Python Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Python Software Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
31 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.41% 0.34% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 707 557 829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 93.93% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 346 555
10th Percentile £306 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £678 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 3
10th Percentile - £16.41 £13.91
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.50 £15.99
Median hourly rate £16.25 £24.18 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +16.78% -31.05%
75th Percentile £25.75 £37.50 £41.98
90th Percentile £28.75 £69.07 £53.99
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £24.18 £20.71
% change year-on-year +3.39% +16.78% -5.89%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Python Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Python Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Software Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Python Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Django
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (33.33%) Flask

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Django
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
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