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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 703 281 369
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.11% 8.46% 7.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.26% 30.05% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 208 232
10th Percentile £363 £358 £411
25th Percentile £414 £412 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -2.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £551 £558 £600
90th Percentile £617 £650 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
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 £40.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% -36.00% -3.85%

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 1,704 935 1,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.94% 28.14% 25.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 684 842
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £411 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £569
90th Percentile £625 £615 £625
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 15 51
10th Percentile £38.62 £35.66 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.63 £43.57
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.72% +66.32% -3.62%
75th Percentile £74.26 £91.88 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.60 £100.62 £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 0 395 £481 -3.80% 151
North West +2 249 £500 +5.26% 301
North East +7 68 £475 +5.56% 114
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 41 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 29 (4.13%) Confluence
3 18 (2.56%) Apache
4 17 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.14%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.71%) SAS
9 3 (0.43%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 12 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.14%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 259 (36.84%) AWS
2 211 (30.01%) Azure
3 143 (20.34%) GCP
4 107 (15.22%) GitHub
5 78 (11.10%) OpenShift
6 56 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (7.40%) Power Platform
8 43 (6.12%) Serverless
9 40 (5.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 31 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (3.41%) OCI
13 23 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (2.99%) SaaS
15 16 (2.28%) dbt
16 15 (2.13%) Apigee
16 15 (2.13%) Entra ID
17 14 (1.99%) Vertex AI
18 13 (1.85%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.40%) DNS
2 51 (7.25%) Firewall
3 34 (4.84%) TCP/IP
4 32 (4.55%) BIG-IP
5 23 (3.27%) WAN
6 17 (2.42%) BGP
6 17 (2.42%) HTTP
7 15 (2.13%) OSPF
7 15 (2.13%) SD-WAN
8 14 (1.99%) Ethernet VPN
8 14 (1.99%) SAN
8 14 (1.99%) VXLAN
8 14 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (1.85%) VPN
9 13 (1.85%) Wireshark
10 11 (1.56%) NAS
10 11 (1.56%) Network Security
11 10 (1.42%) DHCP
11 10 (1.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (5.83%) Power BI
3 31 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.41%) Hadoop
5 23 (3.27%) Tableau
6 22 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 21 (2.99%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.70%) BigQuery
8 19 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (2.42%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.28%) Metadata
11 15 (2.13%) Big Data
12 12 (1.71%) Delta Lake
12 12 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.28%) MySQL
14 8 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (1.00%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.85%) Relational Database
17 5 (0.71%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 133 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 70 (9.96%) JIRA
3 61 (8.68%) GitLab
4 46 (6.54%) Git
5 24 (3.41%) Postman
6 15 (2.13%) Gatling
7 13 (1.85%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.71%) Maven
8 12 (1.71%) Selenium
9 9 (1.28%) Fiddler
10 7 (1.00%) Artifactory
10 7 (1.00%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.00%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.85%) JMeter
11 6 (0.85%) Liquibase
11 6 (0.85%) TestRail
12 5 (0.71%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.71%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.57%) NeoLoad
General
1 134 (19.06%) Social Skills
2 106 (15.08%) Finance
3 92 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.82%) Banking
6 20 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.14%) Legal
9 6 (0.85%) Retail
10 5 (0.71%) Law
10 5 (0.71%) Marketing
10 5 (0.71%) Publishing
11 4 (0.57%) Advertising
11 4 (0.57%) Military
12 3 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.43%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.28%) Games
13 2 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (17.35%) Developer
2 95 (13.51%) Senior
3 69 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 64 (9.10%) Python Developer
5 61 (8.68%) Data Engineer
5 61 (8.68%) Lead
6 48 (6.83%) Architect
7 40 (5.69%) Security Engineer
8 39 (5.55%) Analyst
9 30 (4.27%) GCP Engineer
10 27 (3.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 22 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (3.13%) Python Engineer
12 22 (3.13%) Software Engineer
13 20 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (2.84%) Network Engineer
14 19 (2.70%) Data Analyst
