Python Contracts in the North of England

Python
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 19 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 324 383 419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.83% 7.92% 7.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.05% 30.79% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 224 283
10th Percentile £350 £381 £375
25th Percentile £400 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £675
90th Percentile £613 £645 £738
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
10th Percentile - - £35.80
25th Percentile - £20.77 £39.44
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £47.88
Median % change year-on-year - -3.54% +84.13%
75th Percentile - - £58.24
90th Percentile - £59.72 £64.35
England median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -23.08% -0.38% +18.64%

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 1,011 1,244 1,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.56% 25.73% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 843 1,099
10th Percentile £323 £316 £356
25th Percentile £383 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £612
90th Percentile £611 £625 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.70% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 52 29
10th Percentile £31.32 £37.55 £22.19
25th Percentile £36.82 £41.25 £37.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -2.06% +28.31%
75th Percentile £87.69 £69.44 £56.40
90th Percentile £95.36 £80.82 £64.15
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Python in the North of England

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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 +2 163 £496 -0.72% 784
North West -1 147 £475 -5.00% 1,429
North East -6 18 £438 -30.00% 166
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.01%) Apache
2 13 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.78%) JBoss
4 8 (2.47%) Confluence
5 6 (1.85%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.23%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.62%) IIS
7 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.62%) Maple
4 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (2.16%) Kondor
2 2 (0.62%) Maximo
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 131 (40.43%) AWS
2 75 (23.15%) Azure
3 57 (17.59%) GCP
4 30 (9.26%) GitHub
5 28 (8.64%) Serverless
6 23 (7.10%) Power Platform
7 21 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (5.25%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.63%) OpenShift
12 14 (4.32%) dbt
13 13 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (2.47%) npm
15 8 (2.47%) SaaS
16 7 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.33%) Firewall
2 22 (6.79%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.63%) DNS
4 10 (3.09%) Network Security
5 8 (2.47%) VPN
6 6 (1.85%) HTTP
6 6 (1.85%) SAN
7 5 (1.54%) WAN
8 4 (1.23%) Calico
8 4 (1.23%) DHCP
8 4 (1.23%) DWDM
8 4 (1.23%) LAN
8 4 (1.23%) NAS
8 4 (1.23%) SSL
9 3 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.62%) BGP
10 2 (0.62%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.62%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.62%) OSPF
11 1 (0.31%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.02%) Relational Database
2 25 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (7.10%) Power BI
3 23 (7.10%) SQL Server
4 18 (5.56%) Tableau
5 17 (5.25%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.32%) BigQuery
7 13 (4.01%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.40%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.78%) MySQL
10 8 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (2.47%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.47%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (2.16%) Big Data
11 7 (2.16%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.85%) Flink
12 6 (1.85%) Looker
Development Applications
1 88 (27.16%) Git
2 85 (26.23%) Jenkins
3 42 (12.96%) GitLab
4 35 (10.80%) JIRA
5 14 (4.32%) Postman
6 13 (4.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (3.40%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.40%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.78%) TeamCity
9 8 (2.47%) Bitbucket Server
9 8 (2.47%) CA Release Automation
10 7 (2.16%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.85%) Selenium
12 5 (1.54%) Maven
13 4 (1.23%) Gradle
13 4 (1.23%) JUnit
13 4 (1.23%) webpack
13 4 (1.23%) Xcode
14 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.93%) Vagrant
General
1 81 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 68 (20.99%) Finance
3 48 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.57%) Banking
5 28 (8.64%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.40%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.54%) Legal
9 4 (1.23%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.23%) Retail
10 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Back Office
11 2 (0.62%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.31%) Front Office
12 1 (0.31%) Law
12 1 (0.31%) Military
12 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (16.98%) Developer
2 50 (15.43%) Senior
3 43 (13.27%) Data Engineer
