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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 24 19
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 678 260 361
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 11.57% 8.12% 7.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.27% 29.48% 29.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 195 216
10th Percentile £358 £360 £400
25th Percentile £410 £406 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £548 £600 £588
90th Percentile £600 £668 £650
England median daily rate £520 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -7.35% +2.05% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 9
10th Percentile £32.29 - -
25th Percentile £39.22 £72.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £62.00 £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +87.50% -17.59%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.70 - £64.75
England median hourly rate £55.25 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.32% -13.64% -15.38%

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 1,643 882 1,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.03% 27.54% 25.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 630 874
10th Percentile £349 £348 £314
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £546 £550 £543
90th Percentile £618 £638 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 15 55
10th Percentile £42.20 £31.59 £37.93
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.38 £43.57
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +57.89% -
75th Percentile £74.26 £92.70 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.55 £100.62 £72.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +1 377 £478 -4.40% 164
North West +9 255 £481 -3.65% 230
North East +14 55 £488 -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 38 (5.60%) Confluence
2 34 (5.01%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.92%) Apache
6 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.62%) SAS
7 5 (0.74%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.44%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
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
1 254 (37.46%) AWS
2 183 (26.99%) Azure
3 149 (21.98%) GCP
4 122 (17.99%) GitHub
5 76 (11.21%) OpenShift
6 66 (9.73%) Serverless
7 60 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (5.90%) Power Platform
9 38 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (5.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 28 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (3.69%) Amazon S3
14 22 (3.24%) Entra ID
15 20 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 15 (2.21%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 55 (8.11%) DNS
1 55 (8.11%) Firewall
2 36 (5.31%) TCP/IP
3 19 (2.80%) VPN
4 17 (2.51%) BIG-IP
4 17 (2.51%) HTTP
5 14 (2.06%) Wireshark
6 12 (1.77%) SSL
7 11 (1.62%) Network Security
7 11 (1.62%) SAN
8 10 (1.47%) WAN
9 9 (1.33%) BGP
9 9 (1.33%) LAN
9 9 (1.33%) VLAN
10 8 (1.18%) NAS
11 7 (1.03%) DHCP
11 7 (1.03%) SNMP
12 6 (0.88%) WebEx
13 5 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
13 5 (0.74%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.19%) NoSQL
3 30 (4.42%) Power BI
4 22 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.10%) Hadoop
5 21 (3.10%) MongoDB
5 21 (3.10%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.80%) MySQL
7 15 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.06%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.06%) Delta Lake
9 13 (1.92%) Tableau
10 12 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.77%) Metadata
11 9 (1.33%) Big Data
11 9 (1.33%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.18%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.18%) Power Query
12 8 (1.18%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 161 (23.75%) Jenkins
2 76 (11.21%) JIRA
3 72 (10.62%) GitLab
4 51 (7.52%) Git
5 25 (3.69%) Postman
6 15 (2.21%) Liquibase
7 14 (2.06%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.92%) Selenium
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
1 141 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 114 (16.81%) Finance
3 89 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (10.77%) Banking
5 65 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.06%) Legal
8 11 (1.62%) 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%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (16.81%) Developer
2 76 (11.21%) Senior
3 64 (9.44%) Data Engineer
4 58 (8.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 58 (8.55%) Lead
5 54 (7.96%) Python Developer
6 48 (7.08%) Architect
7 43 (6.34%) Platform Engineer
8 39 (5.75%) Analyst
8 39 (5.75%) GCP Engineer
9 37 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
10 29 (4.28%) Security Engineer
11 28 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 27 (3.98%) Network Engineer
12 27 (3.98%) Software Engineer
13 23 (3.39%) Python Engineer
