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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 760 294 387
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.29% 8.69% 8.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.90% 30.95% 31.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 221 236
10th Percentile £363 £352 £381
25th Percentile £413 £401 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -3.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £615 £613 £648
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £29.25 - -
25th Percentile £33.87 - -
Median hourly rate £42.47 - £20.77
75th Percentile £65.07 - £46.18
90th Percentile £87.50 - £59.72
England median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.60% -31.54% -

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 1,814 950 1,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.95% 28.09% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 702 860
10th Percentile £350 £340 £319
25th Percentile £412 £391 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £606 £625
England median daily rate £513 £523 £540
% change year-on-year -2.01% -3.15% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 9 54
10th Percentile £36.30 £31.70 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.00 £42.41
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +46.60% +0.53%
75th Percentile £74.26 £88.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.30 £95.71 £73.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.00% -2.80% -

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +2 428 £488 -2.50% 147
North West +5 260 £481 +1.32% 281
North East +9 84 £475 +8.57% 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 58 (7.63%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.21%) Apache
2 32 (4.21%) Confluence
3 30 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.63%) Jupyter
5 17 (2.24%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.53%) SAS
8 3 (0.39%) nginx
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 16 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.13%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 279 (36.71%) AWS
2 232 (30.53%) Azure
3 150 (19.74%) GCP
4 119 (15.66%) GitHub
5 73 (9.61%) OpenShift
6 61 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
7 58 (7.63%) Power Platform
8 46 (6.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 43 (5.66%) Serverless
10 34 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (4.34%) OCI
12 26 (3.42%) SaaS
13 24 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.76%) Amazon S3
16 20 (2.63%) dbt
17 16 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (2.11%) Entra ID
18 14 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 14 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (9.47%) Firewall
2 59 (7.76%) DNS
3 44 (5.79%) BIG-IP
4 36 (4.74%) TCP/IP
5 29 (3.82%) WAN
6 25 (3.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 23 (3.03%) BGP
8 21 (2.76%) OSPF
9 19 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
9 19 (2.50%) SD-WAN
9 19 (2.50%) VXLAN
10 18 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (1.97%) HTTP
11 15 (1.97%) SAN
12 14 (1.84%) Network Security
13 13 (1.71%) SSL
13 13 (1.71%) VPN
14 12 (1.58%) DHCP
14 12 (1.58%) NAS
15 11 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (6.05%) Power BI
3 34 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.16%) Hadoop
5 22 (2.89%) MongoDB
6 21 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 20 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (2.63%) Metadata
7 20 (2.63%) Tableau
8 18 (2.37%) Big Data
9 17 (2.24%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.11%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.97%) Delta Lake
12 11 (1.45%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.18%) MySQL
14 7 (0.92%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 148 (19.47%) Jenkins
2 89 (11.71%) JIRA
3 79 (10.39%) GitLab
4 50 (6.58%) Git
5 24 (3.16%) Postman
6 15 (1.97%) Gatling
7 14 (1.84%) Maven
7 14 (1.84%) Selenium
8 13 (1.71%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.18%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.05%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.92%) Fiddler
12 6 (0.79%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.79%) JMeter
12 6 (0.79%) TestRail
13 5 (0.66%) Liquibase
13 5 (0.66%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.53%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.53%) NeoLoad
General
1 147 (19.34%) Social Skills
2 118 (15.53%) Finance
3 98 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.37%) Banking
6 20 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.71%) Legal
8 10 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.18%) Publishing
10 8 (1.05%) Retail
11 5 (0.66%) Law
11 5 (0.66%) Marketing
12 4 (0.53%) Advertising
12 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.53%) Military
13 3 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.26%) Games
14 2 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (15.92%) Developer
2 107 (14.08%) Senior
3 76 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 68 (8.95%) Python Developer
5 66 (8.68%) Data Engineer
5 66 (8.68%) Lead
6 51 (6.71%) Architect
7 47 (6.18%) Security Engineer
8 37 (4.87%) Analyst
8 37 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 29 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
10 28 (3.68%) GCP Engineer
11 25 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 25 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (3.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (3.03%) Network Engineer
