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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 21 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 675 274 352
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.26% 8.59% 7.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.81% 30.75% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 205 212
10th Percentile £358 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -0.10% -11.66%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £615 £654 £650
England median daily rate £518 £554 £550
% change year-on-year -6.50% +0.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 7
10th Percentile £32.75 - -
25th Percentile £40.58 £72.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £68.13 £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +87.50% -17.59%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £87.50 - £55.21
England median hourly rate £55.50 £50.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +11.00% -6.98% -17.31%

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 1,654 891 1,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.59% 27.94% 25.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,124 648 857
10th Percentile £347 £350 £314
25th Percentile £402 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £623 £638 £625
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 14 52
10th Percentile £42.20 £34.68 £37.70
25th Percentile £52.50 £65.25 £44.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £78.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +65.79% +1.49%
75th Percentile £74.26 £94.67 £59.06
90th Percentile £84.65 £100.97 £72.44
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +1 374 £480 -4.00% 164
North West +5 254 £500 +1.63% 230
North East +10 56 £475 -3.80% 83
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 37 (5.48%) Apache Spark
2 34 (5.04%) Confluence
3 17 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.93%) Apache
6 12 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.48%) SAS
8 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.44%) nginx
10 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Odoo
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 252 (37.33%) AWS
2 195 (28.89%) Azure
3 146 (21.63%) GCP
4 119 (17.63%) GitHub
5 75 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 61 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
7 56 (8.30%) Serverless
8 40 (5.93%) Power Platform
9 38 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (5.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 30 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (3.56%) Amazon S3
13 23 (3.41%) Entra ID
14 21 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.22%) Apigee
17 14 (2.07%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.70%) Firewall
2 51 (7.56%) DNS
3 33 (4.89%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.52%) HTTP
4 17 (2.52%) VPN
5 16 (2.37%) BIG-IP
6 14 (2.07%) Wireshark
7 12 (1.78%) SAN
8 11 (1.63%) WAN
9 10 (1.48%) LAN
9 10 (1.48%) SSL
10 9 (1.33%) BGP
10 9 (1.33%) NAS
10 9 (1.33%) Network Security
10 9 (1.33%) VLAN
11 7 (1.04%) DHCP
11 7 (1.04%) SNMP
12 6 (0.89%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.89%) WebEx
12 6 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.44%) NoSQL
3 29 (4.30%) Power BI
4 22 (3.26%) Hadoop
4 22 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.11%) MongoDB
6 16 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.22%) MySQL
7 15 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.07%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.07%) Metadata
9 12 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.78%) Tableau
10 10 (1.48%) Big Data
10 10 (1.48%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 141 (20.89%) Jenkins
2 70 (10.37%) JIRA
3 53 (7.85%) GitLab
4 47 (6.96%) Git
5 24 (3.56%) Postman
6 14 (2.07%) Selenium
7 13 (1.93%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.48%) Fiddler
9 9 (1.33%) Maven
10 8 (1.19%) Gatling
10 8 (1.19%) Liquibase
10 8 (1.19%) TestRail
11 6 (0.89%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.89%) PyCharm
11 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.74%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.74%) JMeter
13 4 (0.59%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.59%) NeoLoad
General
1 136 (20.15%) Social Skills
2 106 (15.70%) Finance
3 91 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 62 (9.19%) Banking
6 18 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.07%) Legal
8 6 (0.89%) Retail
9 5 (0.74%) Publishing
10 4 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.59%) Law
11 3 (0.44%) Advertising
11 3 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.44%) Marketing
12 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.30%) Games
12 2 (0.30%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.30%) Military
12 2 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (17.48%) Developer
2 78 (11.56%) Senior
3 65 (9.63%) Data Engineer
4 59 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 58 (8.59%) Lead
5 58 (8.59%) Python Developer
6 49 (7.26%) Architect
7 42 (6.22%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (5.48%) Analyst
9 32 (4.74%) Security Engineer
10 31 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (4.30%) GCP Engineer
12 26 (3.85%) Network Engineer
13 23 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 22 (3.26%) Software Engineer
15 21 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
