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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 786 306 385
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.39% 8.76% 7.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.90% 30.91% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 225 230
10th Percentile £363 £351 £398
25th Percentile £413 £401 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.24% -12.83%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £600
90th Percentile £617 £612 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 6
10th Percentile £28.50 - -
25th Percentile £30.25 - £20.77
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £33.48
75th Percentile £66.00 - £46.18
90th Percentile £86.00 - £57.47
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -0.38%

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 1,876 990 1,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.18% 28.33% 25.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 733 847
10th Percentile £350 £331 £317
25th Percentile £413 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.02% -2.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £606 £628
England median daily rate £516 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -0.79% -3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 9 57
10th Percentile £29.96 £31.70 £37.55
25th Percentile £46.53 £52.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +45.83% +2.48%
75th Percentile £75.13 £88.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.40 £95.71 £76.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +2 431 £500 - 108
North West +4 276 £496 +4.42% 186
North East +9 91 £450 +5.88% 65
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 68 (8.65%) Apache Spark
2 41 (5.22%) Apache
3 37 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (4.33%) Confluence
5 26 (3.31%) Jupyter
6 18 (2.29%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.76%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 17 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 288 (36.64%) AWS
2 248 (31.55%) Azure
3 159 (20.23%) GCP
4 123 (15.65%) GitHub
5 73 (9.29%) OpenShift
6 61 (7.76%) Power Platform
7 59 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
8 47 (5.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 43 (5.47%) Serverless
10 36 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (4.33%) OCI
12 26 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (3.05%) SaaS
14 23 (2.93%) Amazon S3
15 21 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 20 (2.54%) dbt
17 18 (2.29%) Entra ID
18 16 (2.04%) Vertex AI
19 15 (1.91%) IaaS
19 15 (1.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (10.31%) Firewall
2 58 (7.38%) DNS
3 47 (5.98%) BIG-IP
4 36 (4.58%) TCP/IP
5 33 (4.20%) WAN
6 28 (3.56%) BGP
6 28 (3.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 24 (3.05%) OSPF
8 21 (2.67%) SD-WAN
8 21 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (2.54%) Ethernet VPN
9 20 (2.54%) VXLAN
10 17 (2.16%) Network Security
11 16 (2.04%) SAN
11 16 (2.04%) VPN
12 14 (1.78%) HTTP
13 13 (1.65%) NAS
13 13 (1.65%) SSL
14 12 (1.53%) DHCP
14 12 (1.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (6.23%) Power BI
3 29 (3.69%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.18%) Hadoop
5 22 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 21 (2.67%) Big Data
6 21 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.67%) Metadata
6 21 (2.67%) Tableau
7 19 (2.42%) BigQuery
7 19 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.91%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.91%) Delta Lake
9 13 (1.65%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (0.89%) Neo4j
13 7 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 146 (18.58%) Jenkins
2 88 (11.20%) JIRA
3 80 (10.18%) GitLab
4 56 (7.12%) Git
5 18 (2.29%) Postman
6 16 (2.04%) Gatling
7 14 (1.78%) Maven
8 11 (1.40%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.15%) Selenium
10 7 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.76%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.76%) Fiddler
11 6 (0.76%) JMeter
11 6 (0.76%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.64%) Liquibase
13 4 (0.51%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.51%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.38%) Flyway
14 3 (0.38%) Robot Framework
General
1 164 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 127 (16.16%) Finance
3 106 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.25%) Banking
6 20 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.78%) Legal
8 9 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.15%) Publishing
9 8 (1.02%) Retail
10 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.64%) Marketing
10 5 (0.64%) Military
11 4 (0.51%) Advertising
11 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.38%) Games
12 3 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.38%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.25%) Law
13 2 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (15.52%) Developer
2 110 (13.99%) Senior
3 81 (10.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 72 (9.16%) Data Engineer
4 72 (9.16%) Python Developer
5 62 (7.89%) Lead
6 54 (6.87%) Architect
7 44 (5.60%) Security Engineer
8 42 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (4.71%) Analyst
10 29 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 29 (3.69%) Network Engineer
10 29 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (3.44%) GCP Engineer
11 27 (3.44%) Python Engineer
