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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 710 277 379
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.01% 8.40% 8.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.23% 29.91% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 206 238
10th Percentile £363 £358 £411
25th Percentile £413 £407 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £501
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -2.49% -12.83%
75th Percentile £556 £556 £600
90th Percentile £617 £625 £647
England median daily rate £525 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 5
10th Percentile £30.20 - -
25th Percentile £35.75 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £20.77
75th Percentile £68.13 - £46.18
90th Percentile £88.00 - £59.72
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% -37.25% -1.92%

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 1,722 926 1,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.71% 28.08% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 681 845
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £412 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £613 £625
England median daily rate £512 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -2.45% -4.37% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 9 52
10th Percentile £37.10 £31.70 £37.56
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £79.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.08% +66.32% -3.06%
75th Percentile £74.26 £88.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.80 £95.71 £74.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +1 403 £485 -3.10% 132
North West -3 243 £500 +5.26% 260
North East +5 72 £475 +5.56% 75
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 43 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.23%) Confluence
3 20 (2.82%) Apache
4 17 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.83%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.41%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.42%) nginx
8 3 (0.42%) SAS
9 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.14%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.14%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 257 (36.20%) AWS
2 214 (30.14%) Azure
3 139 (19.58%) GCP
4 111 (15.63%) GitHub
5 79 (11.13%) OpenShift
6 56 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (7.32%) Power Platform
8 43 (6.06%) Serverless
9 38 (5.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 31 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (3.66%) OCI
12 25 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (3.10%) SaaS
15 20 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.25%) Amazon S3
16 16 (2.25%) dbt
17 15 (2.11%) Entra ID
18 14 (1.97%) Vertex AI
19 13 (1.83%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 56 (7.89%) Firewall
2 54 (7.61%) DNS
3 36 (5.07%) BIG-IP
4 33 (4.65%) TCP/IP
5 25 (3.52%) WAN
6 19 (2.68%) BGP
7 18 (2.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 17 (2.39%) HTTP
8 17 (2.39%) OSPF
9 16 (2.25%) Ethernet VPN
9 16 (2.25%) SD-WAN
9 16 (2.25%) VXLAN
10 14 (1.97%) SAN
10 14 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.83%) VPN
12 12 (1.69%) Network Security
12 12 (1.69%) SSL
13 11 (1.55%) NAS
13 11 (1.55%) Wireshark
14 10 (1.41%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (5.77%) Power BI
3 32 (4.51%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.38%) Hadoop
5 22 (3.10%) MongoDB
5 22 (3.10%) NoSQL
6 21 (2.96%) Tableau
7 19 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (2.54%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.39%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.25%) Metadata
11 15 (2.11%) Big Data
11 15 (2.11%) Delta Lake
12 12 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (1.27%) MySQL
15 7 (0.99%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.85%) Relational Database
16 6 (0.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 138 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 76 (10.70%) JIRA
3 67 (9.44%) GitLab
4 46 (6.48%) Git
5 23 (3.24%) Postman
6 15 (2.11%) Gatling
7 13 (1.83%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.69%) Maven
8 12 (1.69%) Selenium
9 8 (1.13%) Fiddler
10 7 (0.99%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.99%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.85%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.85%) JMeter
11 6 (0.85%) TestRail
12 5 (0.70%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.70%) Liquibase
12 5 (0.70%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.56%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 135 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 105 (14.79%) Finance
3 93 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (9.44%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.46%) Banking
6 20 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.41%) Legal
8 7 (0.99%) Retail
9 5 (0.70%) Law
9 5 (0.70%) Marketing
9 5 (0.70%) Publishing
10 4 (0.56%) Advertising
10 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.56%) Military
11 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.28%) Games
12 2 (0.28%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (16.62%) Developer
2 100 (14.08%) Senior
3 71 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 64 (9.01%) Data Engineer
5 62 (8.73%) Python Developer
6 61 (8.59%) Lead
7 48 (6.76%) Architect
8 41 (5.77%) Security Engineer
9 36 (5.07%) Analyst
10 30 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 29 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
