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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 725 425 305
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 9.55% 10.58% 7.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.85% 37.15% 29.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 295 206
10th Percentile £363 £329 £356
25th Percentile £413 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -7.87%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £644 £600 £650
England median daily rate £550 £537 £580
% change year-on-year +2.42% -7.41% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile £28.50 £38.98 -
25th Percentile £29.25 £43.44 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +10.98% -
75th Percentile £71.33 £59.44 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.13 £59.72
England median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +26.27% -25.93% +3.85%

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 1,866 1,144 1,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.59% 28.48% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,189 813 708
10th Percentile £350 £315 £336
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 13 29
10th Percentile £28.50 £30.35 £37.20
25th Percentile £46.66 £36.00 £37.55
Median hourly rate £68.25 £66.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +35.71% +6.11%
75th Percentile £70.38 £84.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £93.75 £75.43
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 30 August 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 30 August 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 30 August 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 0 370 £500 +2.56% 137
North West -3 271 £500 +5.26% 207
North East +1 96 £425 -2.86% 84
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 (7.72%) Apache Spark
2 44 (6.07%) Apache
3 38 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (4.00%) Jupyter
5 19 (2.62%) Confluence
6 13 (1.79%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.38%) SAS
8 4 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.41%) nginx
9 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.28%) Camunda
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 14 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 7 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.83%) 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
1 323 (44.55%) AWS
2 249 (34.34%) Azure
3 146 (20.14%) GCP
4 120 (16.55%) GitHub
5 68 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 58 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 58 (8.00%) Serverless
7 40 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.24%) OCI
10 34 (4.69%) Amazon S3
11 31 (4.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 29 (4.00%) SaaS
13 28 (3.86%) OpenShift
14 27 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.62%) dbt
17 18 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (2.21%) Amazon EMR
19 15 (2.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (11.31%) Firewall
2 41 (5.66%) DNS
3 39 (5.38%) WAN
4 38 (5.24%) BIG-IP
4 38 (5.24%) Network Security
5 33 (4.55%) BGP
6 31 (4.28%) SD-WAN
7 30 (4.14%) OSPF
8 29 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 24 (3.31%) TCP/IP
10 21 (2.90%) Ethernet VPN
10 21 (2.90%) VXLAN
11 17 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (2.21%) VPN
13 15 (2.07%) Wireless
14 13 (1.79%) WLAN
15 11 (1.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 10 (1.38%) DHCP
16 10 (1.38%) SAN
16 10 (1.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.31%) Power BI
2 33 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 32 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (4.28%) Metadata
5 29 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 24 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.90%) Big Data
8 20 (2.76%) DynamoDB
9 18 (2.48%) Tableau
10 17 (2.34%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.93%) MongoDB
12 13 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.66%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (1.24%) Delta Lake
16 7 (0.97%) Ataccama
16 7 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 111 (15.31%) Jenkins
2 87 (12.00%) GitLab
3 72 (9.93%) Git
4 66 (9.10%) JIRA
5 19 (2.62%) Gatling
6 15 (2.07%) Maven
7 13 (1.79%) Postman
7 13 (1.79%) Selenium
8 12 (1.66%) JMeter
8 12 (1.66%) SonarQube
8 12 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.52%) LoadRunner
10 7 (0.97%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.97%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.83%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.83%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.55%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 150 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 140 (19.31%) Finance
3 101 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (13.66%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.41%) Banking
6 15 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.79%) Legal
8 12 (1.66%) Retail
9 10 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.38%) Publishing
10 9 (1.24%) Games
11 5 (0.69%) Marketing
11 5 (0.69%) Military
12 4 (0.55%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.55%) Law
12 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.41%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (16.14%) Senior
2 103 (14.21%) Developer
3 83 (11.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 71 (9.79%) Python Developer
5 65 (8.97%) Data Engineer
6 59 (8.14%) Lead
7 40 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 40 (5.52%) Python Engineer
8 39 (5.38%) Security Engineer
9 33 (4.55%) Network Engineer
