Python Contracts in the North West

Python
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +20
Contract jobs citing Python 144 186 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 7.32% 6.75% 8.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.82% 27.00% 29.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 121 198
10th Percentile £393 £381 £334
25th Percentile £419 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £573
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -12.66% +5.05%
75th Percentile £579 £550 £650
90th Percentile £654 £638 £691
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £42.46
25th Percentile - £66.25 £46.16
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year - +36.17% +83.59%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £56.40
90th Percentile - - £62.01
England median hourly rate £40.91 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.62% +27.83%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 537 689 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.29% 25.01% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 516 700
10th Percentile £359 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £540 £544 £594
90th Percentile £625 £613 £651
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 32 14
10th Percentile £55.75 £41.25 £20.46
25th Percentile £65.25 £44.72 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%
75th Percentile £86.00 £69.53 £51.93
90th Percentile £87.10 £80.15 £62.95
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North West

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the North West

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North West

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the North West

Python
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +2 91 £475 - 372
Cheshire +6 40 £492 -3.53% 61
Lancashire +2 6 £500 -16.67% 105
Merseyside -8 4 £500 +29.03% 30
Cumbria -13 2 - - 2
Python
England

Python
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 8 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.47%) JBoss
3 2 (1.39%) Apache
3 2 (1.39%) Confluence
3 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.39%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.47%) Kondor
2 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (52.08%) AWS
2 49 (34.03%) Azure
3 20 (13.89%) GCP
4 12 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (7.64%) dbt
6 10 (6.94%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.94%) GitHub
7 9 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 8 (5.56%) Serverless
9 7 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.47%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.78%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.86%) DNS
2 5 (3.47%) Firewall
3 4 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.08%) DHCP
4 3 (2.08%) HTTP
4 3 (2.08%) Network Security
5 2 (1.39%) Calico
5 2 (1.39%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.39%) NAS
5 2 (1.39%) SAN
5 2 (1.39%) VPN
6 1 (0.69%) BGP
6 1 (0.69%) DMZ
6 1 (0.69%) Internet
6 1 (0.69%) L2TP
6 1 (0.69%) Multicast
6 1 (0.69%) SSL
6 1 (0.69%) WAN
6 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 18 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.03%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.86%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.86%) Tableau
5 6 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.47%) Big Data
6 5 (3.47%) Data Mining
6 5 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.47%) MySQL
6 5 (3.47%) Power BI
6 5 (3.47%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.78%) Airbyte
7 4 (2.78%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.78%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.78%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.78%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 33 (22.92%) Git
2 29 (20.14%) GitLab
3 26 (18.06%) Jenkins
4 12 (8.33%) JIRA
5 6 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.47%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (3.47%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (3.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (3.47%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.08%) Maven
8 2 (1.39%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.69%) Flyway
9 1 (0.69%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 29 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.11%) Finance
4 14 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.25%) Banking
6 6 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.78%) Legal
7 4 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.39%) Military
9 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Front Office
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (28.47%) Senior
2 30 (20.83%) Data Engineer
3 26 (18.06%) Developer
4 15 (10.42%) Python Engineer
5 14 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (6.25%) Data Scientist
7 9 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
8 8 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.42%) Kafka
2 10 (6.94%) REST
2 10 (6.94%) RESTful
3 9 (6.25%) PySpark
4 8 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (5.56%) Node.js
4 8 (5.56%) React
4 8 (5.56%) TensorFlow
5 7 (4.86%) PyTorch
6 6 (4.17%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.47%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.47%) FastAPI
7 5 (3.47%) SOAP
8 4 (2.78%) cloud-init
9 3 (2.08%) ADO
9 3 (2.08%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.08%) Pandas
9 3 (2.08%) pytest
10 2 (1.39%) Playwright
10 2 (1.39%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.47%) Derivative
3 5 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.08%) PKI
6 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.39%) IoT
6 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.39%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.69%) Clustering
7 1 (0.69%) CMDB
7 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.69%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (25.69%) Linux
2 16 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (9.03%) Unix
4 7 (4.86%) Windows
5 6 (4.17%) CentOS
6 2 (1.39%) AIX
6 2 (1.39%) Android
6 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.39%) HPUX
6 2 (1.39%) Solaris
6 2 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.39%) VMS
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (47.22%) CI/CD
2 41 (28.47%) DevOps
3 36 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (23.61%) Containerisation
5 31 (21.53%) Data Pipeline
6 29 (20.14%) Agile
7 21 (14.58%) Analytics
8 20 (13.89%) Machine Learning
8 20 (13.89%) Microservices
9 19 (13.19%) Data Modelling
9 19 (13.19%) ETL
10 16 (11.11%) Visualisation
11 15 (10.42%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (10.42%) Software Engineering
11 15 (10.42%) Test Automation
12 14 (9.72%) Configuration Management
12 14 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (9.03%) Migration
13 13 (9.03%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.42%) SQL
2 25 (17.36%) Bash
3 16 (11.11%) Java
4 14 (9.72%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.64%) PowerShell
6 10 (6.94%) Perl
6 10 (6.94%) Shell Script
7 9 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.86%) Ruby
9 5 (3.47%) Go
10 4 (2.78%) R
10 4 (2.78%) SPARQL
11 3 (2.08%) Clojure
11 3 (2.08%) Scala
12 2 (1.39%) C#
12 2 (1.39%) C++
13 1 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 24 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.86%) Degree
3 6 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.78%) RHCE
5 3 (2.08%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.08%) CCNA
5 3 (2.08%) CCNP
5 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.69%) CCIE
7 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.17%) QA
3 5 (3.47%) Basel III
3 5 (3.47%) MiFID
4 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (26.39%) Docker
2 7 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.39%) KVM
3 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 23 (15.97%) Terraform
3 20 (13.89%) Ansible
3 20 (13.89%) Progress Chef
4 9 (6.25%) Grafana
5 7 (4.86%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.17%) Puppet
7 5 (3.47%) Kibana
7 5 (3.47%) Packer
8 4 (2.78%) ZABBIX
9 3 (2.08%) Istio
10 2 (1.39%) Graylog
11 1 (0.69%) Consul
11 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.69%) linkerd
11 1 (0.69%) Nessus
11 1 (0.69%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.69%) QRadar
11 1 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (12.50%) Oracle
2 12 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 11 (7.64%) Databricks
4 10 (6.94%) Splunk
5 9 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 5 (3.47%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.47%) Google
7 5 (3.47%) Infoblox
7 5 (3.47%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.47%) Sybase
8 4 (2.78%) Cloudera
8 4 (2.78%) IBM
9 3 (2.08%) Informatica
9 3 (2.08%) Talend
10 2 (1.39%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.39%) Mapbox
10 2 (1.39%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.39%) Thycotic
10 2 (1.39%) VMware