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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 630 252 354
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.16% 7.61% 7.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.75% 28.93% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 173 206
10th Percentile £327 £363 £400
25th Percentile £401 £419 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £725 £675
England median daily rate £523 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -9.13% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 17
10th Percentile £36.50 £73.50 £20.77
25th Percentile £41.94 £75.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £80.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% +73.24% -2.78%
75th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 £53.21
England median hourly rate £51.21 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.28% -10.83% -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 1,546 871 1,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.83% 26.29% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 583 942
10th Percentile £340 £335 £313
25th Percentile £400 £390 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £562
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 17 62
10th Percentile £41.94 £29.38 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £42.41
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +41.84% -2.78%
75th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £83.75 £98.79 £72.44
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.14
% change year-on-year +3.17% +4.76% -7.48%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +7 338 £485 -3.10% 141
North West +9 251 £450 -7.79% 214
North East +5 46 £475 -7.32% 51
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 32 (5.08%) Confluence
2 26 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 20 (3.17%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.54%) Apache
6 13 (2.06%) SAS
7 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.79%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.63%) Apache Pig
10 3 (0.48%) nginx
11 2 (0.32%) IIS
12 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) Documentum
12 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.16%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 237 (37.62%) AWS
2 160 (25.40%) Azure
3 152 (24.13%) GCP
4 92 (14.60%) GitHub
5 72 (11.43%) Serverless
6 53 (8.41%) OpenShift
7 51 (8.10%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 39 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (5.40%) Amazon S3
11 34 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 19 (3.02%) Entra ID
16 16 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
18 13 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (8.73%) Firewall
2 43 (6.83%) DNS
3 39 (6.19%) TCP/IP
4 21 (3.33%) SSL
5 20 (3.17%) BIG-IP
6 19 (3.02%) VPN
7 17 (2.70%) HTTP
7 17 (2.70%) Wireshark
8 14 (2.22%) Network Security
9 9 (1.43%) SSH
9 9 (1.43%) WAN
10 7 (1.11%) BGP
10 7 (1.11%) LAN
10 7 (1.11%) VLAN
11 6 (0.95%) WebEx
12 5 (0.79%) DMZ
12 5 (0.79%) SNMP
12 5 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (6.51%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.56%) Power BI
4 23 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (2.86%) MySQL
7 17 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.54%) Hadoop
9 15 (2.38%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.22%) SQL Server
11 13 (2.06%) Tableau
12 12 (1.90%) DynamoDB
13 11 (1.75%) Big Data
13 11 (1.75%) Delta Lake
13 11 (1.75%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.43%) Metadata
15 8 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.27%) Power Query
15 8 (1.27%) PowerPivot
16 7 (1.11%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 157 (24.92%) Jenkins
2 99 (15.71%) GitLab
3 79 (12.54%) JIRA
4 47 (7.46%) Git
5 23 (3.65%) Liquibase
5 23 (3.65%) Postman
6 15 (2.38%) Fiddler
7 13 (2.06%) Selenium
8 12 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.75%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.27%) TestRail
11 6 (0.95%) MLflow
11 6 (0.95%) PyCharm
11 6 (0.95%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.79%) JMeter
13 4 (0.63%) Gatling
13 4 (0.63%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.63%) Maven
13 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 143 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 116 (18.41%) Finance
3 91 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (13.97%) Banking
5 64 (10.16%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.86%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.06%) Legal
9 5 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.63%) Games
10 4 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.63%) Law
10 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.63%) Marketing
11 3 (0.48%) Retail
11 3 (0.48%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.48%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.32%) Advertising
12 2 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (15.24%) Developer
2 71 (11.27%) Senior
3 62 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 49 (7.78%) Lead
6 47 (7.46%) Python Developer
7 44 (6.98%) Analyst
8 42 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
9 40 (6.35%) Architect
10 36 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
11 35 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
