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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 779 356 308
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 10.78% 9.33% 6.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.89% 34.70% 27.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 249 208
10th Percentile £363 £348 £380
25th Percentile £413 £400 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £503
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -4.62% -12.48%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £625 £614 £650
England median daily rate £534 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.89% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 3
10th Percentile £28.50 - -
25th Percentile £29.63 - -
Median hourly rate £47.75 - £46.18
75th Percentile £71.07 - £57.47
90th Percentile £87.50 - £64.24
England median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% -0.38%

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 1,905 1,026 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.37% 26.89% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 739 789
10th Percentile £350 £320 £318
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% -2.63% -8.65%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £610 £632
England median daily rate £520 £520 £545
% change year-on-year +0.05% -4.63% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 11 37
10th Percentile £29.96 £30.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £31.62 £41.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +13.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £86.63 £71.87
90th Percentile £85.80 £95.00 £80.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +2 414 £500 +2.04% 126
North West +5 290 £525 +10.53% 223
North East +2 88 £425 -2.86% 75
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 69 (8.86%) Apache Spark
2 41 (5.26%) Apache
3 37 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (4.49%) Confluence
5 26 (3.34%) Jupyter
6 17 (2.18%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.28%) SAS
8 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.51%) nginx
10 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 15 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 310 (39.79%) AWS
2 249 (31.96%) Azure
3 157 (20.15%) GCP
4 131 (16.82%) GitHub
5 71 (9.11%) OpenShift
6 63 (8.09%) GitHub Actions
7 59 (7.57%) Power Platform
8 43 (5.52%) Serverless
9 41 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 37 (4.75%) OCI
12 29 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (3.59%) SaaS
14 26 (3.34%) Amazon S3
15 22 (2.82%) dbt
16 21 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (1.93%) Snowflake
17 15 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 86 (11.04%) Firewall
2 56 (7.19%) DNS
3 44 (5.65%) BIG-IP
4 36 (4.62%) WAN
5 33 (4.24%) BGP
5 33 (4.24%) TCP/IP
6 29 (3.72%) OSPF
7 28 (3.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 27 (3.47%) Network Security
9 23 (2.95%) SD-WAN
10 21 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (2.57%) Ethernet VPN
11 20 (2.57%) VPN
11 20 (2.57%) VXLAN
12 16 (2.05%) SAN
13 13 (1.67%) NAS
13 13 (1.67%) WLAN
14 12 (1.54%) DHCP
14 12 (1.54%) HTTP
14 12 (1.54%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.16%) Power BI
3 33 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 26 (3.34%) Metadata
5 25 (3.21%) NoSQL
6 24 (3.08%) Hadoop
7 22 (2.82%) BigQuery
7 22 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.82%) Tableau
8 21 (2.70%) MongoDB
9 20 (2.57%) Big Data
10 15 (1.93%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.80%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.80%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 141 (18.10%) Jenkins
2 93 (11.94%) JIRA
3 79 (10.14%) GitLab
4 64 (8.22%) Git
5 15 (1.93%) Maven
6 14 (1.80%) Gatling
7 12 (1.54%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.41%) Selenium
9 10 (1.28%) Postman
10 9 (1.16%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.90%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.77%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.64%) Liquibase
13 5 (0.64%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.51%) JMeter
14 4 (0.51%) MSBuild
14 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio
15 3 (0.39%) Bugzilla
15 3 (0.39%) ERwin
General
1 156 (20.03%) Social Skills
2 138 (17.72%) Finance
3 107 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.32%) Banking
6 14 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.67%) Legal
8 11 (1.41%) Retail
9 10 (1.28%) Publishing
10 9 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.03%) Games
12 7 (0.90%) Military
13 6 (0.77%) Marketing
14 4 (0.51%) Advertising
14 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.26%) Law
16 2 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 117 (15.02%) Developer
1 117 (15.02%) Senior
2 92 (11.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (9.76%) Python Developer
4 72 (9.24%) Data Engineer
5 53 (6.80%) Lead
6 51 (6.55%) Security Engineer
7 41 (5.26%) Architect
8 40 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (4.49%) Analyst
10 34 (4.36%) Python Engineer
11 31 (3.98%) Network Engineer
11 31 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (3.59%) Software Engineer
