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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 22 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 556 283 244
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 12.08% 7.45% 5.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.59% 29.36% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 181 157
10th Percentile £316 £356 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £610 £630
90th Percentile £613 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 29
10th Percentile £39.56 - £44.70
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 £59.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.47% -1.67% -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 1,337 964 1,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.06% 25.36% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 935 608 862
10th Percentile £315 £335 £325
25th Percentile £370 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £582
90th Percentile £626 £648 £650
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 50
10th Percentile £36.00 £34.58 £36.47
25th Percentile £49.25 £40.51 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £47.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.74% +3.05% +11.28%
75th Percentile £74.26 £79.63 £50.19
90th Percentile £81.50 £100.00 £67.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.92
% change year-on-year - +4.97% -0.93%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +10 286 £500 -6.67% 178
North West +8 233 £445 -10.06% 307
North East +10 42 £518 -11.54% 78
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 (5.94%) Confluence
2 26 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.60%) Apache
4 17 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.06%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.98%) SAS
6 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.08%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.90%) Apache Pig
9 3 (0.54%) IIS
9 3 (0.54%) JBoss
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Documentum
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.98%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.36%) Maple
5 1 (0.18%) SPSS
5 1 (0.18%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.18%) Finacle
1 1 (0.18%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 239 (42.99%) AWS
2 139 (25.00%) Azure
3 125 (22.48%) GCP
4 80 (14.39%) Serverless
5 68 (12.23%) GitHub
6 49 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
7 44 (7.91%) Power Platform
8 41 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
9 38 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (6.47%) Amazon S3
11 35 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (4.86%) OpenShift
14 17 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.88%) Datadog
15 16 (2.88%) SaaS
16 15 (2.70%) PaaS
17 12 (2.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 55 (9.89%) Firewall
2 31 (5.58%) TCP/IP
3 23 (4.14%) DNS
4 14 (2.52%) SSL
5 12 (2.16%) VPN
5 12 (2.16%) Wireshark
6 10 (1.80%) HTTP
6 10 (1.80%) Network Security
7 9 (1.62%) BGP
7 9 (1.62%) BIG-IP
7 9 (1.62%) SSH
8 8 (1.44%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.44%) WAN
9 6 (1.08%) DMZ
9 6 (1.08%) VLAN
9 6 (1.08%) WebEx
10 5 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.90%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.90%) LAN
10 5 (0.90%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (10.07%) NoSQL
3 43 (7.73%) Power BI
4 34 (6.12%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (3.60%) DynamoDB
8 19 (3.42%) SQL Server
9 18 (3.24%) MySQL
10 15 (2.70%) BigQuery
11 14 (2.52%) Oracle Database
11 14 (2.52%) RDBMS
11 14 (2.52%) Tableau
12 13 (2.34%) Hadoop
12 13 (2.34%) Power Query
13 12 (2.16%) MongoDB
13 12 (2.16%) Redis
14 10 (1.80%) Big Data
14 10 (1.80%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 163 (29.32%) Jenkins
2 101 (18.17%) GitLab
3 79 (14.21%) Git
4 66 (11.87%) JIRA
5 31 (5.58%) Liquibase
6 11 (1.98%) Postman
7 10 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.44%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.44%) Fiddler
8 8 (1.44%) Gradle
9 7 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.08%) Maven
10 6 (1.08%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.08%) Selenium
11 5 (0.90%) MLflow
11 5 (0.90%) SonarLint
12 4 (0.72%) JUnit
13 3 (0.54%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.54%) Xcode
General
1 147 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 124 (22.30%) Finance
3 91 (16.37%) Banking
4 83 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (14.57%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.32%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.80%) Legal
9 5 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.72%) Games
10 4 (0.72%) Marketing
10 4 (0.72%) Retail
10 4 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.36%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.36%) Law
12 2 (0.36%) Police
13 1 (0.18%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 81 (14.57%) Developer
2 68 (12.23%) Senior
3 60 (10.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (9.53%) Data Engineer
5 51 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
6 41 (7.37%) Analyst
7 36 (6.47%) Python Developer
8 33 (5.94%) Architect
9 32 (5.76%) Software Engineer
10 31 (5.58%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (5.22%) Automation Engineer
11 29 (5.22%) Lead
