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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 21 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 659 260 368
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.06% 7.96% 7.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.11% 29.31% 28.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 185 217
10th Percentile £352 £370 £400
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -11.59%
75th Percentile £544 £600 £588
90th Percentile £615 £715 £675
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 14
10th Percentile £35.45 £73.50 £20.77
25th Percentile £41.94 £75.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £80.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +73.24% -6.84%
75th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 £64.63
England median hourly rate £55.50 £52.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +5.71% -8.70% -11.54%

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 1,565 887 1,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.64% 27.16% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 620 905
10th Percentile £343 £344 £311
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% -10.48%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £550
90th Percentile £621 £638 £625
England median daily rate £506 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.71% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 15 64
10th Percentile £41.94 £35.48 £38.87
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.59 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.50 £65.50 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +37.17% -1.04%
75th Percentile £74.26 £86.75 £66.88
90th Percentile £86.00 £99.86 £74.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +4 352 £485 -5.46% 219
North West +14 263 £478 -4.50% 249
North East +10 50 £488 -7.14% 78
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 40 (6.07%) Confluence
2 31 (4.70%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.12%) Apache
6 12 (1.82%) SAS
7 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.76%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.46%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.21%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 243 (36.87%) AWS
2 179 (27.16%) Azure
3 154 (23.37%) GCP
4 105 (15.93%) GitHub
5 69 (10.47%) OpenShift
5 69 (10.47%) Serverless
6 53 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (5.61%) Power Platform
10 36 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (4.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 31 (4.70%) Amazon S3
13 24 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (3.19%) Entra ID
16 18 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 58 (8.80%) Firewall
2 49 (7.44%) DNS
3 38 (5.77%) TCP/IP
4 21 (3.19%) HTTP
5 19 (2.88%) BIG-IP
5 19 (2.88%) VPN
6 16 (2.43%) SSL
6 16 (2.43%) Wireshark
7 11 (1.67%) Network Security
8 9 (1.37%) SSH
8 9 (1.37%) WAN
9 8 (1.21%) BGP
10 7 (1.06%) LAN
10 7 (1.06%) SAN
10 7 (1.06%) VLAN
11 6 (0.91%) SNMP
11 6 (0.91%) WebEx
12 5 (0.76%) NAS
12 5 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (6.68%) NoSQL
3 29 (4.40%) Power BI
4 22 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.19%) Hadoop
6 19 (2.88%) MySQL
7 18 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (2.43%) MongoDB
8 16 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 15 (2.28%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.28%) SQL Server
10 13 (1.97%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.82%) Metadata
12 11 (1.67%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.67%) Tableau
13 9 (1.37%) Big Data
14 8 (1.21%) Power Query
14 8 (1.21%) PowerPivot
15 7 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 157 (23.82%) Jenkins
2 88 (13.35%) JIRA
3 83 (12.59%) GitLab
4 51 (7.74%) Git
5 23 (3.49%) Postman
6 17 (2.58%) Liquibase
7 14 (2.12%) Fiddler
8 13 (1.97%) Selenium
9 12 (1.82%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.67%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.21%) TestRail
12 7 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.91%) PyCharm
13 6 (0.91%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.76%) JMeter
15 4 (0.61%) Gatling
15 4 (0.61%) LoadRunner
15 4 (0.61%) Maven
15 4 (0.61%) NeoLoad
15 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 144 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 123 (18.66%) Finance
3 96 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (12.75%) Banking
5 65 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.97%) Financial Institution
7 13 (1.97%) Legal
8 5 (0.76%) Retail
9 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.61%) Law
9 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.46%) Advertising
10 3 (0.46%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.46%) Marketing
10 3 (0.46%) Publishing
10 3 (0.46%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.30%) Games
11 2 (0.30%) Military
11 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (15.78%) Developer
2 73 (11.08%) Senior
3 65 (9.86%) Data Engineer
4 61 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 58 (8.80%) Lead
6 53 (8.04%) Python Developer
7 44 (6.68%) Analyst
8 40 (6.07%) Architect
9 39 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
9 39 (5.92%) GCP Engineer
