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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 22 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing Python 566 288 261
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.32% 7.26% 5.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.11% 29.30% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 183 168
10th Percentile £315 £356 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £632
90th Percentile £613 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 30
10th Percentile £39.56 - £45.29
25th Percentile £53.85 - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile - £69.67 -
90th Percentile - £82.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.60% +4.17% -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 1,344 983 1,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.26% 24.78% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 623 890
10th Percentile £315 £326 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £586
90th Percentile £638 £640 £650
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 52
10th Percentile £36.59 £33.63 £30.75
25th Percentile £49.75 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £50.06
90th Percentile £80.78 £92.07 £66.13
England median hourly rate £64.57 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -0.67% +4.84% -0.80%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 +10 301 £500 -6.98% 182
North West +6 232 £443 -9.60% 440
North East +9 37 £520 -11.11% 80
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 (5.83%) Confluence
2 25 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.71%) Apache
4 17 (3.00%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.00%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.94%) SAS
6 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.06%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.71%) IIS
9 4 (0.71%) JBoss
9 4 (0.71%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.18%) CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Documentum
11 1 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.94%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) Maple
5 1 (0.18%) SPSS
5 1 (0.18%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Kondor
1 2 (0.35%) Maximo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 234 (41.34%) AWS
2 139 (24.56%) Azure
3 125 (22.08%) GCP
4 78 (13.78%) Serverless
5 66 (11.66%) GitHub
6 48 (8.48%) Power Platform
7 47 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
9 37 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 35 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (6.18%) Amazon S3
11 34 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (4.95%) OpenShift
15 16 (2.83%) Datadog
15 16 (2.83%) SaaS
15 16 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (2.65%) PaaS
17 12 (2.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 64 (11.31%) Firewall
2 39 (6.89%) TCP/IP
3 22 (3.89%) DNS
4 13 (2.30%) SSL
5 12 (2.12%) VPN
6 11 (1.94%) Wireshark
7 10 (1.77%) Network Security
8 9 (1.59%) BGP
8 9 (1.59%) HTTP
8 9 (1.59%) SSH
9 8 (1.41%) BIG-IP
9 8 (1.41%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.41%) WAN
10 6 (1.06%) DMZ
10 6 (1.06%) VLAN
10 6 (1.06%) WebEx
11 5 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.88%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.88%) LAN
11 5 (0.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (9.72%) NoSQL
3 47 (8.30%) Power BI
4 36 (6.36%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (3.89%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.36%) DynamoDB
8 18 (3.18%) MySQL
9 17 (3.00%) Tableau
10 15 (2.65%) BigQuery
10 15 (2.65%) RDBMS
11 14 (2.47%) Oracle Database
12 13 (2.30%) Hadoop
12 13 (2.30%) Power Query
13 12 (2.12%) MongoDB
13 12 (2.12%) Redis
14 10 (1.77%) Big Data
14 10 (1.77%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 176 (31.10%) Jenkins
2 101 (17.84%) GitLab
3 91 (16.08%) Git
4 67 (11.84%) JIRA
5 31 (5.48%) Liquibase
6 20 (3.53%) Postman
7 11 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.59%) Gradle
9 8 (1.41%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.41%) Maven
10 7 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.24%) Fiddler
11 6 (1.06%) PyCharm
11 6 (1.06%) Selenium
12 5 (0.88%) MLflow
12 5 (0.88%) SonarLint
13 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.71%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.71%) Xcode
General
1 147 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 133 (23.50%) Finance
3 94 (16.61%) Banking
4 89 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (13.60%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.59%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.77%) Legal
9 6 (1.06%) Retail
10 5 (0.88%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.71%) Games
11 4 (0.71%) Marketing
11 4 (0.71%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.35%) Back Office
13 2 (0.35%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.35%) Law
13 2 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 81 (14.31%) Developer
2 73 (12.90%) Senior
3 58 (10.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (8.66%) AWS Engineer
4 49 (8.66%) Data Engineer
5 42 (7.42%) Analyst
6 36 (6.36%) Python Developer
7 33 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (5.83%) Software Engineer
8 32 (5.65%) Architect
9 31 (5.48%) Automation Engineer
10 28 (4.95%) Lead