12 31 (4.92%) Network Engineer
13 30 (4.76%) Software Engineer
14 28 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
15 23 (3.65%) Python Engineer
16 19 (3.02%) Automation Engineer
17 18 (2.86%) Data Scientist
18 16 (2.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 16 (2.54%) AWS DevOps
18 16 (2.54%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.68%) REST
2 42 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 41 (6.51%) Elastic Stack
4 39 (6.19%) RESTful
5 38 (6.03%) Node.js
6 27 (4.29%) YAML
7 26 (4.13%) FastAPI
7 26 (4.13%) Kafka
7 26 (4.13%) React
8 23 (3.65%) PySpark
9 20 (3.17%) JSON
10 18 (2.86%) TensorFlow
11 17 (2.70%) Flask
12 14 (2.22%) PyTorch
12 14 (2.22%) Spring
13 13 (2.06%) .NET
13 13 (2.06%) Playwright
13 13 (2.06%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.90%) OpenID
15 11 (1.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.16%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.08%) Public Cloud
4 31 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 22 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (3.17%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.70%) NHS
9 17 (2.70%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.06%) Credit Risk
11 8 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.27%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.95%) Clustering
12 6 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.95%) Tandem
13 5 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.79%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 141 (22.38%) Linux
2 54 (8.57%) Windows
3 30 (4.76%) Unix
4 24 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (3.17%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.43%) CentOS
6 9 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.27%) Solaris
8 4 (0.63%) VMS
9 3 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 253 (40.16%) DevOps
3 165 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 163 (25.87%) Containerisation
5 155 (24.60%) Agile
6 116 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (13.49%) Analytics
7 85 (13.49%) Observability
8 74 (11.75%) Machine Learning
9 71 (11.27%) Test Automation
10 70 (11.11%) AI
10 70 (11.11%) ETL
11 66 (10.48%) Software Engineering
12 65 (10.32%) Data Modelling
12 65 (10.32%) Migration
13 63 (10.00%) High Availability
14 62 (9.84%) Data Engineering
15 60 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
16 58 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
17 57 (9.05%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 131 (20.79%) Bash
2 115 (18.25%) SQL
3 93 (14.76%) Java
4 69 (10.95%) PowerShell
5 54 (8.57%) Go
6 51 (8.10%) JavaScript
7 41 (6.51%) TypeScript
8 30 (4.76%) Perl
9 19 (3.02%) C#
9 19 (3.02%) Scala
9 19 (3.02%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.86%) Ruby
11 12 (1.90%) PHP
11 12 (1.90%) R
12 11 (1.75%) Groovy
12 11 (1.75%) VBA
13 8 (1.27%) Bicep
14 7 (1.11%) Rust
15 5 (0.79%) C++
16 4 (0.63%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 113 (17.94%) Security Cleared
2 90 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 63 (10.00%) Degree
4 43 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.92%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.49%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.06%) CCNP
8 13 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.75%) CCNA
10 9 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.43%) CCDP
10 9 (1.43%) CISM
10 9 (1.43%) CISSP
10 9 (1.43%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.27%) RHCE
12 7 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.95%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.65%) Data Quality
2 17 (2.70%) QA
3 14 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.11%) GDPR
5 6 (0.95%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.79%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.63%) PMO
7 4 (0.63%) SLA
7 4 (0.63%) WCAG
8 3 (0.48%) NIST
9 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 163 (25.87%) Docker
2 35 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.17%) VMware NSX
4 19 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (3.02%) vSphere
5 16 (2.54%) Active Directory
6 8 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.27%) KVM
7 5 (0.79%) Firmware
8 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.48%) HDFS
9 3 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.16%) Ceph
11 1 (0.16%) NFS
11 1 (0.16%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 221 (35.08%) Terraform
2 209 (33.17%) Kubernetes
3 156 (24.76%) Ansible
4 97 (15.40%) Grafana
5 86 (13.65%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.17%) Control-M
6 20 (3.17%) Puppet
7 18 (2.86%) IBM Guardium
7 18 (2.86%) Nessus
8 14 (2.22%) Istio
8 14 (2.22%) NetBackup
9 12 (1.90%) Argo
10 10 (1.59%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.63%) Packer
14 3 (0.48%) Hadoop YARN
14 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.32%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 70 (11.11%) Splunk
2 60 (9.52%) VMware
3 58 (9.21%) Microsoft
4 56 (8.89%) Google
5 51 (8.10%) Red Hat
6 35 (5.56%) Oracle
7 33 (5.24%) F5
8 31 (4.92%) Databricks
9 23 (3.65%) Cisco
10 20 (3.17%) ServiceNow
11 18 (2.86%) Tenable
12 16 (2.54%) Blue Coat
12 16 (2.54%) McAfee
12 16 (2.54%) Palo Alto
13 11 (1.75%) Pega
14 10 (1.59%) Citrix
14 10 (1.59%) Dynatrace
14 10 (1.59%) Pure Storage
14 10 (1.59%) Veritas
15 9 (1.43%) CheckPoint