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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 770 303 383
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.30% 8.78% 7.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.89% 30.82% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 221 231
10th Percentile £363 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -3.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £552 £550 £600
90th Percentile £615 £613 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £567
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.00% -5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 5
10th Percentile £28.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.62 - -
Median hourly rate £42.47 - £20.77
75th Percentile £60.25 - £46.18
90th Percentile £86.50 - £59.72
England median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.79% -26.92% -

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 1,838 983 1,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.98% 28.49% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 725 857
10th Percentile £350 £329 £317
25th Percentile £413 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £560 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £609 £625
England median daily rate £513 £521 £538
% change year-on-year -1.54% -3.25% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 9 55
10th Percentile £30.05 £31.70 £37.55
25th Percentile £47.33 £52.00 £43.57
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +45.83% +1.05%
75th Percentile £74.70 £88.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.65 £95.71 £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +2 427 £500 - 116
North West +5 266 £490 +3.16% 207
North East +10 89 £450 +2.86% 56
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 65 (8.44%) Apache Spark
2 38 (4.94%) Apache
3 35 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (4.29%) Confluence
5 24 (3.12%) Jupyter
6 17 (2.21%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.78%) SAS
8 3 (0.39%) nginx
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 16 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.13%) Odoo
3 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 281 (36.49%) AWS
2 235 (30.52%) Azure
3 151 (19.61%) GCP
4 121 (15.71%) GitHub
5 71 (9.22%) OpenShift
6 61 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
7 58 (7.53%) Power Platform
8 46 (5.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 45 (5.84%) Serverless
10 36 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (4.42%) OCI
12 25 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (2.99%) SaaS
14 22 (2.86%) Amazon S3
15 21 (2.73%) dbt
16 16 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.08%) Entra ID
17 15 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 14 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 76 (9.87%) Firewall
2 60 (7.79%) DNS
3 47 (6.10%) BIG-IP
4 38 (4.94%) TCP/IP
5 31 (4.03%) WAN
6 27 (3.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 24 (3.12%) BGP
8 22 (2.86%) OSPF
9 21 (2.73%) SD-WAN
10 20 (2.60%) Ethernet VPN
10 20 (2.60%) VXLAN
10 20 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (1.95%) HTTP
11 15 (1.95%) SAN
12 14 (1.82%) Network Security
12 14 (1.82%) VPN
13 13 (1.69%) SSL
14 12 (1.56%) DHCP
14 12 (1.56%) NAS
14 12 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (5.97%) Power BI
3 29 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.25%) Hadoop
5 22 (2.86%) Metadata
5 22 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 21 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.73%) NoSQL
7 20 (2.60%) Big Data
7 20 (2.60%) Tableau
8 18 (2.34%) BigQuery
9 17 (2.21%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.08%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.43%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.91%) Neo4j
14 7 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 143 (18.57%) Jenkins
2 87 (11.30%) JIRA
3 79 (10.26%) GitLab
4 55 (7.14%) Git
5 18 (2.34%) Postman
6 16 (2.08%) Gatling
7 14 (1.82%) Maven
8 10 (1.30%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.17%) Selenium
10 7 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.91%) Fiddler
11 6 (0.78%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.78%) JMeter
11 6 (0.78%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.65%) Liquibase
13 4 (0.52%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.52%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.52%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
General
1 154 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 123 (15.97%) Finance
3 103 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.40%) Banking
6 20 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.69%) Legal
8 10 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.17%) Publishing
10 8 (1.04%) Retail
11 5 (0.65%) Law
11 5 (0.65%) Marketing
12 4 (0.52%) Advertising
12 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.52%) Military
13 3 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.26%) Games
14 2 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (15.84%) Developer
2 109 (14.16%) Senior
3 78 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 71 (9.22%) Data Engineer
5 70 (9.09%) Python Developer
6 63 (8.18%) Lead
7 51 (6.62%) Architect
8 44 (5.71%) Security Engineer
9 39 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 36 (4.68%) Analyst