15 18 (2.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.83%) REST
2 45 (6.40%) Node.js
2 45 (6.40%) OpenTelemetry
3 38 (5.41%) React
4 37 (5.26%) Kafka
5 34 (4.84%) JSON
6 31 (4.41%) YAML
7 26 (3.70%) PySpark
8 25 (3.56%) Playwright
8 25 (3.56%) Spring
9 24 (3.41%) FastAPI
10 22 (3.13%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.42%) .NET
11 17 (2.42%) PyTorch
12 15 (2.13%) LDAP
13 14 (1.99%) LangChain
13 14 (1.99%) OpenID
14 13 (1.85%) Pandas
15 12 (1.71%) Flask
15 12 (1.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 84 (11.95%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.55%) Data Centre
3 36 (5.12%) Data Protection Act
4 35 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 22 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.13%) Replication
9 14 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.85%) NHS
10 13 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.42%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.42%) PKI
13 9 (1.28%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
15 7 (1.00%) Clustering
15 7 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 7 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 109 (15.50%) Linux
2 60 (8.53%) Windows
3 32 (4.55%) Unix
4 28 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.56%) Solaris
6 15 (2.13%) Windows Server
7 13 (1.85%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.14%) CentOS
8 8 (1.14%) VMS
9 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.71%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.43%) AIX
11 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.28%) zOS
12 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (46.51%) CI/CD
2 264 (37.55%) DevOps
3 172 (24.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 149 (21.19%) Agile
5 130 (18.49%) Containerisation
6 127 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (15.08%) Analytics
8 98 (13.94%) Observability
9 94 (13.37%) Migration
10 93 (13.23%) AI
11 87 (12.38%) Test Automation
12 79 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
13 73 (10.38%) ETL
13 73 (10.38%) High Availability
14 68 (9.67%) Data Engineering
15 66 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (8.96%) Machine Learning
17 62 (8.82%) Data Modelling
18 59 (8.39%) Software Engineering
19 57 (8.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 142 (20.20%) SQL
2 137 (19.49%) Java
3 117 (16.64%) Bash
4 80 (11.38%) PowerShell
5 59 (8.39%) JavaScript
6 48 (6.83%) TypeScript
7 31 (4.41%) Go
8 25 (3.56%) Scala
9 18 (2.56%) Groovy
10 17 (2.42%) C#
10 17 (2.42%) Shell Script
11 15 (2.13%) Bicep
11 15 (2.13%) Ruby
12 14 (1.99%) R
13 11 (1.56%) Perl
14 10 (1.42%) Rust
15 9 (1.28%) VBA
16 6 (0.85%) PHP
17 4 (0.57%) Cypher
17 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 120 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 96 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.27%) Degree
4 26 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 21 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.84%) CISSP
7 18 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.28%) CISM
9 9 (1.28%) RHCE
10 7 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.71%) CCNA
11 5 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.57%) CCNP
12 4 (0.57%) OCP
12 4 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.42%) GDPR
4 16 (2.28%) QA
5 13 (1.85%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.28%) WCAG
7 8 (1.14%) NIST
8 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.57%) SLA
12 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.28%) PMO
13 2 (0.28%) PSD2
14 1 (0.14%) GRC
14 1 (0.14%) HL7
14 1 (0.14%) SEPA
14 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 129 (18.35%) Docker
2 33 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (3.70%) VMware NSX
4 24 (3.41%) vSphere
5 11 (1.56%) Active Directory
6 10 (1.42%) Firmware
6 10 (1.42%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.28%) KVM
8 8 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.43%) NFS
10 3 (0.43%) SRDF
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.14%) Ceph
12 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.14%) Snort
12 1 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 222 (31.58%) Terraform
2 202 (28.73%) Kubernetes
3 163 (23.19%) Ansible
4 66 (9.39%) Grafana
5 61 (8.68%) Prometheus
6 21 (2.99%) Argo
6 21 (2.99%) vCenter Server
7 18 (2.56%) Puppet
8 17 (2.42%) Istio
9 15 (2.13%) Control-M
10 14 (1.99%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (1.99%) Nessus
11 9 (1.28%) HAProxy
12 7 (1.00%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.85%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.85%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 4 (0.57%) vRealize
15 3 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 70 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.39%) Splunk
3 57 (8.11%) Google
4 55 (7.82%) Red Hat
5 52 (7.40%) VMware
6 43 (6.12%) Databricks
7 35 (4.98%) F5
8 33 (4.69%) ServiceNow
9 28 (3.98%) Oracle
10 20 (2.84%) Cisco
10 20 (2.84%) Palo Alto
11 19 (2.70%) Pure Storage
12 15 (2.13%) Arista
12 15 (2.13%) IBM
13 14 (1.99%) Aruba
13 14 (1.99%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.99%) Tenable
14 11 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (1.42%) Infoblox
16 9 (1.28%) Blue Coat