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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 731 430 300
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 9.61% 10.92% 7.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.01% 37.95% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 299 205
10th Percentile £363 £324 £356
25th Percentile £413 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -9.45%
75th Percentile £587 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
England median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.34% -0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 4
10th Percentile - £38.98 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £43.44 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +10.98% -
75th Percentile £72.66 £59.44 -
90th Percentile £83.00 £64.13 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £69.38
% change year-on-year +26.27% -27.93% +6.73%

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 1,874 1,133 1,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.63% 28.76% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 807 697
10th Percentile £350 £315 £350
25th Percentile £413 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 13 26
10th Percentile £28.50 £30.35 £36.75
25th Percentile £46.80 £36.00 £37.55
Median hourly rate £69.50 £66.50 £47.59
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% +39.74% +3.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £84.50 £62.19
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.75 £76.84
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -1 374 £500 +2.30% 211
North West -3 277 £525 +10.53% 424
North East -3 92 £425 -2.86% 102
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 56 (7.66%) Apache Spark
2 43 (5.88%) Apache
3 39 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.97%) Jupyter
5 18 (2.46%) Confluence
6 13 (1.78%) SharePoint
7 12 (1.64%) SAS
8 4 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.41%) nginx
9 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) Camunda
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 14 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 7 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.14%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Odoo
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 325 (44.46%) AWS
2 249 (34.06%) Azure
3 152 (20.79%) GCP
4 119 (16.28%) GitHub
5 67 (9.17%) GitHub Actions
6 57 (7.80%) Serverless
7 56 (7.66%) Power Platform
8 39 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (5.06%) OCI
10 35 (4.79%) Amazon S3
10 35 (4.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 29 (3.97%) SaaS
12 27 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (3.42%) OpenShift
14 21 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (2.60%) dbt
16 17 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (2.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (11.90%) Firewall
2 43 (5.88%) DNS
3 42 (5.75%) Network Security
4 41 (5.61%) WAN
5 40 (5.47%) BIG-IP
6 33 (4.51%) BGP
6 33 (4.51%) SD-WAN
7 31 (4.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 30 (4.10%) OSPF
9 24 (3.28%) TCP/IP
10 21 (2.87%) Ethernet VPN
10 21 (2.87%) VXLAN
11 17 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (2.33%) Wireless
12 14 (1.92%) VPN
13 13 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 13 (1.78%) WLAN
14 10 (1.37%) SSL
14 10 (1.37%) VLAN
15 9 (1.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.98%) Power BI
2 32 (4.38%) Metadata
3 31 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 30 (4.10%) BigQuery
5 25 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (3.01%) Big Data
7 20 (2.74%) DynamoDB
8 18 (2.46%) Tableau
9 16 (2.19%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.78%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.64%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.23%) Delta Lake
14 8 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.96%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.96%) Looker
15 7 (0.96%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 111 (15.18%) Jenkins
2 85 (11.63%) GitLab
3 72 (9.85%) Git
4 66 (9.03%) JIRA
5 19 (2.60%) Gatling
6 16 (2.19%) Maven
7 14 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (1.78%) Postman
8 13 (1.78%) SonarQube
9 12 (1.64%) JMeter
9 12 (1.64%) Selenium
10 11 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.50%) LoadRunner
11 7 (0.96%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.96%) Zephyr
12 6 (0.82%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.82%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.82%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.55%) MSBuild
13 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 154 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 141 (19.29%) Finance
3 101 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (13.68%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.62%) Banking
6 14 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.78%) Legal
8 11 (1.50%) Retail
9 10 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.23%) Games
10 9 (1.23%) Publishing
11 6 (0.82%) Military
12 5 (0.68%) Marketing
13 4 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.55%) Law
13 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.41%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (16.14%) Senior
2 109 (14.91%) Developer
3 84 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 71 (9.71%) Python Developer
5 64 (8.76%) Data Engineer
6 59 (8.07%) Lead
7 41 (5.61%) Security Engineer
8 39 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 39 (5.34%) Python Engineer
9 33 (4.51%) Network Engineer
