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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 798 351 351
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.03% 9.17% 7.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.11% 33.65% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 251 218
10th Percentile £363 £349 £381
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £587
90th Percentile £621 £612 £647
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 4
10th Percentile £28.50 - £28.39
25th Percentile £30.00 - £39.83
Median hourly rate £45.50 - £46.18
75th Percentile £70.00 - £51.82
90th Percentile £87.00 - £61.98
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -0.38%

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 1,941 1,043 1,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.82% 27.26% 25.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,247 764 824
10th Percentile £350 £322 £319
25th Percentile £413 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.63% -9.18%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £569
90th Percentile £640 £609 £625
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 10 48
10th Percentile £29.96 £31.32 £37.50
25th Percentile £46.98 £36.82 £41.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +47.37% +2.86%
75th Percentile £76.00 £87.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.70 £95.36 £75.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £64.50
% change year-on-year +12.80% -10.66% +3.20%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +1 433 £500 +1.75% 127
North West +6 288 £500 +5.26% 249
North East +5 89 £425 -5.56% 86
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 69 (8.65%) Apache Spark
2 41 (5.14%) Apache
3 37 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (4.39%) Confluence
5 26 (3.26%) Jupyter
6 17 (2.13%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.00%) SAS
8 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.50%) nginx
10 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.13%) Odoo
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 308 (38.60%) AWS
2 256 (32.08%) Azure
3 167 (20.93%) GCP
4 134 (16.79%) GitHub
5 71 (8.90%) OpenShift
6 66 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
7 59 (7.39%) Power Platform
8 46 (5.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 44 (5.51%) Serverless
10 39 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (4.26%) OCI
12 28 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (3.38%) Amazon S3
13 27 (3.38%) SaaS
14 23 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (2.51%) dbt
16 18 (2.26%) Entra ID
17 16 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 15 (1.88%) Apigee
18 15 (1.88%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 84 (10.53%) Firewall
2 58 (7.27%) DNS
3 45 (5.64%) BIG-IP
4 37 (4.64%) WAN
5 35 (4.39%) TCP/IP
6 32 (4.01%) BGP
7 28 (3.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 28 (3.51%) OSPF
8 26 (3.26%) Network Security
9 23 (2.88%) SD-WAN
10 21 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (2.51%) Ethernet VPN
11 20 (2.51%) VPN
11 20 (2.51%) VXLAN
12 16 (2.01%) SAN
13 13 (1.63%) HTTP
13 13 (1.63%) LAN
13 13 (1.63%) NAS
13 13 (1.63%) SSL
13 13 (1.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (5.89%) Power BI
3 33 (4.14%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.01%) Hadoop
6 23 (2.88%) Metadata
7 22 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (2.63%) Big Data
8 21 (2.63%) BigQuery
8 21 (2.63%) Tableau
9 20 (2.51%) MongoDB
10 16 (2.01%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.88%) Delta Lake
12 14 (1.75%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (1.25%) Neo4j
16 9 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 153 (19.17%) Jenkins
2 97 (12.16%) JIRA
3 83 (10.40%) GitLab
4 66 (8.27%) Git
5 18 (2.26%) Gatling
5 18 (2.26%) Postman
6 14 (1.75%) Maven
7 11 (1.38%) Selenium
7 11 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.13%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.00%) JMeter
11 6 (0.75%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.75%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.75%) NeoLoad
11 6 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.63%) Liquibase
12 5 (0.63%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.50%) MSBuild
13 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 162 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 134 (16.79%) Finance
3 105 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.27%) Banking
6 16 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.75%) Legal
8 10 (1.25%) Retail
9 9 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.13%) Publishing
10 7 (0.88%) Military
11 5 (0.63%) Games
11 5 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.63%) Marketing
12 4 (0.50%) Advertising
12 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.38%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.25%) Law
14 2 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (15.54%) Developer
2 118 (14.79%) Senior
3 93 (11.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 76 (9.52%) Python Developer
5 72 (9.02%) Data Engineer
6 58 (7.27%) Lead
7 50 (6.27%) Architect
8 45 (5.64%) Security Engineer
9 41 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (4.14%) Analyst
10 33 (4.14%) Python Engineer
11 31 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (3.76%) Network Engineer
