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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 772 385 297
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 10.59% 9.86% 6.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.11% 36.18% 27.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 267 203
10th Percentile £363 £343 £381
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.95% -12.17%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £630 £616 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 4
10th Percentile £28.50 - -
25th Percentile £29.63 - -
Median hourly rate £47.75 - £46.18
75th Percentile £71.07 - £51.82
90th Percentile £87.50 - £61.98
England median hourly rate £57.50 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.64% -20.05% -

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 1,878 1,064 1,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.76% 27.25% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 763 758
10th Percentile £353 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £485
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -5.26% -5.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.55% -6.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 10 34
10th Percentile £29.96 £29.28 £37.50
25th Percentile £49.38 £36.82 £42.41
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year - +30.23% +16.39%
75th Percentile £74.26 £87.69 £71.78
90th Percentile £82.68 £95.36 £81.85
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +1 400 £500 +0.70% 121
North West +3 295 £525 +10.53% 218
North East -4 88 £425 -2.86% 90
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 68 (8.81%) Apache Spark
2 41 (5.31%) Apache
3 37 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (4.15%) Confluence
5 26 (3.37%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.94%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.04%) SAS
8 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.52%) nginx
9 2 (0.26%) Camunda
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 14 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 327 (42.36%) AWS
2 253 (32.77%) Azure
3 160 (20.73%) GCP
4 133 (17.23%) GitHub
5 65 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
6 63 (8.16%) OpenShift
7 55 (7.12%) Power Platform
8 48 (6.22%) Serverless
9 42 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (5.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 38 (4.92%) OCI
12 30 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (3.50%) Amazon S3
13 27 (3.50%) SaaS
14 23 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (2.85%) dbt
16 20 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 16 (2.07%) Vertex AI
18 15 (1.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 88 (11.40%) Firewall
2 54 (6.99%) DNS
3 43 (5.57%) BIG-IP
4 35 (4.53%) WAN
5 34 (4.40%) BGP
6 32 (4.15%) TCP/IP
7 30 (3.89%) OSPF
8 29 (3.76%) Network Security
9 28 (3.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 25 (3.24%) SD-WAN
11 21 (2.72%) Ethernet VPN
11 21 (2.72%) VXLAN
12 20 (2.59%) VPN
13 19 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (1.81%) SAN
15 13 (1.68%) DHCP
15 13 (1.68%) WLAN
16 11 (1.42%) HTTP
16 11 (1.42%) SSL
17 10 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.09%) Power BI
2 46 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.24%) Metadata
5 24 (3.11%) BigQuery
5 24 (3.11%) NoSQL
6 23 (2.98%) Hadoop
7 21 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (2.59%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.59%) Tableau
9 19 (2.46%) Big Data
10 15 (1.94%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.68%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.55%) Delta Lake
14 11 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 133 (17.23%) Jenkins
2 86 (11.14%) JIRA
3 80 (10.36%) GitLab
4 65 (8.42%) Git
5 16 (2.07%) Gatling
6 14 (1.81%) Maven
7 11 (1.42%) Selenium
7 11 (1.42%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.30%) Postman
8 10 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.91%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.78%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.78%) JMeter
12 5 (0.65%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.52%) Liquibase
13 4 (0.52%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.52%) MSBuild
13 4 (0.52%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 154 (19.95%) Social Skills
2 141 (18.26%) Finance
3 108 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.51%) Banking
6 14 (1.81%) Legal
7 13 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.68%) Retail
8 10 (1.30%) Publishing
9 9 (1.17%) Games
9 9 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.91%) Military
11 4 (0.52%) Advertising
11 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.52%) Marketing
12 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 117 (15.16%) Senior
2 115 (14.90%) Developer
3 90 (11.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 76 (9.84%) Python Developer
5 70 (9.07%) Data Engineer
6 60 (7.77%) Lead
7 53 (6.87%) Security Engineer
8 40 (5.18%) Architect
8 40 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (4.79%) Python Engineer
10 32 (4.15%) Analyst
10 32 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (4.15%) Software Engineer
11 31 (4.02%) Network Engineer
12 30 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
