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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 22 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 450 304 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 11.24% 7.33% 5.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.56% 29.43% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 199 183
10th Percentile £339 £356 £407
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £638
90th Percentile £610 £675 £700
England median daily rate £530 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -9.79% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 25
10th Percentile £37.19 - £42.35
25th Percentile £38.97 - -
Median hourly rate £41.94 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% - +82.60%
75th Percentile £54.60 - -
90th Percentile £62.19 - £56.72
England median hourly rate £50.00 £69.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.93% +6.73% +16.07%

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 1,167 1,033 1,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.16% 24.89% 24.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 701 910
10th Percentile £315 £341 £350
25th Percentile £379 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £613 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 28 44
10th Percentile £30.60 £35.89 £27.97
25th Percentile £40.46 £37.55 £45.88
Median hourly rate £66.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - -6.71%
75th Percentile £85.56 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £94.38 £75.90 £71.13
England median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.08% - +13.04%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +5 244 £500 -6.98% 204
North West +5 179 £469 -3.55% 388
North East +2 29 £450 -25.00% 71
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.78%) Confluence
4 15 (3.33%) Apache
5 5 (1.11%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.89%) IIS
6 4 (0.89%) JBoss
6 4 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.89%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.44%) SAS
7 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Documentum
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.44%) Maple
4 1 (0.22%) SPSS
4 1 (0.22%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Kondor
2 2 (0.44%) Maximo
3 1 (0.22%) Finacle
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 179 (39.78%) AWS
2 100 (22.22%) Azure
3 90 (20.00%) GCP
4 54 (12.00%) Serverless
5 38 (8.44%) Power Platform
6 37 (8.22%) GitHub
7 34 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (5.78%) Amazon S3
10 23 (5.11%) OpenShift
11 21 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (3.56%) SaaS
16 14 (3.11%) PaaS
17 13 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
18 12 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
18 12 (2.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.67%) Firewall
2 32 (7.11%) TCP/IP
3 18 (4.00%) DNS
4 11 (2.44%) Network Security
5 10 (2.22%) SSL
6 8 (1.78%) HTTP
6 8 (1.78%) Wireshark
7 7 (1.56%) NAS
7 7 (1.56%) SAN
7 7 (1.56%) VPN
8 6 (1.33%) WAN
9 5 (1.11%) LAN
9 5 (1.11%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.89%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.89%) DMZ
10 4 (0.89%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 4 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (0.89%) WLAN
11 3 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (8.44%) Power BI
3 34 (7.56%) NoSQL
4 32 (7.11%) Relational Database
5 29 (6.44%) SQL Server
6 19 (4.22%) Tableau
7 17 (3.78%) BigQuery
8 16 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (3.56%) DynamoDB
9 15 (3.33%) Hadoop
9 15 (3.33%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.89%) Oracle Database
11 12 (2.67%) Big Data
11 12 (2.67%) MySQL
12 11 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (2.44%) RDBMS
13 10 (2.22%) Redis
14 9 (2.00%) Apache Hive
14 9 (2.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 136 (30.22%) Jenkins
2 107 (23.78%) Git
3 75 (16.67%) GitLab
4 51 (11.33%) JIRA
5 20 (4.44%) Liquibase
6 16 (3.56%) Postman
7 12 (2.67%) Gradle
7 12 (2.67%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.78%) Maven
9 7 (1.56%) Xcode
10 6 (1.33%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.33%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.11%) SonarLint
12 4 (0.89%) Fiddler
12 4 (0.89%) JUnit
12 4 (0.89%) MLflow
12 4 (0.89%) Selenium
12 4 (0.89%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 110 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 93 (20.67%) Finance
3 63 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (13.56%) Banking
5 52 (11.56%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.78%) Financial Institution
7 8 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.56%) Legal
9 6 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.33%) Retail
10 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.89%) Marketing
10 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.44%) Back Office
11 2 (0.44%) Games
11 2 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.44%) Law
11 2 (0.44%) Police
11 2 (0.44%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (16.44%) Developer
2 68 (15.11%) Senior
3 44 (9.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (9.33%) Data Engineer
5 30 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 29 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (6.22%) Automation Engineer
