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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +11
Contract jobs citing Python 359 107 129
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.67% 12.04% 7.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.48% 37.68% 28.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 74 83
10th Percentile £363 £366 £407
25th Percentile £425 £451 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £536 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% +9.34% -18.33%
75th Percentile £537 £623 £615
90th Percentile £600 £710 £650
England median daily rate £521 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.39% +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 659 284 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.61% 31.95% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 201 325
10th Percentile £358 £355 £300
25th Percentile £424 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £625
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £26.25 £27.80
25th Percentile £49.25 £27.56 £40.35
Median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% -0.63% -0.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.66 £62.88
90th Percentile - £102.00 £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 4 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 4 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 +3 254 £489 -15.00% 89
West Yorkshire -1 101 £488 -2.50% 112
North Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 34
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 (7.24%) Confluence
2 14 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.84%) Apache
5 3 (0.84%) SAS
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.39%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 109 (30.36%) AWS
2 94 (26.18%) GCP
3 78 (21.73%) GitHub
4 73 (20.33%) Azure
5 54 (15.04%) OpenShift
6 43 (11.98%) Serverless
7 31 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (6.69%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 20 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (4.46%) Power Platform
14 14 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.34%) Entra ID
15 12 (3.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (3.06%) AWS KMS
16 11 (3.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.64%) DNS
2 27 (7.52%) Firewall
3 16 (4.46%) TCP/IP
4 15 (4.18%) VPN
5 10 (2.79%) Network Security
6 7 (1.95%) WAN
7 6 (1.67%) LAN
7 6 (1.67%) SAN
8 5 (1.39%) NAS
8 5 (1.39%) SSL
9 4 (1.11%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.11%) Internet
9 4 (1.11%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.84%) DHCP
11 2 (0.56%) BGP
11 2 (0.56%) DWDM
11 2 (0.56%) HTTP
11 2 (0.56%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (15.04%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (11.14%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.74%) MySQL
4 15 (4.18%) Power BI
5 13 (3.62%) Hadoop
6 12 (3.34%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.79%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.51%) Metadata
8 9 (2.51%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.23%) Power Query
9 8 (2.23%) PowerPivot
10 6 (1.67%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.67%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.67%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.11%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.11%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.56%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.56%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 136 (37.88%) Jenkins
2 68 (18.94%) JIRA
3 58 (16.16%) GitLab
4 31 (8.64%) Git
5 19 (5.29%) Liquibase
5 19 (5.29%) Postman
6 10 (2.79%) Selenium
7 8 (2.23%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.23%) TestRail
8 7 (1.95%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.67%) PyCharm
9 6 (1.67%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.39%) JMeter
11 4 (1.11%) Gatling
11 4 (1.11%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.11%) Maven
11 4 (1.11%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.11%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 99 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 79 (22.01%) Finance
3 64 (17.83%) Banking
4 55 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.52%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (4.18%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.11%) Legal
9 3 (0.84%) Advertising
9 3 (0.84%) Law
9 3 (0.84%) Marketing
9 3 (0.84%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.56%) Publishing
10 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (15.32%) Developer
2 48 (13.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (12.26%) Senior
4 40 (11.14%) Lead
5 36 (10.03%) Python Developer
6 33 (9.19%) GCP Engineer
7 28 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (7.80%) Data Engineer
8 23 (6.41%) Architect
9 22 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 18 (5.01%) Analyst
11 17 (4.74%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.46%) GCP DevOps
13 15 (4.18%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (4.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.62%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.65%) REST
