Python Developer Contracts in Leeds

Python Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Python Developer daily rate in Leeds is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 52 80
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 5 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.08% 1.38% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.49% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 14
10th Percentile £410 £450 -
25th Percentile £463 £584 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £610 £506
Median % change year-on-year -22.13% +20.49% -7.95%
75th Percentile £500 £645 £584
90th Percentile £523 £675 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £610 £506
% change year-on-year -22.13% +20.49% -7.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 452 736 1,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.20% 92.12% 97.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 458 948
10th Percentile £257 £300 £356
25th Percentile £352 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -79.95% +179.02%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in Leeds

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in Leeds

Python Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Python Developer in Leeds

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Python Developer 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 Leeds region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (20.00%) QA
5 1 (20.00%) Selenium
5 1 (20.00%) Django
5 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (20.00%) NHS
5 1 (20.00%) Bash
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Django
1 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (20.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform