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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 672 264 364
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.71% 8.08% 7.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.92% 29.14% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 199 218
10th Percentile £354 £360 £400
25th Percentile £410 £406 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £548 £594 £588
90th Percentile £614 £660 £650
England median daily rate £520 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.96% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 11
10th Percentile £32.29 - £20.77
25th Percentile £39.22 £72.50 £30.39
Median hourly rate £62.00 £75.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +62.41% -6.84%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £83.70 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £56.63 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +13.27% -4.76% -19.23%

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 1,603 906 1,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.93% 27.73% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 643 883
10th Percentile £344 £350 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% -10.48%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £543
90th Percentile £617 £638 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.90% -2.33% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 15 59
10th Percentile £41.94 £31.59 £38.24
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.50 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +47.37% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £91.32 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £100.62 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -5.51%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +2 357 £482 -3.60% 172
North West +13 269 £470 -5.91% 223
North East +14 54 £475 -5.00% 76
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 42 (6.25%) Confluence
2 34 (5.06%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.08%) Apache
6 12 (1.79%) SAS
7 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.45%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.74%) 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
2 1 (0.15%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 247 (36.76%) AWS
2 184 (27.38%) Azure
3 152 (22.62%) GCP
4 117 (17.41%) GitHub
5 75 (11.16%) OpenShift
6 67 (9.97%) Serverless
7 56 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (5.65%) Power Platform
10 36 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (5.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 33 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (4.02%) Amazon S3
14 23 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (3.27%) Entra ID
16 21 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 17 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 58 (8.63%) Firewall
2 54 (8.04%) DNS
3 36 (5.36%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.98%) VPN
5 19 (2.83%) HTTP
6 17 (2.53%) BIG-IP
7 16 (2.38%) Wireshark
8 14 (2.08%) SSL
9 11 (1.64%) Network Security
9 11 (1.64%) WAN
10 9 (1.34%) BGP
10 9 (1.34%) LAN
10 9 (1.34%) SSH
10 9 (1.34%) VLAN
11 8 (1.19%) SAN
12 6 (0.89%) SNMP
12 6 (0.89%) WebEx
12 6 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.74%) NAS
13 5 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (6.40%) NoSQL
3 29 (4.32%) Power BI
4 23 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (3.27%) Hadoop
6 21 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.98%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.83%) MySQL
9 17 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (2.23%) Data Lake
10 15 (2.23%) Relational Database
11 14 (2.08%) Delta Lake
12 12 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.79%) Tableau
13 10 (1.49%) Big Data
13 10 (1.49%) Metadata
14 8 (1.19%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.19%) DynamoDB
14 8 (1.19%) Power Query
14 8 (1.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 164 (24.40%) Jenkins
2 83 (12.35%) JIRA
3 76 (11.31%) GitLab
4 53 (7.89%) Git
5 24 (3.57%) Postman
6 16 (2.38%) Liquibase
7 13 (1.93%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.93%) Selenium
8 12 (1.79%) Fiddler
9 9 (1.34%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.19%) Gatling
10 8 (1.19%) TestRail
11 7 (1.04%) Maven
11 7 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.89%) PyCharm
12 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.74%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.74%) JMeter
14 4 (0.60%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 145 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 120 (17.86%) Finance
3 90 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (11.46%) Banking
5 63 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.08%) Legal
8 12 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 6 (0.89%) Retail
10 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.60%) Law
11 3 (0.45%) Advertising
11 3 (0.45%) Games
11 3 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.45%) Marketing
11 3 (0.45%) Publishing
12 2 (0.30%) Military
12 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.30%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (15.48%) Developer
2 76 (11.31%) Senior
3 69 (10.27%) Data Engineer
4 62 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 59 (8.78%) Lead
