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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 354 105 131
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.31% 11.81% 7.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.72% 35.96% 28.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 75 82
10th Percentile £363 £358 £407
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +6.77% -20.00%
75th Percentile £530 £623 £615
90th Percentile £588 £705 £650
England median daily rate £519 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.83% +4.55% -8.33%

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 659 292 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.37% 32.85% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 206 321
10th Percentile £358 £351 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +13.06% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £627 £650 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £28.34 £27.80
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.47 £40.35
Median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +45.83% -0.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £102.00 £62.88
90th Percentile - - £63.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +2 253 £485 -15.74% 69
West Yorkshire +1 97 £488 +1.30% 100
North Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 20
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 26 (7.34%) Confluence
2 14 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.85%) Apache
5 3 (0.85%) SAS
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.41%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 103 (29.10%) AWS
2 92 (25.99%) GCP
3 80 (22.60%) GitHub
4 71 (20.06%) Azure
5 56 (15.82%) OpenShift
6 40 (11.30%) Serverless
7 31 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (6.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 20 (5.65%) Amazon S3
10 19 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (3.95%) Power Platform
13 13 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.39%) Entra ID
15 11 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.11%) AWS KMS
15 11 (3.11%) SaaS
16 9 (2.54%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.19%) DNS
2 23 (6.50%) Firewall
3 13 (3.67%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.11%) VPN
5 9 (2.54%) Network Security
6 7 (1.98%) SAN
6 7 (1.98%) WAN
7 6 (1.69%) LAN
8 5 (1.41%) NAS
9 4 (1.13%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.13%) DHCP
9 4 (1.13%) Internet
9 4 (1.13%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.85%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.56%) BGP
11 2 (0.56%) DWDM
11 2 (0.56%) HTTP
11 2 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (15.82%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (10.17%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.80%) MySQL
4 13 (3.67%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.67%) Power BI
5 12 (3.39%) Hadoop
6 10 (2.82%) Metadata
6 10 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.54%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.26%) Power Query
8 8 (2.26%) PowerPivot
9 6 (1.69%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.69%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.41%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.13%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.13%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 130 (36.72%) Jenkins
2 68 (19.21%) JIRA
3 53 (14.97%) GitLab
4 26 (7.34%) Git
5 19 (5.37%) Postman
6 16 (4.52%) Liquibase
7 10 (2.82%) Selenium
8 8 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.26%) TestRail
9 7 (1.98%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.69%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.69%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.41%) JMeter
12 4 (1.13%) Gatling
12 4 (1.13%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.13%) Maven
12 4 (1.13%) NeoLoad
12 4 (1.13%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 75 (21.19%) Finance
3 60 (16.95%) Banking
4 53 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.39%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.13%) Legal
9 3 (0.85%) Advertising
9 3 (0.85%) Law
9 3 (0.85%) Marketing
9 3 (0.85%) Publishing
10 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.56%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (16.10%) Developer
2 42 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (11.58%) Lead
4 38 (10.73%) Python Developer
5 37 (10.45%) Senior
6 32 (9.04%) GCP Engineer
7 26 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (7.34%) Data Engineer
8 22 (6.21%) Architect
9 20 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (4.52%) Analyst
10 16 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.24%) GCP DevOps
12 14 (3.95%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 14 (3.95%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (3.39%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
15 11 (3.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.28%) REST
2 44 (12.43%) OpenTelemetry
3 29 (8.19%) FastAPI
4 27 (7.63%) YAML
5 26 (7.34%) Elastic Stack
6 25 (7.06%) RESTful
7 18 (5.08%) JSON
7 18 (5.08%) Node.js
8 12 (3.39%) OpenID
9 11 (3.11%) Playwright
9 11 (3.11%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.82%) Kafka
10 10 (2.82%) LDAP
10 10 (2.82%) React
11 9 (2.54%) Flask
11 9 (2.54%) JWT
11 9 (2.54%) OAuth
11 9 (2.54%) SailPoint
12 8 (2.26%) Apache Avro
12 8 (2.26%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.84%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 22 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (5.08%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.80%) NHS
7 15 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.54%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.69%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.13%) Clustering
11 4 (1.13%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.13%) PKI
11 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.85%) EMC VMAX
12 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (21.75%) Linux
2 26 (7.34%) Windows
3 16 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.82%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.82%) Unix
5 9 (2.54%) CentOS
6 3 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.56%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (59.60%) CI/CD
2 182 (51.41%) DevOps
3 109 (30.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (29.10%) Agile
5 99 (27.97%) Containerisation
6 87 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (18.64%) Observability
8 59 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 45 (12.71%) RBAC
10 41 (11.58%) Migration
10 41 (11.58%) Root Cause Analysis
11 39 (11.02%) Analytics
12 38 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (10.45%) Cybersecurity
14 35 (9.89%) High Availability
15 34 (9.60%) Infrastructure Automation
16 33 (9.32%) Platform Engineering
16 33 (9.32%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (9.04%) Microservices
18 31 (8.76%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 82 (23.16%) Bash
2 52 (14.69%) SQL
3 41 (11.58%) Java
4 36 (10.17%) PowerShell
5 34 (9.60%) Go
6 26 (7.34%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.08%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.67%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.39%) Scala
10 11 (3.11%) Groovy
10 11 (3.11%) VBA
11 10 (2.82%) Perl
12 9 (2.54%) Ruby
13 6 (1.69%) PHP
14 5 (1.41%) Bicep
15 4 (1.13%) C#
15 4 (1.13%) Cypher
16 3 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
17 2 (0.56%) C
17 2 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 31 (8.76%) Degree
2 29 (8.19%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.37%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.08%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.26%) RHCE
7 5 (1.41%) CISM
7 5 (1.41%) CISSP
8 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.85%) CCNP
9 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.56%) CCNA
10 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.56%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.56%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.39%) QA
2 7 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.13%) PMO
3 4 (1.13%) SLA
3 4 (1.13%) WCAG
4 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (23.73%) Docker
2 22 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (4.80%) vSphere
4 16 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.11%) KVM
6 10 (2.82%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.82%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.69%) Firmware
8 5 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
10 2 (0.56%) SRDF
11 1 (0.28%) Ceph
11 1 (0.28%) NFS
11 1 (0.28%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 144 (40.68%) Kubernetes
2 141 (39.83%) Terraform
3 124 (35.03%) Ansible
4 73 (20.62%) Grafana
5 67 (18.93%) Prometheus
6 22 (6.21%) Puppet
7 20 (5.65%) Control-M
7 20 (5.65%) IBM Guardium
7 20 (5.65%) Nessus
8 14 (3.95%) vCenter Server
9 13 (3.67%) NetBackup
10 11 (3.11%) Argo
10 11 (3.11%) Istio
11 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.13%) PowerCLI
11 4 (1.13%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.85%) Packer
13 2 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 66 (18.64%) Splunk
2 44 (12.43%) Red Hat
3 39 (11.02%) Google
4 30 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 30 (8.47%) VMware
5 20 (5.65%) Tenable
6 18 (5.08%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.67%) Pure Storage
8 10 (2.82%) Commvault
9 9 (2.54%) Cisco
9 9 (2.54%) Oracle
9 9 (2.54%) Veritas
10 8 (2.26%) Databricks
10 8 (2.26%) F5
11 5 (1.41%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.13%) Dell
12 4 (1.13%) Infoblox
12 4 (1.13%) Okta
12 4 (1.13%) Sonatype