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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 14 38
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -20
Contract jobs citing Python 301 127 81
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.62% 9.43% 4.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.08% 31.99% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 85 59
10th Percentile £358 £368 £400
25th Percentile £419 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £625
90th Percentile £614 £700 £655
England median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -3.33%

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 626 397 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 34.57% 29.47% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 270 306
10th Percentile £340 £355 £325
25th Percentile £400 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £595
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £28.75 £19.91
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -52.95%
75th Percentile £49.75 £49.38 £25.58
90th Percentile - £72.41 £44.39
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.87% +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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +2 176 £500 -9.09% 31
West Yorkshire +5 119 £500 - 107
North Yorkshire - 4 £425 - 28
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 20 (6.64%) Confluence
2 11 (3.65%) Apache
3 10 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.66%) Apache Pig
5 4 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.66%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 124 (41.20%) AWS
2 81 (26.91%) GCP
3 72 (23.92%) Azure
4 53 (17.61%) Serverless
5 39 (12.96%) GitHub
6 30 (9.97%) Power Platform
7 23 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (7.31%) Amazon S3
8 22 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (3.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (2.99%) AWS KMS
12 9 (2.99%) CloudBees
13 8 (2.66%) Azure AKS
14 6 (1.99%) dbt
14 6 (1.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 39 (12.96%) Firewall
2 22 (7.31%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.32%) DNS
4 7 (2.33%) VPN
5 6 (1.99%) SSL
6 5 (1.66%) Network Security
6 5 (1.66%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.33%) Ethernet
7 4 (1.33%) Internet
8 3 (1.00%) NAS
8 3 (1.00%) SAN
8 3 (1.00%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.66%) HTTP
9 2 (0.66%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.66%) WAN
10 1 (0.33%) BGP
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.33%) OSPF
10 1 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.61%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (15.61%) NoSQL
3 30 (9.97%) Power BI
4 18 (5.98%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.65%) Oracle Database
6 12 (3.99%) Tableau
7 11 (3.65%) MySQL
7 11 (3.65%) Power Query
7 11 (3.65%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.32%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (2.99%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.66%) Apache Hive
11 7 (2.33%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.33%) Data Mining
11 7 (2.33%) DynamoDB
11 7 (2.33%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.99%) PowerPivot
13 5 (1.66%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 116 (38.54%) Jenkins
2 59 (19.60%) GitLab
3 50 (16.61%) Git
4 39 (12.96%) JIRA
5 31 (10.30%) Liquibase
6 19 (6.31%) Postman
7 6 (1.99%) PyCharm
8 5 (1.66%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.00%) Selenium
10 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.66%) MSI
10 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.66%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.66%) TestRail
10 2 (0.66%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.33%) Maven
11 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 89 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 77 (25.58%) Finance
3 63 (20.93%) Banking
4 46 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (12.62%) Public Sector
6 24 (7.97%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.00%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.66%) Legal
8 2 (0.66%) Police
9 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.33%) Law
9 1 (0.33%) Local Government
9 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.33%) Retail
9 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (17.94%) Senior
2 47 (15.61%) Developer
3 42 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (10.96%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (8.64%) Python Developer
6 25 (8.31%) Data Engineer
6 25 (8.31%) Software Engineer
7 24 (7.97%) Automation Engineer
8 22 (7.31%) Analyst
9 19 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (5.32%) GCP Engineer
11 15 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (4.98%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.65%) Architect
12 14 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (4.32%) Data Analyst
13 13 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.65%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.95%) RESTful
2 39 (12.96%) REST
3 35 (11.63%) Elastic Stack
4 29 (9.63%) FastAPI
5 16 (5.32%) TensorFlow
6 14 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 14 (4.65%) React
7 11 (3.65%) Django
8 9 (2.99%) Flask
8 9 (2.99%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.33%) Hugging Face
9 7 (2.33%) OpenCV
9 7 (2.33%) Pandas
9 7 (2.33%) Regular Expression
9 7 (2.33%) SpaCy
10 6 (1.99%) JWT
10 6 (1.99%) Kafka
10 6 (1.99%) Node.js
10 6 (1.99%) NumPy
10 6 (1.99%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (10.63%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.64%) NHS
5 18 (5.98%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.98%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.33%) Clustering
9 4 (1.33%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.33%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.33%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.00%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (27.91%) Linux
2 17 (5.65%) Windows
3 12 (3.99%) Unix
4 7 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.33%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.00%) AIX
7 3 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.00%) Solaris
7 3 (1.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.66%) CentOS
8 2 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.66%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (53.49%) DevOps
2 128 (42.52%) CI/CD
3 126 (41.86%) Agile
4 86 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 77 (25.58%) Containerisation
6 60 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (15.61%) Microservices
8 46 (15.28%) Infrastructure Automation
8 46 (15.28%) Software Engineering
9 45 (14.95%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (12.96%) Computer Science
10 39 (12.96%) Test Automation
11 38 (12.62%) Root Cause Analysis
12 37 (12.29%) Data Security
13 36 (11.96%) Configuration Management
14 33 (10.96%) High Availability
15 30 (9.97%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (9.97%) Data Protection
16 29 (9.63%) Change Management
16 29 (9.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 64 (21.26%) Bash
2 54 (17.94%) SQL
3 42 (13.95%) Go
4 35 (11.63%) Java
5 28 (9.30%) Shell Script
6 24 (7.97%) PowerShell
7 17 (5.65%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.99%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.32%) VBA
10 9 (2.99%) Scala
11 7 (2.33%) C#
12 5 (1.66%) Perl
13 4 (1.33%) C++
14 3 (1.00%) C
14 3 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.66%) XPath
16 1 (0.33%) Groovy
16 1 (0.33%) R
16 1 (0.33%) Rust
16 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (14.29%) Degree
2 35 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 35 (11.63%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.30%) Master's Degree
4 24 (7.97%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.98%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.33%) CCIE
10 1 (0.33%) CCNA
10 1 (0.33%) CCNP
10 1 (0.33%) CISSP
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) OCP
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.33%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.00%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.00%) PMO
3 3 (1.00%) QA
4 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.66%) GDPR
4 2 (0.66%) NIST
5 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (27.24%) Docker
2 27 (8.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.32%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (1.66%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.66%) vSphere
7 4 (1.33%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.00%) HDFS
9 2 (0.66%) KVM
10 1 (0.33%) Ceph
10 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.33%) QEMU
10 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 120 (39.87%) Terraform
2 118 (39.20%) Ansible
3 95 (31.56%) Kubernetes
4 53 (17.61%) Grafana
5 50 (16.61%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.31%) Puppet
7 20 (6.64%) NetBackup
8 11 (3.65%) Control-M
9 10 (3.32%) Data Guard
9 10 (3.32%) IBM Guardium
9 10 (3.32%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (3.32%) Nessus
9 10 (3.32%) yum
10 8 (2.66%) SCCM
11 7 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.33%) vCenter Server
13 3 (1.00%) Hadoop YARN
13 3 (1.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (18.94%) Splunk
2 49 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 37 (12.29%) Google
4 34 (11.30%) VMware
5 22 (7.31%) Oracle
6 19 (6.31%) Red Hat
7 17 (5.65%) MuleSoft
8 16 (5.32%) Veritas
9 13 (4.32%) Commvault
10 11 (3.65%) Databricks
11 10 (3.32%) Tenable
12 9 (2.99%) F5
13 7 (2.33%) CyberArk
13 7 (2.33%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.99%) CheckPoint
15 5 (1.66%) Cisco
15 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
16 4 (1.33%) Apple
16 4 (1.33%) Juniper
16 4 (1.33%) Nokia