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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 664 260 358
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.35% 7.95% 7.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.37% 29.71% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 182 213
10th Percentile £352 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £545 £608 £600
90th Percentile £617 £725 £675
England median daily rate £520 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.45% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 14
10th Percentile £37.04 £73.50 £20.77
25th Percentile £41.94 £75.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £58.63 £80.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.71% +73.24% -6.84%
75th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 £58.48
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% -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 1,567 875 1,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.14% 26.75% 26.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,070 602 921
10th Percentile £340 £338 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £539 £571 £550
90th Percentile £622 £650 £625
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 16 62
10th Percentile £42.20 £28.86 £37.70
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.01 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.57 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +37.89% -
75th Percentile £74.70 £86.38 £65.94
90th Percentile £86.00 £99.32 £74.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +3 354 £488 -9.30% 267
North West +11 271 £475 -5.00% 309
North East +5 45 £488 -7.14% 109
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 39 (5.87%) Confluence
2 29 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 23 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (3.01%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.81%) Apache
5 12 (1.81%) SAS
6 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.45%) nginx
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 252 (37.95%) AWS
2 179 (26.96%) Azure
3 158 (23.80%) GCP
4 101 (15.21%) GitHub
5 72 (10.84%) Serverless
6 66 (9.94%) OpenShift
7 51 (7.68%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (5.87%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (5.87%) Power Platform
9 37 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 36 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 28 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (3.01%) Entra ID
17 17 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 63 (9.49%) Firewall
2 52 (7.83%) DNS
3 42 (6.33%) TCP/IP
4 22 (3.31%) VPN
5 21 (3.16%) HTTP
6 20 (3.01%) SSL
7 19 (2.86%) BIG-IP
8 16 (2.41%) Wireshark
9 14 (2.11%) Network Security
10 9 (1.36%) SSH
10 9 (1.36%) WAN
11 8 (1.20%) BGP
12 7 (1.05%) LAN
12 7 (1.05%) VLAN
13 6 (0.90%) SAN
13 6 (0.90%) WebEx
14 5 (0.75%) NAS
14 5 (0.75%) SNMP
14 5 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
14 5 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (7.08%) NoSQL
3 31 (4.67%) Power BI
4 23 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (3.31%) Hadoop
6 19 (2.86%) MySQL
7 18 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 16 (2.41%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.11%) MongoDB
11 13 (1.96%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.96%) SQL Server
12 12 (1.81%) Big Data
12 12 (1.81%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.66%) Metadata
13 11 (1.66%) Tableau
14 8 (1.20%) Power Query
14 8 (1.20%) PowerPivot
15 7 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 164 (24.70%) Jenkins
2 90 (13.55%) GitLab
3 87 (13.10%) JIRA
4 52 (7.83%) Git
5 23 (3.46%) Postman
6 20 (3.01%) Liquibase
7 14 (2.11%) Fiddler
8 12 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.81%) Selenium
9 11 (1.66%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.20%) TestRail
11 6 (0.90%) PyCharm
11 6 (0.90%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.75%) JMeter
12 5 (0.75%) MLflow
13 4 (0.60%) Gatling
13 4 (0.60%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.60%) Maven
13 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 148 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 124 (18.67%) Finance
3 100 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (12.95%) Banking
5 65 (9.79%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.96%) Legal
9 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.60%) Law
9 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.60%) Marketing
9 4 (0.60%) Retail
10 3 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.45%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.30%) Advertising
11 2 (0.30%) Games
11 2 (0.30%) Military
11 2 (0.30%) Publishing
11 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (15.21%) Developer
2 79 (11.90%) Senior
3 68 (10.24%) Data Engineer
4 66 (9.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 59 (8.89%) Lead
6 52 (7.83%) Python Developer
7 44 (6.63%) Analyst
8 41 (6.17%) Architect
9 40 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
10 39 (5.87%) GCP Engineer
11 34 (5.12%) Platform Engineer
12 32 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (4.82%) Network Engineer
