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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 757 458 299
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 9.90% 11.48% 7.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.80% 38.72% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 316 190
10th Percentile £363 £333 £356
25th Percentile £413 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.13% -8.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £587
90th Percentile £654 £611 £675
England median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 5
10th Percentile - £37.19 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £38.97 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.94 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.22% -9.18% -
75th Percentile £71.33 £54.60 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £62.19 £70.97
England median hourly rate £66.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +33.00% -28.57% +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 1,902 1,183 1,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.88% 29.65% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 838 676
10th Percentile £350 £315 £330
25th Percentile £413 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.61% -7.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £574
90th Percentile £650 £625 £628
England median daily rate £525 £515 £545
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 12 29
10th Percentile £28.50 £30.60 £35.93
25th Percentile £46.80 £40.46 £37.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% +28.30% -
75th Percentile £74.00 £73.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.95 £80.84
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -2 384 £500 - 265
North West +1 294 £525 +16.67% 479
North East -1 88 £425 -10.53% 117
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 54 (7.13%) Apache Spark
2 46 (6.08%) Apache
3 42 (5.55%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.83%) Jupyter
5 18 (2.38%) Confluence
6 12 (1.59%) SAS
7 11 (1.45%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.53%) nginx
10 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.26%) Camunda
12 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 8 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 329 (43.46%) AWS
2 259 (34.21%) Azure
3 175 (23.12%) GCP
4 117 (15.46%) GitHub
5 65 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
6 57 (7.53%) Serverless
7 52 (6.87%) Power Platform
8 40 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (5.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 39 (5.15%) Amazon S3
10 37 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
11 35 (4.62%) OCI
12 29 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (3.70%) SaaS
14 26 (3.43%) Entra ID
15 25 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 22 (2.91%) dbt
17 21 (2.77%) OpenShift
18 19 (2.51%) IaaS
19 18 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 95 (12.55%) Firewall
2 55 (7.27%) Network Security
3 45 (5.94%) BIG-IP
4 42 (5.55%) DNS
4 42 (5.55%) WAN
5 36 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 35 (4.62%) SD-WAN
7 33 (4.36%) BGP
8 30 (3.96%) OSPF
9 25 (3.30%) TCP/IP
10 22 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
11 21 (2.77%) VXLAN
12 18 (2.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 18 (2.38%) VPN
12 18 (2.38%) Wireless
13 16 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (1.72%) WLAN
15 10 (1.32%) SSL
16 8 (1.06%) DHCP
16 8 (1.06%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.47%) Power BI
2 37 (4.89%) Metadata
3 36 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 27 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 26 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (3.04%) Big Data
6 23 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (2.51%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.25%) Data Lake
8 17 (2.25%) Tableau
9 16 (2.11%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.45%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.32%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.19%) Neo4j
15 8 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.92%) Looker
16 7 (0.92%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 106 (14.00%) Jenkins
2 87 (11.49%) GitLab
3 75 (9.91%) Git
4 71 (9.38%) JIRA
5 16 (2.11%) Gatling
6 14 (1.85%) JMeter
6 14 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (1.72%) Maven
8 12 (1.59%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.59%) LoadRunner
8 12 (1.59%) Postman
8 12 (1.59%) Selenium
9 11 (1.45%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.06%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.92%) Zephyr
13 6 (0.79%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.53%) MSBuild
14 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 171 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 158 (20.87%) Finance
3 110 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (12.81%) Public Sector
5 69 (9.11%) Banking
6 13 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.59%) Legal
8 10 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.32%) Publishing
8 10 (1.32%) Retail
9 8 (1.06%) Games
9 8 (1.06%) Military
10 6 (0.79%) Law
11 5 (0.66%) Marketing
12 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (17.44%) Senior
2 107 (14.13%) Developer
3 87 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 79 (10.44%) Data Engineer
5 69 (9.11%) Python Developer
6 58 (7.66%) Lead
7 45 (5.94%) Security Engineer
8 42 (5.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 38 (5.02%) Network Engineer
10 36 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 35 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 35 (4.62%) Python Engineer
