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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 736 437 300
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 9.63% 10.96% 7.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.27% 37.77% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 304 200
10th Percentile £363 £328 £356
25th Percentile £413 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.21% -5.48%
75th Percentile £579 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £675
England median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 4
10th Percentile - £38.98 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £43.44 -
Median hourly rate £47.75 £51.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +10.98% -
75th Percentile £70.67 £59.44 -
90th Percentile £74.77 £64.13 -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £50.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +26.96% -27.27% +5.77%

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 1,874 1,157 1,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.51% 29.01% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 819 698
10th Percentile £350 £315 £350
25th Percentile £413 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £575
90th Percentile £650 £606 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 13 26
10th Percentile £28.50 £30.35 £35.82
25th Percentile £46.53 £36.00 £37.55
Median hourly rate £67.50 £66.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £84.50 £62.19
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.75 £76.84
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -1 381 £500 +1.44% 203
North West -2 277 £525 +13.70% 289
North East -3 90 £425 -2.86% 85
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 55 (7.47%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.71%) Apache
3 39 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.94%) Jupyter
5 20 (2.72%) Confluence
6 13 (1.77%) SharePoint
7 12 (1.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.41%) nginx
9 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) Camunda
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 14 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 8 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.14%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 326 (44.29%) AWS
2 250 (33.97%) Azure
3 156 (21.20%) GCP
4 117 (15.90%) GitHub
5 67 (9.10%) GitHub Actions
6 57 (7.74%) Serverless
7 56 (7.61%) Power Platform
8 39 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (5.03%) OCI
11 35 (4.76%) Amazon S3
12 34 (4.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 29 (3.94%) SaaS
14 27 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (3.13%) OpenShift
16 21 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (2.45%) dbt
18 17 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
19 16 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
19 16 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 87 (11.82%) Firewall
2 42 (5.71%) DNS
2 42 (5.71%) Network Security
2 42 (5.71%) WAN
3 40 (5.43%) BIG-IP
4 34 (4.62%) SD-WAN
5 33 (4.48%) BGP
6 31 (4.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 30 (4.08%) OSPF
8 24 (3.26%) TCP/IP
9 21 (2.85%) Ethernet VPN
9 21 (2.85%) VXLAN
10 18 (2.45%) Wireless
11 17 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (1.90%) VPN
13 13 (1.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 13 (1.77%) WLAN
14 10 (1.36%) SSL
14 10 (1.36%) VLAN
15 9 (1.22%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.93%) Power BI
2 35 (4.76%) Metadata
3 32 (4.35%) BigQuery
4 29 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.99%) Big Data
8 20 (2.72%) DynamoDB
9 18 (2.45%) Tableau
10 16 (2.17%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (1.77%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.63%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.09%) Delta Lake
14 8 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.95%) Ataccama
15 7 (0.95%) Looker
15 7 (0.95%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 109 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 85 (11.55%) GitLab
3 71 (9.65%) Git
4 69 (9.38%) JIRA
5 19 (2.58%) Gatling
6 16 (2.17%) Maven
7 14 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (1.77%) Postman
8 13 (1.77%) SonarQube
9 12 (1.63%) JMeter
9 12 (1.63%) Selenium
10 11 (1.49%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.49%) LoadRunner
11 7 (0.95%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.95%) Zephyr
12 6 (0.82%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.82%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.82%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.54%) MSBuild
13 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 158 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 143 (19.43%) Finance
3 102 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (13.45%) Public Sector
5 64 (8.70%) Banking
6 14 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.77%) Legal
8 12 (1.63%) Publishing
9 11 (1.49%) Retail
10 9 (1.22%) Games
10 9 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.82%) Military
12 5 (0.68%) Marketing
13 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.54%) Law
13 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.41%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (16.85%) Senior
2 108 (14.67%) Developer
3 84 (11.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 71 (9.65%) Python Developer
5 67 (9.10%) Data Engineer
6 59 (8.02%) Lead
7 41 (5.57%) Security Engineer
8 39 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 39 (5.30%) Python Engineer
