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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 21 26
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 575 261 274
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.11% 7.74% 5.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.22% 30.35% 23.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 176 170
10th Percentile £350 £361 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £618
90th Percentile £609 £725 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 28
10th Percentile £41.35 - £39.26
25th Percentile £41.94 - £45.88
Median hourly rate £54.22 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +17.41% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 -
90th Percentile - £83.50 £51.45
England median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.86% -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 1,395 860 1,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.39% 25.51% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 559 862
10th Percentile £325 £344 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £575
90th Percentile £625 £648 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 21 54
10th Percentile £41.94 £37.50 £37.80
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +40.75% +2.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £74.26 £96.64 £68.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +6 289 £500 -6.98% 356
North West +4 243 £450 -5.26% 295
North East +7 48 £488 -13.72% 142
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 34 (5.91%) Confluence
2 25 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.30%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.96%) Apache
5 16 (2.78%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.91%) SAS
7 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.04%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.87%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.35%) IIS
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Documentum
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.57%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) SPSS
4 1 (0.17%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
1 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 242 (42.09%) AWS
2 147 (25.57%) Azure
3 133 (23.13%) GCP
4 81 (14.09%) Serverless
5 70 (12.17%) GitHub
6 47 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (7.13%) Power Platform
9 36 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (6.09%) Amazon S3
11 34 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (5.57%) OpenShift
14 27 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (2.61%) Datadog
17 14 (2.43%) SaaS
18 12 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
18 12 (2.09%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 55 (9.57%) Firewall
2 37 (6.43%) TCP/IP
3 28 (4.87%) DNS
4 18 (3.13%) SSL
5 16 (2.78%) Wireshark
6 15 (2.61%) HTTP
7 13 (2.26%) BIG-IP
7 13 (2.26%) VPN
8 11 (1.91%) Network Security
9 9 (1.57%) BGP
9 9 (1.57%) SSH
10 8 (1.39%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.39%) WAN
11 6 (1.04%) DMZ
11 6 (1.04%) VLAN
11 6 (1.04%) WebEx
12 5 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.87%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 5 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (8.17%) NoSQL
3 40 (6.96%) Power BI
4 26 (4.52%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (4.17%) MySQL
6 23 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.30%) DynamoDB
8 18 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (2.43%) Oracle Database
10 13 (2.26%) Hadoop
11 12 (2.09%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.09%) Data Lake
11 12 (2.09%) Redis
11 12 (2.09%) Tableau
12 11 (1.91%) Power Query
12 11 (1.91%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.74%) Big Data
14 9 (1.57%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.39%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 152 (26.43%) Jenkins
2 99 (17.22%) GitLab
3 70 (12.17%) Git
4 67 (11.65%) JIRA
5 29 (5.04%) Liquibase
6 16 (2.78%) Postman
7 12 (2.09%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.09%) Fiddler
7 12 (2.09%) Selenium
8 11 (1.91%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.39%) Gradle
9 8 (1.39%) TestRail
10 6 (1.04%) Maven
10 6 (1.04%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.04%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.04%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.87%) MLflow
11 5 (0.87%) SonarLint
12 3 (0.52%) Xcode
General
1 148 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 117 (20.35%) Finance
3 87 (15.13%) Banking
4 83 (14.43%) Public Sector
5 80 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.83%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.74%) Legal
9 5 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.70%) Games
10 4 (0.70%) Law
10 4 (0.70%) Marketing
10 4 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.52%) Retail
11 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.35%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 81 (14.09%) Developer
2 72 (12.52%) Senior
3 59 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (9.39%) Data Engineer
5 49 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