12 26 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 24 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (3.10%) Python Engineer
15 22 (3.10%) Software Engineer
16 21 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
17 20 (2.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 19 (2.68%) Data Analyst
18 19 (2.68%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.76%) REST
2 46 (6.48%) Node.js
3 45 (6.34%) OpenTelemetry
4 39 (5.49%) React
5 37 (5.21%) JSON
6 35 (4.93%) Kafka
7 31 (4.37%) PySpark
7 31 (4.37%) YAML
8 25 (3.52%) Playwright
9 24 (3.38%) Spring
10 23 (3.24%) FastAPI
11 22 (3.10%) Spring Boot
12 17 (2.39%) .NET
12 17 (2.39%) PyTorch
13 15 (2.11%) LDAP
14 14 (1.97%) LangChain
14 14 (1.97%) OpenID
15 13 (1.83%) Pandas
16 12 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (1.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.97%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.34%) Data Centre
3 37 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (5.07%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 22 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.54%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.11%) Replication
9 14 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.69%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.69%) NHS
10 12 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.41%) PKI
12 9 (1.27%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 7 (0.99%) IoT
14 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 110 (15.49%) Linux
2 62 (8.73%) Windows
3 32 (4.51%) Unix
4 30 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.54%) Solaris
6 15 (2.11%) Windows Server
7 14 (1.97%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.13%) CentOS
8 8 (1.13%) VMS
9 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.70%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.42%) AIX
11 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.28%) zOS
12 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (47.18%) CI/CD
2 266 (37.46%) DevOps
3 173 (24.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (21.27%) Agile
5 127 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (17.75%) Containerisation
7 104 (14.65%) Analytics
8 99 (13.94%) AI
9 98 (13.80%) Migration
9 98 (13.80%) Observability
10 87 (12.25%) Test Automation
11 80 (11.27%) Data Pipeline
12 75 (10.56%) Data Engineering
13 74 (10.42%) ETL
14 69 (9.72%) High Availability
15 68 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 65 (9.15%) Machine Learning
17 59 (8.31%) Data Modelling
17 59 (8.31%) RBAC
17 59 (8.31%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (20.42%) SQL
2 138 (19.44%) Java
3 118 (16.62%) Bash
4 82 (11.55%) PowerShell
5 59 (8.31%) JavaScript
6 48 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 32 (4.51%) Go
8 24 (3.38%) Scala
9 18 (2.54%) Groovy
10 17 (2.39%) Shell Script
11 15 (2.11%) C#
12 13 (1.83%) Bicep
12 13 (1.83%) R
12 13 (1.83%) Ruby
13 11 (1.55%) Perl
13 11 (1.55%) Rust
14 9 (1.27%) VBA
15 6 (0.85%) PHP
16 5 (0.70%) ActionScript
17 4 (0.56%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 120 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 96 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.08%) Degree
4 26 (3.66%) AWS Certification
5 20 (2.82%) CISSP
6 18 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.27%) CISM
10 9 (1.27%) RHCE
11 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.70%) CCNA
12 5 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.56%) CCNP
13 4 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.56%) OCP
13 4 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.39%) GDPR
4 16 (2.25%) QA
5 13 (1.83%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.27%) WCAG
7 8 (1.13%) NIST
8 7 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.56%) SLA
12 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.28%) PMO
13 2 (0.28%) PSD2
14 1 (0.14%) GRC
14 1 (0.14%) HL7
14 1 (0.14%) SEPA
14 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 123 (17.32%) Docker
2 33 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (3.52%) VMware NSX
5 24 (3.38%) vSphere
6 11 (1.55%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.41%) Firmware
7 10 (1.41%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.27%) KVM
9 8 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.42%) NFS
11 3 (0.42%) SRDF
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.14%) Ceph
13 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.14%) Snort
13 1 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 222 (31.27%) Terraform
2 194 (27.32%) Kubernetes
3 165 (23.24%) Ansible
4 66 (9.30%) Grafana
5 61 (8.59%) Prometheus
6 21 (2.96%) Argo
6 21 (2.96%) vCenter Server
7 18 (2.54%) Puppet
8 15 (2.11%) Control-M
8 15 (2.11%) Istio
9 14 (1.97%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (1.97%) Nessus
10 9 (1.27%) HAProxy
11 7 (0.99%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.85%) PowerCLI
12 6 (0.85%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (0.56%) vRealize
14 3 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 74 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.31%) Google
2 59 (8.31%) Splunk
3 55 (7.75%) Red Hat
4 51 (7.18%) VMware
5 48 (6.76%) Databricks
6 39 (5.49%) F5
7 36 (5.07%) ServiceNow
8 28 (3.94%) Oracle
9 22 (3.10%) Palo Alto
10 19 (2.68%) Cisco
10 19 (2.68%) Pure Storage
11 17 (2.39%) Arista
12 16 (2.25%) Aruba
13 15 (2.11%) IBM
14 14 (1.97%) Tenable
15 12 (1.69%) Dynatrace
16 11 (1.55%) CrowdStrike
17 10 (1.41%) CyberArk
17 10 (1.41%) Infoblox