10 32 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.10%) Architect
12 29 (3.97%) Analyst
13 26 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
14 25 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
14 25 (3.42%) Software Engineer
15 24 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 23 (3.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (2.87%) Test Engineer
18 19 (2.60%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (37.07%) Terraform
2 46 (6.29%) REST
3 42 (5.75%) PySpark
4 40 (5.47%) Node.js
5 39 (5.34%) Kafka
6 35 (4.79%) JSON
7 34 (4.65%) React
8 22 (3.01%) Playwright
9 17 (2.33%) CSS
9 17 (2.33%) HTML
10 16 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
11 15 (2.05%) .NET
12 14 (1.92%) Django
12 14 (1.92%) Flask
12 14 (1.92%) pytest
12 14 (1.92%) Spring
12 14 (1.92%) Vue
12 14 (1.92%) YAML
13 12 (1.64%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.64%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 133 (18.19%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.57%) Data Centre
3 32 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
5 24 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 24 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 23 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.60%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.60%) NHS
8 17 (2.33%) PKI
8 17 (2.33%) Replication
9 16 (2.19%) Data Structures
10 15 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
12 10 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (15.73%) Linux
2 62 (8.48%) Windows
3 41 (5.61%) Unix
4 33 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.19%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.78%) Solaris
7 9 (1.23%) VMS
8 7 (0.96%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.68%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.41%) zOS
11 2 (0.27%) AIX
11 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.14%) CentOS
12 1 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (50.48%) CI/CD
2 273 (37.35%) DevOps
3 232 (31.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 188 (25.72%) Agile
5 139 (19.02%) Observability
6 131 (17.92%) AI
7 123 (16.83%) Analytics
8 118 (16.14%) Containerisation
9 106 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
10 101 (13.82%) Data Engineering
11 93 (12.72%) Data Pipeline
12 89 (12.18%) Test Automation
13 86 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 77 (10.53%) Software Engineering
15 73 (9.99%) Platform Engineering
16 70 (9.58%) Migration
16 70 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
17 69 (9.44%) Cloud Security
17 69 (9.44%) Machine Learning
18 68 (9.30%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 169 (23.12%) SQL
2 140 (19.15%) Java
3 136 (18.60%) Bash
4 119 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 48 (6.57%) JavaScript
6 30 (4.10%) Go
6 30 (4.10%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.15%) Bicep
8 22 (3.01%) Scala
9 17 (2.33%) Groovy
10 16 (2.19%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.92%) C#
12 11 (1.50%) ActionScript
12 11 (1.50%) Search Processing Language
13 10 (1.37%) Rust
14 9 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (1.23%) R
15 6 (0.82%) Perl
15 6 (0.82%) VBA
16 4 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 163 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 150 (20.52%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.66%) Degree
4 34 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 34 (4.65%) CISSP
5 26 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.37%) CCNP
11 9 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.96%) GCIH
12 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.68%) CCNA
13 5 (0.68%) GCFA
14 4 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.55%) CCIE
14 4 (0.55%) GIAC
14 4 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (9.03%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.74%) QA
3 17 (2.33%) GDPR
4 12 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.50%) NIST
6 10 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.68%) HL7
9 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.55%) SLA
10 3 (0.41%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 150 (20.52%) Docker
2 19 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.50%) vSphere
6 9 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.68%) Firmware
7 5 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.55%) NFS
9 2 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.27%) SRDF
9 2 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.14%) Ceph
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.14%) Snort
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 177 (24.21%) Kubernetes
2 134 (18.33%) Ansible
3 53 (7.25%) Grafana
4 43 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.83%) Progress Chef
6 16 (2.19%) Argo
7 9 (1.23%) HAProxy
7 9 (1.23%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.09%) Control-M
9 7 (0.96%) IBM Guardium
9 7 (0.96%) Nessus
9 7 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.68%) CASB
10 5 (0.68%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.55%) Packer
11 4 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.41%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.85%) Google
3 64 (8.76%) Databricks
4 51 (6.98%) Splunk
5 41 (5.61%) F5
6 36 (4.92%) Palo Alto
7 33 (4.51%) Red Hat
8 27 (3.69%) Cisco
8 27 (3.69%) ServiceNow
9 25 (3.42%) Arista
10 24 (3.28%) Aruba
10 24 (3.28%) Dynatrace
11 23 (3.15%) IBM
12 22 (3.01%) VMware
13 21 (2.87%) Oracle
14 13 (1.78%) Trend Micro
15 12 (1.64%) SAP
16 10 (1.37%) Fortinet
17 9 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.23%) OpenAI