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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 57 78 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 11.20% 9.77% 8.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.02% 29.32% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 55 61
10th Percentile £313 £316 £425
25th Percentile £405 £425 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £700
90th Percentile £575 £625 £713
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +9.09%

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 178 266 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 34.97% 33.33% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 187 279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £413
25th Percentile £406 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £628
90th Percentile £575 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +1.02% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £31.53 - -
25th Percentile £31.62 £48.75 £21.31
Median hourly rate £33.11 £52.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.93% -2.78% +107.69%
75th Percentile £66.51 £56.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.74 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 £52.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -36.93% -2.78% +107.69%

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 July 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

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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 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) AWS
2 12 (21.05%) GCP
2 12 (21.05%) Serverless
3 11 (19.30%) Azure
4 8 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
6 6 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (8.77%) GitHub
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
8 4 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (7.02%) npm
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (3.51%) AWS KMS
10 2 (3.51%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (3.51%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) Firewall
2 3 (5.26%) HTTP
3 2 (3.51%) DNS
3 2 (3.51%) Network Security
3 2 (3.51%) SSL
3 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.51%) VPN
4 1 (1.75%) DHCP
4 1 (1.75%) LAN
4 1 (1.75%) VLAN
4 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Power BI
2 5 (8.77%) BigQuery
2 5 (8.77%) Tableau
3 4 (7.02%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.26%) MySQL
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.51%) Big Data
5 2 (3.51%) Bigtable
5 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.51%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.75%) Looker
6 1 (1.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (21.05%) Git
2 6 (10.53%) JIRA
3 5 (8.77%) GitLab
4 4 (7.02%) webpack
5 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.26%) Selenium
6 1 (1.75%) Babel
General
1 10 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.02%) Health Technology
4 3 (5.26%) Banking
4 3 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Developer
2 8 (14.04%) Lead
3 7 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) Python Developer
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 6 (10.53%) Analyst
4 6 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Python Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Architect
5 5 (8.77%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (8.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Data Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Mac Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Senior Mac Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Data Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) GCP Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) React
2 6 (10.53%) pytest
3 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.77%) CSS
3 5 (8.77%) HTML
3 5 (8.77%) Node.js
4 4 (7.02%) Flask
4 4 (7.02%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (7.02%) REST
4 4 (7.02%) RESTful
5 3 (5.26%) Kafka
5 3 (5.26%) PySpark
5 3 (5.26%) Web Services
6 2 (3.51%) .NET
6 2 (3.51%) Playwright
7 1 (1.75%) ADO
7 1 (1.75%) Ajax
7 1 (1.75%) Django
7 1 (1.75%) JSON
7 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) NHS
2 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.26%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Mac OS
3 3 (5.26%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) CentOS
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 19 (33.33%) DevOps
3 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (21.05%) Agile
5 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
6 9 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 8 (14.04%) ETL
8 7 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (10.53%) Incident Management
10 5 (8.77%) Analytics
10 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (8.77%) User Experience
11 4 (7.02%) Data Analysis
11 4 (7.02%) Data Engineering
11 4 (7.02%) Data Governance
11 4 (7.02%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (7.02%) Decision-Making
11 4 (7.02%) IT Strategy
11 4 (7.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) SQL
2 14 (24.56%) Bash
3 8 (14.04%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.02%) Java
5 4 (7.02%) Scala
6 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.51%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.75%) AppleScript
8 1 (1.75%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 14 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.51%) NIST
3 2 (3.51%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (42.11%) Terraform
2 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.77%) Ansible
3 5 (8.77%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.51%) Control-M
5 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.75%) Grafana
6 1 (1.75%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.75%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Apple
1 5 (8.77%) Google
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Brio
3 3 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (3.51%) Cisco
5 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.75%) F5
5 1 (1.75%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.75%) Splunk
5 1 (1.75%) Veritas
5 1 (1.75%) VMware