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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 21 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 692 278 363
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.04% 8.46% 7.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.97% 30.02% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 208 227
10th Percentile £363 £359 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -2.25% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £566 £600
90th Percentile £618 £650 £647
England median daily rate £525 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 5
10th Percentile £31.84 - -
25th Percentile £37.86 - -
Median hourly rate £46.50 - £20.77
75th Percentile £71.20 - £46.18
90th Percentile £88.50 - £59.72
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% -36.00% -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 1,689 926 1,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.95% 28.17% 25.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 681 839
10th Percentile £350 £350 £324
25th Percentile £408 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £569
90th Percentile £625 £625 £625
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 14 50
10th Percentile £38.39 £34.68 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.31 £45.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £74.50 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +56.02% -2.55%
75th Percentile £74.26 £88.06 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.97 £74.97
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 0 389 £475 -5.00% 137
North West +2 247 £500 +4.17% 260
North East +5 65 £475 +5.56% 94
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 41 (5.92%) Apache Spark
2 29 (4.19%) Confluence
3 18 (2.60%) Apache
4 17 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.16%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.72%) SAS
9 3 (0.43%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.29%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.14%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 255 (36.85%) AWS
2 208 (30.06%) Azure
3 142 (20.52%) GCP
4 105 (15.17%) GitHub
5 78 (11.27%) OpenShift
6 55 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (7.51%) Power Platform
8 43 (6.21%) Serverless
9 40 (5.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 31 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (3.18%) OCI
14 21 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (2.89%) SaaS
16 15 (2.17%) Apigee
16 15 (2.17%) dbt
16 15 (2.17%) Entra ID
17 14 (2.02%) Vertex AI
18 13 (1.88%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.51%) DNS
2 49 (7.08%) Firewall
3 34 (4.91%) TCP/IP
4 31 (4.48%) BIG-IP
5 22 (3.18%) WAN
6 16 (2.31%) BGP
6 16 (2.31%) HTTP
7 14 (2.02%) OSPF
7 14 (2.02%) SAN
7 14 (2.02%) SD-WAN
8 13 (1.88%) Ethernet VPN
8 13 (1.88%) VPN
8 13 (1.88%) VXLAN
8 13 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (1.88%) Wireshark
9 12 (1.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 11 (1.59%) NAS
10 11 (1.59%) Network Security
11 10 (1.45%) DHCP
11 10 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.07%) Power BI
3 31 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.47%) Hadoop
5 23 (3.32%) Tableau
6 22 (3.18%) NoSQL
7 21 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.75%) BigQuery
8 19 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (2.46%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.31%) Metadata
11 15 (2.17%) Big Data
12 12 (1.73%) Delta Lake
12 12 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.30%) MySQL
14 8 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (1.01%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.87%) Relational Database
17 5 (0.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 132 (19.08%) Jenkins
2 68 (9.83%) JIRA
3 61 (8.82%) GitLab
4 46 (6.65%) Git
5 24 (3.47%) Postman
6 14 (2.02%) Gatling
7 12 (1.73%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.73%) Maven
8 11 (1.59%) Selenium
9 9 (1.30%) Fiddler
10 7 (1.01%) Artifactory
10 7 (1.01%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.01%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.87%) Liquibase
11 6 (0.87%) TestRail
12 5 (0.72%) JMeter
12 5 (0.72%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.58%) NeoLoad
General
1 134 (19.36%) Social Skills
2 105 (15.17%) Finance
3 92 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.09%) Banking
6 19 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.16%) Legal
8 6 (0.87%) Retail
9 5 (0.72%) Law
9 5 (0.72%) Publishing
10 4 (0.58%) Advertising
10 4 (0.58%) Marketing
11 3 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.43%) Military
12 2 (0.29%) Games
12 2 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (17.05%) Developer
2 92 (13.29%) Senior
3 67 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (8.82%) Data Engineer
4 61 (8.82%) Lead
5 60 (8.67%) Python Developer
6 48 (6.94%) Architect
7 40 (5.78%) Analyst
7 40 (5.78%) Security Engineer
8 30 (4.34%) GCP Engineer
9 27 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 22 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (3.18%) Python Engineer
12 20 (2.89%) Network Engineer
12 20 (2.89%) Software Engineer
13 19 (2.75%) Data Analyst
14 18 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (2.46%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.65%) REST
