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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 20 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 585 276 249
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.17% 7.79% 5.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.85% 30.91% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 186 163
10th Percentile £348 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £615
90th Percentile £610 £719 £690
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 30
10th Percentile £40.75 - £40.00
25th Percentile £41.94 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 -
90th Percentile - £83.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.86% -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 1,398 893 1,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.09% 25.22% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 581 870
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -0.73% -8.86%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £648 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 24 55
10th Percentile £41.94 £33.13 £39.03
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.01 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +23.43% +3.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £50.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £98.99 £68.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 27 December 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 +7 299 £500 -6.98% 533
North West +6 244 £450 -7.31% 645
North East +8 47 £475 -15.93% 135
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 (5.81%) Confluence
2 25 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.91%) Apache
5 16 (2.74%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.88%) SAS
7 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.03%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.85%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.34%) IIS
10 2 (0.34%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Documentum
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.88%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) SPSS
4 1 (0.17%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
1 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 248 (42.39%) AWS
2 153 (26.15%) Azure
3 133 (22.74%) GCP
4 84 (14.36%) Serverless
5 69 (11.79%) GitHub
6 49 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (7.52%) Power Platform
9 42 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
10 36 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (5.98%) Amazon S3
11 35 (5.98%) OpenShift
12 34 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (5.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 32 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (2.56%) Datadog
17 14 (2.39%) SaaS
18 12 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
19 11 (1.88%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (9.74%) Firewall
2 35 (5.98%) TCP/IP
3 30 (5.13%) DNS
4 17 (2.91%) SSL
5 15 (2.56%) Wireshark
6 14 (2.39%) HTTP
7 13 (2.22%) VPN
8 12 (2.05%) BIG-IP
9 11 (1.88%) Network Security
10 9 (1.54%) BGP
10 9 (1.54%) SSH
11 8 (1.37%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.37%) WAN
12 6 (1.03%) DMZ
12 6 (1.03%) VLAN
12 6 (1.03%) WebEx
13 5 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 5 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 5 (0.85%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (8.72%) NoSQL
3 43 (7.35%) Power BI
4 28 (4.79%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (4.10%) MySQL
6 23 (3.93%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.25%) DynamoDB
8 18 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (2.39%) Oracle Database
10 13 (2.22%) Hadoop
10 13 (2.22%) Power Query
10 13 (2.22%) RDBMS
11 12 (2.05%) Data Lake
11 12 (2.05%) Redis
11 12 (2.05%) Tableau
12 11 (1.88%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.71%) Big Data
13 10 (1.71%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.54%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 163 (27.86%) Jenkins
2 107 (18.29%) GitLab
3 77 (13.16%) Git
4 69 (11.79%) JIRA
5 31 (5.30%) Liquibase
6 14 (2.39%) Postman
7 12 (2.05%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.05%) Selenium
8 11 (1.88%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.88%) Fiddler
9 8 (1.37%) Gradle
9 8 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.37%) TestRail
10 6 (1.03%) Maven
10 6 (1.03%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.03%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.85%) MLflow
11 5 (0.85%) SonarLint
12 3 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 153 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 127 (21.71%) Finance
3 96 (16.41%) Banking
4 85 (14.53%) Public Sector
5 80 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.10%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.71%) Legal
9 5 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.68%) Games
10 4 (0.68%) Law
10 4 (0.68%) Marketing
10 4 (0.68%) Retail
10 4 (0.68%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.34%) Police
12 2 (0.34%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (14.36%) Developer
2 69 (11.79%) Senior
3 62 (10.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (9.06%) Data Engineer
5 51 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
6 43 (7.35%) Analyst
7 38 (6.50%) Python Developer
8 34 (5.81%) Lead
9 32 (5.47%) Architect
9 32 (5.47%) Network Engineer