6 51 (7.59%) Python Developer
7 46 (6.85%) Architect
8 41 (6.10%) Analyst
9 40 (5.95%) GCP Engineer
10 39 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
11 38 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
13 30 (4.46%) Network Engineer
14 28 (4.17%) Security Engineer
15 27 (4.02%) Software Engineer
16 22 (3.27%) Python Engineer
17 20 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 16 (2.38%) Automation Engineer
18 16 (2.38%) GCP DevOps
18 16 (2.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.23%) REST
2 44 (6.55%) OpenTelemetry
3 36 (5.36%) Node.js
4 33 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
5 32 (4.76%) Kafka
6 31 (4.61%) RESTful
7 29 (4.32%) React
8 27 (4.02%) YAML
9 25 (3.72%) JSON
10 23 (3.42%) FastAPI
11 22 (3.27%) Spring
12 20 (2.98%) PySpark
12 20 (2.98%) Spring Boot
13 15 (2.23%) Pandas
13 15 (2.23%) Playwright
13 15 (2.23%) PyTorch
14 14 (2.08%) .NET
14 14 (2.08%) Flask
14 14 (2.08%) LangChain
15 13 (1.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (4.32%) Data Centre
5 28 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 22 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.98%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.38%) NHS
9 13 (1.93%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.79%) Credit Risk
11 11 (1.64%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.49%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.19%) Clustering
13 8 (1.19%) Replication
14 7 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.89%) IoT
15 6 (0.89%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 141 (20.98%) Linux
2 62 (9.23%) Windows
3 32 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 32 (4.76%) Unix
4 19 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.34%) CentOS
6 9 (1.34%) Solaris
7 4 (0.60%) VMS
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (47.32%) CI/CD
2 289 (43.01%) DevOps
3 177 (26.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (24.40%) Containerisation
5 155 (23.07%) Agile
6 128 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (14.58%) Analytics
8 91 (13.54%) Observability
9 90 (13.39%) Test Automation
10 76 (11.31%) Migration
11 74 (11.01%) ETL
12 71 (10.57%) Data Pipeline
13 69 (10.27%) High Availability
14 68 (10.12%) AI
14 68 (10.12%) Machine Learning
15 66 (9.82%) Data Engineering
16 65 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 65 (9.67%) Data Modelling
17 63 (9.38%) Software Engineering
18 61 (9.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 139 (20.68%) Bash
2 133 (19.79%) SQL
3 102 (15.18%) Java
4 79 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 54 (8.04%) JavaScript
6 51 (7.59%) TypeScript
7 40 (5.95%) Go
8 26 (3.87%) Perl
9 19 (2.83%) C#
10 18 (2.68%) Ruby
10 18 (2.68%) Scala
11 16 (2.38%) Groovy
11 16 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 14 (2.08%) Bicep
13 13 (1.93%) R
14 11 (1.64%) VBA
15 10 (1.49%) PHP
16 7 (1.04%) Rust
17 4 (0.60%) Cypher
17 4 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 124 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.04%) Degree
4 31 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.87%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.98%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (2.08%) CCNP
9 14 (2.08%) CISSP
10 13 (1.93%) CCNA
11 11 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.34%) CCDP
12 9 (1.34%) CISM
13 8 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.19%) RHCE
14 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 17 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.38%) QA
4 14 (2.08%) GDPR
5 8 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.04%) WCAG
7 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.74%) NIST
9 4 (0.60%) PMO
9 4 (0.60%) SLA
10 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.30%) PSD2
11 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 157 (23.36%) Docker
2 43 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (4.32%) vSphere
4 27 (4.02%) VMware NSX
5 21 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (2.68%) Active Directory
7 11 (1.64%) KVM
8 10 (1.49%) Hyper-V
9 8 (1.19%) Firmware
10 5 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
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%) QEMU
13 1 (0.15%) Snort
Systems Management
1 231 (34.38%) Terraform
2 224 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 159 (23.66%) Ansible
4 92 (13.69%) Grafana
5 79 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.27%) Argo
6 22 (3.27%) Puppet
7 19 (2.83%) vCenter Server
8 18 (2.68%) Istio
9 14 (2.08%) Control-M
9 14 (2.08%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (2.08%) Nessus
10 12 (1.79%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.60%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.60%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.45%) Packer
15 2 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 75 (11.16%) Splunk
2 68 (10.12%) VMware
3 67 (9.97%) Microsoft
3 67 (9.97%) Red Hat
4 57 (8.48%) Google
5 35 (5.21%) Databricks
6 30 (4.46%) Cisco
7 27 (4.02%) Oracle
8 26 (3.87%) F5
9 20 (2.98%) ServiceNow
10 19 (2.83%) Pure Storage
11 14 (2.08%) Tenable
12 13 (1.93%) Blue Coat
12 13 (1.93%) IBM
12 13 (1.93%) McAfee
13 11 (1.64%) Commvault
13 11 (1.64%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.64%) Palo Alto
14 10 (1.49%) Citrix
15 9 (1.34%) Pega