Python Contract Job Trends in the North West

Python
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 25 30
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Python 238 147 158
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 9.71% 6.54% 5.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.28% 28.71% 22.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 96 97
10th Percentile £297 £356 £400
25th Percentile £362 £417 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% -5.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £663
90th Percentile £638 £694 £700
England median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 27
10th Percentile £53.85 - £43.53
25th Percentile £67.88 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £60.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.56% +31.20% -2.78%
75th Percentile - £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £84.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% -7.69%

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 656 512 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.75% 22.79% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 320 541
10th Percentile £310 £350 £325
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% -7.18% -5.11%
75th Percentile £525 £549 £575
90th Percentile £606 £610 £663
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 42
10th Percentile £35.97 £44.31 £45.88
25th Percentile £59.80 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% +40.75% +20.26%
75th Percentile - £86.00 £51.19
90th Percentile £83.75 £92.50 £73.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Python job vacancy trend in the North West

Python
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the North West over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North West

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the North West over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 8 December 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 +7 123 £500 - 239
Cheshire -6 69 £388 -20.51% 104
Lancashire +3 20 £550 +4.76% 113
Merseyside +4 15 £419 -1.47% 65
Cumbria +10 4 £403 - 6
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 17 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.62%) SAS
4 9 (3.78%) Confluence
5 7 (2.94%) Apache
6 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (2.10%) Apache Spark
7 5 (2.10%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.26%) JBoss
9 1 (0.42%) IIS
9 1 (0.42%) nginx
9 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) SPSS
4 1 (0.42%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.42%) Finacle
1 1 (0.42%) Maximo
1 1 (0.42%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 95 (39.92%) AWS
2 66 (27.73%) Azure
3 43 (18.07%) GCP
4 25 (10.50%) Serverless
5 24 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (9.66%) GitHub
7 21 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (8.40%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (7.98%) Power Platform
10 16 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (6.72%) SaaS
11 14 (5.88%) OpenShift
11 14 (5.88%) PaaS
12 13 (5.46%) Datadog
12 13 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (4.20%) IaaS
15 9 (3.78%) Amazon S3
16 8 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.92%) Firewall
2 20 (8.40%) TCP/IP
3 12 (5.04%) DNS
4 10 (4.20%) BIG-IP
4 10 (4.20%) SSL
5 9 (3.78%) HTTP
5 9 (3.78%) Wireshark
6 8 (3.36%) BGP
6 8 (3.36%) SSH
7 6 (2.52%) DMZ
7 6 (2.52%) Network Security
7 6 (2.52%) VPN
7 6 (2.52%) WAN
8 5 (2.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 5 (2.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (2.10%) LAN
8 5 (2.10%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (2.10%) VLAN
8 5 (2.10%) WebEx
9 4 (1.68%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.66%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.56%) Power BI
3 17 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (5.04%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.62%) Redis
6 10 (4.20%) BigQuery
7 9 (3.78%) Big Data
8 8 (3.36%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.94%) MySQL
9 7 (2.94%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.52%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.68%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.68%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.68%) Looker
12 4 (1.68%) Tableau
13 3 (1.26%) Cognos Report Studio
Development Applications
1 44 (18.49%) Jenkins
2 34 (14.29%) Git
3 31 (13.03%) GitLab
4 24 (10.08%) JIRA
5 9 (3.78%) Fiddler
6 8 (3.36%) Gradle
6 8 (3.36%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.52%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.10%) Maven
8 5 (2.10%) MLflow
8 5 (2.10%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.68%) JUnit
10 3 (1.26%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.26%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.26%) Selenium
10 3 (1.26%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.26%) Xcode
11 2 (0.84%) CA Release Automation
General
1 54 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.85%) Finance
3 41 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.18%) Banking
4 29 (12.18%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.94%) Legal
