Python Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Python
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 25 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 32 13 8
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 9.64% 6.02% 4.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.16% 19.70% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 8 4
10th Percentile £398 £451 £415
25th Percentile £400 £502 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £453
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +26.93% -15.72%
75th Percentile £575 £642 £494
90th Percentile £595 £741 £528
North East median daily rate £475 £565 £431
% change year-on-year -15.93% +31.09% -24.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £55.13 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +19.38% - -

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 91 66 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 27.41% 30.56% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 41 22
10th Percentile £380 £325 £233
25th Percentile £400 £345 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £463
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -5.02% -15.77%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £517
90th Percentile £575 £630 £549
North East median daily rate £475 £454 £454
% change year-on-year +4.63% - -17.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £39.40 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.39% - -19.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Python job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 December 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 14 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +5 32 £475 -17.39% 78
Python
North East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (12.50%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) Apache
2 3 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.13%) CMS
4 1 (3.13%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
3 5 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (15.63%) OpenShift
3 5 (15.63%) Serverless
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.50%) GitHub
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.25%) GCP
6 2 (6.25%) Pulumi
6 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
7 1 (3.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) GitLab
2 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
3 6 (18.75%) Git
4 4 (12.50%) JIRA
5 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (53.13%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Lead
4 4 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Subject Matter Expert
6 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Node.js
2 4 (12.50%) Keycloak
3 3 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (9.38%) Spring
4 2 (6.25%) Gherkin
4 2 (6.25%) Next.js
4 2 (6.25%) PySpark
4 2 (6.25%) React
4 2 (6.25%) REST
4 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.13%) Flask
5 1 (3.13%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.13%) RESTful
5 1 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 17 (53.13%) DevOps
2 17 (53.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (21.88%) Agile
3 7 (21.88%) Data Engineering
4 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 6 (18.75%) Validation
5 5 (15.63%) Migration
5 5 (15.63%) TDD
6 4 (12.50%) GitOps
6 4 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 3 (9.38%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (9.38%) DevSecOps
7 3 (9.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (9.38%) Microservices
7 3 (9.38%) Secrets Management
7 3 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Bash
2 7 (21.88%) Java
3 5 (15.63%) Go
3 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.38%) Perl
5 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.25%) Groovy
7 1 (3.13%) Bicep
7 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (3.13%) Rust
7 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (59.38%) SC Cleared
1 19 (59.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (87.50%) Terraform
2 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (40.63%) Ansible
4 7 (21.88%) Grafana
5 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
6 5 (15.63%) Argo
6 5 (15.63%) Istio
7 1 (3.13%) Icinga
7 1 (3.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Red Hat
2 3 (9.38%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) Blue Prism
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.13%) UiPath