Python Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Python
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 399 208 155
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.15% 14.18% 9.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.02% 44.54% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 138 110
10th Percentile £363 £343 £400
25th Percentile £416 £402 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £514
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -3.31% -10.70%
75th Percentile £559 £538 £600
90th Percentile £635 £607 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.64% -20.05% -

All Programming Languages
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 814 467 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.87% 31.83% 28.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 310 332
10th Percentile £363 £320 £300
25th Percentile £417 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £565 £542 £588
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
England median daily rate £524 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £20.38 £37.07 £34.38
25th Percentile £23.00 £45.03 £37.50
Median hourly rate £24.25 £62.40 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -61.14% +34.92% +37.79%
75th Percentile £27.31 £82.53 £61.88
90th Percentile £36.50 £92.15 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Yorkshire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire +2 226 £500 +1.75% 30
West Yorkshire +4 166 £500 - 63
East Yorkshire -3 4 - - 8
North Yorkshire -5 4 £700 +64.71% 9
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (5.51%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.01%) Confluence
3 7 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.00%) Apache
4 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.75%) SAS
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 2 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 121 (30.33%) AWS
2 104 (26.07%) GitHub
3 98 (24.56%) GCP
4 83 (20.80%) Azure
5 50 (12.53%) GitHub Actions
6 46 (11.53%) OpenShift
7 27 (6.77%) Power Platform
7 27 (6.77%) Serverless
8 18 (4.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 15 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.26%) Apigee
10 13 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.01%) IaaS
12 11 (2.76%) OCI
13 10 (2.51%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.26%) SaaS
14 9 (2.26%) Vertex AI
15 8 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.75%) Datadog
16 7 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.27%) DNS
2 23 (5.76%) BIG-IP
2 23 (5.76%) Firewall
3 17 (4.26%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.26%) Network Security
5 12 (3.01%) DHCP
6 11 (2.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 10 (2.51%) SAN
8 9 (2.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 8 (2.01%) WAN
9 8 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.75%) VPN
11 6 (1.50%) NAS
12 5 (1.25%) LAN
12 5 (1.25%) VLAN
13 4 (1.00%) BGP
13 4 (1.00%) iSCSI
13 4 (1.00%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.00%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.51%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.26%) Power BI
4 17 (4.26%) BigQuery
4 17 (4.26%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.26%) Metadata
7 12 (3.01%) Hadoop
8 9 (2.26%) Big Data
8 9 (2.26%) Tableau
9 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.50%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.00%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.00%) Parquet
13 3 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.75%) MySQL
13 3 (0.75%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 110 (27.57%) Jenkins
2 65 (16.29%) JIRA
3 25 (6.27%) Git
4 22 (5.51%) GitLab
5 14 (3.51%) Maven
6 13 (3.26%) Gatling
7 9 (2.26%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.50%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.25%) JMeter
9 5 (1.25%) Zephyr
10 4 (1.00%) MSBuild
10 4 (1.00%) NeoLoad
10 4 (1.00%) Postman
10 4 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.00%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.75%) ERwin
11 3 (0.75%) Selenium
12 2 (0.50%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.50%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 78 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 74 (18.55%) Finance
3 56 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.02%) Banking
5 32 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.76%) Legal
8 8 (2.01%) Publishing
9 6 (1.50%) Games
10 5 (1.25%) Retail
11 4 (1.00%) Advertising
12 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Marketing
14 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.25%) Law
14 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (21.05%) Developer
2 62 (15.54%) Python Developer
3 47 (11.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (11.78%) Senior
4 42 (10.53%) Lead
5 27 (6.77%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (6.52%) Python Engineer
7 25 (6.27%) Architect
7 25 (6.27%) Data Engineer
8 18 (4.51%) Analyst
8 18 (4.51%) Senior Developer
