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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 671 282 358
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 10.95% 8.64% 7.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.28% 30.69% 29.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 215 219
10th Percentile £358 £370 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £600
90th Percentile £614 £650 £650
England median daily rate £523 £551 £563
% change year-on-year -5.17% -2.04% -6.25%
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 £42.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +29.41% -31.45% -4.62%

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 1,666 919 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.18% 28.16% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 671 867
10th Percentile £347 £352 £320
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £623 £638 £625
England median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.78% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 14 48
10th Percentile £41.94 £34.68 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.31 £44.72
Median hourly rate £62.82 £76.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% +60.53% +1.49%
75th Percentile £74.26 £94.67 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.65 £100.97 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%

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 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 27 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 27 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 +1 386 £475 -5.00% 116
North West +3 239 £490 +3.16% 210
North East +7 52 £475 -1.30% 87
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 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 27 (4.02%) Confluence
3 15 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.09%) Apache
5 11 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.49%) SAS
7 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.15%) Odoo
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 253 (37.70%) AWS
2 195 (29.06%) Azure
3 143 (21.31%) GCP
4 116 (17.29%) GitHub
5 77 (11.48%) OpenShift
6 63 (9.39%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (7.90%) Serverless
8 48 (7.15%) Power Platform
9 39 (5.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 36 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
11 35 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (2.98%) Amazon S3
15 18 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (2.53%) Entra ID
17 16 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
18 15 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (2.24%) Apigee
19 14 (2.09%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.90%) DNS
2 36 (5.37%) Firewall
3 33 (4.92%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.53%) HTTP
5 16 (2.38%) BIG-IP
6 13 (1.94%) VPN
6 13 (1.94%) Wireshark
7 12 (1.79%) SAN
8 11 (1.64%) WAN
9 10 (1.49%) LAN
9 10 (1.49%) Network Security
9 10 (1.49%) SSL
10 9 (1.34%) NAS
11 8 (1.19%) DHCP
12 6 (0.89%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.60%) BGP
13 4 (0.60%) iSCSI
13 4 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (5.66%) Power BI
3 30 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.73%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (3.58%) Hadoop
5 24 (3.58%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.28%) Tableau
7 19 (2.83%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.68%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.24%) Metadata
10 12 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.79%) Big Data
10 12 (1.79%) Delta Lake
10 12 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.64%) MySQL
11 11 (1.64%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.49%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.89%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 134 (19.97%) Jenkins
2 66 (9.84%) JIRA
3 48 (7.15%) Git
4 47 (7.00%) GitLab
5 26 (3.87%) Postman
6 14 (2.09%) Selenium
7 13 (1.94%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.94%) Gatling
8 12 (1.79%) Maven
9 9 (1.34%) Fiddler
10 8 (1.19%) TestRail
11 7 (1.04%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.89%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.89%) Liquibase
12 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.75%) JMeter
14 4 (0.60%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.60%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 130 (19.37%) Social Skills
2 106 (15.80%) Finance
3 95 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.35%) Banking
6 18 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.04%) Legal
8 6 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (0.89%) Retail
9 5 (0.75%) Publishing
10 4 (0.60%) Advertising
10 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.60%) Law
10 4 (0.60%) Marketing
11 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.30%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.30%) Military
11 2 (0.30%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (18.18%) Developer
2 77 (11.48%) Senior
3 64 (9.54%) Data Engineer
4 62 (9.24%) Python Developer
5 61 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 59 (8.79%) Lead
7 52 (7.75%) Architect
8 42 (6.26%) Analyst
9 34 (5.07%) Security Engineer
10 33 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
11 31 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.32%) GCP Engineer
