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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 683 279 357
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.13% 8.52% 7.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.65% 30.06% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 211 218
10th Percentile £358 £367 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £600
90th Percentile £619 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 5
10th Percentile £31.84 - -
25th Percentile £37.86 - -
Median hourly rate £46.50 - £20.77
75th Percentile £71.20 - £46.18
90th Percentile £88.50 - £59.72
England median hourly rate £55.00 £42.50 £62.18
% change year-on-year +29.41% -31.65% -4.34%

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 1,680 928 1,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.38% 28.35% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 679 870
10th Percentile £349 £356 £318
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.65%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 14 48
10th Percentile £41.94 £34.68 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.31 £44.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +60.53% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £94.67 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.60 £100.97 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.07%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +1 388 £479 -4.20% 102
North West +3 244 £500 +5.26% 201
North East +9 59 £475 -1.30% 76
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 38 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.95%) Confluence
3 16 (2.34%) Apache
3 16 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.02%) SAS
6 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.44%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 15 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.29%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.15%) Odoo
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 264 (38.65%) AWS
2 203 (29.72%) Azure
3 140 (20.50%) GCP
4 113 (16.54%) GitHub
5 77 (11.27%) OpenShift
6 60 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
7 51 (7.47%) Serverless
8 49 (7.17%) Power Platform
9 39 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 34 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (2.93%) Amazon S3
15 19 (2.78%) SaaS
16 17 (2.49%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (2.49%) Entra ID
17 16 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (2.34%) OCI
18 15 (2.20%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.76%) DNS
2 45 (6.59%) Firewall
3 33 (4.83%) TCP/IP
4 25 (3.66%) BIG-IP
5 18 (2.64%) WAN
6 16 (2.34%) HTTP
7 13 (1.90%) VPN
7 13 (1.90%) Wireshark
8 12 (1.76%) BGP
8 12 (1.76%) SAN
8 12 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.46%) LAN
9 10 (1.46%) Network Security
9 10 (1.46%) OSPF
9 10 (1.46%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.46%) SSL
10 9 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 9 (1.32%) NAS
10 9 (1.32%) VXLAN
11 8 (1.17%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (5.71%) Power BI
3 30 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.51%) Hadoop
5 24 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.22%) Tableau
7 21 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.78%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.49%) Data Lake
10 15 (2.20%) Metadata
11 12 (1.76%) Big Data
11 12 (1.76%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.61%) DynamoDB
13 10 (1.46%) MySQL
13 10 (1.46%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.88%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 131 (19.18%) Jenkins
2 64 (9.37%) JIRA
3 56 (8.20%) GitLab
4 47 (6.88%) Git
5 24 (3.51%) Postman
6 13 (1.90%) Gatling
7 12 (1.76%) Maven
7 12 (1.76%) Selenium
8 11 (1.61%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.32%) Fiddler
10 7 (1.02%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.88%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.88%) Liquibase
11 6 (0.88%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.88%) TestRail
12 5 (0.73%) JMeter
13 4 (0.59%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.59%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 132 (19.33%) Social Skills
2 103 (15.08%) Finance
3 94 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.05%) Banking
6 17 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.02%) Legal
7 7 (1.02%) Retail
8 5 (0.73%) Publishing
9 4 (0.59%) Advertising
9 4 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.59%) Law
9 4 (0.59%) Marketing
10 3 (0.44%) Military
11 2 (0.29%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.29%) Games
11 2 (0.29%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.29%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (18.01%) Developer
2 90 (13.18%) Senior
3 64 (9.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 63 (9.22%) Data Engineer
5 61 (8.93%) Lead
6 60 (8.78%) Python Developer
7 49 (7.17%) Architect
8 41 (6.00%) Analyst
9 36 (5.27%) Security Engineer
10 33 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.25%) GCP Engineer
13 22 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 21 (3.07%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.93%) Data Analyst
