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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Python 667 251 355
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.41% 7.63% 7.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.90% 28.62% 27.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 173 209
10th Percentile £351 £363 £396
25th Percentile £410 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -11.16%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £615 £725 £675
England median daily rate £520 £575 £558
% change year-on-year -9.57% +3.14% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 15
10th Percentile £37.04 £73.50 £20.77
25th Percentile £41.94 £75.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £58.63 £80.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.71% +73.24% -12.87%
75th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 £56.72
England median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 1,592 877 1,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.62% 26.65% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 597 911
10th Percentile £340 £336 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £544 £563 £551
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 17 63
10th Percentile £41.94 £29.38 £37.78
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.57 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +37.89% +1.49%
75th Percentile £75.57 £86.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £86.40 £98.79 £74.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +7 357 £487 -5.80% 108
North West +13 270 £470 -2.19% 147
North East +2 46 £475 -9.52% 49
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 38 (5.70%) Confluence
2 28 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (3.00%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.80%) Apache
5 12 (1.80%) SAS
6 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Pig
8 3 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 255 (38.23%) AWS
2 175 (26.24%) Azure
3 159 (23.84%) GCP
4 99 (14.84%) GitHub
5 75 (11.24%) Serverless
6 66 (9.90%) OpenShift
7 50 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (6.30%) Power Platform
9 39 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (5.40%) Amazon S3
11 36 (5.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 28 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (3.00%) Entra ID
17 16 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
18 15 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 64 (9.60%) Firewall
2 49 (7.35%) DNS
3 41 (6.15%) TCP/IP
4 22 (3.30%) VPN
5 21 (3.15%) SSL
6 20 (3.00%) BIG-IP
7 18 (2.70%) HTTP
8 17 (2.55%) Wireshark
9 14 (2.10%) Network Security
10 9 (1.35%) SSH
10 9 (1.35%) WAN
11 8 (1.20%) BGP
12 7 (1.05%) LAN
12 7 (1.05%) VLAN
13 6 (0.90%) SAN
13 6 (0.90%) WebEx
14 5 (0.75%) DMZ
14 5 (0.75%) SNMP
14 5 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
14 5 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (7.35%) NoSQL
3 34 (5.10%) Power BI
4 24 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (3.30%) Hadoop
6 19 (2.85%) MySQL
7 18 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.40%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.10%) SQL Server
10 13 (1.95%) Big Data
10 13 (1.95%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.95%) MongoDB
10 13 (1.95%) Tableau
11 12 (1.80%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.65%) Metadata
13 8 (1.20%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.20%) Power Query
13 8 (1.20%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 167 (25.04%) Jenkins
2 96 (14.39%) GitLab
3 87 (13.04%) JIRA
4 52 (7.80%) Git
5 23 (3.45%) Liquibase
5 23 (3.45%) Postman
6 15 (2.25%) Fiddler
7 12 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.80%) Selenium
8 11 (1.65%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.20%) TestRail
10 6 (0.90%) MLflow
10 6 (0.90%) PyCharm
10 6 (0.90%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.75%) JMeter
12 4 (0.60%) Gatling
12 4 (0.60%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.60%) Maven
12 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 153 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 128 (19.19%) Finance
3 97 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (13.94%) Banking
5 65 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.85%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.95%) Legal
9 5 (0.75%) Marketing
10 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.60%) Law
10 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.60%) Retail
11 3 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.45%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.30%) Advertising
12 2 (0.30%) Military
12 2 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 102 (15.29%) Developer
2 80 (11.99%) Senior
3 69 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 66 (9.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 58 (8.70%) Lead
6 53 (7.95%) Python Developer
7 46 (6.90%) Analyst
8 42 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
9 41 (6.15%) Architect
10 39 (5.85%) GCP Engineer
11 34 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.95%) Network Engineer