13 23 (3.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 21 (3.13%) Data Analyst
14 21 (3.13%) Python Engineer
14 21 (3.13%) Software Engineer
15 19 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (2.83%) Network Engineer
16 18 (2.68%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.68%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.15%) REST
2 45 (6.71%) OpenTelemetry
3 38 (5.66%) Node.js
4 37 (5.51%) Kafka
5 36 (5.37%) React
6 34 (5.07%) JSON
7 29 (4.32%) YAML
8 25 (3.73%) Playwright
9 24 (3.58%) FastAPI
9 24 (3.58%) PySpark
10 23 (3.43%) Spring
11 21 (3.13%) Spring Boot
12 17 (2.53%) .NET
12 17 (2.53%) PyTorch
13 15 (2.24%) LDAP
14 14 (2.09%) LangChain
14 14 (2.09%) Pandas
15 13 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
15 13 (1.94%) OpenID
15 13 (1.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.77%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
3 25 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 21 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 20 (2.98%) NHS
6 14 (2.09%) Public Cloud
7 13 (1.94%) Replication
8 10 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.34%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.19%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.04%) Clustering
11 7 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (1.04%) IoT
11 7 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.89%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 108 (16.10%) Linux
2 48 (7.15%) Windows
3 28 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (4.17%) Unix
4 14 (2.09%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.94%) Solaris
6 12 (1.79%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.34%) CentOS
8 8 (1.19%) VMS
9 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.30%) CoreOS
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
11 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (46.20%) CI/CD
2 258 (38.45%) DevOps
3 160 (23.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (21.91%) Agile
5 134 (19.97%) Containerisation
6 129 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (16.24%) Analytics
8 99 (14.75%) Observability
9 86 (12.82%) AI
10 85 (12.67%) Migration
10 85 (12.67%) Test Automation
11 75 (11.18%) Data Pipeline
12 73 (10.88%) ETL
13 69 (10.28%) Machine Learning
14 67 (9.99%) Data Engineering
15 66 (9.84%) Data Modelling
16 64 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (8.94%) High Availability
18 58 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
18 58 (8.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 142 (21.16%) SQL
2 125 (18.63%) Java
3 112 (16.69%) Bash
4 68 (10.13%) PowerShell
5 55 (8.20%) JavaScript
6 53 (7.90%) TypeScript
7 26 (3.87%) Go
8 25 (3.73%) Scala
9 19 (2.83%) C#
9 19 (2.83%) R
10 18 (2.68%) Groovy
11 16 (2.38%) Ruby
11 16 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 14 (2.09%) Bicep
13 12 (1.79%) VBA
14 10 (1.49%) Perl
14 10 (1.49%) PHP
15 7 (1.04%) Rust
16 4 (0.60%) Cypher
16 4 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 112 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.32%) Degree
4 23 (3.43%) AWS Certification
5 20 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.53%) CISSP
8 12 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.34%) CISM
9 9 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.34%) RHCE
10 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.75%) CCNA
12 5 (0.75%) CCNP
12 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.60%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.81%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.38%) GDPR
3 16 (2.38%) QA
4 13 (1.94%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.19%) NIST
5 8 (1.19%) WCAG
6 6 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.60%) PMO
7 4 (0.60%) SLA
8 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.30%) PSD2
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
10 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 137 (20.42%) Docker
2 33 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.87%) VMware NSX
4 25 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (3.58%) vSphere
6 12 (1.79%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.49%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.49%) KVM
8 8 (1.19%) Firmware
8 8 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.45%) SRDF
11 2 (0.30%) Ceph
11 2 (0.30%) NFS
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.15%) QEMU
12 1 (0.15%) Snort
Systems Management
1 222 (33.08%) Terraform
2 209 (31.15%) Kubernetes
3 136 (20.27%) Ansible
4 74 (11.03%) Grafana
5 65 (9.69%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.13%) Argo
6 21 (3.13%) vCenter Server
7 18 (2.68%) Puppet
8 16 (2.38%) Istio
9 15 (2.24%) Control-M
10 14 (2.09%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (2.09%) Nessus
11 9 (1.34%) HAProxy
12 7 (1.04%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.89%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.89%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.60%) Packer
14 4 (0.60%) vRealize
15 3 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.79%) Splunk
3 55 (8.20%) Red Hat
4 54 (8.05%) Google
5 50 (7.45%) VMware
6 43 (6.41%) Databricks
7 25 (3.73%) ServiceNow
8 23 (3.43%) Oracle
9 19 (2.83%) Cisco
9 19 (2.83%) F5
9 19 (2.83%) Pure Storage
10 14 (2.09%) Tenable
11 13 (1.94%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.34%) Blue Coat
12 9 (1.34%) McAfee
13 8 (1.19%) CyberArk
13 8 (1.19%) IBM
13 8 (1.19%) Infoblox
14 7 (1.04%) Dell
15 6 (0.89%) Commvault