11 29 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 27 (3.51%) GCP Engineer
13 26 (3.38%) Python Engineer
14 25 (3.25%) Network Engineer
14 25 (3.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 24 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
16 23 (2.99%) Software Engineer
17 19 (2.47%) Data Analyst
17 19 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.36%) Node.js
2 44 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
2 44 (5.71%) REST
3 42 (5.45%) PySpark
4 41 (5.32%) React
5 40 (5.19%) JSON
6 37 (4.81%) Kafka
7 33 (4.29%) YAML
8 29 (3.77%) Playwright
9 23 (2.99%) Spring
10 22 (2.86%) FastAPI
11 21 (2.73%) Spring Boot
12 16 (2.08%) PyTorch
13 14 (1.82%) LangChain
14 13 (1.69%) Pandas
14 13 (1.69%) RESTful
15 11 (1.43%) Next.js
16 10 (1.30%) .NET
16 10 (1.30%) Flask
16 10 (1.30%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 114 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.66%) Data Centre
3 41 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (4.68%) Data Protection Act
5 29 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 21 (2.73%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.47%) Replication
10 16 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.69%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.69%) NHS
13 12 (1.56%) PKI
14 9 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
16 7 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 119 (15.45%) Linux
2 73 (9.48%) Windows
3 39 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (4.94%) Unix
5 19 (2.47%) Solaris
6 18 (2.34%) Windows Server
7 14 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.17%) VMS
9 8 (1.04%) CentOS
10 5 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.39%) AIX
11 3 (0.39%) zOS
12 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (49.48%) CI/CD
2 295 (38.31%) DevOps
3 195 (25.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 177 (22.99%) Agile
5 139 (18.05%) Containerisation
6 131 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
7 122 (15.84%) Analytics
8 111 (14.42%) Observability
9 107 (13.90%) AI
10 98 (12.73%) Migration
11 94 (12.21%) Data Engineering
12 92 (11.95%) Data Pipeline
13 89 (11.56%) Test Automation
14 74 (9.61%) High Availability
15 73 (9.48%) Machine Learning
16 70 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (8.83%) Data Modelling
17 68 (8.83%) ETL
18 67 (8.70%) Software Engineering
19 61 (7.92%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 158 (20.52%) SQL
2 142 (18.44%) Java
3 122 (15.84%) Bash
4 97 (12.60%) PowerShell
5 52 (6.75%) JavaScript
6 46 (5.97%) TypeScript
7 35 (4.55%) Go
8 24 (3.12%) Scala
9 18 (2.34%) Groovy
9 18 (2.34%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.08%) C#
11 13 (1.69%) Bicep
11 13 (1.69%) Perl
12 12 (1.56%) R
12 12 (1.56%) Rust
13 11 (1.43%) VBA
14 10 (1.30%) ActionScript
14 10 (1.30%) Ruby
15 4 (0.52%) C++
15 4 (0.52%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 147 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 119 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.58%) Degree
4 32 (4.16%) AWS Certification
5 24 (3.12%) CISSP
6 23 (2.99%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.17%) RHCE
10 7 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.91%) CISM
11 6 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.65%) CCNA
12 5 (0.65%) CCNP
13 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.52%) OCP
13 4 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 17 (2.21%) GDPR
3 16 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 12 (1.56%) QA
5 8 (1.04%) NIST
5 8 (1.04%) WCAG
6 7 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.65%) SLA
9 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) PMO
10 2 (0.26%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 148 (19.22%) Docker
2 33 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (3.25%) vSphere
5 24 (3.12%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.56%) Active Directory
7 11 (1.43%) Firmware
8 10 (1.30%) Hyper-V
9 9 (1.17%) KVM
9 9 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.65%) NFS
11 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.52%) SRDF
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.13%) Ceph
14 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 248 (32.21%) Terraform
2 196 (25.45%) Kubernetes
3 170 (22.08%) Ansible
4 61 (7.92%) Grafana
5 57 (7.40%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.12%) Argo
7 22 (2.86%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.08%) Istio
8 16 (2.08%) Puppet
9 15 (1.95%) Control-M
10 14 (1.82%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (1.82%) Nessus
11 11 (1.43%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.17%) HAProxy
13 8 (1.04%) NetBackup
14 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.78%) PowerCLI
15 5 (0.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 4 (0.52%) vRealize
17 3 (0.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 75 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.35%) Google
3 63 (8.18%) Red Hat
4 61 (7.92%) Splunk
5 59 (7.66%) Databricks
6 50 (6.49%) F5
7 49 (6.36%) VMware
8 32 (4.16%) ServiceNow
9 29 (3.77%) Oracle
9 29 (3.77%) Palo Alto
10 23 (2.99%) Cisco
11 22 (2.86%) Arista
12 20 (2.60%) Aruba
12 20 (2.60%) Pure Storage
13 18 (2.34%) IBM
14 16 (2.08%) Dynatrace
15 14 (1.82%) Tenable
16 12 (1.56%) Infoblox
17 11 (1.43%) Trend Micro
18 10 (1.30%) Dell