2 45 (6.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 41 (5.92%) Node.js
4 39 (5.64%) React
5 38 (5.49%) Kafka
6 33 (4.77%) JSON
7 31 (4.48%) YAML
8 26 (3.76%) PySpark
8 26 (3.76%) Spring
9 24 (3.47%) FastAPI
9 24 (3.47%) Playwright
10 23 (3.32%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.46%) .NET
11 17 (2.46%) PyTorch
12 15 (2.17%) LDAP
13 14 (2.02%) LangChain
13 14 (2.02%) OpenID
14 13 (1.88%) Pandas
15 12 (1.73%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (1.73%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.99%) Cloud Native
2 38 (5.49%) Data Centre
3 37 (5.35%) Data Protection Act
4 34 (4.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.17%) Replication
9 14 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.88%) NHS
10 13 (1.88%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.45%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.45%) PKI
13 8 (1.16%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.01%) Clustering
14 7 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 7 (1.01%) IoT
15 6 (0.87%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 110 (15.90%) Linux
2 60 (8.67%) Windows
3 33 (4.77%) Unix
4 28 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.60%) Solaris
6 15 (2.17%) Windows Server
7 13 (1.88%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.16%) CentOS
8 8 (1.16%) VMS
9 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.72%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.43%) AIX
11 2 (0.29%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.29%) zOS
12 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (46.53%) CI/CD
2 260 (37.57%) DevOps
3 170 (24.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (20.95%) Agile
5 132 (19.08%) Containerisation
6 128 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (15.46%) Analytics
8 97 (14.02%) Observability
9 94 (13.58%) Migration
10 88 (12.72%) AI
11 85 (12.28%) Test Automation
12 77 (11.13%) Data Pipeline
13 72 (10.40%) ETL
14 71 (10.26%) High Availability
15 67 (9.68%) Data Engineering
16 64 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (8.67%) Data Modelling
17 60 (8.67%) Machine Learning
18 57 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
19 56 (8.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 141 (20.38%) SQL
2 132 (19.08%) Java
3 117 (16.91%) Bash
4 80 (11.56%) PowerShell
5 55 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 48 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 31 (4.48%) Go
8 25 (3.61%) Scala
9 18 (2.60%) Groovy
10 17 (2.46%) C#
11 16 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.17%) Bicep
12 15 (2.17%) Ruby
13 14 (2.02%) R
14 11 (1.59%) Perl
15 10 (1.45%) Rust
15 10 (1.45%) VBA
16 7 (1.01%) PHP
17 4 (0.58%) Cypher
17 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 116 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 92 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.19%) Degree
4 26 (3.76%) AWS Certification
5 21 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.89%) CISSP
7 18 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.30%) CISM
9 9 (1.30%) RHCE
10 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.72%) CCNA
11 5 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.58%) CCNP
12 4 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.58%) OCP
12 4 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.07%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.46%) GDPR
3 17 (2.46%) QA
4 13 (1.88%) HIPAA
5 9 (1.30%) WCAG
6 8 (1.16%) NIST
7 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.58%) SLA
11 3 (0.43%) PMO
11 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.29%) PSD2
13 1 (0.14%) GRC
13 1 (0.14%) HL7
13 1 (0.14%) SEPA
13 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 130 (18.79%) Docker
2 33 (4.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (3.76%) VMware NSX
4 24 (3.47%) vSphere
5 11 (1.59%) Active Directory
6 10 (1.45%) Firmware
6 10 (1.45%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.30%) KVM
8 8 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.43%) NFS
10 3 (0.43%) SRDF
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.14%) Ceph
12 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.14%) Snort
12 1 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 221 (31.94%) Terraform
2 203 (29.34%) Kubernetes
3 161 (23.27%) Ansible
4 67 (9.68%) Grafana
5 61 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.03%) Argo
6 21 (3.03%) vCenter Server
7 18 (2.60%) Puppet
8 17 (2.46%) Istio
9 15 (2.17%) Control-M
10 14 (2.02%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (2.02%) Nessus
11 9 (1.30%) HAProxy
12 7 (1.01%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.87%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.87%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (0.58%) vRealize
15 3 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.53%) Splunk
3 57 (8.24%) Google
4 55 (7.95%) Red Hat
5 52 (7.51%) VMware
6 43 (6.21%) Databricks
7 34 (4.91%) F5
8 31 (4.48%) ServiceNow
9 28 (4.05%) Oracle
10 20 (2.89%) Cisco
11 19 (2.75%) Pure Storage
12 18 (2.60%) Palo Alto
13 15 (2.17%) IBM
14 14 (2.02%) Arista
14 14 (2.02%) Dynatrace
14 14 (2.02%) Tenable
15 13 (1.88%) Aruba
16 11 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
17 10 (1.45%) Infoblox
18 9 (1.30%) McAfee