15 21 (3.11%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.67%) Senior Developer
17 17 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (2.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.41%) REST
2 41 (6.07%) OpenTelemetry
3 38 (5.63%) Node.js
4 37 (5.48%) React
5 34 (5.04%) Kafka
6 33 (4.89%) JSON
7 29 (4.30%) YAML
8 24 (3.56%) Spring
9 22 (3.26%) FastAPI
9 22 (3.26%) Spring Boot
10 21 (3.11%) PySpark
11 20 (2.96%) Playwright
12 18 (2.67%) .NET
13 17 (2.52%) Pandas
13 17 (2.52%) PyTorch
13 17 (2.52%) RESTful
14 15 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (2.22%) LDAP
14 15 (2.22%) TensorFlow
15 14 (2.07%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.89%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 30 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 26 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (2.96%) NHS
6 20 (2.96%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.37%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.78%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.78%) Replication
9 10 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.33%) Clustering
10 9 (1.33%) Credit Risk
10 9 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.04%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (1.04%) IoT
12 6 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 124 (18.37%) Linux
2 60 (8.89%) Windows
3 36 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (3.41%) Unix
5 20 (2.96%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.93%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.33%) CentOS
7 9 (1.33%) Solaris
8 6 (0.89%) VMS
9 3 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) AIX
11 1 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (46.52%) CI/CD
2 269 (39.85%) DevOps
3 164 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 150 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 145 (21.48%) Agile
6 132 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (15.85%) Analytics
8 97 (14.37%) Observability
9 87 (12.89%) Test Automation
10 80 (11.85%) AI
10 80 (11.85%) Migration
11 73 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
11 73 (10.81%) ETL
12 71 (10.52%) Machine Learning
13 69 (10.22%) Data Modelling
14 67 (9.93%) Data Engineering
15 66 (9.78%) Platform Engineering
16 64 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (8.89%) High Availability
17 60 (8.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (20.15%) SQL
2 133 (19.70%) Bash
3 115 (17.04%) Java
4 83 (12.30%) PowerShell
5 59 (8.74%) JavaScript
6 55 (8.15%) TypeScript
7 26 (3.85%) Go
8 24 (3.56%) Perl
9 21 (3.11%) C#
10 19 (2.81%) Scala
11 18 (2.67%) Groovy
12 16 (2.37%) Ruby
13 15 (2.22%) Bicep
14 13 (1.93%) R
14 13 (1.93%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.93%) VBA
15 10 (1.48%) PHP
16 7 (1.04%) Rust
17 4 (0.59%) Cypher
17 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 125 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.19%) Degree
4 24 (3.56%) AWS Certification
5 17 (2.52%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.37%) CISSP
7 14 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.93%) CCNA
8 13 (1.93%) CCNP
9 12 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.78%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.33%) CCDP
10 9 (1.33%) CISM
11 8 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.19%) RHCE
12 7 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.37%) GDPR
4 15 (2.22%) QA
5 11 (1.63%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.19%) WCAG
7 7 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.89%) NIST
8 6 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.59%) PMO
10 4 (0.59%) SLA
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.30%) PSD2
11 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) SEPA
12 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 143 (21.19%) Docker
2 43 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (4.44%) vSphere
4 27 (4.00%) VMware NSX
5 23 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (3.11%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.48%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.48%) KVM
8 8 (1.19%) Firmware
8 8 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.44%) SRDF
11 2 (0.30%) NFS
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.15%) Ceph
12 1 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.15%) QEMU
12 1 (0.15%) Snort
Systems Management
1 227 (33.63%) Terraform
2 209 (30.96%) Kubernetes
3 138 (20.44%) Ansible
4 71 (10.52%) Grafana
5 62 (9.19%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.11%) Argo
6 21 (3.11%) vCenter Server
7 19 (2.81%) Puppet
8 17 (2.52%) Istio
9 11 (1.63%) Control-M
9 11 (1.63%) IBM Guardium
9 11 (1.63%) Nessus
10 9 (1.33%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.89%) PowerCLI
11 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.59%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 70 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.78%) VMware
3 65 (9.63%) Red Hat
3 65 (9.63%) Splunk
4 53 (7.85%) Google
5 43 (6.37%) Databricks
6 31 (4.59%) Cisco
7 23 (3.41%) F5
7 23 (3.41%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.81%) Oracle
8 19 (2.81%) Pure Storage
9 11 (1.63%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.63%) Tenable
10 10 (1.48%) Blue Coat
10 10 (1.48%) Citrix
10 10 (1.48%) McAfee
11 8 (1.19%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.04%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.04%) Infoblox
12 7 (1.04%) Veritas