12 26 (3.31%) Software Engineer
13 25 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
13 25 (3.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (2.67%) Data Analyst
15 19 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.23%) Node.js
2 46 (5.85%) REST
3 44 (5.60%) OpenTelemetry
4 43 (5.47%) PySpark
5 39 (4.96%) JSON
5 39 (4.96%) React
6 34 (4.33%) Kafka
7 33 (4.20%) YAML
8 29 (3.69%) Playwright
9 21 (2.67%) FastAPI
9 21 (2.67%) Spring
10 19 (2.42%) PyTorch
10 19 (2.42%) Spring Boot
11 18 (2.29%) LangChain
12 15 (1.91%) RESTful
13 13 (1.65%) Pandas
14 11 (1.40%) LDAP
14 11 (1.40%) scikit-learn
15 10 (1.27%) OpenID
15 10 (1.27%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 127 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 41 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (4.71%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 28 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (3.31%) Security Posture
8 24 (3.05%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.54%) Replication
10 19 (2.42%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.91%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.78%) NHS
14 13 (1.65%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.65%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.65%) PKI
15 11 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
16 7 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 6 (0.76%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 119 (15.14%) Linux
2 71 (9.03%) Windows
3 41 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (3.94%) Unix
5 19 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.78%) Solaris
6 14 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.15%) VMS
8 8 (1.02%) CentOS
9 5 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.38%) AIX
10 3 (0.38%) zOS
11 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (50.25%) CI/CD
2 304 (38.68%) DevOps
3 198 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 188 (23.92%) Agile
5 138 (17.56%) Containerisation
6 132 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
7 129 (16.41%) Analytics
8 117 (14.89%) AI
9 113 (14.38%) Observability
10 100 (12.72%) Data Engineering
11 96 (12.21%) Migration
12 95 (12.09%) Data Pipeline
13 92 (11.70%) Test Automation
14 79 (10.05%) Machine Learning
15 74 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 73 (9.29%) Software Engineering
17 72 (9.16%) High Availability
18 68 (8.65%) Data Modelling
19 66 (8.40%) ETL
20 64 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 158 (20.10%) SQL
2 138 (17.56%) Java
3 130 (16.54%) Bash
4 103 (13.10%) PowerShell
5 49 (6.23%) JavaScript
6 43 (5.47%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.20%) Go
8 24 (3.05%) Scala
9 20 (2.54%) Groovy
10 16 (2.04%) C#
11 15 (1.91%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.78%) Bicep
12 14 (1.78%) Perl
13 13 (1.65%) Rust
14 12 (1.53%) R
15 11 (1.40%) ActionScript
15 11 (1.40%) VBA
16 9 (1.15%) Ruby
17 6 (0.76%) C++
18 4 (0.51%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 145 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 118 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.36%) Degree
4 34 (4.33%) AWS Certification
5 28 (3.56%) CISSP
6 23 (2.93%) Azure Certification
6 23 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.15%) RHCE
10 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.76%) CCNP
11 6 (0.76%) CISM
11 6 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.64%) CCNA
13 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.51%) OCP
13 4 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.04%) GDPR
3 13 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.53%) HIPAA
4 12 (1.53%) QA
5 8 (1.02%) NIST
6 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.89%) WCAG
7 6 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.38%) HL7
9 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.25%) PMO
10 2 (0.25%) SLA
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 148 (18.83%) Docker
2 34 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (3.18%) vSphere
5 23 (2.93%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.78%) Active Directory
7 11 (1.40%) Firmware
7 11 (1.40%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.15%) KVM
8 9 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.64%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.64%) NFS
10 4 (0.51%) SRDF
11 3 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 256 (32.57%) Terraform
2 198 (25.19%) Kubernetes
3 171 (21.76%) Ansible
4 60 (7.63%) Grafana
5 58 (7.38%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.05%) Argo
7 22 (2.80%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.04%) Istio
8 16 (2.04%) Puppet
9 15 (1.91%) Control-M
10 14 (1.78%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (1.78%) Nessus
11 12 (1.53%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.15%) HAProxy
13 8 (1.02%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.76%) PowerCLI
16 5 (0.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
17 4 (0.51%) vRealize
18 3 (0.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 82 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 80 (10.18%) Google
3 64 (8.14%) Red Hat
4 62 (7.89%) Splunk
5 61 (7.76%) Databricks
6 50 (6.36%) F5
7 49 (6.23%) VMware
8 30 (3.82%) Palo Alto
8 30 (3.82%) ServiceNow
9 25 (3.18%) Cisco
10 24 (3.05%) Arista
11 21 (2.67%) Aruba
11 21 (2.67%) IBM
11 21 (2.67%) Oracle
12 20 (2.54%) Pure Storage
13 19 (2.42%) Dynatrace
14 14 (1.78%) Tenable
15 12 (1.53%) Infoblox
15 12 (1.53%) Trend Micro
16 11 (1.40%) SAP