13 26 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 26 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (2.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (2.72%) Data Analyst
16 20 (2.59%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.83%) REST
2 43 (5.57%) Node.js
3 42 (5.44%) PySpark
4 41 (5.31%) Kafka
5 39 (5.05%) JSON
6 37 (4.79%) React
7 36 (4.66%) OpenTelemetry
8 22 (2.85%) Playwright
9 20 (2.59%) FastAPI
10 19 (2.46%) Spring
11 18 (2.33%) LangChain
11 18 (2.33%) PyTorch
12 15 (1.94%) CSS
12 15 (1.94%) HTML
12 15 (1.94%) Spring Boot
12 15 (1.94%) YAML
13 14 (1.81%) Pandas
14 13 (1.68%) .NET
15 12 (1.55%) scikit-learn
15 12 (1.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 135 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.87%) Data Centre
3 42 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
5 31 (4.02%) Security Posture
6 30 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (3.50%) Product Ownership
8 23 (2.98%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.46%) Replication
10 17 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (2.20%) NHS
11 15 (1.94%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.94%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.94%) PKI
12 14 (1.81%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
16 8 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 121 (15.67%) Linux
2 69 (8.94%) Windows
3 36 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (4.27%) Unix
5 17 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.68%) Solaris
7 9 (1.17%) VMS
8 7 (0.91%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.39%) AIX
10 3 (0.39%) zOS
11 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (49.87%) CI/CD
2 305 (39.51%) DevOps
3 226 (29.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 199 (25.78%) Agile
5 135 (17.49%) Observability
6 134 (17.36%) Containerisation
7 132 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
8 131 (16.97%) Analytics
9 127 (16.45%) AI
10 102 (13.21%) Data Engineering
11 100 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
12 92 (11.92%) Test Automation
13 89 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 79 (10.23%) Machine Learning
15 78 (10.10%) Migration
16 75 (9.72%) Software Engineering
17 74 (9.59%) High Availability
17 74 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
18 68 (8.81%) Data Modelling
19 67 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 169 (21.89%) SQL
2 145 (18.78%) Bash
3 134 (17.36%) Java
4 116 (15.03%) PowerShell
5 56 (7.25%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.92%) TypeScript
7 30 (3.89%) Go
8 26 (3.37%) Bicep
9 20 (2.59%) Groovy
10 19 (2.46%) Scala
11 16 (2.07%) Rust
12 15 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.55%) C#
14 11 (1.42%) R
15 10 (1.30%) ActionScript
16 8 (1.04%) VBA
17 6 (0.78%) Perl
18 5 (0.65%) C++
18 5 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
19 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 155 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 128 (16.58%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.99%) Degree
4 39 (5.05%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.76%) CISSP
6 27 (3.50%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (2.46%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.17%) CCNP
11 9 (1.17%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.78%) CCNA
12 6 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.52%) OCP
14 4 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.39%) CCIE
15 3 (0.39%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.59%) QA
3 19 (2.46%) GDPR
4 11 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.30%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.17%) NIST
7 8 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.78%) WCAG
9 4 (0.52%) HL7
9 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) SLA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 156 (20.21%) Docker
2 31 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (2.98%) vSphere
5 17 (2.20%) VMware NSX
6 16 (2.07%) Active Directory
7 9 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.04%) Firmware
8 8 (1.04%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.78%) KVM
10 4 (0.52%) NFS
10 4 (0.52%) SRDF
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 282 (36.53%) Terraform
2 205 (26.55%) Kubernetes
3 151 (19.56%) Ansible
4 60 (7.77%) Grafana
5 56 (7.25%) Prometheus
6 27 (3.50%) Argo
7 20 (2.59%) vCenter Server
8 17 (2.20%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.55%) Control-M
10 11 (1.42%) IBM Guardium
10 11 (1.42%) Nessus
11 10 (1.30%) Istio
12 9 (1.17%) HAProxy
12 9 (1.17%) Puppet
13 8 (1.04%) NetBackup
14 6 (0.78%) PowerCLI
15 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 4 (0.52%) Kustomize
16 4 (0.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 88 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.59%) Google
3 62 (8.03%) Databricks
4 56 (7.25%) Splunk
5 46 (5.96%) F5
6 44 (5.70%) Red Hat
7 40 (5.18%) VMware
8 35 (4.53%) Palo Alto
9 28 (3.63%) ServiceNow
10 27 (3.50%) Cisco
11 24 (3.11%) Arista
11 24 (3.11%) Aruba
12 21 (2.72%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.72%) IBM
13 20 (2.59%) Oracle
14 17 (2.20%) Pure Storage
15 12 (1.55%) Infoblox
15 12 (1.55%) Trend Micro
16 11 (1.42%) SAP
16 11 (1.42%) Tenable