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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 582 258 290
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.08% 7.72% 6.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.90% 30.28% 23.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 175 177
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £615
90th Percentile £605 £725 £689
England median daily rate £525 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 26
10th Percentile £41.35 - £38.77
25th Percentile £41.94 - £45.88
Median hourly rate £54.22 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +17.41% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 -
90th Percentile - £83.50 £54.97
England median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% -7.69%

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 1,423 852 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.54% 25.49% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 555 887
10th Percentile £329 £347 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £645 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 56
10th Percentile £41.94 £39.98 £37.59
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +40.75% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £97.18 £74.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +8 293 £500 -6.98% 211
North West +7 245 £450 -5.26% 241
North East +6 48 £500 -8.26% 89
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 33 (5.67%) Confluence
2 25 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.26%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.92%) Apache
5 16 (2.75%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.89%) SAS
7 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.03%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.86%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.34%) IIS
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Documentum
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.55%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) SPSS
4 1 (0.17%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
1 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 243 (41.75%) AWS
2 153 (26.29%) Azure
3 138 (23.71%) GCP
4 80 (13.75%) Serverless
5 70 (12.03%) GitHub
6 47 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (7.04%) Power Platform
9 36 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (6.01%) Amazon S3
11 34 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (5.50%) OpenShift
14 27 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (2.58%) Datadog
17 14 (2.41%) SaaS
18 12 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
18 12 (2.06%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 55 (9.45%) Firewall
2 37 (6.36%) TCP/IP
3 28 (4.81%) DNS
4 18 (3.09%) SSL
5 16 (2.75%) Wireshark
6 15 (2.58%) HTTP
7 13 (2.23%) BIG-IP
7 13 (2.23%) VPN
8 11 (1.89%) Network Security
9 9 (1.55%) BGP
9 9 (1.55%) SSH
10 7 (1.20%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.20%) WAN
11 6 (1.03%) DMZ
11 6 (1.03%) VLAN
11 6 (1.03%) WebEx
12 5 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.86%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 5 (0.86%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (8.08%) NoSQL
3 40 (6.87%) Power BI
4 26 (4.47%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (4.12%) MySQL
5 24 (4.12%) SQL Server
6 19 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 18 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.41%) Hadoop
8 14 (2.41%) Oracle Database
9 13 (2.23%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.06%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.06%) Redis
10 12 (2.06%) Tableau
11 11 (1.89%) Power Query
11 11 (1.89%) RDBMS
12 10 (1.72%) Big Data
13 9 (1.55%) Apache Hive
14 8 (1.37%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 151 (25.95%) Jenkins
2 99 (17.01%) GitLab
3 70 (12.03%) Git
4 68 (11.68%) JIRA
5 27 (4.64%) Liquibase
6 19 (3.26%) Postman
7 12 (2.06%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.06%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.06%) Fiddler
7 12 (2.06%) Selenium
8 8 (1.37%) Gradle
8 8 (1.37%) TestRail
9 6 (1.03%) Maven
9 6 (1.03%) PyCharm
9 6 (1.03%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.86%) MLflow
10 5 (0.86%) SonarLint
11 3 (0.52%) Xcode
General
1 143 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.42%) Finance
3 87 (14.95%) Banking
4 82 (14.09%) Public Sector
5 80 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.44%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.06%) Legal
9 5 (0.86%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.69%) Games
10 4 (0.69%) Law
10 4 (0.69%) Marketing
10 4 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.52%) Retail
11 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.34%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 85 (14.60%) Developer
2 71 (12.20%) Senior
3 57 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 56 (9.62%) Data Engineer
5 48 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
6 44 (7.56%) Analyst
7 42 (7.22%) Lead
