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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 673 284 354
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.09% 8.66% 7.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.54% 30.74% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 215 217
10th Percentile £358 £370 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £600
90th Percentile £615 £650 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -5.45% -2.22% -6.25%
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 £43.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +26.44% -27.50% -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 1,660 924 1,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.36% 28.17% 24.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 672 856
10th Percentile £344 £350 £319
25th Percentile £405 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.12%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £623 £638 £625
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 14 47
10th Percentile £41.94 £34.68 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.31 £43.57
Median hourly rate £62.82 £76.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% +60.53% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £94.67 £66.25
90th Percentile £84.65 £100.97 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.18
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.52% -0.52%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 0 387 £475 -5.00% 123
North West +2 239 £490 +3.16% 213
North East +8 53 £475 -1.30% 83
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 38 (5.65%) Apache Spark
2 27 (4.01%) Confluence
3 16 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.08%) Apache
5 11 (1.63%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.49%) SAS
7 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.15%) Odoo
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 255 (37.89%) AWS
2 196 (29.12%) Azure
3 144 (21.40%) GCP
4 117 (17.38%) GitHub
5 78 (11.59%) OpenShift
6 64 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (8.02%) Serverless
8 48 (7.13%) Power Platform
9 39 (5.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 36 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (2.97%) Amazon S3
14 18 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (2.53%) Entra ID
16 16 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (2.23%) Apigee
17 15 (2.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.88%) DNS
2 36 (5.35%) Firewall
3 33 (4.90%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.53%) HTTP
5 16 (2.38%) BIG-IP
6 13 (1.93%) VPN
6 13 (1.93%) Wireshark
7 12 (1.78%) SAN
8 11 (1.63%) WAN
9 10 (1.49%) LAN
9 10 (1.49%) Network Security
9 10 (1.49%) SSL
10 9 (1.34%) NAS
11 8 (1.19%) DHCP
12 6 (0.89%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.59%) BGP
13 4 (0.59%) iSCSI
13 4 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (5.65%) Power BI
3 30 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 26 (3.86%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (3.57%) Hadoop
5 24 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.27%) Tableau
7 19 (2.82%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.67%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.23%) Metadata
10 12 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.78%) Big Data
10 12 (1.78%) Delta Lake
10 12 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.63%) MySQL
11 11 (1.63%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.49%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.89%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 136 (20.21%) Jenkins
2 66 (9.81%) JIRA
3 49 (7.28%) GitLab
4 48 (7.13%) Git
5 26 (3.86%) Postman
6 14 (2.08%) Selenium
7 13 (1.93%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.93%) Gatling
8 12 (1.78%) Maven
9 9 (1.34%) Fiddler
10 8 (1.19%) Artifactory
10 8 (1.19%) TestRail
11 7 (1.04%) Liquibase
12 6 (0.89%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.74%) JMeter
13 5 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.59%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.59%) NeoLoad
General
1 131 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 107 (15.90%) Finance
3 94 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.47%) Banking
6 18 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.04%) Legal
8 6 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (0.89%) Retail
9 5 (0.74%) Publishing
10 4 (0.59%) Advertising
10 4 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.59%) Law
10 4 (0.59%) Marketing
11 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.30%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.30%) Military
12 2 (0.30%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (18.13%) Developer
2 78 (11.59%) Senior
3 65 (9.66%) Data Engineer
4 62 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 62 (9.21%) Python Developer
5 59 (8.77%) Lead
6 52 (7.73%) Architect
7 42 (6.24%) Analyst
8 34 (5.05%) Security Engineer
9 33 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (4.31%) GCP Engineer
12 22 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 22 (3.27%) Software Engineer
13 21 (3.12%) Data Analyst
14 20 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 20 (2.97%) Python Engineer