13 32 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 31 (4.65%) Software Engineer
15 24 (3.60%) Python Engineer
15 24 (3.60%) Security Engineer
16 21 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 18 (2.70%) Automation Engineer
17 18 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
17 18 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.75%) REST
2 41 (6.15%) OpenTelemetry
3 40 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
3 40 (6.00%) RESTful
4 39 (5.85%) Node.js
5 29 (4.35%) FastAPI
5 29 (4.35%) Kafka
6 27 (4.05%) React
6 27 (4.05%) YAML
7 24 (3.60%) PySpark
8 21 (3.15%) JSON
9 18 (2.70%) PyTorch
10 17 (2.55%) Flask
11 16 (2.40%) LangChain
11 16 (2.40%) TensorFlow
12 15 (2.25%) Spring
13 14 (2.10%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.95%) .NET
14 13 (1.95%) Playwright
15 12 (1.80%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.95%) Public Cloud
4 32 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 27 (4.05%) Data Centre
6 22 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (3.00%) Security Posture
9 17 (2.55%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.55%) NHS
10 14 (2.10%) Credit Risk
10 14 (2.10%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.95%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.90%) Clustering
13 6 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (0.90%) Tandem
14 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.75%) IoT
14 5 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 145 (21.74%) Linux
2 59 (8.85%) Windows
3 31 (4.65%) Unix
4 30 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (3.00%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.35%) CentOS
8 8 (1.20%) Solaris
9 4 (0.60%) VMS
10 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (46.63%) CI/CD
2 275 (41.23%) DevOps
3 174 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 171 (25.64%) Agile
5 169 (25.34%) Containerisation
6 123 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (14.09%) Analytics
8 88 (13.19%) Observability
9 84 (12.59%) Test Automation
10 82 (12.29%) Machine Learning
11 79 (11.84%) AI
12 75 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
13 74 (11.09%) ETL
14 70 (10.49%) Data Engineering
14 70 (10.49%) Software Engineering
15 67 (10.04%) High Availability
15 67 (10.04%) Migration
16 66 (9.90%) Data Modelling
17 63 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
17 63 (9.45%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 137 (20.54%) Bash
2 133 (19.94%) SQL
3 94 (14.09%) Java
4 75 (11.24%) PowerShell
5 54 (8.10%) JavaScript
6 50 (7.50%) Go
7 44 (6.60%) TypeScript
8 29 (4.35%) Perl
9 19 (2.85%) C#
9 19 (2.85%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.70%) Ruby
11 16 (2.40%) Scala
12 12 (1.80%) R
13 11 (1.65%) Bicep
13 11 (1.65%) Groovy
13 11 (1.65%) PHP
13 11 (1.65%) VBA
14 8 (1.20%) Rust
15 5 (0.75%) C++
16 4 (0.60%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 118 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 64 (9.60%) Degree
4 41 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 30 (4.50%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.25%) CISSP
8 13 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.95%) CCNP
8 13 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.65%) CCNA
10 11 (1.65%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.50%) CISM
12 9 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.35%) CCDP
13 8 (1.20%) RHCE
14 4 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.40%) QA
3 15 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.80%) GDPR
5 9 (1.35%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.75%) NIST
7 5 (0.75%) WCAG
8 4 (0.60%) PMO
8 4 (0.60%) SLA
9 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.15%) PSD2
11 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 170 (25.49%) Docker
2 37 (5.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.30%) VMware NSX
3 22 (3.30%) vSphere
4 18 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.55%) Active Directory
6 10 (1.50%) KVM
7 9 (1.35%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.90%) Firmware
9 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.30%) SRDF
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.15%) Ceph
11 1 (0.15%) NFS
11 1 (0.15%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 233 (34.93%) Terraform
2 223 (33.43%) Kubernetes
3 162 (24.29%) Ansible
4 99 (14.84%) Grafana
5 86 (12.89%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.15%) Control-M
6 21 (3.15%) Puppet
7 19 (2.85%) IBM Guardium
7 19 (2.85%) Nessus
8 16 (2.40%) Istio
9 15 (2.25%) Argo
10 13 (1.95%) NetBackup
10 13 (1.95%) vCenter Server
11 8 (1.20%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.60%) Packer
14 3 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.45%) PowerCLI
15 2 (0.30%) linkerd
Vendors
1 79 (11.84%) Splunk
2 66 (9.90%) Google
3 65 (9.75%) Microsoft
4 63 (9.45%) VMware
5 58 (8.70%) Red Hat
6 34 (5.10%) F5
7 33 (4.95%) Databricks
8 31 (4.65%) Oracle
9 26 (3.90%) Cisco
10 20 (3.00%) ServiceNow
11 19 (2.85%) Tenable
12 16 (2.40%) Blue Coat
12 16 (2.40%) McAfee
12 16 (2.40%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.95%) IBM
14 12 (1.80%) Pure Storage
15 11 (1.65%) Pega
16 10 (1.50%) Citrix
16 10 (1.50%) Commvault
16 10 (1.50%) Dynatrace