15 20 (2.93%) Network Engineer
15 20 (2.93%) Python Engineer
15 20 (2.93%) Software Engineer
16 19 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.73%) REST
2 45 (6.59%) OpenTelemetry
3 39 (5.71%) Node.js
4 38 (5.56%) Kafka
5 37 (5.42%) React
6 32 (4.69%) JSON
7 30 (4.39%) YAML
8 25 (3.66%) FastAPI
8 25 (3.66%) PySpark
9 24 (3.51%) Spring
10 23 (3.37%) Playwright
11 21 (3.07%) Spring Boot
12 17 (2.49%) .NET
12 17 (2.49%) PyTorch
13 15 (2.20%) LDAP
14 14 (2.05%) LangChain
14 14 (2.05%) OpenID
14 14 (2.05%) Pandas
14 14 (2.05%) RESTful
15 13 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
3 31 (4.54%) Data Centre
4 30 (4.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (3.07%) Security Posture
7 20 (2.93%) NHS
8 13 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.90%) Replication
9 10 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (1.02%) IoT
11 7 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (0.88%) Clustering
12 6 (0.88%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 108 (15.81%) Linux
2 50 (7.32%) Windows
3 30 (4.39%) Unix
4 27 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.20%) Solaris
6 13 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.76%) Windows Server
8 8 (1.17%) CentOS
8 8 (1.17%) VMS
9 3 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.29%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.29%) zOS
11 1 (0.15%) AIX
11 1 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (46.71%) CI/CD
2 261 (38.21%) DevOps
3 172 (25.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 149 (21.82%) Agile
5 134 (19.62%) Containerisation
6 129 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (15.67%) Analytics
8 100 (14.64%) Observability
9 88 (12.88%) Migration
9 88 (12.88%) Test Automation
10 84 (12.30%) AI
11 75 (10.98%) Data Pipeline
12 73 (10.69%) ETL
13 66 (9.66%) Data Engineering
13 66 (9.66%) High Availability
14 65 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 65 (9.52%) Data Modelling
15 63 (9.22%) Machine Learning
16 59 (8.64%) Software Engineering
17 58 (8.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (21.23%) SQL
2 127 (18.59%) Java
3 114 (16.69%) Bash
4 70 (10.25%) PowerShell
5 56 (8.20%) JavaScript
6 54 (7.91%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.95%) Go
8 25 (3.66%) Scala
9 18 (2.64%) Groovy
10 17 (2.49%) C#
11 16 (2.34%) R
11 16 (2.34%) Ruby
11 16 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.20%) Bicep
13 11 (1.61%) VBA
14 10 (1.46%) Perl
14 10 (1.46%) PHP
15 7 (1.02%) Rust
16 4 (0.59%) Cypher
16 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 122 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 99 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 28 (4.10%) Degree
4 25 (3.66%) AWS Certification
5 20 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.64%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.64%) CISSP
7 12 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.32%) CISM
8 9 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.32%) RHCE
9 7 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.73%) CCNA
10 5 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.59%) CCNP
11 4 (0.59%) OCP
11 4 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.49%) QA
4 16 (2.34%) GDPR
5 13 (1.90%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.32%) NIST
6 9 (1.32%) WCAG
7 8 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.59%) PMO
10 4 (0.59%) SLA
11 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.29%) PSD2
13 1 (0.15%) GRC
13 1 (0.15%) SEPA
13 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 138 (20.20%) Docker
2 33 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.81%) VMware NSX
4 25 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (3.51%) vSphere
6 12 (1.76%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.46%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.32%) KVM
9 8 (1.17%) Firmware
9 8 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.44%) NFS
11 3 (0.44%) SRDF
12 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.15%) Ceph
13 1 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.15%) Snort
13 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 229 (33.53%) Terraform
2 208 (30.45%) Kubernetes
3 148 (21.67%) Ansible
4 73 (10.69%) Grafana
5 64 (9.37%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.07%) Argo
6 21 (3.07%) vCenter Server
7 18 (2.64%) Puppet
8 16 (2.34%) Istio
9 15 (2.20%) Control-M
10 14 (2.05%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (2.05%) Nessus
11 9 (1.32%) HAProxy
12 7 (1.02%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.88%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.88%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.59%) Packer
14 4 (0.59%) vRealize
15 3 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 70 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.93%) Splunk
3 55 (8.05%) Red Hat
4 54 (7.91%) Google
5 50 (7.32%) VMware
6 42 (6.15%) Databricks
7 28 (4.10%) F5
8 27 (3.95%) ServiceNow
9 25 (3.66%) Oracle
10 19 (2.78%) Pure Storage
11 18 (2.64%) Cisco
12 14 (2.05%) Tenable
13 13 (1.90%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.76%) Palo Alto
15 10 (1.46%) Arista
16 9 (1.32%) Aruba
16 9 (1.32%) Blue Coat
16 9 (1.32%) IBM
16 9 (1.32%) McAfee
17 8 (1.17%) Infoblox