10 28 (4.95%) Network Engineer
10 28 (4.95%) Python Engineer
11 24 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
12 20 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
12 20 (3.53%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.18%) GCP Engineer
14 17 (3.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 16 (2.83%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.13%) RESTful
2 55 (9.72%) REST
3 47 (8.30%) Elastic Stack
4 35 (6.18%) Node.js
5 30 (5.30%) FastAPI
6 27 (4.77%) React
7 18 (3.18%) AngularJS
7 18 (3.18%) Kafka
7 18 (3.18%) TensorFlow
8 17 (3.00%) PySpark
8 17 (3.00%) Spring Boot
9 16 (2.83%) Flask
10 15 (2.65%) HTML
10 15 (2.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (2.12%) JWT
12 11 (1.94%) Django
13 10 (1.77%) PyTorch
14 9 (1.59%) Celery
14 9 (1.59%) GraphQL
14 9 (1.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.65%) Public Cloud
5 22 (3.89%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (3.89%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.53%) Algorithms
6 20 (3.53%) NHS
7 16 (2.83%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.94%) Credit Risk
9 9 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.06%) N-Tier
11 6 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.06%) Tandem
12 5 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.88%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 144 (25.44%) Linux
2 58 (10.25%) Windows
3 24 (4.24%) Unix
4 22 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (3.00%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.06%) Android
8 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.53%) AIX
9 3 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.53%) Solaris
9 3 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.35%) CentOS
10 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.18%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (41.34%) DevOps
2 225 (39.75%) CI/CD
3 185 (32.69%) Agile
4 146 (25.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 143 (25.27%) Containerisation
6 107 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (13.43%) Microservices
8 71 (12.54%) Analytics
9 66 (11.66%) Infrastructure Automation
9 66 (11.66%) Software Engineering
10 65 (11.48%) Machine Learning
10 65 (11.48%) Test Automation
11 64 (11.31%) Observability
12 63 (11.13%) Computer Science
13 60 (10.60%) AI
14 56 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
15 53 (9.36%) Migration
16 51 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
17 49 (8.66%) Data Protection
17 49 (8.66%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 130 (22.97%) Bash
2 113 (19.96%) SQL
3 73 (12.90%) Java
4 56 (9.89%) Go
5 54 (9.54%) PowerShell
6 36 (6.36%) JavaScript
7 34 (6.01%) Perl
8 31 (5.48%) Shell Script
9 27 (4.77%) TypeScript
10 16 (2.83%) Scala
11 14 (2.47%) PHP
11 14 (2.47%) R
12 12 (2.12%) C++
13 11 (1.94%) C#
13 11 (1.94%) VBA
14 9 (1.59%) Ruby
15 8 (1.41%) C
16 4 (0.71%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.71%) Objective-C
16 4 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 111 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 87 (15.37%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.31%) Degree
4 49 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (6.01%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.47%) CCNP
9 11 (1.94%) CCDP
10 10 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.77%) CCNA
11 7 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.53%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.53%) GCIH
14 3 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.83%) QA
3 12 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.53%) GDPR
4 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.53%) PMO
4 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.35%) Basel III
5 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.35%) MiFID
5 2 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.18%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 167 (29.51%) Docker
2 43 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.36%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.12%) vSphere
5 10 (1.77%) Oracle RAC
6 9 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 6 (1.06%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.53%) HDFS
9 2 (0.35%) KVM
9 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.18%) Ceph
10 1 (0.18%) Firmware
10 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 198 (34.98%) Terraform
2 187 (33.04%) Kubernetes
3 167 (29.51%) Ansible
4 83 (14.66%) Grafana
5 65 (11.48%) Prometheus
6 25 (4.42%) Puppet
7 20 (3.53%) NetBackup
8 14 (2.47%) Istio
9 13 (2.30%) Argo
10 12 (2.12%) Control-M
11 10 (1.77%) Data Guard
11 10 (1.77%) IBM Guardium
11 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Clustering
11 10 (1.77%) Nessus
11 10 (1.77%) yum
12 8 (1.41%) SCCM
13 7 (1.24%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (1.24%) Packer
14 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 83 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 64 (11.31%) Splunk
3 59 (10.42%) VMware
4 46 (8.13%) Google
5 44 (7.77%) Oracle
6 41 (7.24%) Red Hat
7 27 (4.77%) F5
8 24 (4.24%) Cisco
9 22 (3.89%) Databricks
10 20 (3.53%) Palo Alto
11 17 (3.00%) MuleSoft
12 16 (2.83%) AppDynamics
12 16 (2.83%) Veritas
13 14 (2.47%) ServiceNow
14 13 (2.30%) Commvault
14 13 (2.30%) IBM
15 12 (2.12%) Pega
16 10 (1.77%) Tenable
17 9 (1.59%) Citrix
17 9 (1.59%) Meraki