11 29 (5.22%) Network Engineer
12 27 (4.86%) Python Engineer
13 24 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
15 19 (3.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.42%) Data Analyst
15 19 (3.42%) GCP Engineer
16 16 (2.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.51%) RESTful
2 55 (9.89%) REST
3 46 (8.27%) Elastic Stack
4 37 (6.65%) Node.js
5 31 (5.58%) FastAPI
6 27 (4.86%) React
7 19 (3.42%) TensorFlow
8 18 (3.24%) AngularJS
8 18 (3.24%) Kafka
9 17 (3.06%) Flask
9 17 (3.06%) PySpark
9 17 (3.06%) Spring Boot
10 14 (2.52%) HTML
10 14 (2.52%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (2.16%) JWT
12 11 (1.98%) Django
12 11 (1.98%) PyTorch
13 9 (1.62%) Celery
13 9 (1.62%) GraphQL
13 9 (1.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.87%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.76%) Public Cloud
5 22 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (3.96%) Onboarding
6 21 (3.78%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.78%) NHS
7 16 (2.88%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.98%) Credit Risk
9 9 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.08%) Clustering
11 6 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.08%) N-Tier
11 6 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.08%) Tandem
12 5 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.90%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.72%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 135 (24.28%) Linux
2 50 (8.99%) Windows
3 19 (3.42%) Unix
4 18 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.72%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.54%) Android
8 2 (0.36%) CentOS
8 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.36%) VMS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.18%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (40.29%) DevOps
2 221 (39.75%) CI/CD
3 176 (31.65%) Agile
4 147 (26.44%) Containerisation
4 147 (26.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (13.67%) Microservices
7 74 (13.31%) Analytics
8 67 (12.05%) Machine Learning
9 66 (11.87%) Infrastructure Automation
10 65 (11.69%) Software Engineering
10 65 (11.69%) Test Automation
11 64 (11.51%) AI
12 63 (11.33%) Computer Science
12 63 (11.33%) Observability
13 54 (9.71%) Cybersecurity
14 50 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 49 (8.81%) Data Protection
16 48 (8.63%) High Availability
16 48 (8.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 130 (23.38%) Bash
2 111 (19.96%) SQL
3 76 (13.67%) Java
4 57 (10.25%) Go
5 54 (9.71%) PowerShell
6 35 (6.29%) JavaScript
7 33 (5.94%) Perl
8 30 (5.40%) TypeScript
9 29 (5.22%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.88%) Scala
11 15 (2.70%) R
12 14 (2.52%) PHP
13 11 (1.98%) C#
13 11 (1.98%) C++
13 11 (1.98%) VBA
14 8 (1.44%) Ruby
15 7 (1.26%) C
16 4 (0.72%) Bicep
16 4 (0.72%) Groovy
16 4 (0.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 114 (20.50%) Security Cleared
2 90 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.51%) Degree
4 49 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (6.12%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.52%) CCNP
9 11 (1.98%) CCDP
10 10 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.80%) CCNA
11 7 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.54%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.54%) GCIH
14 3 (0.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.42%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.70%) QA
3 13 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.54%) GDPR
5 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.54%) PMO
5 3 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.36%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) NCSC
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) SLA
7 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 166 (29.86%) Docker
2 34 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.24%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.16%) vSphere
5 10 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
6 9 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.26%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.54%) HDFS
8 3 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.36%) KVM
9 2 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.36%) 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 (35.61%) Terraform
2 186 (33.45%) Kubernetes
3 158 (28.42%) Ansible
4 85 (15.29%) Grafana
5 66 (11.87%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.60%) NetBackup
7 16 (2.88%) Puppet
8 13 (2.34%) Argo
9 12 (2.16%) Control-M
9 12 (2.16%) Istio
10 10 (1.80%) Data Guard
10 10 (1.80%) IBM Guardium
10 10 (1.80%) Nessus
10 10 (1.80%) yum
11 7 (1.26%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (1.26%) Packer
12 5 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.90%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.90%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.72%) Podman
Vendors
1 74 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 62 (11.15%) Splunk
3 51 (9.17%) VMware
4 46 (8.27%) Google
5 42 (7.55%) Oracle
6 37 (6.65%) Red Hat
7 28 (5.04%) F5
8 24 (4.32%) Cisco
9 22 (3.96%) Databricks
10 20 (3.60%) Palo Alto
11 16 (2.88%) Veritas
12 15 (2.70%) AppDynamics
13 14 (2.52%) ServiceNow
14 13 (2.34%) Commvault
15 12 (2.16%) Pega
16 10 (1.80%) IBM
16 10 (1.80%) Tenable
17 9 (1.62%) Blue Coat
17 9 (1.62%) Citrix
17 9 (1.62%) McAfee