12 28 (3.70%) Software Engineer
13 27 (3.57%) Analyst
13 27 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (3.04%) Architect
14 23 (3.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (2.51%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (2.51%) Test Engineer
16 18 (2.38%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (36.46%) Terraform
2 54 (7.13%) REST
3 46 (6.08%) PySpark
4 40 (5.28%) Node.js
5 38 (5.02%) Kafka
6 34 (4.49%) React
7 28 (3.70%) JSON
8 19 (2.51%) LangChain
8 19 (2.51%) OpenID
8 19 (2.51%) pytest
9 18 (2.38%) OAuth
10 17 (2.25%) Flask
10 17 (2.25%) Playwright
11 16 (2.11%) Django
12 15 (1.98%) .NET
12 15 (1.98%) CSS
12 15 (1.98%) HTML
12 15 (1.98%) OAuth2
13 14 (1.85%) YAML
14 13 (1.72%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 145 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.13%) Data Centre
3 36 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (4.10%) Public Cloud
5 30 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
6 29 (3.83%) Onboarding
6 29 (3.83%) Security Posture
7 25 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (3.17%) AI Agents
8 24 (3.17%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.91%) PKI
10 21 (2.77%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.51%) Data Structures
12 17 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (2.11%) NHS
14 15 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.59%) Replication
17 11 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
17 11 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 111 (14.66%) Linux
2 59 (7.79%) Windows
3 46 (6.08%) Unix
4 31 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.11%) Solaris
6 15 (1.98%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.92%) VMS
8 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.40%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) zOS
10 2 (0.26%) AIX
10 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (52.31%) CI/CD
2 271 (35.80%) DevOps
3 252 (33.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 192 (25.36%) Agile
5 155 (20.48%) AI
6 154 (20.34%) Observability
7 135 (17.83%) Analytics
8 119 (15.72%) Containerisation
9 117 (15.46%) Data Engineering
10 114 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
12 95 (12.55%) Software Engineering
13 93 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 92 (12.15%) Test Automation
15 83 (10.96%) Cloud Security
16 81 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 79 (10.44%) Machine Learning
18 76 (10.04%) Validation
19 75 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 74 (9.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 182 (24.04%) SQL
2 135 (17.83%) Java
3 134 (17.70%) PowerShell
4 128 (16.91%) Bash
5 45 (5.94%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.15%) Go
7 27 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 25 (3.30%) Bicep
9 19 (2.51%) C#
10 17 (2.25%) Scala
11 16 (2.11%) ActionScript
12 14 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.59%) Groovy
14 11 (1.45%) Search Processing Language
15 10 (1.32%) Rust
16 9 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.79%) R
17 6 (0.79%) VBA
18 5 (0.66%) Perl
18 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 161 (21.27%) Security Cleared
2 147 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.79%) Degree
4 38 (5.02%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.62%) CISSP
6 31 (4.10%) Azure Certification
7 25 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.45%) CCNP
10 11 (1.45%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.79%) CCIE
13 6 (0.79%) GCIH
14 5 (0.66%) GCFA
15 4 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.53%) GIAC
16 3 (0.40%) CCSP
16 3 (0.40%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (10.30%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.30%) QA
3 17 (2.25%) GDPR
4 15 (1.98%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.85%) NIST
6 10 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.19%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.66%) HL7
8 5 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.53%) SLA
10 3 (0.40%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) WCAG
12 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 144 (19.02%) Docker
2 23 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.53%) NFS
6 4 (0.53%) vSphere
7 3 (0.40%) Firmware
7 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.26%) SRDF
8 2 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.13%) Ceph
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 176 (23.25%) Kubernetes
2 125 (16.51%) Ansible
3 49 (6.47%) Grafana
4 42 (5.55%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.10%) Progress Chef
6 11 (1.45%) Argo
6 11 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.06%) Control-M
8 7 (0.92%) IBM Guardium
8 7 (0.92%) Nessus
9 6 (0.79%) HAProxy
10 5 (0.66%) CASB
10 5 (0.66%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.66%) Packer
11 4 (0.53%) Istio
11 4 (0.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (0.53%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.40%) Consul
12 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 106 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 84 (11.10%) Google
3 66 (8.72%) Databricks
4 48 (6.34%) Splunk
5 46 (6.08%) F5
6 35 (4.62%) Palo Alto
7 30 (3.96%) ServiceNow
8 26 (3.43%) Arista
8 26 (3.43%) Cisco
9 25 (3.30%) Dynatrace
10 24 (3.17%) Aruba
10 24 (3.17%) IBM
10 24 (3.17%) Oracle
10 24 (3.17%) Red Hat
11 16 (2.11%) VMware
12 13 (1.72%) SAP
12 13 (1.72%) Trend Micro
13 11 (1.45%) OpenAI
14 10 (1.32%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.19%) BeyondTrust