Python Contracts in Leeds

Python
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 16 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 51 68 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 10.97% 8.51% 7.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.82% 28.81% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 47 68
10th Percentile £343 £400 £413
25th Percentile £407 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £594 £620 £700
90th Percentile £738 £650 £704
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +12.94%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 171 236 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 36.77% 29.54% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 173 305
10th Percentile £325 £300 £412
25th Percentile £405 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £600
90th Percentile £703 £648 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £31.62 - £57.55
25th Percentile £44.87 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +169.23%
75th Percentile £101.14 - -
90th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +169.23%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Leeds

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Leeds

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Leeds

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Leeds

Python
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.80%) nginx
1 5 (9.80%) Traefik
2 2 (3.92%) Apache
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (70.59%) AWS
2 12 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (17.65%) GCP
4 8 (15.69%) Azure
4 8 (15.69%) Serverless
5 7 (13.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (13.73%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (13.73%) AWS Fargate
6 6 (11.76%) Entra ID
6 6 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (5.88%) npm
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.92%) GitHub
10 1 (1.96%) Apigee
10 1 (1.96%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.96%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) DNS
1 7 (13.73%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.92%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) HTTP
3 1 (1.96%) DHCP
3 1 (1.96%) LAN
3 1 (1.96%) Network Security
3 1 (1.96%) SSL
3 1 (1.96%) VLAN
3 1 (1.96%) VPN
3 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.84%) BigQuery
2 4 (7.84%) Power BI
3 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.92%) Tableau
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.96%) Big Data
4 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.96%) Looker
4 1 (1.96%) MySQL
4 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) GitLab
2 12 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.76%) Git
4 3 (5.88%) JIRA
4 3 (5.88%) Selenium
4 3 (5.88%) webpack
5 1 (1.96%) Babel
5 1 (1.96%) ERwin
General
1 10 (19.61%) Public Sector
1 10 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Health Technology
5 2 (3.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
1 15 (29.41%) Senior
2 9 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (13.73%) Developer
3 7 (13.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Lead
5 5 (9.80%) Python Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Python Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (7.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.57%) cloud-init
2 8 (15.69%) Kafka
3 6 (11.76%) Keycloak
4 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.84%) CSS
4 4 (7.84%) HTML
4 4 (7.84%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (5.88%) Flask
5 3 (5.88%) pytest
5 3 (5.88%) React
5 3 (5.88%) REST
6 2 (3.92%) Django
6 2 (3.92%) JSON
6 2 (3.92%) Node.js
6 2 (3.92%) Playwright
6 2 (3.92%) RESTful
6 2 (3.92%) Web Services
7 1 (1.96%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.96%) JWT
7 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) PKI
2 3 (5.88%) NHS
3 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (31.37%) Linux
2 13 (25.49%) CentOS
2 13 (25.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (23.53%) Unix
4 2 (3.92%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.92%) Windows
5 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) CI/CD
2 24 (47.06%) DevOps
3 16 (31.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (19.61%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (15.69%) Agile
6 8 (15.69%) Cloud Security
7 7 (13.73%) ETL
7 7 (13.73%) Secrets Management
8 6 (11.76%) Analytics
8 6 (11.76%) Data Engineering
8 6 (11.76%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 6 (11.76%) Identity Management
8 6 (11.76%) Observability
8 6 (11.76%) Static Application Security Testing
9 5 (9.80%) Data Governance
9 5 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (9.80%) Mobile Device Management
9 5 (9.80%) Test Automation
10 4 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) Bash
2 13 (25.49%) SQL
3 12 (23.53%) Go
4 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.88%) Scala
7 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.96%) AppleScript
8 1 (1.96%) Java
8 1 (1.96%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) Security Cleared
2 22 (43.14%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.73%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) NCSC
2 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (58.82%) Terraform
2 12 (23.53%) Packer
3 11 (21.57%) Kubernetes
4 7 (13.73%) Grafana
4 7 (13.73%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (13.73%) Prometheus
5 6 (11.76%) Consul
5 6 (11.76%) Istio
5 6 (11.76%) linkerd
5 6 (11.76%) Rancher
5 6 (11.76%) ZABBIX
6 5 (9.80%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.92%) Ansible
8 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Apple
1 6 (11.76%) Okta
1 6 (11.76%) Splunk
2 5 (9.80%) ESET
2 5 (9.80%) Google
3 3 (5.88%) Brio
3 3 (5.88%) Databricks
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.96%) F5
5 1 (1.96%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) Sparx