9 32 (5.47%) Software Engineer
10 30 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
11 29 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (4.79%) Python Engineer
13 25 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
15 21 (3.59%) GCP Engineer
16 19 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 18 (3.08%) Data Analyst
18 17 (2.91%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (9.74%) REST
2 55 (9.40%) RESTful
3 50 (8.55%) Elastic Stack
4 34 (5.81%) Node.js
5 28 (4.79%) FastAPI
5 28 (4.79%) React
6 20 (3.42%) PySpark
7 19 (3.25%) TensorFlow
8 16 (2.74%) Spring Boot
9 15 (2.56%) Flask
9 15 (2.56%) HTML
9 15 (2.56%) Kafka
9 15 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
10 13 (2.22%) .NET
10 13 (2.22%) AngularJS
11 12 (2.05%) JWT
12 11 (1.88%) PyTorch
13 10 (1.71%) YAML
14 9 (1.54%) OAuth
14 9 (1.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.60%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (5.64%) Public Cloud
5 22 (3.76%) NHS
6 21 (3.59%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.59%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.91%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.88%) Credit Risk
10 9 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.03%) Clustering
13 6 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.03%) N-Tier
13 6 (1.03%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.03%) Tandem
14 5 (0.85%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 143 (24.44%) Linux
2 47 (8.03%) Windows
3 26 (4.44%) Unix
4 17 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.74%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.03%) Solaris
7 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.68%) CentOS
7 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.51%) Android
8 3 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (41.88%) CI/CD
2 242 (41.37%) DevOps
3 170 (29.06%) Agile
4 162 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 149 (25.47%) Containerisation
6 110 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (12.65%) Analytics
7 74 (12.65%) Test Automation
8 69 (11.79%) Infrastructure Automation
9 67 (11.45%) Microservices
10 65 (11.11%) Machine Learning
11 64 (10.94%) Software Engineering
12 62 (10.60%) AI
12 62 (10.60%) Computer Science
12 62 (10.60%) Observability
13 59 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
14 58 (9.91%) High Availability
15 54 (9.23%) Migration
16 53 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
17 52 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 139 (23.76%) Bash
2 116 (19.83%) SQL
3 88 (15.04%) Java
4 61 (10.43%) Go
5 58 (9.91%) PowerShell
6 47 (8.03%) JavaScript
7 35 (5.98%) Perl
8 34 (5.81%) TypeScript
9 32 (5.47%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.56%) PHP
10 15 (2.56%) R
10 15 (2.56%) Ruby
10 15 (2.56%) Scala
11 14 (2.39%) C#
12 12 (2.05%) C++
12 12 (2.05%) VBA
13 7 (1.20%) C
14 5 (0.85%) Bicep
15 4 (0.68%) Groovy
15 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 120 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 97 (16.58%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.94%) Degree
4 48 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (5.81%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.42%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.39%) CCNP
9 11 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.88%) CCDP
10 10 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.71%) CCNA
11 7 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (1.03%) CISSP
13 5 (0.85%) CISM
14 4 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.59%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.56%) QA
3 5 (0.85%) GDPR
4 4 (0.68%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.68%) PMO
4 4 (0.68%) SLA
5 3 (0.51%) NIST
5 3 (0.51%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.34%) WCAG
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.17%) NCSC
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 165 (28.21%) Docker
2 29 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.25%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.05%) vSphere
5 10 (1.71%) Oracle RAC
5 10 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.71%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.51%) HDFS
7 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.34%) KVM
7 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) Ceph
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 214 (36.58%) Terraform
2 196 (33.50%) Kubernetes
3 172 (29.40%) Ansible
4 90 (15.38%) Grafana
5 73 (12.48%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.25%) NetBackup
7 16 (2.74%) Puppet
8 13 (2.22%) Argo
8 13 (2.22%) Istio
9 12 (2.05%) Control-M
10 10 (1.71%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.71%) IBM Guardium
10 10 (1.71%) Nessus
10 10 (1.71%) yum
11 6 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (1.03%) Packer
12 5 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.85%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.85%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.68%) Podman
Vendors
1 65 (11.11%) Splunk
2 64 (10.94%) Microsoft
3 50 (8.55%) VMware
4 45 (7.69%) Oracle
5 43 (7.35%) Google
5 43 (7.35%) Red Hat
6 31 (5.30%) F5
7 26 (4.44%) Cisco
8 21 (3.59%) Databricks
9 20 (3.42%) Palo Alto
9 20 (3.42%) ServiceNow
10 15 (2.56%) Veritas
11 13 (2.22%) Commvault
12 12 (2.05%) Blue Coat
12 12 (2.05%) McAfee
12 12 (2.05%) Pega
13 10 (1.71%) AppDynamics
13 10 (1.71%) Tenable
14 9 (1.54%) Citrix
14 9 (1.54%) Meraki