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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 744 463 296
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 9.74% 11.39% 7.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.24% 38.91% 28.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 322 188
10th Percentile £363 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.31% -7.82%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £665 £612 £675
England median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 5
10th Percentile - £37.19 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £38.97 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £41.94 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +25.18% -9.18% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £54.60 -
90th Percentile £72.39 £62.19 £70.97
England median hourly rate £63.31 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +26.62% -28.57% +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 1,896 1,190 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.82% 29.28% 25.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 839 674
10th Percentile £350 £315 £330
25th Percentile £413 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £455 £486
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -6.53% -2.75%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £568
90th Percentile £650 £628 £638
England median daily rate £525 £514 £543
% change year-on-year +2.14% -5.25% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 13 29
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.20 £35.93
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.94 £37.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £66.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £84.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.20 £80.84
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% -

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -2 374 £500 - 322
North West -1 290 £525 +19.32% 569
North East 0 89 £425 -8.11% 155
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 52 (6.99%) Apache Spark
2 46 (6.18%) Apache
3 41 (5.51%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (3.76%) Jupyter
5 15 (2.02%) Confluence
6 12 (1.61%) SAS
7 10 (1.34%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.54%) nginx
10 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.27%) Camunda
12 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 8 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 319 (42.88%) AWS
2 260 (34.95%) Azure
3 174 (23.39%) GCP
4 117 (15.73%) GitHub
5 63 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (7.39%) Serverless
7 54 (7.26%) Power Platform
8 43 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (5.24%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 35 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (4.70%) OCI
11 27 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (3.63%) SaaS
12 25 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (3.36%) Entra ID
13 22 (2.96%) dbt
14 20 (2.69%) IaaS
14 20 (2.69%) OpenShift
15 19 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 97 (13.04%) Firewall
2 58 (7.80%) Network Security
3 44 (5.91%) BIG-IP
4 42 (5.65%) DNS
5 41 (5.51%) WAN
6 37 (4.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 35 (4.70%) SD-WAN
8 33 (4.44%) BGP
9 30 (4.03%) OSPF
10 23 (3.09%) TCP/IP
11 22 (2.96%) Ethernet VPN
12 21 (2.82%) VXLAN
13 19 (2.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 18 (2.42%) VPN
14 18 (2.42%) Wireless
15 15 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
16 13 (1.75%) WLAN
17 10 (1.34%) SSL
18 8 (1.08%) VLAN
19 6 (0.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.85%) Power BI
2 39 (5.24%) Metadata
3 32 (4.30%) BigQuery
4 28 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (2.96%) Big Data
8 19 (2.55%) Tableau
9 18 (2.42%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.42%) DynamoDB
10 16 (2.15%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.48%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.34%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.21%) Neo4j
16 8 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (0.94%) Ataccama
17 7 (0.94%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 109 (14.65%) Jenkins
2 87 (11.69%) GitLab
3 78 (10.48%) Git
4 67 (9.01%) JIRA
5 16 (2.15%) Gatling
5 16 (2.15%) Postman
6 15 (2.02%) JMeter
7 14 (1.88%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.88%) Selenium
7 14 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (1.75%) Claude Code
8 13 (1.75%) Maven
9 12 (1.61%) LoadRunner
10 11 (1.48%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.21%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.94%) Zephyr
13 6 (0.81%) NeoLoad
13 6 (0.81%) SoapUI
14 4 (0.54%) MSBuild
14 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 167 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 158 (21.24%) Finance
3 109 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.74%) Banking
6 13 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.61%) Legal
8 11 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.34%) Publishing
9 10 (1.34%) Retail
10 8 (1.08%) Games
10 8 (1.08%) Military
11 6 (0.81%) Law
12 5 (0.67%) Marketing
13 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (17.20%) Senior
2 103 (13.84%) Developer
3 88 (11.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (10.35%) Data Engineer
5 69 (9.27%) Python Developer
6 60 (8.06%) Lead
7 43 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 42 (5.65%) Security Engineer
9 38 (5.11%) Network Engineer