10 34 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.55%) Network Engineer
12 28 (4.25%) Security Engineer
13 27 (4.10%) Software Engineer
14 23 (3.49%) Python Engineer
15 21 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 17 (2.58%) Automation Engineer
17 16 (2.43%) Software Developer
18 15 (2.28%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.56%) REST
2 44 (6.68%) OpenTelemetry
3 38 (5.77%) Node.js
4 34 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
5 32 (4.86%) RESTful
6 30 (4.55%) FastAPI
7 29 (4.40%) React
8 28 (4.25%) Kafka
9 27 (4.10%) YAML
10 22 (3.34%) JSON
11 19 (2.88%) PySpark
11 19 (2.88%) Spring
12 18 (2.73%) PyTorch
12 18 (2.73%) Spring Boot
13 16 (2.43%) TensorFlow
14 14 (2.12%) Flask
14 14 (2.12%) LangChain
14 14 (2.12%) Pandas
15 12 (1.82%) .NET
15 12 (1.82%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.68%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 27 (4.10%) Public Cloud
5 24 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (3.03%) Security Posture
8 17 (2.58%) NHS
9 15 (2.28%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.12%) Credit Risk
11 12 (1.82%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.06%) Clustering
13 6 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (0.91%) Tandem
14 5 (0.76%) IoT
14 5 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.76%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 141 (21.40%) Linux
2 62 (9.41%) Windows
3 31 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (4.70%) Unix
4 20 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.37%) CentOS
7 8 (1.21%) Solaris
8 4 (0.61%) VMS
9 3 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (47.19%) CI/CD
2 271 (41.12%) DevOps
3 175 (26.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (25.49%) Containerisation
5 160 (24.28%) Agile
6 128 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (14.72%) Analytics
8 94 (14.26%) Observability
9 85 (12.90%) Test Automation
10 78 (11.84%) ETL
11 73 (11.08%) Machine Learning
12 72 (10.93%) Data Pipeline
13 71 (10.77%) AI
14 69 (10.47%) Migration
15 66 (10.02%) Data Engineering
16 65 (9.86%) Software Engineering
17 64 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 63 (9.56%) Data Modelling
19 60 (9.10%) High Availability
20 56 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 136 (20.64%) Bash
2 127 (19.27%) SQL
3 94 (14.26%) Java
4 80 (12.14%) PowerShell
5 52 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 48 (7.28%) TypeScript
7 43 (6.53%) Go
8 28 (4.25%) Perl
9 18 (2.73%) C#
9 18 (2.73%) Ruby
9 18 (2.73%) Shell Script
10 14 (2.12%) Scala
11 13 (1.97%) Bicep
11 13 (1.97%) Groovy
12 12 (1.82%) R
13 11 (1.67%) PHP
13 11 (1.67%) VBA
14 7 (1.06%) Rust
15 5 (0.76%) C++
16 4 (0.61%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 117 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.35%) Degree
4 32 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (4.10%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.28%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.28%) CISSP
8 14 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.97%) CCNP
9 13 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.67%) CCNA
10 11 (1.67%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.52%) CISM
12 9 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.37%) CCDP
13 8 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (1.21%) RHCE
14 4 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.25%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.43%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.43%) QA
3 14 (2.12%) GDPR
4 9 (1.37%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.91%) WCAG
6 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.76%) NIST
7 4 (0.61%) PMO
7 4 (0.61%) SLA
8 3 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 161 (24.43%) Docker
2 39 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (3.64%) vSphere
4 22 (3.34%) VMware NSX
5 19 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (2.73%) Active Directory
7 11 (1.67%) KVM
8 10 (1.52%) Hyper-V
9 7 (1.06%) Firmware
10 5 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 2 (0.30%) SRDF
12 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.15%) Ceph
13 1 (0.15%) NFS
13 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.15%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 225 (34.14%) Kubernetes
2 222 (33.69%) Terraform
3 155 (23.52%) Ansible
4 95 (14.42%) Grafana
5 85 (12.90%) Prometheus
6 23 (3.49%) Puppet
7 20 (3.03%) Control-M
7 20 (3.03%) IBM Guardium
7 20 (3.03%) Nessus
8 17 (2.58%) Argo
8 17 (2.58%) Istio
9 14 (2.12%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.97%) NetBackup
11 8 (1.21%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.61%) Packer
13 4 (0.61%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
15 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 73 (11.08%) Splunk
2 65 (9.86%) VMware
3 63 (9.56%) Microsoft
4 59 (8.95%) Google
4 59 (8.95%) Red Hat
5 31 (4.70%) Databricks
6 28 (4.25%) F5
7 27 (4.10%) Cisco
7 27 (4.10%) Oracle
8 20 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 20 (3.03%) Tenable
9 15 (2.28%) Blue Coat
9 15 (2.28%) McAfee
10 13 (1.97%) IBM
10 13 (1.97%) Pure Storage
11 10 (1.52%) Citrix
11 10 (1.52%) Commvault
11 10 (1.52%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.37%) Pega
12 9 (1.37%) Veritas