15 19 (2.82%) Network Engineer
16 18 (2.67%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (7.28%) REST
2 45 (6.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 38 (5.65%) Node.js
4 37 (5.50%) Kafka
5 36 (5.35%) React
6 34 (5.05%) JSON
7 29 (4.31%) YAML
8 25 (3.71%) Playwright
9 24 (3.57%) FastAPI
9 24 (3.57%) PySpark
10 23 (3.42%) Spring
11 21 (3.12%) Spring Boot
12 17 (2.53%) .NET
12 17 (2.53%) PyTorch
13 15 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (2.23%) LDAP
14 14 (2.08%) LangChain
14 14 (2.08%) Pandas
14 14 (2.08%) RESTful
15 13 (1.93%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 80 (11.89%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.61%) Data Protection Act
3 25 (3.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (3.12%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.12%) Security Posture
6 20 (2.97%) NHS
7 15 (2.23%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.93%) Replication
9 10 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.34%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.34%) Credit Risk
11 8 (1.19%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.04%) Clustering
12 7 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 7 (1.04%) IoT
12 7 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 110 (16.34%) Linux
2 48 (7.13%) Windows
3 29 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (4.16%) Unix
5 14 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.93%) Solaris
7 12 (1.78%) Windows Server
8 9 (1.34%) CentOS
9 8 (1.19%) VMS
10 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.15%) AIX
12 1 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (46.36%) CI/CD
2 260 (38.63%) DevOps
3 162 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (21.99%) Agile
5 136 (20.21%) Containerisation
6 130 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (16.05%) Analytics
8 100 (14.86%) Observability
9 86 (12.78%) Test Automation
10 85 (12.63%) AI
10 85 (12.63%) Migration
11 75 (11.14%) Data Pipeline
12 73 (10.85%) ETL
13 69 (10.25%) Machine Learning
14 67 (9.96%) Data Engineering
15 66 (9.81%) Data Modelling
16 64 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (9.06%) High Availability
18 59 (8.77%) Software Engineering
19 58 (8.62%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 143 (21.25%) SQL
2 125 (18.57%) Java
3 113 (16.79%) Bash
4 68 (10.10%) PowerShell
5 55 (8.17%) JavaScript
6 53 (7.88%) TypeScript
7 27 (4.01%) Go
8 25 (3.71%) Scala
9 19 (2.82%) C#
9 19 (2.82%) Groovy
9 19 (2.82%) R
10 16 (2.38%) Ruby
10 16 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.08%) Bicep
12 12 (1.78%) VBA
13 10 (1.49%) Perl
13 10 (1.49%) PHP
14 7 (1.04%) Rust
15 4 (0.59%) Cypher
15 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 113 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.46%) Degree
4 24 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 20 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.53%) CISSP
8 12 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.34%) CISM
10 9 (1.34%) RHCE
11 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.74%) CCNA
13 5 (0.74%) CCNP
13 5 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.59%) OCP
14 4 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.79%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.38%) GDPR
3 16 (2.38%) QA
4 13 (1.93%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.19%) NIST
5 8 (1.19%) WCAG
6 6 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.59%) PMO
7 4 (0.59%) SLA
8 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.30%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
10 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 139 (20.65%) Docker
2 33 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.86%) VMware NSX
4 25 (3.71%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (3.57%) vSphere
6 12 (1.78%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.49%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.49%) KVM
8 8 (1.19%) Firmware
8 8 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.45%) SRDF
11 2 (0.30%) Ceph
11 2 (0.30%) NFS
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.15%) QEMU
12 1 (0.15%) Snort
Systems Management
1 224 (33.28%) Terraform
2 211 (31.35%) Kubernetes
3 138 (20.51%) Ansible
4 76 (11.29%) Grafana
5 67 (9.96%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.27%) Argo
7 21 (3.12%) vCenter Server
8 18 (2.67%) Puppet
9 17 (2.53%) Istio
10 15 (2.23%) Control-M
11 14 (2.08%) IBM Guardium
11 14 (2.08%) Nessus
12 9 (1.34%) HAProxy
13 7 (1.04%) NetBackup
14 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.89%) PowerCLI
14 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.59%) Packer
15 4 (0.59%) vRealize
16 3 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 69 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.92%) Splunk
3 56 (8.32%) Red Hat
4 54 (8.02%) Google
5 50 (7.43%) VMware
6 43 (6.39%) Databricks
7 25 (3.71%) ServiceNow
8 23 (3.42%) Oracle
9 19 (2.82%) Cisco
9 19 (2.82%) F5
9 19 (2.82%) Pure Storage
10 14 (2.08%) Tenable
11 13 (1.93%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.34%) Blue Coat
12 9 (1.34%) McAfee
13 8 (1.19%) CyberArk
13 8 (1.19%) IBM
13 8 (1.19%) Infoblox
14 7 (1.04%) Dell
15 6 (0.89%) Commvault