9 15 (3.76%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.26%) GCP DevOps
12 12 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (3.01%) Data Analyst
13 11 (2.76%) Network Engineer
13 11 (2.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.52%) JSON
1 34 (8.52%) OpenTelemetry
1 34 (8.52%) REST
2 29 (7.27%) Node.js
3 26 (6.52%) React
4 20 (5.01%) Kafka
5 19 (4.76%) FastAPI
6 16 (4.01%) Playwright
7 14 (3.51%) PySpark
8 13 (3.26%) CSS
9 12 (3.01%) HTML
9 12 (3.01%) Vue
9 12 (3.01%) YAML
10 10 (2.51%) Flask
10 10 (2.51%) pytest
10 10 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (2.26%) .NET
11 9 (2.26%) RESTful
12 8 (2.01%) Apache Avro
12 8 (2.01%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
3 25 (6.27%) Data Centre
4 19 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (4.26%) NHS
6 14 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.01%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.76%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.26%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.75%) PKI
12 6 (1.50%) Blog
12 6 (1.50%) EMC VMAX
12 6 (1.50%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.50%) Replication
13 5 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.78%) Linux
2 27 (6.77%) Windows
3 16 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.50%) Unix
4 6 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.25%) VMS
6 3 (0.75%) zOS
7 2 (0.50%) AIX
7 2 (0.50%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.25%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.25%) Solaris
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (53.63%) CI/CD
2 169 (42.36%) DevOps
3 110 (27.57%) Agile
4 109 (27.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (22.31%) Observability
6 80 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (17.29%) Containerisation
8 53 (13.28%) Test Automation
9 51 (12.78%) AI
10 50 (12.53%) Platform Engineering
11 46 (11.53%) Analytics
12 41 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (10.28%) Data Engineering
13 40 (10.03%) Software Engineering
14 37 (9.27%) Data Protection
14 37 (9.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 36 (9.02%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (9.02%) Performance Optimisation
16 35 (8.77%) API Development
16 35 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 72 (18.05%) Bash
2 63 (15.79%) SQL
3 57 (14.29%) Java
4 47 (11.78%) PowerShell
5 36 (9.02%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.02%) Go
7 18 (4.51%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.76%) Groovy
8 15 (3.76%) Scala
9 9 (2.26%) ActionScript
9 9 (2.26%) R
10 8 (2.01%) C#
10 8 (2.01%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.01%) VBA
11 7 (1.75%) Rust
12 5 (1.25%) Bicep
13 3 (0.75%) Cypher
14 2 (0.50%) JCL
14 2 (0.50%) REXX
14 2 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 45 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.52%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.01%) Degree
5 5 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.00%) CISSP
6 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.75%) OCP
7 3 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.50%) CISM
8 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.50%) GIAC
8 2 (0.50%) NCDA
8 2 (0.50%) NCIE
8 2 (0.50%) RHCA
9 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.26%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.25%) NIST
3 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.25%) WCAG
4 4 (1.00%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.00%) HL7
4 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.00%) QA
5 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (18.80%) Docker
2 24 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (4.76%) vSphere
4 11 (2.76%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.50%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.50%) Firmware
6 6 (1.50%) KVM
6 6 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.00%) NFS
7 4 (1.00%) SRDF
8 2 (0.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.25%) Ceph
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 143 (35.84%) Terraform
2 121 (30.33%) Kubernetes
3 86 (21.55%) Ansible
4 44 (11.03%) Grafana
5 42 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.26%) Argo
7 17 (4.26%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.01%) Control-M
9 11 (2.76%) IBM Guardium
9 11 (2.76%) Nessus
10 9 (2.26%) HAProxy
11 8 (2.01%) NetBackup
11 8 (2.01%) Puppet
12 5 (1.25%) Istio
13 4 (1.00%) Kustomize
13 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.00%) PowerCLI
13 4 (1.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
14 3 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 43 (10.78%) Google
2 40 (10.03%) Microsoft
3 35 (8.77%) Splunk
4 29 (7.27%) VMware
5 27 (6.77%) Databricks
6 25 (6.27%) F5
7 23 (5.76%) Red Hat
8 16 (4.01%) Pure Storage
9 12 (3.01%) Dynatrace
9 12 (3.01%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.76%) Cisco
10 11 (2.76%) Infoblox
10 11 (2.76%) Tenable
11 10 (2.51%) Dell
11 10 (2.51%) IBM
12 8 (2.01%) Sonatype
13 7 (1.75%) Brocade
14 6 (1.50%) Broadcom
14 6 (1.50%) Commvault
14 6 (1.50%) Veritas