £59.72
England median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +26.27% -25.93% +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 1,858 1,129 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.58% 28.54% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 800 711
10th Percentile £350 £313 £329
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 13 29
10th Percentile £28.50 £30.35 £37.20
25th Percentile £46.53 £36.00 £37.55
Median hourly rate £67.50 £66.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +35.71% +6.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £84.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.75 £75.43
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 0 367 £500 +2.56% 213
North West -1 277 £525 +10.53% 418
North East -2 93 £425 -2.86% 119
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 57 (7.86%) Apache Spark
2 45 (6.21%) Apache
3 39 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (4.00%) Jupyter
5 18 (2.48%) Confluence
6 13 (1.79%) SharePoint
7 12 (1.66%) SAS
8 4 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.41%) nginx
9 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.28%) Camunda
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 14 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 7 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.14%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Odoo
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 323 (44.55%) AWS
2 247 (34.07%) Azure
3 148 (20.41%) GCP
4 118 (16.28%) GitHub
5 67 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
6 57 (7.86%) Serverless
7 56 (7.72%) Power Platform
8 39 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (5.10%) OCI
10 35 (4.83%) Amazon S3
11 34 (4.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 29 (4.00%) SaaS
13 27 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.45%) OpenShift
15 21 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.62%) dbt
17 17 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (2.21%) Amazon EMR
19 15 (2.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (11.59%) Firewall
2 41 (5.66%) DNS
3 39 (5.38%) Network Security
3 39 (5.38%) WAN
4 38 (5.24%) BIG-IP
5 33 (4.55%) BGP
6 31 (4.28%) SD-WAN
7 30 (4.14%) OSPF
8 29 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 24 (3.31%) TCP/IP
10 21 (2.90%) Ethernet VPN
10 21 (2.90%) VXLAN
11 17 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (2.07%) Wireless
13 14 (1.93%) VPN
14 13 (1.79%) WLAN
15 11 (1.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 10 (1.38%) DHCP
16 10 (1.38%) SAN
16 10 (1.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.03%) Power BI
2 33 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 31 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (4.14%) Metadata
5 29 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 24 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.90%) Big Data
8 20 (2.76%) DynamoDB
9 18 (2.48%) Tableau
10 16 (2.21%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.66%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (1.24%) Delta Lake
16 7 (0.97%) Ataccama
16 7 (0.97%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.97%) Looker
Development Applications
1 109 (15.03%) Jenkins
2 85 (11.72%) GitLab
3 73 (10.07%) Git
4 64 (8.83%) JIRA
5 19 (2.62%) Gatling
6 15 (2.07%) Maven
7 13 (1.79%) Postman
7 13 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (1.66%) JMeter
8 12 (1.66%) Selenium
8 12 (1.66%) SonarQube
9 11 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.52%) LoadRunner
10 7 (0.97%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.97%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.83%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.83%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.55%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 150 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 142 (19.59%) Finance
3 100 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 100 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 61 (8.41%) Banking
5 14 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (1.79%) Legal
7 11 (1.52%) Retail
8 10 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.24%) Games
9 9 (1.24%) Publishing
10 6 (0.83%) Military
11 5 (0.69%) Marketing
12 4 (0.55%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.55%) Law
12 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.41%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (16.28%) Senior
2 106 (14.62%) Developer
3 83 (11.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 70 (9.66%) Python Developer
5 65 (8.97%) Data Engineer
6 58 (8.00%) Lead
7 41 (5.66%) Security Engineer
8 40 (5.52%) Python Engineer
9 39 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (4.55%) Network Engineer
11 32 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.14%) Architect
13 29 (4.00%) Analyst
14 27 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.59%) Software Engineer
16 24 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 23 (3.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 21 (2.90%) Test Engineer
19 19 (2.62%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (37.24%) Terraform
2 45 (6.21%) REST
3 44 (6.07%) PySpark
4 42 (5.79%) Node.js
5 39 (5.38%) Kafka
