Python Engineer Contracts in the North West

Python Engineer
England > North West

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the North West is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 124 149
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 10 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.23% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile £413 £480 £473
25th Percentile £414 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £488 £531 £563
90th Percentile £493 £535 £578
England median daily rate £675 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 1,857 2,649 2,859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.40% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,635 2,011
10th Percentile £275 £268 £294
25th Percentile £375 £382 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £586
90th Percentile £660 £666 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 307 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.51 £14.31
25th Percentile £13.97 £15.00 £17.70
Median hourly rate £29.01 £32.90 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +18.75% +10.80%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £80.33 £71.87 £56.40
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the North West

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in the North West

Python Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
Manchester +17 6 £475 -5.00% 35
Lancashire - 3 £425 - 3
Cheshire - 1 £425 -
Python Engineer
England

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Python Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Pandas
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Git
6 1 (10.00%) Video Processing
6 1 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
6 1 (10.00%) OpenCV
6 1 (10.00%) Deep Learning
6 1 (10.00%) HubSpot
6 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Front Office

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (10.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Vision
4 1 (10.00%) Deep Learning
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) HubSpot