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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 678 269 356
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.40% 8.40% 7.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.12% 30.19% 29.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 200 214
10th Percentile £358 £362 £400
25th Percentile £413 £406 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -0.05% -13.04%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £586
90th Percentile £613 £658 £650
England median daily rate £520 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 7
10th Percentile £32.75 - -
25th Percentile £40.58 £72.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £68.13 £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +87.50% -17.59%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £87.50 - £55.21
England median hourly rate £58.13 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +22.38% -9.52% -19.23%

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 1,649 891 1,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.74% 27.84% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 643 864
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -11.06%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £621 £638 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 15 52
10th Percentile £42.20 £31.59 £37.70
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.38 £44.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +57.89% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £92.70 £59.06
90th Percentile £84.65 £100.62 £72.44
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +1 378 £478 -4.40% 164
North West +6 255 £490 -0.41% 230
North East +11 54 £500 +1.27% 83
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 37 (5.46%) Apache Spark
1 37 (5.46%) Confluence
2 17 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.06%) Apache
4 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.47%) SAS
6 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.44%) nginx
8 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Odoo
2 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 252 (37.17%) AWS
2 187 (27.58%) Azure
3 147 (21.68%) GCP
4 120 (17.70%) GitHub
5 74 (10.91%) OpenShift
6 64 (9.44%) Serverless
7 60 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (5.90%) Power Platform
9 38 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (5.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 30 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (3.54%) Amazon S3
14 23 (3.39%) Entra ID
15 20 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (2.21%) Apigee
18 14 (2.06%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.67%) Firewall
2 51 (7.52%) DNS
3 33 (4.87%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.51%) HTTP
4 17 (2.51%) VPN
5 16 (2.36%) BIG-IP
6 14 (2.06%) Wireshark
7 11 (1.62%) SAN
7 11 (1.62%) WAN
8 10 (1.47%) LAN
8 10 (1.47%) SSL
9 9 (1.33%) BGP
9 9 (1.33%) Network Security
9 9 (1.33%) VLAN
10 8 (1.18%) NAS
11 7 (1.03%) DHCP
11 7 (1.03%) SNMP
12 6 (0.88%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.88%) WebEx
12 6 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (5.60%) NoSQL
3 29 (4.28%) Power BI
4 22 (3.24%) Hadoop
4 22 (3.24%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.10%) MongoDB
6 18 (2.65%) MySQL
7 15 (2.21%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.06%) Delta Lake
9 13 (1.92%) Metadata
10 12 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.77%) Tableau
11 11 (1.62%) Big Data
11 11 (1.62%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.47%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.18%) Power Query
13 8 (1.18%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 150 (22.12%) Jenkins
2 73 (10.77%) JIRA
3 64 (9.44%) GitLab
4 47 (6.93%) Git
5 24 (3.54%) Postman
6 14 (2.06%) Selenium
7 13 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.62%) Liquibase
9 10 (1.47%) Fiddler
10 9 (1.33%) Maven
11 8 (1.18%) Gatling
11 8 (1.18%) TestRail
12 6 (0.88%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.88%) PyCharm
12 6 (0.88%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.88%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.74%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.74%) JMeter
14 4 (0.59%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.59%) NeoLoad
General
1 139 (20.50%) Social Skills
2 114 (16.81%) Finance
3 89 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.18%) Banking
5 65 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.06%) Legal
8 7 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 6 (0.88%) Retail
10 5 (0.74%) Publishing
11 4 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.59%) Law
12 3 (0.44%) Advertising
12 3 (0.44%) Games
12 3 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.44%) Marketing
13 2 (0.29%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.29%) Military
13 2 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 116 (17.11%) Developer
2 76 (11.21%) Senior
3 66 (9.73%) Data Engineer
4 58 (8.55%) Lead
5 57 (8.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 56 (8.26%) Python Developer
7 47 (6.93%) Architect
8 43 (6.34%) Platform Engineer
9 37 (5.46%) Analyst
9 37 (5.46%) GCP Engineer
10 35 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (4.57%) Security Engineer