10 37 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 36 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 34 (4.57%) Python Engineer
13 28 (3.76%) Software Engineer
14 26 (3.49%) Analyst
14 26 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (3.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 22 (2.96%) Architect
17 19 (2.55%) Data Analyst
17 19 (2.55%) Test Engineer
18 17 (2.28%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (35.75%) Terraform
2 55 (7.39%) REST
3 43 (5.78%) PySpark
4 39 (5.24%) Node.js
5 38 (5.11%) Kafka
6 31 (4.17%) React
7 26 (3.49%) JSON
8 20 (2.69%) LangChain
9 19 (2.55%) OpenID
9 19 (2.55%) pytest
10 18 (2.42%) OAuth
11 17 (2.28%) Flask
12 16 (2.15%) Django
12 16 (2.15%) HTML
12 16 (2.15%) YAML
13 15 (2.02%) OAuth2
13 15 (2.02%) Playwright
14 14 (1.88%) CSS
15 12 (1.61%) .NET
15 12 (1.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 143 (19.22%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.39%) Data Centre
3 34 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 31 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 29 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (3.76%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (3.23%) AI Agents
10 23 (3.09%) Management Information System
11 22 (2.96%) PKI
12 20 (2.69%) Product Ownership
13 18 (2.42%) Data Structures
14 17 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (2.02%) NHS
16 14 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
17 12 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
18 11 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
18 11 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (14.92%) Linux
2 58 (7.80%) Windows
3 47 (6.32%) Unix
4 31 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.15%) Solaris
5 16 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.94%) VMS
7 5 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.40%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) zOS
10 2 (0.27%) AIX
10 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (53.36%) CI/CD
2 273 (36.69%) DevOps
3 250 (33.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 194 (26.08%) Agile
5 154 (20.70%) AI
5 154 (20.70%) Observability
6 131 (17.61%) Analytics
7 118 (15.86%) Containerisation
8 117 (15.73%) Data Engineering
8 117 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
9 112 (15.05%) Data Pipeline
10 94 (12.63%) Software Engineering
10 94 (12.63%) Test Automation
11 89 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 84 (11.29%) Cloud Security
13 80 (10.75%) Machine Learning
14 79 (10.62%) Validation
15 78 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
16 76 (10.22%) Data Modelling
16 76 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (25.13%) SQL
2 132 (17.74%) PowerShell
3 131 (17.61%) Java
4 130 (17.47%) Bash
5 43 (5.78%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.24%) Go
7 28 (3.76%) TypeScript
8 25 (3.36%) Bicep
9 18 (2.42%) C#
10 17 (2.28%) ActionScript
11 16 (2.15%) Scala
12 14 (1.88%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.61%) Groovy
14 11 (1.48%) Search Processing Language
15 10 (1.34%) Rust
16 9 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (1.08%) R
18 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 163 (21.91%) Security Cleared
2 149 (20.03%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.93%) Degree
4 38 (5.11%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.57%) CISSP
6 32 (4.30%) Azure Certification
7 27 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.48%) CCNP
10 11 (1.48%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.94%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.81%) CCIE
13 6 (0.81%) GCIH
14 5 (0.67%) GCFA
15 4 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.54%) GIAC
16 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.40%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (10.62%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.23%) QA
3 16 (2.15%) GDPR
4 14 (1.88%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.75%) NIST
6 9 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.08%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.67%) HL7
9 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.54%) NCSC
11 3 (0.40%) SLA
12 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (19.09%) Docker
2 22 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.54%) NFS
6 4 (0.54%) vSphere
7 3 (0.40%) Firmware
7 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.27%) SRDF
8 2 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.13%) Ceph
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 174 (23.39%) Kubernetes
2 124 (16.67%) Ansible
3 50 (6.72%) Grafana
4 43 (5.78%) Prometheus
5 31 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 11 (1.48%) Argo
6 11 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.08%) Control-M
8 7 (0.94%) IBM Guardium
8 7 (0.94%) Nessus
9 6 (0.81%) HAProxy
10 5 (0.67%) CASB
10 5 (0.67%) Kustomize
10 5 (0.67%) Packer
11 4 (0.54%) Istio
11 4 (0.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (0.54%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.40%) Kibana
12 3 (0.40%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 105 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 82 (11.02%) Google
3 63 (8.47%) Databricks
4 47 (6.32%) Splunk
5 45 (6.05%) F5
6 35 (4.70%) Palo Alto
7 30 (4.03%) ServiceNow
8 26 (3.49%) Arista
9 25 (3.36%) Cisco
9 25 (3.36%) Dynatrace
9 25 (3.36%) IBM
10 24 (3.23%) Aruba
10 24 (3.23%) Oracle
11 23 (3.09%) Red Hat
12 16 (2.15%) VMware
13 13 (1.75%) SAP
13 13 (1.75%) Trend Micro
14 11 (1.48%) OpenAI
15 10 (1.34%) Fortinet
16 9 (1.21%) CrowdStrike