13 29 (3.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 28 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (3.51%) Software Engineer
15 26 (3.26%) GCP Engineer
16 23 (2.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
18 21 (2.63%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.39%) Node.js
2 50 (6.27%) REST
3 46 (5.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 44 (5.51%) PySpark
5 41 (5.14%) JSON
6 40 (5.01%) Kafka
7 35 (4.39%) React
8 29 (3.63%) Playwright
9 23 (2.88%) FastAPI
10 19 (2.38%) Spring
11 18 (2.26%) PyTorch
11 18 (2.26%) YAML
12 17 (2.13%) LangChain
13 15 (1.88%) RESTful
13 15 (1.88%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.63%) .NET
14 13 (1.63%) LDAP
15 12 (1.50%) OpenID
15 12 (1.50%) Pandas
16 11 (1.38%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 133 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 41 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (4.64%) Data Protection Act
5 31 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (3.63%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.26%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.13%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.63%) Replication
10 17 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (2.13%) NHS
10 17 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 17 (2.13%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.88%) PKI
12 14 (1.75%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 118 (14.79%) Linux
2 71 (8.90%) Windows
3 35 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (3.88%) Unix
5 18 (2.26%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.38%) Solaris
7 10 (1.25%) VMS
8 8 (1.00%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.38%) AIX
10 3 (0.38%) zOS
11 2 (0.25%) CentOS
11 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (50.50%) CI/CD
2 314 (39.35%) DevOps
3 213 (26.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 203 (25.44%) Agile
5 144 (18.05%) Containerisation
6 132 (16.54%) Analytics
7 131 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (15.91%) Observability
9 116 (14.54%) AI
10 103 (12.91%) Data Engineering
11 100 (12.53%) Data Pipeline
12 99 (12.41%) Test Automation
13 87 (10.90%) Migration
14 82 (10.28%) Machine Learning
15 80 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 77 (9.65%) Software Engineering
17 72 (9.02%) High Availability
17 72 (9.02%) Platform Engineering
18 70 (8.77%) ETL
19 68 (8.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 165 (20.68%) SQL
2 141 (17.67%) Java
3 138 (17.29%) Bash
4 110 (13.78%) PowerShell
5 53 (6.64%) JavaScript
6 44 (5.51%) TypeScript
7 36 (4.51%) Go
8 26 (3.26%) Scala
9 20 (2.51%) Groovy
10 17 (2.13%) Bicep
11 16 (2.01%) C#
12 15 (1.88%) Rust
12 15 (1.88%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.50%) R
14 11 (1.38%) ActionScript
15 9 (1.13%) VBA
16 8 (1.00%) Perl
17 6 (0.75%) C++
17 6 (0.75%) Cypher
18 3 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 145 (18.17%) Security Cleared
2 117 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.77%) Degree
4 35 (4.39%) AWS Certification
5 27 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 26 (3.26%) CISSP
7 23 (2.88%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (2.13%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.00%) CCNP
11 6 (0.75%) CCNA
11 6 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.50%) CISM
13 4 (0.50%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.50%) OCP
13 4 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.89%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.38%) QA
3 17 (2.13%) GDPR
4 12 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.50%) HIPAA
5 9 (1.13%) NIST
6 7 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.88%) WCAG
7 6 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.50%) HL7
10 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.25%) SLA
12 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) PSD2
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 151 (18.92%) Docker
2 33 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (3.13%) vSphere
5 21 (2.63%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.50%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.25%) Firmware
7 10 (1.25%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.00%) KVM
10 5 (0.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 5 (0.63%) NFS
11 4 (0.50%) SRDF
12 3 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.13%) Ceph
14 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 278 (34.84%) Terraform
2 207 (25.94%) Kubernetes
3 166 (20.80%) Ansible
4 67 (8.40%) Grafana
5 63 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.51%) Argo
7 22 (2.76%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.01%) Control-M
9 15 (1.88%) IBM Guardium
9 15 (1.88%) Nessus
10 14 (1.75%) Istio
11 12 (1.50%) Progress Chef
12 10 (1.25%) Puppet
13 9 (1.13%) HAProxy
14 8 (1.00%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
16 6 (0.75%) PowerCLI
17 5 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
18 4 (0.50%) Kustomize
18 4 (0.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 87 (10.90%) Microsoft
2 80 (10.03%) Google
3 67 (8.40%) Databricks
4 61 (7.64%) Splunk
5 49 (6.14%) Red Hat
6 48 (6.02%) F5
7 46 (5.76%) VMware
8 32 (4.01%) Palo Alto
8 32 (4.01%) ServiceNow
9 27 (3.38%) Cisco
10 25 (3.13%) Arista
11 23 (2.88%) Aruba
12 21 (2.63%) IBM
13 20 (2.51%) Dynatrace
13 20 (2.51%) Pure Storage
14 18 (2.26%) Oracle
15 15 (1.88%) Tenable
16 12 (1.50%) Infoblox
16 12 (1.50%) Trend Micro
17 11 (1.38%) SAP