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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 779 302 385
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.37% 8.76% 7.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.88% 31.04% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 222 232
10th Percentile £363 £350 £383
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £480 £501
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -4.24% -12.83%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £600
90th Percentile £617 £612 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £567
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.04% -5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 6
10th Percentile £28.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.62 - £20.77
Median hourly rate £44.25 - £33.48
75th Percentile £68.00 - £46.18
90th Percentile £86.50 - £57.47
England median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.79% -26.92% -

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 1,860 973 1,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.15% 28.22% 25.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,215 719 860
10th Percentile £350 £325 £315
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £607 £625
England median daily rate £514 £522 £538
% change year-on-year -1.53% -2.97% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 9 57
10th Percentile £30.10 £31.70 £37.55
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +47.37% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £84.20 £95.71 £76.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +2 432 £500 - 125
North West +6 270 £481 +1.32% 241
North East +7 89 £450 +5.88% 65
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 66 (8.47%) Apache Spark
2 40 (5.13%) Apache
3 37 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (4.24%) Confluence
5 26 (3.34%) Jupyter
6 17 (2.18%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.77%) 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 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.64%) 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
3 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 281 (36.07%) AWS
2 236 (30.30%) Azure
3 153 (19.64%) GCP
4 120 (15.40%) GitHub
5 72 (9.24%) OpenShift
6 60 (7.70%) Power Platform
7 59 (7.57%) GitHub Actions
8 47 (6.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 44 (5.65%) Serverless
10 36 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (4.36%) OCI
12 26 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (3.08%) SaaS
14 23 (2.95%) Amazon S3
15 21 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.70%) dbt
16 17 (2.18%) Entra ID
17 15 (1.93%) IaaS
17 15 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 14 (1.80%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 77 (9.88%) Firewall
2 58 (7.45%) DNS
3 47 (6.03%) BIG-IP
4 35 (4.49%) TCP/IP
5 33 (4.24%) WAN
6 28 (3.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 27 (3.47%) BGP
8 24 (3.08%) OSPF
9 21 (2.70%) SD-WAN
9 21 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (2.57%) Ethernet VPN
10 20 (2.57%) VXLAN
11 16 (2.05%) Network Security
11 16 (2.05%) SAN
11 16 (2.05%) VPN
12 14 (1.80%) HTTP
13 13 (1.67%) NAS
13 13 (1.67%) SSL
14 12 (1.54%) DHCP
14 12 (1.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.16%) Power BI
3 29 (3.72%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.21%) Hadoop
5 21 (2.70%) Big Data
5 21 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (2.70%) Metadata
5 21 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 21 (2.70%) Tableau
6 19 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 18 (2.31%) BigQuery
8 15 (1.93%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.93%) Delta Lake
9 11 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.41%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.90%) Neo4j
12 7 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 144 (18.49%) Jenkins
2 85 (10.91%) JIRA
3 79 (10.14%) GitLab
4 56 (7.19%) Git
5 18 (2.31%) Postman
6 16 (2.05%) Gatling
7 14 (1.80%) Maven
8 11 (1.41%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.16%) Selenium
10 7 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.77%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.77%) Fiddler
11 6 (0.77%) JMeter
11 6 (0.77%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.64%) Liquibase
13 4 (0.51%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.51%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.39%) Flyway
14 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
General
1 155 (19.90%) Social Skills
2 123 (15.79%) Finance
3 104 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.19%) Banking
6 20 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.80%) Legal
8 10 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.16%) Publishing
10 8 (1.03%) Retail
11 5 (0.64%) Marketing
12 4 (0.51%) Advertising
12 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.51%) Military
13 3 (0.39%) Games
13 3 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.26%) Law
14 2 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (15.92%) Developer
2 111 (14.25%) Senior
3 80 (10.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 72 (9.24%) Python Developer
5 70 (8.99%) Data Engineer
6 61 (7.83%) Lead
7 51 (6.55%) Architect
8 43 (5.52%) Security Engineer
9 42 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 37 (4.75%) Analyst
11 29 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (3.59%) Network Engineer
13 27 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 27 (3.47%) GCP Engineer
13 27 (3.47%) Python Engineer