14 20 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 17 (2.51%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (2.51%) Software Developer
16 16 (2.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.14%) REST
2 43 (6.34%) OpenTelemetry
3 37 (5.46%) Node.js
4 34 (5.01%) Kafka
5 33 (4.87%) JSON
5 33 (4.87%) React
6 30 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
6 30 (4.42%) RESTful
7 29 (4.28%) YAML
8 23 (3.39%) Spring
9 22 (3.24%) FastAPI
10 21 (3.10%) Spring Boot
11 20 (2.95%) Playwright
12 18 (2.65%) PySpark
13 17 (2.51%) .NET
14 15 (2.21%) Pandas
14 15 (2.21%) PyTorch
15 14 (2.06%) LangChain
16 13 (1.92%) Flask
16 13 (1.92%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 38 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (4.28%) Data Centre
6 28 (4.13%) Public Cloud
7 27 (3.98%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.80%) Security Posture
9 17 (2.51%) NHS
10 12 (1.77%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.62%) Replication
12 10 (1.47%) Credit Risk
12 10 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.33%) Clustering
13 9 (1.33%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 138 (20.35%) Linux
2 61 (9.00%) Windows
3 35 (5.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (4.13%) Unix
5 21 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.77%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (47.64%) CI/CD
2 286 (42.18%) DevOps
3 177 (26.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 162 (23.89%) Containerisation
5 159 (23.45%) Agile
6 126 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (14.60%) Analytics
8 96 (14.16%) Test Automation
9 93 (13.72%) Observability
10 80 (11.80%) Migration
11 72 (10.62%) ETL
12 69 (10.18%) High Availability
13 68 (10.03%) AI
13 68 (10.03%) Data Pipeline
14 67 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 67 (9.88%) Machine Learning
15 66 (9.73%) Platform Engineering
15 66 (9.73%) Software Engineering
16 65 (9.59%) Data Modelling
17 63 (9.29%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 139 (20.50%) Bash
2 131 (19.32%) SQL
3 107 (15.78%) Java
4 78 (11.50%) PowerShell
5 59 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 55 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 39 (5.75%) Go
8 24 (3.54%) Perl
9 22 (3.24%) C#
10 18 (2.65%) Groovy
10 18 (2.65%) Scala
11 17 (2.51%) Shell Script
12 16 (2.36%) Ruby
13 14 (2.06%) Bicep
13 14 (2.06%) R
14 13 (1.92%) VBA
15 10 (1.47%) PHP
16 7 (1.03%) Rust
17 4 (0.59%) Cypher
17 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 126 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.90%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.08%) Degree
4 26 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.39%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 17 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.21%) CISSP
9 14 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.92%) CCNA
10 13 (1.92%) CCNP
11 12 (1.77%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.33%) CCDP
12 9 (1.33%) CISM
13 8 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.18%) RHCE
14 6 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.13%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.06%) GDPR
3 14 (2.06%) QA
4 8 (1.18%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.03%) WCAG
6 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.74%) NIST
8 4 (0.59%) PMO
8 4 (0.59%) SLA
9 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.29%) PSD2
10 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) SEPA
11 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 154 (22.71%) Docker
2 44 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (4.57%) vSphere
4 28 (4.13%) VMware NSX
5 23 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (2.65%) Active Directory
7 11 (1.62%) KVM
8 10 (1.47%) Hyper-V
9 8 (1.18%) Firmware
10 7 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.29%) SRDF
13 1 (0.15%) Ceph
13 1 (0.15%) NFS
13 1 (0.15%) QEMU
13 1 (0.15%) Snort
Systems Management
1 239 (35.25%) Terraform
2 218 (32.15%) Kubernetes
3 160 (23.60%) Ansible
4 86 (12.68%) Grafana
5 74 (10.91%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.24%) Argo
6 22 (3.24%) Puppet
7 21 (3.10%) vCenter Server
8 17 (2.51%) Istio
9 12 (1.77%) Control-M
9 12 (1.77%) IBM Guardium
9 12 (1.77%) Nessus
9 12 (1.77%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.88%) PowerCLI
10 6 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.59%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.44%) Packer
13 3 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 76 (11.21%) Splunk
2 69 (10.18%) Microsoft
3 68 (10.03%) Red Hat
3 68 (10.03%) VMware
4 55 (8.11%) Google
5 37 (5.46%) Databricks
6 30 (4.42%) Cisco
7 26 (3.83%) F5
8 24 (3.54%) Oracle
9 22 (3.24%) ServiceNow
10 19 (2.80%) Pure Storage
11 12 (1.77%) Tenable
12 11 (1.62%) Blue Coat
12 11 (1.62%) Commvault
12 11 (1.62%) McAfee
13 10 (1.47%) Citrix
13 10 (1.47%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.47%) Palo Alto
14 9 (1.33%) IBM
15 8 (1.18%) Veritas