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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Python 648 252 353
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.25% 7.60% 7.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.17% 28.73% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 175 206
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £405 £419 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £600
90th Percentile £600 £725 £675
England median daily rate £520 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -9.57% +2.57% -6.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 16
10th Percentile £37.04 £73.50 £20.77
25th Percentile £41.94 £75.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £58.63 £80.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.71% +73.24% -12.87%
75th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 £54.97
England median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.81% -12.50% -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 1,574 877 1,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.75% 26.45% 26.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 593 930
10th Percentile £344 £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 £560
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 17 61
10th Percentile £41.94 £29.38 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.50 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +37.89% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £98.79 £72.50
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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +8 346 £482 -3.60% 165
North West +12 260 £456 -6.17% 275
North East +5 47 £475 -7.32% 77
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 35 (5.40%) Confluence
2 25 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.40%) Apache Spark
4 21 (3.24%) SharePoint
5 13 (2.01%) Apache
5 13 (2.01%) SAS
6 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.62%) Apache Pig
9 3 (0.46%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.08%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 249 (38.43%) AWS
2 166 (25.62%) Azure
3 156 (24.07%) GCP
4 95 (14.66%) GitHub
5 74 (11.42%) Serverless
6 60 (9.26%) OpenShift
7 49 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
8 43 (6.64%) Power Platform
9 40 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (5.56%) Amazon S3
11 35 (5.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (4.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 19 (2.93%) Entra ID
17 19 (2.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 15 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
19 13 (2.01%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 58 (8.95%) Firewall
2 46 (7.10%) DNS
3 39 (6.02%) TCP/IP
4 21 (3.24%) SSL
5 20 (3.09%) BIG-IP
5 20 (3.09%) VPN
6 17 (2.62%) HTTP
6 17 (2.62%) Wireshark
7 14 (2.16%) Network Security
8 9 (1.39%) SSH
8 9 (1.39%) WAN
9 7 (1.08%) BGP
9 7 (1.08%) LAN
9 7 (1.08%) VLAN
10 6 (0.93%) WebEx
11 5 (0.77%) DMZ
11 5 (0.77%) SNMP
11 5 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (6.33%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.40%) Power BI
4 25 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (2.93%) MySQL
6 17 (2.62%) Hadoop
7 16 (2.47%) Relational Database
8 15 (2.31%) Data Lake
9 13 (2.01%) Big Data
9 13 (2.01%) Tableau
10 12 (1.85%) Delta Lake
10 12 (1.85%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.85%) SQL Server
11 11 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.70%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.54%) Metadata
13 8 (1.23%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.23%) Power Query
13 8 (1.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 161 (24.85%) Jenkins
2 97 (14.97%) GitLab
3 82 (12.65%) JIRA
4 49 (7.56%) Git
5 24 (3.70%) Liquibase
6 23 (3.55%) Postman
7 15 (2.31%) Fiddler
8 13 (2.01%) Selenium
9 12 (1.85%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.70%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.23%) TestRail
12 6 (0.93%) MLflow
12 6 (0.93%) PyCharm
12 6 (0.93%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.77%) JMeter
14 4 (0.62%) Gatling
14 4 (0.62%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.62%) Maven
14 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
General
1 148 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 121 (18.67%) Finance
3 90 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (13.27%) Banking
5 64 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.01%) Legal
9 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.62%) Law
10 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.62%) Marketing
11 3 (0.46%) Games
11 3 (0.46%) Retail
11 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.46%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.31%) Advertising
12 2 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (15.90%) Developer
2 75 (11.57%) Senior
3 63 (9.72%) Data Engineer
3 63 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (7.87%) Python Developer
5 49 (7.56%) Lead
6 44 (6.79%) Analyst
7 43 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
8 41 (6.33%) Architect
9 37 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
10 35 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
11 32 (4.94%) Software Engineer
