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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 17 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 291 105 83
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.90% 8.89% 4.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.91% 31.91% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 76 63
10th Percentile £370 £407 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £600
90th Percentile £600 £719 £649
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%

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 595 329 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.51% 27.86% 23.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 230 320
10th Percentile £350 £359 £348
25th Percentile £406 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.30% -9.07%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £643
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -69.56%
75th Percentile £49.75 £96.64 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 +5 177 £500 -13.34% 138
West Yorkshire 0 109 £500 - 198
North Yorkshire - 4 £425 - 50
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 21 (7.22%) Confluence
2 9 (3.09%) Apache
3 8 (2.75%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.72%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.69%) IIS
8 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.72%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 133 (45.70%) AWS
2 87 (29.90%) GCP
3 78 (26.80%) Azure
4 53 (18.21%) Serverless
5 39 (13.40%) GitHub
6 23 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (7.90%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (7.56%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (5.15%) OpenShift
12 11 (3.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.09%) Azure AKS
13 9 (3.09%) CloudBees
14 8 (2.75%) AWS KMS
15 6 (2.06%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.28%) Firewall
2 13 (4.47%) DNS
3 9 (3.09%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.41%) VPN
5 6 (2.06%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.72%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.72%) SSL
7 4 (1.37%) Internet
7 4 (1.37%) Network Security
7 4 (1.37%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.03%) HTTP
8 3 (1.03%) NAS
8 3 (1.03%) SAN
9 2 (0.69%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.69%) WAN
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.34%) FTP
10 1 (0.34%) IOS XR
10 1 (0.34%) SNMP
10 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.18%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (16.15%) NoSQL
3 24 (8.25%) SQL Server
4 23 (7.90%) Power BI
5 17 (5.84%) MySQL
6 14 (4.81%) Oracle Database
7 11 (3.78%) Power Query
8 10 (3.44%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.44%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.09%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.75%) Apache Hive
11 7 (2.41%) Data Mining
11 7 (2.41%) DynamoDB
12 6 (2.06%) PowerPivot
12 6 (2.06%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.06%) Tableau
13 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.03%) HBase
14 3 (1.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 112 (38.49%) Jenkins
2 68 (23.37%) GitLab
3 44 (15.12%) JIRA
4 40 (13.75%) Git
5 31 (10.65%) Liquibase
6 12 (4.12%) Postman
7 9 (3.09%) Selenium
8 8 (2.75%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.75%) TestRail
9 6 (2.06%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.06%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.06%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.69%) MSI
10 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.69%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.69%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.34%) Maven
11 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 91 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 70 (24.05%) Finance
3 62 (21.31%) Banking
4 41 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (13.75%) Public Sector
6 24 (8.25%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.03%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.69%) Legal
8 2 (0.69%) Police
8 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.34%) Law
9 1 (0.34%) Local Government
9 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (15.81%) Developer
2 45 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (14.09%) Senior
4 33 (11.34%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (8.59%) Python Developer
5 25 (8.59%) Software Engineer
6 23 (7.90%) Automation Engineer
6 23 (7.90%) Data Engineer
7 20 (6.87%) Analyst
8 19 (6.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (5.84%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (5.15%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (4.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.81%) Lead
11 14 (4.81%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.47%) Architect
12 13 (4.47%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.78%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.46%) REST
2 42 (14.43%) RESTful
3 38 (13.06%) Elastic Stack
4 29 (9.97%) FastAPI
5 16 (5.50%) TensorFlow
6 15 (5.15%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (4.47%) React
8 11 (3.78%) Django
9 10 (3.44%) .NET
9 10 (3.44%) Flask
10 9 (3.09%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.75%) Node.js
12 7 (2.41%) Hugging Face
12 7 (2.41%) OpenCV
12 7 (2.41%) Pandas
12 7 (2.41%) Regular Expression
12 7 (2.41%) SpaCy
13 6 (2.06%) JWT
13 6 (2.06%) NumPy
13 6 (2.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.68%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (11.00%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.22%) NHS
5 18 (6.19%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.15%) Algorithms
7 10 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.09%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.41%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.37%) Clustering
10 4 (1.37%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.37%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 82 (28.18%) Linux
2 10 (3.44%) Windows
3 7 (2.41%) Unix
4 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.03%) VMS
6 1 (0.34%) CentOS
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (54.64%) DevOps
2 139 (47.77%) CI/CD
3 114 (39.18%) Agile
4 92 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (28.18%) Containerisation
6 62 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (16.84%) Test Automation
8 47 (16.15%) Microservices
9 46 (15.81%) Software Engineering
10 44 (15.12%) Infrastructure Automation
10 44 (15.12%) Root Cause Analysis
11 43 (14.78%) Cybersecurity
12 39 (13.40%) Computer Science
13 37 (12.71%) Data Security
13 37 (12.71%) High Availability
14 32 (11.00%) Change Management
15 31 (10.65%) Continuous Integration
16 29 (9.97%) Continuous Delivery
16 29 (9.97%) Machine Learning
16 29 (9.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.74%) Bash
2 51 (17.53%) SQL
3 42 (14.43%) Go
4 40 (13.75%) Java
5 26 (8.93%) PowerShell
5 26 (8.93%) Shell Script
6 23 (7.90%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.47%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.44%) VBA
9 9 (3.09%) Scala
10 8 (2.75%) C#
11 6 (2.06%) PHP
12 5 (1.72%) Perl
13 4 (1.37%) C++
14 3 (1.03%) C
14 3 (1.03%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.69%) Bicep
15 2 (0.69%) Groovy
15 2 (0.69%) XPath
16 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (14.78%) Degree
2 35 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (11.68%) Security Cleared
4 31 (10.65%) Master's Degree
5 24 (8.25%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.81%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.03%) CISSP
10 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.69%) CISM
10 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.34%) CCIE
11 1 (0.34%) GCIH
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) OCP
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.09%) QA
2 6 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.03%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.03%) PMO
3 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (29.55%) Docker
2 15 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.44%) Oracle RAC
3 10 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.72%) vSphere
5 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.03%) HDFS
7 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.69%) KVM
8 1 (0.34%) Ceph
8 1 (0.34%) QEMU
8 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 128 (43.99%) Terraform
2 113 (38.83%) Ansible
3 109 (37.46%) Kubernetes
4 60 (20.62%) Grafana
5 56 (19.24%) Prometheus
6 20 (6.87%) NetBackup
7 13 (4.47%) Puppet
8 10 (3.44%) Control-M
8 10 (3.44%) Data Guard
8 10 (3.44%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (3.44%) Nessus
8 10 (3.44%) yum
9 7 (2.41%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.37%) SCCM
10 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.03%) Hadoop YARN
11 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.03%) Packer
11 3 (1.03%) vRealize
12 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 57 (19.59%) Splunk
2 37 (12.71%) Microsoft
3 35 (12.03%) Google
4 23 (7.90%) VMware
5 21 (7.22%) Oracle
6 16 (5.50%) Veritas
7 15 (5.15%) Red Hat
8 13 (4.47%) Commvault
9 10 (3.44%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.44%) Tenable
10 9 (3.09%) F5
11 7 (2.41%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.41%) Databricks
11 7 (2.41%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.06%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.06%) Cisco
13 4 (1.37%) Juniper
13 4 (1.37%) Meraki
13 4 (1.37%) Nokia
14 3 (1.03%) MuleSoft