10 32 (4.41%) Architect
11 30 (4.14%) Analyst
11 30 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
13 25 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.45%) Software Engineer
14 24 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 23 (3.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (2.90%) Test Engineer
17 19 (2.62%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (37.24%) Terraform
2 44 (6.07%) REST
3 43 (5.93%) PySpark
4 42 (5.79%) Node.js
5 38 (5.24%) Kafka
6 34 (4.69%) JSON
6 34 (4.69%) React
7 22 (3.03%) Playwright
8 17 (2.34%) CSS
8 17 (2.34%) HTML
8 17 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
9 16 (2.21%) Spring
10 15 (2.07%) YAML
11 14 (1.93%) .NET
11 14 (1.93%) pytest
11 14 (1.93%) Vue
12 13 (1.79%) Flask
13 12 (1.66%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.66%) LangChain
13 12 (1.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 129 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.34%) Data Centre
3 33 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (4.28%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 22 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.62%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.62%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.48%) NHS
10 17 (2.34%) Replication
11 16 (2.21%) Data Structures
12 15 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (2.07%) PKI
13 14 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 110 (15.17%) Linux
2 62 (8.55%) Windows
3 36 (4.97%) Unix
4 32 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.79%) Solaris
7 7 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.97%) VMS
8 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.41%) zOS
10 2 (0.28%) AIX
10 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (49.79%) CI/CD
2 273 (37.66%) DevOps
3 230 (31.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 180 (24.83%) Agile
5 137 (18.90%) Observability
6 129 (17.79%) AI
7 124 (17.10%) Analytics
8 119 (16.41%) Containerisation
9 108 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
10 101 (13.93%) Data Engineering
11 93 (12.83%) Data Pipeline
12 92 (12.69%) Test Automation
13 86 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 75 (10.34%) Software Engineering
15 74 (10.21%) Platform Engineering
16 73 (10.07%) Migration
17 67 (9.24%) High Availability
17 67 (9.24%) Machine Learning
17 67 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
18 66 (9.10%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 170 (23.45%) SQL
2 138 (19.03%) Java
3 135 (18.62%) Bash
4 118 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 50 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 33 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 30 (4.14%) Go
8 24 (3.31%) Bicep
9 22 (3.03%) Scala
10 17 (2.34%) Groovy
11 12 (1.66%) C#
12 11 (1.52%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.38%) Rust
13 10 (1.38%) Search Processing Language
14 9 (1.24%) ActionScript
14 9 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (1.24%) R
15 6 (0.83%) Perl
15 6 (0.83%) VBA
16 4 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 164 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 149 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.59%) Degree
4 32 (4.41%) AWS Certification
5 31 (4.28%) CISSP
6 27 (3.72%) Azure Certification
7 23 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.52%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.38%) CCNP
12 9 (1.24%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.97%) GCIH
14 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.69%) CCNA
15 5 (0.69%) GCFA
16 4 (0.55%) CCIE
16 4 (0.55%) GIAC
16 4 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.41%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.90%) QA
3 19 (2.62%) GDPR
4 12 (1.66%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.52%) NIST
6 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.69%) HL7
9 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.55%) SLA
9 4 (0.55%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 149 (20.55%) Docker
2 20 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.48%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.66%) vSphere
6 9 (1.24%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.83%) Firmware
8 5 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.55%) NFS
10 2 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.28%) SRDF
10 2 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.14%) Ceph
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.14%) Snort
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 178 (24.55%) Kubernetes
2 138 (19.03%) Ansible
3 53 (7.31%) Grafana
4 46 (6.34%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.72%) Progress Chef
6 17 (2.34%) Argo
7 10 (1.38%) vCenter Server
8 9 (1.24%) HAProxy
9 8 (1.10%) Control-M
10 7 (0.97%) IBM Guardium
10 7 (0.97%) Nessus
11 6 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.69%) CASB
13 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.55%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.55%) Packer
13 4 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (0.55%) vRealize
14 3 (0.41%) Puppet
14 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (12.69%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.24%) Google
3 62 (8.55%) Databricks
4 51 (7.03%) Splunk
5 39 (5.38%) F5
6 36 (4.97%) Palo Alto
7 33 (4.55%) Red Hat
8 28 (3.86%) Cisco
8 28 (3.86%) ServiceNow
9 25 (3.45%) Arista
10 24 (3.31%) Aruba
10 24 (3.31%) Dynatrace
10 24 (3.31%) VMware
11 23 (3.17%) IBM
12 21 (2.90%) Oracle
13 13 (1.79%) SAP
13 13 (1.79%) Trend Micro
14 10 (1.38%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.24%) BeyondTrust
15 9 (1.24%) OpenAI