7 28 (6.22%) Lead
8 27 (6.00%) Python Developer
9 26 (5.78%) Software Engineer
10 24 (5.33%) Analyst
10 24 (5.33%) Architect
11 18 (4.00%) Data Scientist
12 16 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (3.56%) Technical Architect
13 15 (3.33%) AWS Developer
13 15 (3.33%) Data Analyst
13 15 (3.33%) Network Engineer
14 14 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 13 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.44%) RESTful
2 33 (7.33%) REST
3 32 (7.11%) Node.js
4 26 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 25 (5.56%) React
6 20 (4.44%) AngularJS
7 19 (4.22%) Kafka
8 18 (4.00%) HTML
8 18 (4.00%) PySpark
8 18 (4.00%) TensorFlow
9 16 (3.56%) Spring Boot
10 15 (3.33%) PyTorch
11 14 (3.11%) CSS
12 13 (2.89%) Flask
12 13 (2.89%) GraphQL
13 11 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (2.44%) pytest
14 10 (2.22%) Middleware
15 9 (2.00%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
3 19 (4.22%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.56%) Algorithms
5 16 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.44%) NHS
8 9 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.00%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.56%) Mobile Banking
10 6 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.33%) N-Tier
11 5 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.11%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.89%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 101 (22.44%) Linux
2 37 (8.22%) Windows
3 17 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.33%) Unix
5 12 (2.67%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.22%) Apple iOS
7 9 (2.00%) Android
8 4 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.67%) AIX
9 3 (0.67%) Solaris
9 3 (0.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.44%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) CentOS
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.22%) SUSE
11 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (39.33%) CI/CD
2 161 (35.78%) DevOps
3 152 (33.78%) Agile
4 98 (21.78%) Containerisation
5 93 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (17.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 61 (13.56%) Artificial Intelligence
8 57 (12.67%) Machine Learning
9 55 (12.22%) Microservices
10 52 (11.56%) Analytics
11 51 (11.33%) Migration
12 50 (11.11%) Software Engineering
13 49 (10.89%) Test Automation
14 42 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
14 42 (9.33%) Mentoring
14 42 (9.33%) Observability
15 39 (8.67%) Configuration Management
15 39 (8.67%) TDD
16 37 (8.22%) ETL
16 37 (8.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 101 (22.44%) SQL
2 88 (19.56%) Bash
3 76 (16.89%) Java
4 48 (10.67%) Shell Script
5 36 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 35 (7.78%) PowerShell
7 34 (7.56%) Go
8 27 (6.00%) TypeScript
9 23 (5.11%) Scala
10 19 (4.22%) Perl
11 14 (3.11%) C++
11 14 (3.11%) Ruby
12 11 (2.44%) Kotlin
13 10 (2.22%) PHP
14 9 (2.00%) C
14 9 (2.00%) R
15 7 (1.56%) Objective-C
15 7 (1.56%) Swift
16 5 (1.11%) VBA
17 4 (0.89%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 68 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 48 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.78%) Degree
4 28 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.22%) Master's Degree
6 16 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.11%) RHCE
10 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.89%) CCNP
11 3 (0.67%) CCDP
11 3 (0.67%) GCIH
11 3 (0.67%) MCP
12 2 (0.44%) CISSP
12 2 (0.44%) GCIA
12 2 (0.44%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.78%) QA
2 14 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.11%) GDPR
6 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.67%) Basel III
6 3 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.67%) MiFID
6 3 (0.67%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 121 (26.89%) Docker
2 31 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (1.78%) vSphere
6 7 (1.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 7 (1.56%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.67%) HDFS
8 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.22%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 149 (33.11%) Kubernetes
2 140 (31.11%) Ansible
3 126 (28.00%) Terraform
4 52 (11.56%) Grafana
5 39 (8.67%) Prometheus
6 25 (5.56%) Puppet
7 15 (3.33%) NetBackup
8 13 (2.89%) Progress Chef
9 11 (2.44%) Control-M
10 10 (2.22%) Data Guard
10 10 (2.22%) Istio
10 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Clustering
10 10 (2.22%) yum
11 9 (2.00%) Argo
12 8 (1.78%) Nessus
12 8 (1.78%) vCenter Server
12 8 (1.78%) vRealize
13 7 (1.56%) IBM Guardium
13 7 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (1.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 63 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.00%) Oracle
3 40 (8.89%) Google
3 40 (8.89%) Splunk
4 38 (8.44%) VMware
5 29 (6.44%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.78%) Databricks
6 17 (3.78%) F5
6 17 (3.78%) MuleSoft
7 16 (3.56%) AppDynamics
8 15 (3.33%) Veritas
9 13 (2.89%) ServiceNow
10 10 (2.22%) Commvault
10 10 (2.22%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.00%) Cisco
12 7 (1.56%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.56%) IBM
12 7 (1.56%) Meraki
12 7 (1.56%) Tenable
13 6 (1.33%) CheckPoint