Python Developer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Python Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Python Developer daily rate in Leeds is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 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
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 59 69
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 15 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.54% 0.83% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 0.91% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 13
10th Percentile £463 £509 £440
25th Percentile £500 £520 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £638
90th Percentile £545 £594 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%

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 576 662 1,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.46% 92.07% 97.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 430 753
10th Percentile £313 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £559 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 13
10th Percentile £25.15 £17.89 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% +27.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £46.25 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £48.75 £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £77.50 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +210.00% +31.58% -5.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in Leeds

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in Leeds

Python Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 8 September 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 15 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (86.67%) AWS
3 11 (73.33%) Terraform
4 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (40.00%) NHS
6 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (13.33%) Linux
7 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
7 2 (13.33%) Coaching
7 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
7 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (13.33%) Serverless
7 2 (13.33%) Bash
7 2 (13.33%) Node.js
7 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (6.67%) Brio
8 1 (6.67%) Agile
8 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis
8 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
8 1 (6.67%) Resource Management
8 1 (6.67%) QA
8 1 (6.67%) Selenium
8 1 (6.67%) JavaScript

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 13 (86.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (6.67%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) pytest
2 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) NHS
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps
1 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (13.33%) Coaching
2 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (6.67%) Agile
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (6.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (6.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (6.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Brio