4 31 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (6.48%) Lead
5 21 (6.48%) Python Engineer
6 17 (5.25%) Architect
6 17 (5.25%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (4.01%) Java Developer
7 13 (4.01%) Python Developer
8 12 (3.70%) Analyst
8 12 (3.70%) Software Engineer
9 11 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (3.40%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
10 9 (2.78%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.72%) REST
2 24 (7.41%) React
3 23 (7.10%) RESTful
4 21 (6.48%) Kafka
5 20 (6.17%) Node.js
6 17 (5.25%) AngularJS
6 17 (5.25%) PySpark
7 16 (4.94%) Spring Boot
8 15 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (4.01%) CSS
9 13 (4.01%) HTML
10 11 (3.40%) TensorFlow
11 10 (3.09%) FastAPI
11 10 (3.09%) Flask
11 10 (3.09%) pytest
11 10 (3.09%) PyTorch
12 9 (2.78%) SOAP
13 8 (2.47%) GraphQL
14 7 (2.16%) Gherkin
15 6 (1.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.94%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (3.40%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.16%) Derivative
5 7 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.85%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.54%) NHS
8 4 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.23%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.93%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 71 (21.91%) Linux
2 32 (9.88%) Windows
3 23 (7.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (6.48%) Unix
5 8 (2.47%) Android
5 8 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.23%) AIX
7 4 (1.23%) Solaris
8 3 (0.93%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.62%) CentOS
9 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.62%) VMS
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.31%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 108 (33.33%) DevOps
3 100 (30.86%) Agile
4 93 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (18.83%) Containerisation
6 40 (12.35%) Data Pipeline
6 40 (12.35%) ETL
6 40 (12.35%) Microservices
7 39 (12.04%) Analytics
8 36 (11.11%) Migration
9 31 (9.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (9.57%) Test Automation
10 29 (8.95%) Configuration Management
10 29 (8.95%) Data Modelling
11 28 (8.64%) Artificial Intelligence
11 28 (8.64%) Machine Learning
12 27 (8.33%) Software Engineering
12 27 (8.33%) TDD
12 27 (8.33%) Visualisation
13 26 (8.02%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (27.78%) SQL
2 47 (14.51%) Java
3 42 (12.96%) Bash
4 37 (11.42%) JavaScript
5 35 (10.80%) Shell Script
6 28 (8.64%) PowerShell
7 19 (5.86%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.94%) Ruby
9 13 (4.01%) Perl
9 13 (4.01%) Scala
10 10 (3.09%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.16%) PHP
12 6 (1.85%) R
13 5 (1.54%) C
13 5 (1.54%) C++
13 5 (1.54%) Groovy
14 4 (1.23%) Objective-C
14 4 (1.23%) Swift
15 3 (0.93%) ANSI SQL
15 3 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 46 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.48%) Degree
4 16 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.54%) CCNP
7 5 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.54%) RHCE
8 4 (1.23%) CCNA
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.62%) GCIA
10 2 (0.62%) GCIH
10 2 (0.62%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.62%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.62%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.25%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.32%) QA
3 9 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.16%) Basel III
4 7 (2.16%) MiFID
5 5 (1.54%) GDPR
6 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.23%) NIST
7 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 81 (25.00%) Docker
2 22 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (4.94%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 7 (2.16%) vSphere
6 4 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.93%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 113 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 79 (24.38%) Ansible
3 66 (20.37%) Terraform
4 28 (8.64%) Puppet
5 21 (6.48%) Progress Chef
6 18 (5.56%) Grafana
7 12 (3.70%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.78%) Kibana
9 8 (2.47%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (1.85%) vRealize
11 5 (1.54%) Istio
11 5 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (1.54%) SCCM
11 5 (1.54%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.93%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.93%) Packer
14 2 (0.62%) Control-M
14 2 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.62%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 45 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.57%) Oracle
3 25 (7.72%) VMware
4 23 (7.10%) Google
4 23 (7.10%) Red Hat
4 23 (7.10%) Splunk
5 18 (5.56%) Databricks
6 15 (4.63%) MuleSoft
7 14 (4.32%) AppDynamics
8 10 (3.09%) IBM
8 10 (3.09%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.78%) Cisco
10 8 (2.47%) Cloudera
10 8 (2.47%) Infoblox
11 7 (2.16%) Commvault
11 7 (2.16%) Sybase
12 6 (1.85%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.54%) Apple
14 4 (1.23%) Arista
14 4 (1.23%) Brio