13 28 (4.22%) Security Engineer
13 28 (4.22%) Software Engineer
14 23 (3.46%) Python Engineer
15 21 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 19 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
16 19 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 17 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.49%) REST
2 42 (6.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 37 (5.57%) Elastic Stack
3 37 (5.57%) Node.js
4 36 (5.42%) RESTful
5 29 (4.37%) FastAPI
5 29 (4.37%) Kafka
6 27 (4.07%) React
6 27 (4.07%) YAML
7 22 (3.31%) PySpark
8 21 (3.16%) JSON
9 18 (2.71%) PyTorch
10 16 (2.41%) Flask
10 16 (2.41%) TensorFlow
11 15 (2.26%) LangChain
11 15 (2.26%) Spring
12 14 (2.11%) Spring Boot
13 13 (1.96%) .NET
13 13 (1.96%) Playwright
14 12 (1.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.52%) Public Cloud
5 27 (4.07%) Data Centre
6 24 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (3.01%) Security Posture
9 17 (2.56%) NHS
10 16 (2.41%) Algorithms
11 14 (2.11%) Credit Risk
11 14 (2.11%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.81%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.05%) Clustering
13 7 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 6 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.90%) Tandem
15 5 (0.75%) IoT
15 5 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 142 (21.39%) Linux
2 60 (9.04%) Windows
3 31 (4.67%) Unix
4 30 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (3.01%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.51%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.36%) CentOS
8 8 (1.20%) Solaris
9 4 (0.60%) VMS
10 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (46.99%) CI/CD
2 275 (41.42%) DevOps
3 175 (26.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (25.15%) Agile
5 166 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 125 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (14.31%) Analytics
8 92 (13.86%) Observability
9 85 (12.80%) Test Automation
10 78 (11.75%) Machine Learning
11 76 (11.45%) Data Pipeline
11 76 (11.45%) ETL
12 75 (11.30%) AI
13 69 (10.39%) Data Engineering
14 66 (9.94%) Data Modelling
14 66 (9.94%) Migration
14 66 (9.94%) Software Engineering
15 65 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (9.79%) High Availability
16 61 (9.19%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 139 (20.93%) Bash
2 131 (19.73%) SQL
3 92 (13.86%) Java
4 77 (11.60%) PowerShell
5 51 (7.68%) JavaScript
6 47 (7.08%) Go
7 44 (6.63%) TypeScript
8 29 (4.37%) Perl
9 19 (2.86%) C#
9 19 (2.86%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.71%) Ruby
11 15 (2.26%) Scala
12 12 (1.81%) R
13 11 (1.66%) Bicep
13 11 (1.66%) Groovy
13 11 (1.66%) PHP
13 11 (1.66%) VBA
14 8 (1.20%) Rust
15 5 (0.75%) C++
16 4 (0.60%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 118 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.04%) Degree
4 37 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.67%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.92%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.26%) CISSP
8 13 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.96%) CCNP
8 13 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.66%) CCNA
9 11 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.51%) CISM
11 9 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.36%) CCDP
12 8 (1.20%) RHCE
13 4 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.26%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.26%) QA
3 12 (1.81%) GDPR
4 9 (1.36%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.75%) NIST
6 5 (0.75%) WCAG
7 4 (0.60%) PMO
7 4 (0.60%) SLA
8 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 167 (25.15%) Docker
2 37 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.46%) vSphere
4 22 (3.31%) VMware NSX
5 18 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.56%) Active Directory
7 11 (1.66%) KVM
8 10 (1.51%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.90%) Firmware
10 5 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 2 (0.30%) SRDF
12 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.15%) Ceph
13 1 (0.15%) NFS
13 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.15%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 229 (34.49%) Terraform
2 222 (33.43%) Kubernetes
3 158 (23.80%) Ansible
4 96 (14.46%) Grafana
5 84 (12.65%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.31%) Puppet
7 21 (3.16%) Control-M
8 19 (2.86%) IBM Guardium
8 19 (2.86%) Nessus
9 17 (2.56%) Istio
10 16 (2.41%) Argo
11 13 (1.96%) NetBackup
11 13 (1.96%) vCenter Server
12 8 (1.20%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.60%) Packer
15 3 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
15 3 (0.45%) PowerCLI
16 2 (0.30%) linkerd
Vendors
1 77 (11.60%) Splunk
2 64 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 63 (9.49%) VMware
4 62 (9.34%) Google
5 58 (8.73%) Red Hat
6 34 (5.12%) F5
7 32 (4.82%) Databricks
8 31 (4.67%) Oracle
9 26 (3.92%) Cisco
10 20 (3.01%) ServiceNow
11 19 (2.86%) Tenable
12 16 (2.41%) Palo Alto
13 15 (2.26%) Blue Coat
13 15 (2.26%) McAfee
14 13 (1.96%) IBM
15 12 (1.81%) Pure Storage
16 11 (1.66%) Pega
17 10 (1.51%) Citrix
17 10 (1.51%) Commvault
17 10 (1.51%) Dynatrace