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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 21 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 539 294 267
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.19% 7.41% 5.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.78% 30.18% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 190 170
10th Percentile £315 £356 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £638
90th Percentile £612 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -8.89% -3.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 31
10th Percentile £39.56 - £40.00
25th Percentile £53.85 - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - +28.14%
75th Percentile - £69.67 -
90th Percentile - £82.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £50.00 £63.25 £62.75
% change year-on-year -20.95% +0.80% -2.71%

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 1,290 974 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.18% 24.54% 25.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 624 903
10th Percentile £313 £329 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £588
90th Percentile £638 £625 £675
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 55
10th Percentile £36.00 £35.20 £28.26
25th Percentile £49.25 £37.55 £46.03
Median hourly rate £66.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - -9.89%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £50.88
90th Percentile £86.00 £80.00 £70.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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 +9 291 £500 -1.38% 169
North West +10 214 £435 -10.40% 329
North East +7 39 £520 -11.11% 73
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 34 (6.31%) Confluence
2 27 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.71%) Apache
4 17 (3.15%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.97%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.30%) SAS
7 6 (1.11%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.93%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.74%) IIS
9 4 (0.74%) JBoss
9 4 (0.74%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.19%) CMS
11 1 (0.19%) Documentum
11 1 (0.19%) nginx
11 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.86%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) Maple
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
5 1 (0.19%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Kondor
1 2 (0.37%) Maximo
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 214 (39.70%) AWS
2 130 (24.12%) Azure
3 119 (22.08%) GCP
4 74 (13.73%) Serverless
5 56 (10.39%) GitHub
6 44 (8.16%) Power Platform
7 43 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 30 (5.57%) Amazon S3
11 28 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (5.19%) OpenShift
12 27 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (2.97%) SaaS
14 15 (2.78%) PaaS
15 14 (2.60%) Datadog
15 14 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (11.69%) Firewall
2 41 (7.61%) TCP/IP
3 21 (3.90%) DNS
4 15 (2.78%) SSL
5 14 (2.60%) VPN
6 12 (2.23%) Network Security
7 10 (1.86%) HTTP
7 10 (1.86%) Wireshark
8 9 (1.67%) BGP
9 8 (1.48%) BIG-IP
9 8 (1.48%) WAN
10 7 (1.30%) SD-WAN
11 6 (1.11%) DMZ
11 6 (1.11%) SSH
11 6 (1.11%) VLAN
11 6 (1.11%) WebEx
12 5 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 5 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 5 (0.93%) LAN
12 5 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (9.83%) NoSQL
3 43 (7.98%) Power BI
4 35 (6.49%) Relational Database
5 22 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (3.90%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.53%) MySQL
8 17 (3.15%) DynamoDB
9 16 (2.97%) BigQuery
9 16 (2.97%) RDBMS
9 16 (2.97%) Tableau
10 15 (2.78%) Oracle Database
11 14 (2.60%) Hadoop
12 12 (2.23%) Big Data
12 12 (2.23%) MongoDB
13 11 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (2.04%) Power Query
13 11 (2.04%) Redis
14 10 (1.86%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 177 (32.84%) Jenkins
2 103 (19.11%) GitLab
3 101 (18.74%) Git
4 71 (13.17%) JIRA
5 30 (5.57%) Liquibase
6 19 (3.53%) Postman
7 12 (2.23%) Gradle
8 11 (2.04%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.48%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.48%) Maven
11 7 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.30%) Fiddler
11 7 (1.30%) Xcode
12 6 (1.11%) MLflow
13 5 (0.93%) PyCharm
13 5 (0.93%) Selenium
13 5 (0.93%) SonarLint
14 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 141 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 116 (21.52%) Finance
3 87 (16.14%) Banking
4 81 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (13.17%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.01%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.86%) Legal
9 5 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.93%) Retail
10 4 (0.74%) Games
10 4 (0.74%) Marketing
10 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.56%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.37%) Back Office
12 2 (0.37%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.37%) Law
12 2 (0.37%) Police
12 2 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (14.10%) Developer
2 68 (12.62%) Senior
3 57 (10.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 41 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
6 35 (6.49%) Analyst
7 34 (6.31%) Software Engineer
8 32 (5.94%) Automation Engineer
9 31 (5.75%) Architect
10 30 (5.57%) Lead
10 30 (5.57%) Python Developer
11 29 (5.38%) Python Engineer