9 33 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 33 (4.48%) Network Engineer
10 29 (3.94%) Analyst
10 29 (3.94%) Architect
11 26 (3.53%) Software Engineer
12 25 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
13 23 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (2.85%) Test Engineer
15 19 (2.58%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (36.55%) Terraform
2 48 (6.52%) REST
3 41 (5.57%) PySpark
4 39 (5.30%) Node.js
5 37 (5.03%) Kafka
6 35 (4.76%) JSON
7 33 (4.48%) React
8 22 (2.99%) Playwright
9 17 (2.31%) CSS
9 17 (2.31%) HTML
10 15 (2.04%) .NET
10 15 (2.04%) Django
10 15 (2.04%) Flask
10 15 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (2.04%) pytest
11 14 (1.90%) Vue
11 14 (1.90%) YAML
12 12 (1.63%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.63%) OpenID
12 12 (1.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 134 (18.21%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.66%) Data Centre
3 32 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
4 31 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 24 (3.26%) Security Posture
7 23 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.13%) Product Ownership
8 19 (2.58%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.58%) NHS
8 19 (2.58%) PKI
9 17 (2.31%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (2.17%) Replication
11 15 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
13 10 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (15.63%) Linux
2 62 (8.42%) Windows
3 41 (5.57%) Unix
4 33 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.77%) Solaris
7 9 (1.22%) VMS
8 7 (0.95%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.68%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.41%) zOS
11 2 (0.27%) AIX
11 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.14%) CentOS
12 1 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (50.68%) CI/CD
2 269 (36.55%) DevOps
3 232 (31.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 187 (25.41%) Agile
5 139 (18.89%) Observability
6 134 (18.21%) AI
7 125 (16.98%) Analytics
8 117 (15.90%) Containerisation
9 107 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (13.99%) Data Engineering
11 98 (13.32%) Data Pipeline
12 89 (12.09%) Test Automation
13 88 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 82 (11.14%) Software Engineering
15 74 (10.05%) Platform Engineering
15 74 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
16 71 (9.65%) Machine Learning
17 70 (9.51%) Data Modelling
18 68 (9.24%) Migration
19 67 (9.10%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 174 (23.64%) SQL
2 140 (19.02%) Java
3 135 (18.34%) Bash
4 122 (16.58%) PowerShell
5 47 (6.39%) JavaScript
6 31 (4.21%) Go
7 28 (3.80%) TypeScript
8 24 (3.26%) Bicep
9 22 (2.99%) Scala
10 16 (2.17%) Groovy
10 16 (2.17%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.90%) C#
12 11 (1.49%) ActionScript
12 11 (1.49%) Search Processing Language
13 10 (1.36%) Rust
14 9 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (1.22%) R
15 6 (0.82%) Perl
15 6 (0.82%) VBA
16 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 150 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.61%) Degree
4 34 (4.62%) AWS Certification
4 34 (4.62%) CISSP
5 26 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.36%) CCNP
11 9 (1.22%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.95%) GCIH
12 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.68%) CCNA
13 5 (0.68%) GCFA
14 4 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.54%) CCIE
14 4 (0.54%) GIAC
14 4 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.72%) QA
3 17 (2.31%) GDPR
4 12 (1.63%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.49%) NIST
6 9 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.82%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.68%) HL7
10 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.54%) SLA
11 3 (0.41%) WCAG
12 1 (0.14%) GRC
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.14%) PSD2
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
12 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 150 (20.38%) Docker
2 20 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.36%) vSphere
5 8 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.68%) Firmware
6 5 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.54%) NFS
8 2 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.27%) SRDF
8 2 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.14%) Ceph
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.14%) Snort
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 175 (23.78%) Kubernetes
2 132 (17.93%) Ansible
3 51 (6.93%) Grafana
4 42 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.80%) Progress Chef
6 15 (2.04%) Argo
7 9 (1.22%) HAProxy
8 8 (1.09%) Control-M
8 8 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.09%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.95%) IBM Guardium
9 7 (0.95%) Nessus
10 5 (0.68%) CASB
10 5 (0.68%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.54%) Packer
11 4 (0.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.41%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 75 (10.19%) Google
3 63 (8.56%) Databricks
4 50 (6.79%) Splunk
5 41 (5.57%) F5
6 36 (4.89%) Palo Alto
7 32 (4.35%) Red Hat
8 27 (3.67%) Cisco
9 26 (3.53%) ServiceNow
10 25 (3.40%) Arista
11 24 (3.26%) Aruba
12 23 (3.13%) Dynatrace
12 23 (3.13%) IBM
13 21 (2.85%) Oracle
13 21 (2.85%) VMware
14 13 (1.77%) SAP
14 13 (1.77%) Trend Micro
15 10 (1.36%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.36%) OpenAI
16 9 (1.22%) BeyondTrust