12 27 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
13 26 (3.83%) Network Engineer
14 24 (3.54%) Software Engineer
15 23 (3.39%) Python Engineer
16 21 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 17 (2.51%) Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (2.51%) Senior Developer
17 17 (2.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.55%) REST
2 41 (6.05%) OpenTelemetry
3 38 (5.60%) Node.js
4 36 (5.31%) React
5 34 (5.01%) Kafka
6 33 (4.87%) JSON
7 29 (4.28%) YAML
8 26 (3.83%) RESTful
9 24 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
9 24 (3.54%) Spring
10 22 (3.24%) FastAPI
10 22 (3.24%) Spring Boot
11 21 (3.10%) PySpark
12 20 (2.95%) Playwright
13 17 (2.51%) .NET
13 17 (2.51%) Pandas
14 15 (2.21%) PyTorch
15 14 (2.06%) LangChain
15 14 (2.06%) LDAP
16 13 (1.92%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (11.95%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (4.28%) Data Centre
4 29 (4.28%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (3.54%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.95%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.80%) NHS
9 12 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.62%) Replication
11 10 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.33%) Clustering
12 9 (1.33%) Credit Risk
12 9 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 7 (1.03%) IoT
14 6 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (0.88%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 135 (19.91%) Linux
2 60 (8.85%) Windows
3 36 (5.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (3.69%) Unix
5 21 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.33%) CentOS
7 9 (1.33%) Solaris
8 6 (0.88%) VMS
9 3 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.15%) AIX
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (46.46%) CI/CD
2 276 (40.71%) DevOps
3 171 (25.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (22.86%) Agile
4 155 (22.86%) Containerisation
5 128 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (15.34%) Analytics
7 94 (13.86%) Observability
8 91 (13.42%) Test Automation
9 79 (11.65%) Migration
10 76 (11.21%) AI
11 72 (10.62%) Data Pipeline
11 72 (10.62%) ETL
12 69 (10.18%) Machine Learning
13 68 (10.03%) Data Engineering
14 67 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 67 (9.88%) Data Modelling
15 65 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
16 63 (9.29%) High Availability
16 63 (9.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (20.06%) Bash
2 135 (19.91%) SQL
3 111 (16.37%) Java
4 81 (11.95%) PowerShell
5 59 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 56 (8.26%) TypeScript
7 34 (5.01%) Go
8 24 (3.54%) Perl
9 22 (3.24%) C#
10 19 (2.80%) Scala
11 18 (2.65%) Groovy
12 16 (2.36%) Ruby
13 15 (2.21%) Shell Script
14 14 (2.06%) Bicep
15 13 (1.92%) R
15 13 (1.92%) VBA
16 10 (1.47%) PHP
17 7 (1.03%) Rust
18 4 (0.59%) Cypher
18 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 122 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 98 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.34%) Degree
4 23 (3.39%) AWS Certification
5 20 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.21%) CISSP
7 15 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.92%) CCNA
9 13 (1.92%) CCNP
10 12 (1.77%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.33%) CCDP
11 9 (1.33%) CISM
12 8 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.18%) RHCE
13 6 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.72%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.21%) GDPR
3 15 (2.21%) QA
4 10 (1.47%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.18%) WCAG
6 6 (0.88%) NIST
7 5 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.74%) SLA
8 4 (0.59%) PMO
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) PSD2
9 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
10 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 149 (21.98%) Docker
2 42 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (4.42%) vSphere
4 27 (3.98%) VMware NSX
5 23 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (2.95%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.47%) KVM
8 9 (1.33%) Hyper-V
9 8 (1.18%) Firmware
9 8 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.29%) SRDF
12 1 (0.15%) Ceph
12 1 (0.15%) NFS
12 1 (0.15%) QEMU
12 1 (0.15%) Snort
Systems Management
1 233 (34.37%) Terraform
2 214 (31.56%) Kubernetes
3 149 (21.98%) Ansible
4 79 (11.65%) Grafana
5 68 (10.03%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.10%) Puppet
7 20 (2.95%) Argo
7 20 (2.95%) vCenter Server
8 17 (2.51%) Istio
9 11 (1.62%) Control-M
9 11 (1.62%) IBM Guardium
9 11 (1.62%) Nessus
10 10 (1.47%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.88%) PowerCLI
11 6 (0.88%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.59%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (10.62%) Splunk
2 69 (10.18%) Microsoft
3 66 (9.73%) Red Hat
3 66 (9.73%) VMware
4 57 (8.41%) Google
5 42 (6.19%) Databricks
6 30 (4.42%) Cisco
7 23 (3.39%) F5
8 22 (3.24%) Oracle
8 22 (3.24%) ServiceNow
9 18 (2.65%) Pure Storage
10 11 (1.62%) Tenable
11 10 (1.47%) Blue Coat
11 10 (1.47%) Citrix
11 10 (1.47%) McAfee
12 9 (1.33%) Commvault
12 9 (1.33%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.18%) Palo Alto
14 7 (1.03%) IBM
14 7 (1.03%) Veritas