12 27 (5.01%) Network Engineer
13 24 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (3.71%) AWS DevOps
16 18 (3.34%) Data Analyst
17 17 (3.15%) GCP Engineer
18 16 (2.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 16 (2.97%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.69%) RESTful
2 48 (8.91%) Elastic Stack
2 48 (8.91%) REST
3 32 (5.94%) Node.js
4 28 (5.19%) FastAPI
5 25 (4.64%) React
6 20 (3.71%) PySpark
7 19 (3.53%) AngularJS
7 19 (3.53%) HTML
8 18 (3.34%) TensorFlow
9 16 (2.97%) Kafka
9 16 (2.97%) Spring Boot
10 15 (2.78%) Flask
10 15 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
11 13 (2.41%) CSS
12 11 (2.04%) JWT
12 11 (2.04%) pytest
12 11 (2.04%) PyTorch
13 10 (1.86%) GraphQL
14 9 (1.67%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.13%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.05%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (5.75%) Public Cloud
5 22 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 21 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (3.53%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.60%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.41%) NHS
10 9 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.67%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.48%) Credit Risk
11 8 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.48%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.30%) Mobile Banking
13 6 (1.11%) N-Tier
13 6 (1.11%) Tandem
14 5 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.93%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 138 (25.60%) Linux
2 58 (10.76%) Windows
3 23 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (4.08%) Unix
5 17 (3.15%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.86%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.67%) Android
8 4 (0.74%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.56%) AIX
9 3 (0.56%) Solaris
9 3 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.37%) CentOS
10 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.37%) VMS
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (41.19%) DevOps
2 220 (40.82%) CI/CD
3 174 (32.28%) Agile
4 135 (25.05%) Containerisation
5 127 (23.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 105 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (13.36%) Microservices
8 64 (11.87%) Machine Learning
9 63 (11.69%) AI
9 63 (11.69%) Analytics
10 62 (11.50%) Software Engineering
10 62 (11.50%) Test Automation
11 61 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
12 60 (11.13%) Computer Science
13 56 (10.39%) Observability
14 55 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
15 50 (9.28%) Migration
16 48 (8.91%) Data Protection
17 46 (8.53%) ETL
18 44 (8.16%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 127 (23.56%) Bash
2 110 (20.41%) SQL
3 74 (13.73%) Java
4 55 (10.20%) Go
5 51 (9.46%) PowerShell
6 39 (7.24%) Shell Script
7 35 (6.49%) JavaScript
7 35 (6.49%) Perl
8 25 (4.64%) TypeScript
9 21 (3.90%) Scala
10 15 (2.78%) C++
11 13 (2.41%) R
12 11 (2.04%) C
13 10 (1.86%) PHP
13 10 (1.86%) Ruby
14 9 (1.67%) C#
15 8 (1.48%) VBA
16 7 (1.30%) Kotlin
16 7 (1.30%) Objective-C
16 7 (1.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 103 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 60 (11.13%) Degree
4 47 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (6.12%) Master's Degree
6 22 (4.08%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.60%) CCNP
9 13 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (2.04%) CCDP
12 10 (1.86%) CCNA
13 7 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.56%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.56%) GCIH
16 3 (0.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.15%) QA
2 15 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.11%) GDPR
4 6 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.11%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.93%) NIST
6 3 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.37%) Basel III
7 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.37%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 150 (27.83%) Docker
2 43 (7.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.15%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.23%) vSphere
5 10 (1.86%) Oracle RAC
6 9 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 6 (1.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.56%) HDFS
9 2 (0.37%) KVM
9 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.19%) Ceph
10 1 (0.19%) Firmware
10 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.19%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 178 (33.02%) Terraform
2 177 (32.84%) Kubernetes
3 172 (31.91%) Ansible
4 79 (14.66%) Grafana
5 66 (12.24%) Prometheus
6 27 (5.01%) Puppet
7 20 (3.71%) NetBackup
8 14 (2.60%) Control-M
9 13 (2.41%) Argo
10 12 (2.23%) Istio
11 10 (1.86%) Data Guard
11 10 (1.86%) IBM Guardium
11 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Clustering
11 10 (1.86%) Nessus
11 10 (1.86%) yum
12 8 (1.48%) SCCM
13 7 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (1.11%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.32%) Splunk
3 59 (10.95%) VMware
4 45 (8.35%) Google
4 45 (8.35%) Oracle
5 42 (7.79%) Red Hat
6 27 (5.01%) F5
7 23 (4.27%) Cisco
8 21 (3.90%) Databricks
9 20 (3.71%) Palo Alto
10 17 (3.15%) MuleSoft
11 16 (2.97%) AppDynamics
11 16 (2.97%) Veritas
12 14 (2.60%) Commvault
12 14 (2.60%) ServiceNow
13 12 (2.23%) IBM
14 10 (1.86%) Pega
14 10 (1.86%) Tenable
15 9 (1.67%) Citrix
16 8 (1.48%) Juniper