6 44 (7.65%) Analyst
7 40 (6.96%) Lead
8 38 (6.61%) Python Developer
9 33 (5.74%) Network Engineer
10 31 (5.39%) Software Engineer
11 30 (5.22%) Architect
11 30 (5.22%) Automation Engineer
12 29 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (4.52%) Python Engineer
14 25 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (3.83%) GCP Engineer
16 21 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
17 18 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 18 (3.13%) Data Analyst
17 18 (3.13%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.04%) REST
2 50 (8.70%) RESTful
3 46 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
4 32 (5.57%) Node.js
5 27 (4.70%) FastAPI
6 26 (4.52%) React
7 20 (3.48%) PySpark
8 17 (2.96%) TensorFlow
8 17 (2.96%) YAML
9 15 (2.61%) Flask
9 15 (2.61%) Kafka
9 15 (2.61%) OpenTelemetry
9 15 (2.61%) Spring Boot
10 13 (2.26%) .NET
10 13 (2.26%) HTML
11 12 (2.09%) JWT
12 10 (1.74%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.74%) Spring
13 9 (1.57%) OAuth
13 9 (1.57%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.26%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (5.74%) Public Cloud
5 22 (3.83%) NHS
6 21 (3.65%) Algorithms
7 19 (3.30%) Data Centre
8 18 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (3.13%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.91%) Credit Risk
10 9 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.04%) Clustering
12 6 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.04%) N-Tier
12 6 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.04%) Tandem
13 5 (0.87%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 140 (24.35%) Linux
2 44 (7.65%) Windows
3 27 (4.70%) Unix
4 18 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.43%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.22%) CentOS
6 7 (1.22%) Solaris
6 7 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.52%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (41.91%) CI/CD
2 237 (41.22%) DevOps
3 159 (27.65%) Agile
4 156 (27.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 147 (25.57%) Containerisation
6 108 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (13.22%) Test Automation
8 71 (12.35%) Analytics
9 62 (10.78%) Machine Learning
10 60 (10.43%) Observability
11 59 (10.26%) AI
11 59 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
11 59 (10.26%) Microservices
11 59 (10.26%) Software Engineering
12 57 (9.91%) Computer Science
12 57 (9.91%) High Availability
13 55 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
14 53 (9.22%) ETL
14 53 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 52 (9.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 137 (23.83%) Bash
2 112 (19.48%) SQL
3 88 (15.30%) Java
4 58 (10.09%) Go
5 55 (9.57%) PowerShell
6 45 (7.83%) JavaScript
7 35 (6.09%) Perl
8 31 (5.39%) TypeScript
9 29 (5.04%) Shell Script
10 18 (3.13%) Ruby
11 17 (2.96%) Scala
12 15 (2.61%) PHP
12 15 (2.61%) R
13 14 (2.43%) C#
14 11 (1.91%) C++
15 10 (1.74%) VBA
16 6 (1.04%) C
17 5 (0.87%) Bicep
18 4 (0.70%) Groovy
18 4 (0.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 119 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 96 (16.70%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.43%) Degree
4 43 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (5.57%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.43%) CCNP
9 11 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.91%) CCDP
10 10 (1.74%) CCNA
11 8 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.04%) CISM
12 6 (1.04%) CISSP
12 6 (1.04%) RHCE
13 4 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.65%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.26%) QA
4 5 (0.87%) GDPR
5 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.70%) PMO
5 4 (0.70%) SLA
6 3 (0.52%) NIST
6 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.35%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 161 (28.00%) Docker
2 27 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (1.57%) vSphere
6 8 (1.39%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.52%) HDFS
8 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.52%) KVM
9 2 (0.35%) Firmware
9 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Ceph
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 207 (36.00%) Terraform
2 186 (32.35%) Kubernetes
3 170 (29.57%) Ansible
4 88 (15.30%) Grafana
5 71 (12.35%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.30%) NetBackup
6 19 (3.30%) Puppet
7 12 (2.09%) Control-M
7 12 (2.09%) Istio
8 11 (1.91%) Argo
9 10 (1.74%) Data Guard
9 10 (1.74%) IBM Guardium
9 10 (1.74%) Nessus
9 10 (1.74%) yum
10 6 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.87%) Packer
12 4 (0.70%) Podman
13 3 (0.52%) SELinux
13 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (10.43%) Splunk
2 58 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 48 (8.35%) VMware
4 46 (8.00%) Oracle
4 46 (8.00%) Red Hat
5 41 (7.13%) Google
6 29 (5.04%) F5
7 27 (4.70%) Cisco
8 22 (3.83%) Databricks
9 20 (3.48%) Palo Alto
10 18 (3.13%) ServiceNow
11 15 (2.61%) Veritas
12 13 (2.26%) Blue Coat
12 13 (2.26%) Commvault
12 13 (2.26%) McAfee
13 12 (2.09%) Pega
14 10 (1.74%) Tenable
15 9 (1.57%) Citrix
15 9 (1.57%) Meraki
16 8 (1.39%) AppDynamics