8 38 (6.53%) Python Developer
9 32 (5.50%) Network Engineer
10 31 (5.33%) Architect
10 31 (5.33%) Software Engineer
11 30 (5.15%) Automation Engineer
12 29 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (3.95%) Python Engineer
15 22 (3.78%) GCP Engineer
16 20 (3.44%) AWS DevOps
17 18 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 17 (2.92%) Data Analyst
18 17 (2.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.93%) REST
2 50 (8.59%) RESTful
3 44 (7.56%) Elastic Stack
4 34 (5.84%) Node.js
5 27 (4.64%) FastAPI
5 27 (4.64%) React
6 21 (3.61%) PySpark
7 19 (3.26%) YAML
8 16 (2.75%) Flask
8 16 (2.75%) Spring Boot
9 15 (2.58%) Kafka
9 15 (2.58%) OpenTelemetry
9 15 (2.58%) TensorFlow
10 14 (2.41%) JWT
11 13 (2.23%) .NET
11 13 (2.23%) HTML
12 11 (1.89%) OAuth
12 11 (1.89%) Spring
13 10 (1.72%) AngularJS
14 9 (1.55%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.50%) Public Cloud
5 21 (3.61%) Algorithms
5 21 (3.61%) NHS
6 20 (3.44%) Data Centre
7 19 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.89%) Credit Risk
10 9 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.03%) Clustering
13 6 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.03%) N-Tier
13 6 (1.03%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.03%) Tandem
14 5 (0.86%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 142 (24.40%) Linux
2 45 (7.73%) Windows
3 30 (5.15%) Unix
4 19 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.75%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.37%) CentOS
6 8 (1.37%) Solaris
6 8 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.52%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (41.92%) CI/CD
2 237 (40.72%) DevOps
3 157 (26.98%) Agile
4 156 (26.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 150 (25.77%) Containerisation
6 109 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (13.40%) Test Automation
8 72 (12.37%) Analytics
9 62 (10.65%) AI
10 61 (10.48%) Machine Learning
10 61 (10.48%) Observability
11 58 (9.97%) Microservices
12 56 (9.62%) Computer Science
12 56 (9.62%) ETL
12 56 (9.62%) High Availability
12 56 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
12 56 (9.62%) Software Engineering
13 53 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
13 53 (9.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 51 (8.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 135 (23.20%) Bash
2 111 (19.07%) SQL
3 97 (16.67%) Java
4 57 (9.79%) Go
5 55 (9.45%) PowerShell
6 47 (8.08%) JavaScript
7 35 (6.01%) Perl
8 34 (5.84%) TypeScript
9 29 (4.98%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.26%) Ruby
10 19 (3.26%) Scala
11 15 (2.58%) PHP
12 14 (2.41%) C#
13 13 (2.23%) R
14 11 (1.89%) C++
15 10 (1.72%) VBA
16 6 (1.03%) Bicep
16 6 (1.03%) C
17 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 117 (20.10%) Security Cleared
2 94 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.62%) Degree
4 42 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.15%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.23%) CCNP
9 11 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.89%) CCDP
10 9 (1.55%) CCNA
11 7 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.20%) RHCE
12 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.03%) CISM
12 6 (1.03%) CISSP
13 4 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.44%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.75%) QA
3 13 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.86%) GDPR
4 5 (0.86%) HIPAA
4 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.69%) PMO
5 4 (0.69%) SLA
5 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.52%) NIST
7 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.34%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 161 (27.66%) Docker
2 27 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (1.55%) vSphere
6 8 (1.37%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.52%) HDFS
8 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.52%) KVM
9 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.34%) Firmware
9 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Ceph
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 207 (35.57%) Terraform
2 184 (31.62%) Kubernetes
3 167 (28.69%) Ansible
4 86 (14.78%) Grafana
5 69 (11.86%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.44%) Puppet
7 19 (3.26%) NetBackup
8 12 (2.06%) Control-M
9 11 (1.89%) Istio
10 10 (1.72%) Argo
10 10 (1.72%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.72%) IBM Guardium
10 10 (1.72%) Nessus
10 10 (1.72%) yum
11 6 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.86%) Packer
13 4 (0.69%) Podman
14 3 (0.52%) SELinux
14 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (10.14%) Splunk
2 58 (9.97%) Microsoft
3 47 (8.08%) Oracle
3 47 (8.08%) Red Hat
3 47 (8.08%) VMware
4 44 (7.56%) Google
5 29 (4.98%) F5
6 27 (4.64%) Cisco
7 24 (4.12%) Databricks
8 20 (3.44%) Palo Alto
9 19 (3.26%) ServiceNow
10 15 (2.58%) Veritas
11 13 (2.23%) Blue Coat
11 13 (2.23%) Commvault
11 13 (2.23%) McAfee
12 12 (2.06%) Pega
13 10 (1.72%) Tenable
14 9 (1.55%) Citrix
14 9 (1.55%) Meraki
15 8 (1.37%) AppDynamics