2 42 (11.70%) OpenTelemetry
3 29 (8.08%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (7.80%) FastAPI
4 28 (7.80%) RESTful
5 26 (7.24%) YAML
6 18 (5.01%) Node.js
7 17 (4.74%) JSON
8 12 (3.34%) OpenID
9 11 (3.06%) Kafka
9 11 (3.06%) Playwright
9 11 (3.06%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.79%) LDAP
10 10 (2.79%) React
11 9 (2.51%) Flask
11 9 (2.51%) JWT
11 9 (2.51%) OAuth
11 9 (2.51%) SailPoint
12 8 (2.23%) Apache Avro
12 8 (2.23%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.48%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.19%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.52%) Public Cloud
4 22 (6.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (5.01%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.74%) NHS
7 15 (4.18%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.79%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.79%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.95%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.39%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.11%) Clustering
12 4 (1.11%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.11%) PKI
12 4 (1.11%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.84%) Replication
13 3 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (22.01%) Linux
2 25 (6.96%) Windows
3 15 (4.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.79%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.79%) Unix
5 9 (2.51%) CentOS
6 3 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.56%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (59.05%) CI/CD
2 185 (51.53%) DevOps
3 112 (31.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (30.36%) Agile
5 102 (28.41%) Containerisation
6 87 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (18.11%) Observability
8 60 (16.71%) Test Automation
9 46 (12.81%) Root Cause Analysis
10 45 (12.53%) RBAC
11 41 (11.42%) Analytics
11 41 (11.42%) Cybersecurity
11 41 (11.42%) High Availability
12 40 (11.14%) Migration
13 38 (10.58%) Infrastructure Automation
14 37 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (10.03%) Microservices
16 34 (9.47%) Software Engineering
17 33 (9.19%) Stakeholder Management
18 32 (8.91%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 84 (23.40%) Bash
2 58 (16.16%) SQL
3 45 (12.53%) Java
4 38 (10.58%) Go
5 36 (10.03%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.24%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.01%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.90%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.62%) Scala
10 11 (3.06%) Perl
10 11 (3.06%) VBA
11 9 (2.51%) Groovy
11 9 (2.51%) Ruby
12 6 (1.67%) PHP
13 5 (1.39%) Bicep
13 5 (1.39%) C#
14 4 (1.11%) Cypher
15 3 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.56%) C
16 2 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 36 (10.03%) Degree
2 32 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (6.13%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.57%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.23%) RHCE
7 7 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.39%) CISM
8 5 (1.39%) CISSP
9 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.84%) CCNP
10 3 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.56%) CCNA
11 2 (0.56%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.56%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.56%) OCP
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.34%) QA
2 8 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.11%) PMO
3 4 (1.11%) SLA
3 4 (1.11%) WCAG
4 3 (0.84%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.84%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 91 (25.35%) Docker
2 21 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (4.74%) vSphere
4 16 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.06%) KVM
6 10 (2.79%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.79%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.39%) Firmware
7 5 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.56%) SRDF
10 1 (0.28%) Ceph
10 1 (0.28%) NFS
10 1 (0.28%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 146 (40.67%) Kubernetes
2 145 (40.39%) Terraform
3 127 (35.38%) Ansible
4 75 (20.89%) Grafana
5 68 (18.94%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.85%) Puppet
7 19 (5.29%) Control-M
7 19 (5.29%) IBM Guardium
7 19 (5.29%) Nessus
8 14 (3.90%) vCenter Server
9 13 (3.62%) NetBackup
10 11 (3.06%) Argo
10 11 (3.06%) Istio
11 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.11%) PowerCLI
11 4 (1.11%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.84%) Packer
13 2 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 71 (19.78%) Splunk
2 44 (12.26%) Red Hat
3 42 (11.70%) Google
4 31 (8.64%) Microsoft
5 29 (8.08%) VMware
6 19 (5.29%) Tenable
7 18 (5.01%) ServiceNow
8 12 (3.34%) F5
8 12 (3.34%) Pure Storage
9 10 (2.79%) Commvault
10 9 (2.51%) Databricks
10 9 (2.51%) Oracle
10 9 (2.51%) Veritas
11 8 (2.23%) Cisco
12 7 (1.95%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.95%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.39%) Dynatrace
14 4 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (1.11%) Infoblox
14 4 (1.11%) Okta