12 23 (3.03%) Python Engineer
13 22 (2.89%) Software Engineer
14 20 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (2.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.45%) REST
2 48 (6.32%) Node.js
3 45 (5.92%) OpenTelemetry
4 40 (5.26%) JSON
4 40 (5.26%) React
5 38 (5.00%) PySpark
6 36 (4.74%) Kafka
7 33 (4.34%) YAML
8 27 (3.55%) Playwright
9 23 (3.03%) Spring
10 22 (2.89%) FastAPI
11 21 (2.76%) Spring Boot
12 16 (2.11%) .NET
12 16 (2.11%) PyTorch
13 15 (1.97%) LDAP
14 14 (1.84%) OpenID
15 13 (1.71%) LangChain
15 13 (1.71%) Pandas
16 12 (1.58%) Next.js
16 12 (1.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 109 (14.34%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 40 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (4.74%) Data Protection Act
5 31 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 24 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (3.16%) Security Posture
7 20 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.24%) Replication
9 16 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.84%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.71%) NHS
12 12 (1.58%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.45%) PKI
14 8 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 6 (0.79%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 119 (15.66%) Linux
2 74 (9.74%) Windows
3 39 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 35 (4.61%) Unix
5 19 (2.50%) Solaris
6 18 (2.37%) Windows Server
7 14 (1.84%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.18%) VMS
9 8 (1.05%) CentOS
10 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.39%) AIX
11 3 (0.39%) zOS
12 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (49.08%) CI/CD
2 294 (38.68%) DevOps
3 192 (25.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 175 (23.03%) Agile
5 134 (17.63%) Containerisation
6 127 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (15.39%) Analytics
8 111 (14.61%) Observability
9 103 (13.55%) AI
10 99 (13.03%) Migration
11 94 (12.37%) Test Automation
12 89 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
13 85 (11.18%) Data Engineering
14 72 (9.47%) ETL
14 72 (9.47%) High Availability
15 70 (9.21%) Machine Learning
16 69 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 64 (8.42%) Software Engineering
18 63 (8.29%) Data Modelling
19 62 (8.16%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 157 (20.66%) SQL
2 146 (19.21%) Java
3 123 (16.18%) Bash
4 98 (12.89%) PowerShell
5 60 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 47 (6.18%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.47%) Go
8 24 (3.16%) Scala
9 18 (2.37%) Groovy
9 18 (2.37%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.11%) C#
11 13 (1.71%) Bicep
11 13 (1.71%) Perl
12 12 (1.58%) R
13 11 (1.45%) Rust
13 11 (1.45%) VBA
14 10 (1.32%) Ruby
15 9 (1.18%) ActionScript
16 6 (0.79%) PHP
17 4 (0.53%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 140 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 112 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.53%) Degree
4 32 (4.21%) AWS Certification
5 24 (3.16%) CISSP
6 23 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.97%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.18%) RHCE
11 7 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.92%) CISM
12 6 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.66%) CCNA
13 5 (0.66%) CCNP
14 4 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.53%) OCP
14 4 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.24%) GDPR
4 16 (2.11%) QA
5 12 (1.58%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.18%) NIST
7 8 (1.05%) WCAG
8 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.66%) SLA
11 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.26%) PMO
12 2 (0.26%) PSD2
13 1 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.13%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) SEPA
13 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 142 (18.68%) Docker
2 33 (4.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (3.29%) vSphere
5 24 (3.16%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.58%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.32%) Firmware
7 10 (1.32%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.18%) KVM
8 9 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.66%) NFS
10 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.53%) SRDF
11 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 244 (32.11%) Terraform
2 195 (25.66%) Kubernetes
3 168 (22.11%) Ansible
4 62 (8.16%) Grafana
5 58 (7.63%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.16%) Argo
7 22 (2.89%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.11%) Puppet
9 15 (1.97%) Control-M
9 15 (1.97%) Istio
10 14 (1.84%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (1.84%) Nessus
11 11 (1.45%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.18%) HAProxy
13 8 (1.05%) NetBackup
14 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.79%) PowerCLI
15 5 (0.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 4 (0.53%) vRealize
17 3 (0.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 73 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.21%) Google
3 63 (8.29%) Red Hat
4 59 (7.76%) Splunk
5 55 (7.24%) Databricks
6 50 (6.58%) VMware
7 47 (6.18%) F5
8 36 (4.74%) ServiceNow
9 28 (3.68%) Oracle
10 27 (3.55%) Palo Alto
11 21 (2.76%) Arista
11 21 (2.76%) Cisco
12 20 (2.63%) Pure Storage
13 19 (2.50%) Aruba
14 18 (2.37%) IBM
15 14 (1.84%) Tenable
16 13 (1.71%) Dynatrace
17 12 (1.58%) Infoblox
18 11 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
19 10 (1.32%) CyberArk