12 31 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.78%) Network Engineer
13 23 (3.55%) Python Engineer
14 19 (2.93%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 18 (2.78%) Data Scientist
16 16 (2.47%) Data Analyst
16 16 (2.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (10.03%) REST
2 41 (6.33%) Elastic Stack
3 40 (6.17%) OpenTelemetry
3 40 (6.17%) RESTful
4 39 (6.02%) Node.js
5 30 (4.63%) Kafka
6 28 (4.32%) React
7 27 (4.17%) FastAPI
7 27 (4.17%) YAML
8 23 (3.55%) PySpark
9 21 (3.24%) JSON
10 18 (2.78%) TensorFlow
11 17 (2.62%) Flask
11 17 (2.62%) PyTorch
12 15 (2.31%) Spring
13 14 (2.16%) Spring Boot
14 13 (2.01%) .NET
14 13 (2.01%) LangChain
14 13 (2.01%) Playwright
15 12 (1.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.73%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.09%) Public Cloud
4 31 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 27 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 22 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.24%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.78%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.62%) NHS
9 17 (2.62%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.31%) Security Posture
11 13 (2.01%) Credit Risk
12 11 (1.70%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.93%) Clustering
13 6 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.93%) Tandem
14 5 (0.77%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.77%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 142 (21.91%) Linux
2 55 (8.49%) Windows
3 31 (4.78%) Unix
4 27 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (3.09%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.54%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.39%) CentOS
8 8 (1.23%) Solaris
9 4 (0.62%) VMS
10 3 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (46.30%) CI/CD
2 265 (40.90%) DevOps
3 169 (26.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 163 (25.15%) Agile
4 163 (25.15%) Containerisation
5 116 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (13.27%) Analytics
7 85 (13.12%) Observability
8 79 (12.19%) Machine Learning
9 76 (11.73%) AI
10 75 (11.57%) Test Automation
11 70 (10.80%) ETL
12 69 (10.65%) Data Modelling
13 68 (10.49%) Migration
13 68 (10.49%) Software Engineering
14 66 (10.19%) Data Pipeline
14 66 (10.19%) High Availability
15 63 (9.72%) Data Engineering
16 60 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (9.10%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 131 (20.22%) Bash
2 123 (18.98%) SQL
3 96 (14.81%) Java
4 69 (10.65%) PowerShell
5 54 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 53 (8.18%) Go
7 43 (6.64%) TypeScript
8 29 (4.48%) Perl
9 19 (2.93%) C#
10 18 (2.78%) Ruby
11 17 (2.62%) Scala
12 16 (2.47%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.85%) R
14 11 (1.70%) Groovy
14 11 (1.70%) PHP
14 11 (1.70%) VBA
15 8 (1.23%) Bicep
15 8 (1.23%) Rust
16 5 (0.77%) C++
17 4 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 115 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 92 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 65 (10.03%) Degree
4 43 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.78%) Master's Degree
6 26 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.01%) CCNP
8 13 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.70%) CCNA
10 10 (1.54%) CISSP
10 10 (1.54%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.39%) CCDP
11 9 (1.39%) CISM
12 8 (1.23%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.23%) RHCE
13 7 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.78%) QA
3 15 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.39%) GDPR
5 8 (1.23%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.77%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.77%) WCAG
8 4 (0.62%) PMO
8 4 (0.62%) SLA
9 3 (0.46%) NIST
10 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 164 (25.31%) Docker
2 34 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.40%) VMware NSX
3 22 (3.40%) vSphere
4 18 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.47%) Active Directory
6 9 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.39%) KVM
7 5 (0.77%) Firmware
8 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.15%) Ceph
10 1 (0.15%) HDFS
10 1 (0.15%) NFS
10 1 (0.15%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 230 (35.49%) Terraform
2 217 (33.49%) Kubernetes
3 161 (24.85%) Ansible
4 97 (14.97%) Grafana
5 85 (13.12%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.09%) Control-M
7 19 (2.93%) Puppet
8 18 (2.78%) IBM Guardium
8 18 (2.78%) Nessus
9 14 (2.16%) Istio
10 13 (2.01%) Argo
10 13 (2.01%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.85%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.77%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.62%) Packer
14 3 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.46%) PowerCLI
15 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (11.11%) Splunk
2 61 (9.41%) Google
2 61 (9.41%) Microsoft
3 59 (9.10%) VMware
4 55 (8.49%) Red Hat
5 33 (5.09%) F5
6 32 (4.94%) Databricks
7 30 (4.63%) Oracle
8 23 (3.55%) Cisco
9 20 (3.09%) ServiceNow
10 18 (2.78%) Tenable
11 16 (2.47%) Blue Coat
11 16 (2.47%) McAfee
11 16 (2.47%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.85%) IBM
12 12 (1.85%) Pure Storage
13 11 (1.70%) Pega
14 10 (1.54%) Citrix
14 10 (1.54%) Dynatrace
15 9 (1.39%) Commvault