14 25 (3.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 24 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
15 24 (3.08%) Software Engineer
16 21 (2.70%) Data Analyst
17 19 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.42%) Node.js
2 46 (5.91%) REST
3 44 (5.65%) OpenTelemetry
4 43 (5.52%) PySpark
5 41 (5.26%) React
6 39 (5.01%) JSON
7 33 (4.24%) Kafka
7 33 (4.24%) YAML
8 29 (3.72%) Playwright
9 22 (2.82%) FastAPI
9 22 (2.82%) Spring
10 20 (2.57%) Spring Boot
11 16 (2.05%) PyTorch
12 14 (1.80%) LangChain
12 14 (1.80%) RESTful
13 13 (1.67%) Pandas
14 11 (1.41%) Next.js
15 10 (1.28%) Flask
15 10 (1.28%) LDAP
15 10 (1.28%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 121 (15.53%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.70%) Data Centre
3 41 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (4.75%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 27 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.95%) Security Posture
8 22 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.44%) Replication
10 17 (2.18%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.93%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.80%) NHS
14 13 (1.67%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.67%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.54%) PKI
16 10 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
17 7 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 6 (0.77%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 117 (15.02%) Linux
2 71 (9.11%) Windows
3 41 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (4.24%) Unix
5 19 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 17 (2.18%) Solaris
7 14 (1.80%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.16%) VMS
9 8 (1.03%) CentOS
10 5 (0.64%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.64%) 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%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (49.68%) CI/CD
2 298 (38.25%) DevOps
3 196 (25.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 182 (23.36%) Agile
5 138 (17.72%) Containerisation
6 131 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
7 128 (16.43%) Analytics
8 110 (14.12%) AI
8 110 (14.12%) Observability
9 98 (12.58%) Data Engineering
9 98 (12.58%) Migration
10 92 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
11 91 (11.68%) Test Automation
12 75 (9.63%) Machine Learning
13 74 (9.50%) High Availability
14 72 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 70 (8.99%) Software Engineering
16 68 (8.73%) Data Modelling
17 66 (8.47%) ETL
18 63 (8.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 157 (20.15%) SQL
2 141 (18.10%) Java
3 125 (16.05%) Bash
4 98 (12.58%) PowerShell
5 50 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 44 (5.65%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.36%) Go
8 24 (3.08%) Scala
9 18 (2.31%) Groovy
10 16 (2.05%) C#
11 15 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.80%) Perl
13 13 (1.67%) Bicep
13 13 (1.67%) Rust
14 12 (1.54%) R
15 11 (1.41%) ActionScript
15 11 (1.41%) VBA
16 10 (1.28%) Ruby
17 5 (0.64%) C++
18 4 (0.51%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 145 (18.61%) Security Cleared
2 118 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.78%) Degree
4 32 (4.11%) AWS Certification
5 25 (3.21%) CISSP
6 23 (2.95%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.05%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.16%) RHCE
11 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.77%) CCNP
12 6 (0.77%) CISM
12 6 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.64%) CCNA
14 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.51%) OCP
14 4 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.05%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.05%) GDPR
3 12 (1.54%) HIPAA
3 12 (1.54%) QA
4 8 (1.03%) NIST
4 8 (1.03%) WCAG
5 7 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.26%) HL7
9 2 (0.26%) PMO
9 2 (0.26%) SLA
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
10 1 (0.13%) SEPA
10 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 148 (19.00%) Docker
2 34 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (3.21%) vSphere
5 23 (2.95%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.67%) Active Directory
7 11 (1.41%) Firmware
7 11 (1.41%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.16%) KVM
8 9 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.64%) NFS
10 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.51%) SRDF
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 251 (32.22%) Terraform
2 194 (24.90%) Kubernetes
3 170 (21.82%) Ansible
4 59 (7.57%) Grafana
5 58 (7.45%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.08%) Argo
7 22 (2.82%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.05%) Istio
8 16 (2.05%) Puppet
9 15 (1.93%) Control-M
10 14 (1.80%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (1.80%) Nessus
11 12 (1.54%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.16%) HAProxy
13 8 (1.03%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.77%) PowerCLI
16 5 (0.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
17 4 (0.51%) vRealize
18 3 (0.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 77 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.76%) Google
3 64 (8.22%) Red Hat
4 60 (7.70%) Splunk
5 58 (7.45%) Databricks
6 50 (6.42%) F5
7 49 (6.29%) VMware
8 30 (3.85%) Palo Alto
9 29 (3.72%) ServiceNow
10 25 (3.21%) Cisco
11 24 (3.08%) Arista
11 24 (3.08%) Oracle
12 21 (2.70%) Aruba
13 20 (2.57%) Pure Storage
14 19 (2.44%) IBM
15 16 (2.05%) Dynatrace
16 14 (1.80%) Tenable
17 12 (1.54%) Infoblox
17 12 (1.54%) Trend Micro
18 10 (1.28%) Dell