Python Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Python
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 18 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 19 19 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 7.79% 7.82% 10.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.46% 26.76% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 29
10th Percentile £401 £415 £448
25th Percentile £412 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £516 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% -26.36% +27.27%
75th Percentile £546 £613 £836
90th Percentile £575 £635 £848
North East median daily rate £481 £516 £675
% change year-on-year -6.64% -23.63% +22.73%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 81 71 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 33.20% 29.22% 49.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 32 139
10th Percentile £325 £351 £398
25th Percentile £358 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £452 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -20.00% +13.00%
75th Percentile £490 £500 £665
90th Percentile £575 £549 £760
North East median daily rate £438 £465 £565
% change year-on-year -5.81% -17.79% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -
North East median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year +9.47% +16.56% -4.12%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Tyne and Wear

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Python in Tyne and Wear

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Tyne and Wear

Python
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -7 18 £488 -22.00% 106
Sunderland +1 1 £450 +6.38% 2
Python
North East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (10.53%) Jupyter
1 2 (10.53%) nginx
1 2 (10.53%) Traefik
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (26.32%) Serverless
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (10.53%) dbt
6 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
6 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (5.26%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) SMS
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Metadata
1 3 (15.79%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.26%) Flink
3 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) GitLab
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) Selenium
4 2 (10.53%) Git
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Electronics
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Data Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Kafka
2 3 (15.79%) pytest
3 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.53%) cloud-init
3 2 (10.53%) Keycloak
3 2 (10.53%) Micronaut
3 2 (10.53%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
3 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Unix
4 1 (5.26%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.79%) ETL
7 2 (10.53%) Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
7 2 (10.53%) Mobile Device Management
7 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
7 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Bash
1 5 (26.32%) Java
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Go
3 1 (5.26%) Bicep
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Terraform
2 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (26.32%) Grafana
3 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.79%) Packer
5 2 (10.53%) Ansible
5 2 (10.53%) Consul
5 2 (10.53%) HAProxy
5 2 (10.53%) Istio
5 2 (10.53%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (10.53%) linkerd
5 2 (10.53%) Rancher
5 2 (10.53%) ZABBIX
6 1 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Apple
2 2 (10.53%) ESET
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Okta
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) New Relic