6 34 (4.69%) JSON
6 34 (4.69%) React
7 22 (3.03%) Playwright
8 17 (2.34%) CSS
8 17 (2.34%) HTML
8 17 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
9 16 (2.21%) Spring
10 14 (1.93%) .NET
10 14 (1.93%) Vue
10 14 (1.93%) YAML
11 13 (1.79%) Django
11 13 (1.79%) Flask
11 13 (1.79%) pytest
12 12 (1.66%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 131 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.34%) Data Centre
3 32 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (4.28%) Data Protection Act
4 31 (4.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (3.31%) Security Posture
6 23 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.76%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.62%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.62%) NHS
10 17 (2.34%) Replication
11 16 (2.21%) Data Structures
12 15 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (2.07%) PKI
13 14 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
15 10 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (15.72%) Linux
2 63 (8.69%) Windows
3 40 (5.52%) Unix
4 34 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.79%) Solaris
7 8 (1.10%) VMS
8 7 (0.97%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.69%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.41%) zOS
11 2 (0.28%) AIX
11 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.14%) CentOS
12 1 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (50.07%) CI/CD
2 271 (37.38%) DevOps
3 233 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 184 (25.38%) Agile
5 137 (18.90%) Observability
6 129 (17.79%) AI
7 125 (17.24%) Analytics
8 117 (16.14%) Containerisation
9 105 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
10 101 (13.93%) Data Engineering
11 94 (12.97%) Data Pipeline
12 90 (12.41%) Test Automation
13 87 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 77 (10.62%) Software Engineering
15 74 (10.21%) Platform Engineering
16 71 (9.79%) Migration
17 68 (9.38%) Cloud Security
17 68 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 67 (9.24%) Data Modelling
18 67 (9.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 172 (23.72%) SQL
2 140 (19.31%) Java
3 137 (18.90%) Bash
4 117 (16.14%) PowerShell
5 50 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 32 (4.41%) TypeScript
7 30 (4.14%) Go
8 23 (3.17%) Bicep
9 22 (3.03%) Scala
10 16 (2.21%) Groovy
11 15 (2.07%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.79%) C#
13 10 (1.38%) Rust
13 10 (1.38%) Search Processing Language
14 9 (1.24%) ActionScript
14 9 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (1.24%) R
15 6 (0.83%) Perl
15 6 (0.83%) VBA
16 4 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 164 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 150 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.72%) Degree
4 34 (4.69%) AWS Certification
5 33 (4.55%) CISSP
6 26 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 23 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.52%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.38%) CCNP
12 9 (1.24%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.97%) GCIH
13 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.69%) CCNA
14 5 (0.69%) GCFA
15 4 (0.55%) CCIE
15 4 (0.55%) GIAC
15 4 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (0.41%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.76%) QA
3 19 (2.62%) GDPR
4 12 (1.66%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.52%) NIST
6 7 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.69%) HL7
8 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.55%) SLA
9 3 (0.41%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 150 (20.69%) Docker
2 19 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.48%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.52%) vSphere
6 9 (1.24%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.83%) Firmware
8 5 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.55%) NFS
10 2 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.28%) SRDF
10 2 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.14%) Ceph
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.14%) Snort
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 176 (24.28%) Kubernetes
2 136 (18.76%) Ansible
3 52 (7.17%) Grafana
4 44 (6.07%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.86%) Progress Chef
6 16 (2.21%) Argo
7 9 (1.24%) HAProxy
7 9 (1.24%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.10%) Control-M
9 7 (0.97%) IBM Guardium
9 7 (0.97%) Nessus
10 6 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.69%) CASB
11 5 (0.69%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.55%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.55%) Packer
12 4 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
13 3 (0.41%) Puppet
13 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.66%) Google
3 63 (8.69%) Databricks
4 50 (6.90%) Splunk
5 39 (5.38%) F5
6 36 (4.97%) Palo Alto
7 34 (4.69%) Red Hat
8 28 (3.86%) Cisco
8 28 (3.86%) ServiceNow
9 25 (3.45%) Arista
10 24 (3.31%) Aruba
10 24 (3.31%) Dynatrace
11 23 (3.17%) IBM
11 23 (3.17%) VMware
12 21 (2.90%) Oracle
13 13 (1.79%) SAP
13 13 (1.79%) Trend Micro
14 10 (1.38%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.24%) BeyondTrust
15 9 (1.24%) OpenAI