6 5 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.68%) Games
7 4 (1.68%) Marketing
7 4 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.68%) Retail
8 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.42%) Automotive
9 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Law
9 1 (0.42%) Military
9 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.42%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (11.34%) Developer
2 25 (10.50%) Data Engineer
3 22 (9.24%) Network Engineer
4 21 (8.82%) Analyst
5 20 (8.40%) Architect
5 20 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (7.14%) Senior
7 15 (6.30%) Lead
8 14 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.62%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.78%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.78%) Junior
12 8 (3.36%) Data Analyst
12 8 (3.36%) Software Engineer
13 7 (2.94%) Automation Specialist
13 7 (2.94%) Java Architect
13 7 (2.94%) Junior Network Engineer
13 7 (2.94%) Support Specialist
14 6 (2.52%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.92%) Node.js
2 21 (8.82%) RESTful
3 15 (6.30%) Spring Boot
4 14 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 13 (5.46%) REST
6 12 (5.04%) Kafka
6 12 (5.04%) React
7 11 (4.62%) HTML
7 11 (4.62%) PySpark
8 10 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (2.94%) Flask
9 7 (2.94%) LangChain
10 6 (2.52%) Dropwizard
10 6 (2.52%) J2EE
10 6 (2.52%) JWT
10 6 (2.52%) Micronaut
10 6 (2.52%) pytest
10 6 (2.52%) Spring
11 5 (2.10%) Celery
11 5 (2.10%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.40%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (5.04%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.78%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.94%) Credit Risk
7 6 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.52%) N-Tier
7 6 (2.52%) Tandem
8 5 (2.10%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.10%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.68%) Mobile Banking
10 3 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.26%) Autonomous Agent
10 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.69%) Linux
2 38 (15.97%) Windows
3 11 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (4.62%) Unix
4 10 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (30.25%) CI/CD
2 64 (26.89%) Containerisation
3 58 (24.37%) DevOps
4 54 (22.69%) Agile
5 47 (19.75%) Analytics
6 44 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (15.97%) AI
9 36 (15.13%) ETL
9 36 (15.13%) Machine Learning
10 33 (13.87%) Observability
11 26 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (10.50%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (10.50%) Microservices
13 24 (10.08%) Computer Science
13 24 (10.08%) Data Science
14 23 (9.66%) Data Modelling
14 23 (9.66%) Migration
15 22 (9.24%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (25.63%) SQL
2 43 (18.07%) Bash
3 36 (15.13%) Java
4 26 (10.92%) PowerShell
5 24 (10.08%) Perl
6 15 (6.30%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.88%) PHP
7 14 (5.88%) R
8 13 (5.46%) TypeScript
9 11 (4.62%) Ruby
10 10 (4.20%) Go
11 8 (3.36%) C++
12 7 (2.94%) Scala
13 4 (1.68%) C
13 4 (1.68%) C#
14 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.26%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.26%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.26%) Swift
15 2 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 57 (23.95%) Security Cleared
2 44 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.24%) Degree
4 14 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (5.04%) CCNP
5 12 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.20%) CCDP
7 8 (3.36%) CCNA
8 5 (2.10%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.26%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.26%) MCP
11 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.84%) GCIA
11 2 (0.84%) GCIH
11 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.20%) QA
3 9 (3.78%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (31.09%) Docker
2 16 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.04%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.94%) vSphere
5 4 (1.68%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.42%) Firmware
7 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 71 (29.83%) Kubernetes
2 48 (20.17%) Terraform
3 33 (13.87%) Ansible
4 24 (10.08%) Grafana
5 10 (4.20%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.68%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.26%) Kibana
7 3 (1.26%) Packer
7 3 (1.26%) Podman
7 3 (1.26%) SELinux
8 2 (0.84%) Control-M
8 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.42%) Argo
9 1 (0.42%) Istio
9 1 (0.42%) Puppet
9 1 (0.42%) QRadar
9 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 33 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.92%) VMware
3 21 (8.82%) Oracle
4 20 (8.40%) F5
5 17 (7.14%) Cisco
6 14 (5.88%) AppDynamics
7 13 (5.46%) Palo Alto
8 12 (5.04%) Pega
9 11 (4.62%) Red Hat
10 10 (4.20%) Blue Coat
10 10 (4.20%) McAfee
11 9 (3.78%) Databricks
11 9 (3.78%) Google
11 9 (3.78%) IBM
11 9 (3.78%) ServiceNow
12 8 (3.36%) Citrix
12 8 (3.36%) Gemalto
12 8 (3.36%) Thales
13 6 (2.52%) Dynatrace
14 5 (2.10%) Gigya