13 27 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 25 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
15 23 (2.95%) Data Analyst
15 23 (2.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 22 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.03%) Node.js
2 46 (5.91%) REST
3 44 (5.65%) OpenTelemetry
3 44 (5.65%) PySpark
4 42 (5.39%) JSON
5 41 (5.26%) Kafka
6 37 (4.75%) React
7 24 (3.08%) FastAPI
8 22 (2.82%) Playwright
9 19 (2.44%) Spring
10 17 (2.18%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.93%) Spring Boot
12 14 (1.80%) LangChain
13 13 (1.67%) YAML
14 12 (1.54%) .NET
14 12 (1.54%) Pandas
14 12 (1.54%) RESTful
15 11 (1.41%) scikit-learn
16 10 (1.28%) Protocol Buffers
16 10 (1.28%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 126 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.06%) Data Centre
3 43 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 40 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 28 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 23 (2.95%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.70%) Replication
10 17 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 16 (2.05%) NHS
12 15 (1.93%) PKI
13 14 (1.80%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.67%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.67%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
16 7 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (15.79%) Linux
2 75 (9.63%) Windows
3 38 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (3.85%) Unix
5 17 (2.18%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.41%) Solaris
7 9 (1.16%) VMS
8 6 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.39%) AIX
10 3 (0.39%) zOS
11 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (49.55%) CI/CD
2 302 (38.77%) DevOps
3 213 (27.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 200 (25.67%) Agile
5 135 (17.33%) Containerisation
6 130 (16.69%) Analytics
7 129 (16.56%) Observability
7 129 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
8 115 (14.76%) AI
9 102 (13.09%) Data Engineering
10 101 (12.97%) Data Pipeline
11 91 (11.68%) Test Automation
12 83 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 81 (10.40%) Migration
14 80 (10.27%) Machine Learning
15 75 (9.63%) Software Engineering
16 72 (9.24%) High Availability
17 68 (8.73%) Platform Engineering
18 67 (8.60%) Data Modelling
19 65 (8.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 167 (21.44%) SQL
2 146 (18.74%) Bash
3 130 (16.69%) Java
4 116 (14.89%) PowerShell
5 52 (6.68%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 32 (4.11%) Go
8 22 (2.82%) Bicep
9 21 (2.70%) Groovy
10 19 (2.44%) Scala
11 15 (1.93%) C#
11 15 (1.93%) Rust
11 15 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.54%) R
13 10 (1.28%) ActionScript
14 9 (1.16%) VBA
15 6 (0.77%) Perl
16 5 (0.64%) C++
17 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 117 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.68%) Degree
4 39 (5.01%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.72%) CISSP
6 27 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (2.18%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.03%) CCNP
12 7 (0.90%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.77%) CCNA
13 6 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.51%) CISM
15 4 (0.51%) OCP
15 4 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.93%) Data Quality
2 17 (2.18%) GDPR
3 16 (2.05%) QA
4 12 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.28%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.16%) NIST
7 7 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.90%) WCAG
8 6 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.51%) HL7
10 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.26%) SLA
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.13%) PSD2
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 152 (19.51%) Docker
2 33 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (3.21%) vSphere
5 20 (2.57%) VMware NSX
6 15 (1.93%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.28%) Firmware
7 10 (1.28%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.03%) KVM
10 5 (0.64%) NFS
11 4 (0.51%) SRDF
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 1 (0.13%) Ceph
14 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 275 (35.30%) Terraform
2 206 (26.44%) Kubernetes
3 161 (20.67%) Ansible
4 66 (8.47%) Grafana
5 63 (8.09%) Prometheus
6 29 (3.72%) Argo
7 22 (2.82%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.05%) Control-M
9 15 (1.93%) IBM Guardium
9 15 (1.93%) Nessus
9 15 (1.93%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.28%) Istio
11 9 (1.16%) HAProxy
12 8 (1.03%) NetBackup
12 8 (1.03%) Puppet
13 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.77%) PowerCLI
15 5 (0.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 4 (0.51%) Kustomize
16 4 (0.51%) vRealize
Vendors
1 86 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.11%) Google
3 64 (8.22%) Databricks
4 60 (7.70%) Splunk
5 47 (6.03%) Red Hat
6 46 (5.91%) F5
7 45 (5.78%) VMware
8 34 (4.36%) Palo Alto
9 28 (3.59%) Cisco
10 27 (3.47%) ServiceNow
11 25 (3.21%) Arista
12 24 (3.08%) Aruba
13 22 (2.82%) IBM
14 21 (2.70%) Dynatrace
15 20 (2.57%) Pure Storage
16 17 (2.18%) Oracle
17 15 (1.93%) Tenable
18 12 (1.54%) Infoblox
18 12 (1.54%) Trend Micro
19 11 (1.41%) SAP