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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 14 42
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 -25
Contract jobs citing Python 283 143 86
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.91% 9.99% 4.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.48% 33.73% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 100 61
10th Percentile £358 £408 £400
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -3.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £600 £655 £675
England median daily rate £525 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% -

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 596 424 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.60% 29.61% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 299 330
10th Percentile £344 £354 £356
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £49.25 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -57.38%
75th Percentile £49.75 £58.13 £26.78
90th Percentile - £63.75 £47.91
England median hourly rate £60.75 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -6.54% +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 22 October 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 22 October 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 0 168 £500 -6.98% 46
West Yorkshire +7 110 £500 +1.52% 122
North Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 25
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 19 (6.71%) Confluence
2 11 (3.89%) Apache
3 9 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.18%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.77%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.71%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.71%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 112 (39.58%) AWS
2 81 (28.62%) GCP
3 64 (22.61%) Azure
4 49 (17.31%) Serverless
5 31 (10.95%) GitHub
6 24 (8.48%) Power Platform
7 19 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (5.65%) Amazon S3
9 16 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.89%) AWS KMS
12 11 (3.89%) CloudBees
13 10 (3.53%) Azure AKS
13 10 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (2.12%) Amazon ELB
16 5 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.72%) Firewall
2 23 (8.13%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.89%) DNS
4 8 (2.83%) VPN
5 7 (2.47%) SSL
6 5 (1.77%) Network Security
7 4 (1.41%) Ethernet
7 4 (1.41%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.06%) NAS
8 3 (1.06%) SAN
8 3 (1.06%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.71%) HTTP
9 2 (0.71%) Internet
10 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.61%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (14.84%) NoSQL
3 24 (8.48%) Power BI
4 17 (6.01%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.30%) Oracle Database
6 12 (4.24%) Tableau
7 11 (3.89%) MySQL
8 10 (3.53%) BigQuery
8 10 (3.53%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.18%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.83%) Apache Hive
11 7 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (2.47%) Data Mining
11 7 (2.47%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.12%) Power Query
12 6 (2.12%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.77%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.41%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 112 (39.58%) Jenkins
2 60 (21.20%) GitLab
3 55 (19.43%) Git
4 37 (13.07%) JIRA
5 29 (10.25%) Liquibase
6 16 (5.65%) Postman
7 5 (1.77%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.41%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.71%) Selenium
10 1 (0.35%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.35%) Maven
10 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.35%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 80 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 71 (25.09%) Finance
3 52 (18.37%) Banking
4 40 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.95%) Public Sector
6 24 (8.48%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.71%) Legal
7 2 (0.71%) Police
7 2 (0.71%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.35%) Law
8 1 (0.35%) Local Government
8 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.35%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.35%) Retail
8 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (19.08%) Senior
2 45 (15.90%) Developer
3 44 (15.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (8.83%) Automation Engineer
5 23 (8.13%) Python Developer
5 23 (8.13%) Software Engineer
6 22 (7.77%) AWS Engineer
6 22 (7.77%) Data Engineer
7 17 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (6.01%) Python Engineer
8 16 (5.65%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (5.30%) Analyst
9 15 (5.30%) Architect
10 14 (4.95%) Lead
11 13 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (3.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.89%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.84%) RESTful
2 36 (12.72%) REST
3 35 (12.37%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (9.89%) FastAPI
5 14 (4.95%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (4.95%) TensorFlow
6 13 (4.59%) React
7 10 (3.53%) Django
8 9 (3.18%) Flask
8 9 (3.18%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.83%) PySpark
10 7 (2.47%) Hugging Face
10 7 (2.47%) Kafka
10 7 (2.47%) Node.js
10 7 (2.47%) OpenCV
10 7 (2.47%) Regular Expression
10 7 (2.47%) SpaCy
11 6 (2.12%) .NET
11 6 (2.12%) HTML
11 6 (2.12%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.78%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.25%) Public Cloud
4 18 (6.36%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.59%) Algorithms
5 13 (4.59%) NHS
6 9 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.41%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.06%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.71%) Clustering
11 2 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.71%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 82 (28.98%) Linux
2 17 (6.01%) Windows
3 13 (4.59%) Unix
4 6 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.06%) AIX
7 3 (1.06%) Solaris
7 3 (1.06%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.71%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.35%) SUSE
9 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (53.36%) DevOps
2 122 (43.11%) CI/CD
3 116 (40.99%) Agile
4 76 (26.86%) Containerisation
5 71 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (15.55%) Microservices
8 42 (14.84%) Cybersecurity
9 41 (14.49%) Software Engineering
10 40 (14.13%) Infrastructure Automation
11 37 (13.07%) Test Automation
12 36 (12.72%) Computer Science
12 36 (12.72%) Root Cause Analysis
13 35 (12.37%) Configuration Management
14 31 (10.95%) Data Security
15 29 (10.25%) Data Protection
15 29 (10.25%) High Availability
16 28 (9.89%) Cost Optimisation
17 27 (9.54%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (9.54%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 65 (22.97%) Bash
2 45 (15.90%) SQL
3 40 (14.13%) Go
4 36 (12.72%) Java
5 35 (12.37%) Shell Script
6 23 (8.13%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.65%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.59%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.53%) Scala
10 5 (1.77%) C#
10 5 (1.77%) Perl
11 4 (1.41%) C++
11 4 (1.41%) VBA
12 3 (1.06%) ANSI SQL
12 3 (1.06%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.71%) C
13 2 (0.71%) Groovy
13 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.71%) R
14 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (13.78%) Degree
2 34 (12.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (10.60%) Master's Degree
3 30 (10.60%) Security Cleared
4 19 (6.71%) SC Cleared
5 16 (5.65%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.35%) CCNA
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CISSP
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.35%) OCP
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.83%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.12%) QA
2 6 (2.12%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.41%) GDPR
3 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.06%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (26.50%) Docker
2 27 (9.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.53%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (1.77%) vSphere
7 4 (1.41%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
8 3 (1.06%) HDFS
9 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.35%) KVM
9 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 118 (41.70%) Ansible
2 103 (36.40%) Terraform
3 93 (32.86%) Kubernetes
4 53 (18.73%) Grafana
4 53 (18.73%) Prometheus
5 26 (9.19%) Puppet
6 20 (7.07%) NetBackup
7 12 (4.24%) Control-M
8 10 (3.53%) Data Guard
8 10 (3.53%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (3.53%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (3.53%) Nessus
8 10 (3.53%) yum
9 8 (2.83%) SCCM
10 7 (2.47%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.41%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
12 3 (1.06%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (17.67%) Splunk
2 43 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 39 (13.78%) Google
4 34 (12.01%) VMware
5 23 (8.13%) Oracle
6 19 (6.71%) Red Hat
7 17 (6.01%) MuleSoft
8 16 (5.65%) Veritas
9 14 (4.95%) Commvault
10 10 (3.53%) Tenable
11 9 (3.18%) Databricks
11 9 (3.18%) F5
12 7 (2.47%) CyberArk
13 6 (2.12%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.12%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.77%) ServiceNow
15 4 (1.41%) Apple
15 4 (1.41%) Cisco
15 4 (1.41%) Juniper
15 4 (1.41%) Nokia