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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 376 119 130
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.14% 12.21% 7.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.10% 38.39% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 84 81
10th Percentile £363 £351 £406
25th Percentile £413 £397 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% -19.17%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £615
90th Percentile £588 £650 £650
England median daily rate £520 £563 £554
% change year-on-year -7.56% +1.58% -7.71%

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 695 310 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.84% 31.79% 25.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 215 301
10th Percentile £358 £350 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £621 £650 £625
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £31.62 £23.62
25th Percentile - £44.87 £29.89
Median hourly rate - £91.05 £41.60
Median % change year-on-year - +118.86% -33.44%
75th Percentile - £101.14 £53.30
90th Percentile - £102.00 £59.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.05
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.38% -2.32%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +3 239 £475 -9.52% 65
West Yorkshire +8 129 £488 +2.63% 82
North Yorkshire - 9 £506 - 23
East Yorkshire -16 1 - - 12
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 25 (6.65%) Confluence
2 18 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.93%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.80%) SAS
6 2 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 115 (30.59%) AWS
2 92 (24.47%) GitHub
3 84 (22.34%) GCP
4 82 (21.81%) Azure
5 61 (16.22%) OpenShift
6 43 (11.44%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (7.71%) Serverless
8 26 (6.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 22 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (5.32%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.99%) Amazon S3
11 15 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (3.72%) Entra ID
13 13 (3.46%) Apigee
13 13 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (3.46%) SaaS
14 12 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (2.66%) Azure Storage
17 9 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.78%) DNS
2 19 (5.05%) Firewall
3 13 (3.46%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.66%) SAN
5 9 (2.39%) VPN
5 9 (2.39%) WAN
6 8 (2.13%) LAN
7 7 (1.86%) DHCP
7 7 (1.86%) NAS
7 7 (1.86%) Network Security
8 6 (1.60%) BIG-IP
8 6 (1.60%) Unified Communications
8 6 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.06%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.80%) Internet
10 3 (0.80%) PSTN
10 3 (0.80%) SNMP
11 2 (0.53%) BGP
11 2 (0.53%) DWDM
11 2 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.31%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.05%) MongoDB
2 19 (5.05%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.79%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.26%) Power BI
5 13 (3.46%) Hadoop
6 12 (3.19%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.66%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.66%) Metadata
8 9 (2.39%) MySQL
9 8 (2.13%) Power Query
9 8 (2.13%) PowerPivot
10 6 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.06%) Big Data
12 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.06%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.80%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 117 (31.12%) Jenkins
2 61 (16.22%) JIRA
3 31 (8.24%) GitLab
4 25 (6.65%) Git
5 19 (5.05%) Postman
6 12 (3.19%) Gatling
7 11 (2.93%) Maven
7 11 (2.93%) Selenium
8 8 (2.13%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.13%) TestRail
9 6 (1.60%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.60%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.60%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.33%) JMeter
10 5 (1.33%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.06%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.06%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.80%) ERwin
12 3 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 87 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.69%) Finance
3 54 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.44%) Banking
5 32 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.33%) Publishing
8 4 (1.06%) Advertising
8 4 (1.06%) Legal
9 3 (0.80%) Law
9 3 (0.80%) Marketing
10 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.27%) Games
11 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.27%) Retail
11 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.27%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (19.15%) Developer
2 46 (12.23%) Python Developer
3 44 (11.70%) Lead
4 39 (10.37%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (9.84%) Senior
6 33 (8.78%) Architect
7 26 (6.91%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (6.65%) Data Engineer
9 21 (5.59%) GCP Engineer
10 19 (5.05%) Analyst
10 19 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (3.72%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.46%) GCP DevOps
12 13 (3.46%) Python Engineer
13 12 (3.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.19%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (2.66%) Automation Test Lead
16 9 (2.39%) Automation Engineer
16 9 (2.39%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.17%) OpenTelemetry
2 31 (8.24%) REST
3 30 (7.98%) JSON
4 29 (7.71%) YAML
5 24 (6.38%) Node.js
5 24 (6.38%) Playwright
6 23 (6.12%) FastAPI
7 18 (4.79%) React
8 14 (3.72%) Kafka
9 13 (3.46%) LDAP
10 12 (3.19%) OpenID
11 11 (2.93%) .NET
11 11 (2.93%) JWT
11 11 (2.93%) OAuth
11 11 (2.93%) RESTful
12 9 (2.39%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.39%) Protocol Buffers
12 9 (2.39%) SailPoint
13 8 (2.13%) Flask
13 8 (2.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (5.32%) NHS
4 19 (5.05%) Data Centre
5 16 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.93%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.33%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (1.33%) Replication
8 5 (1.33%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.06%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.06%) PKI
10 3 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.80%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (15.96%) Linux
2 29 (7.71%) Windows
3 18 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.66%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.39%) CentOS
6 6 (1.60%) Unix
7 3 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.53%) VMS
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.27%) AIX
9 1 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (56.38%) CI/CD
2 173 (46.01%) DevOps
3 100 (26.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (24.47%) Agile
6 85 (22.61%) Containerisation
7 68 (18.09%) Observability
8 62 (16.49%) Test Automation
9 51 (13.56%) RBAC
10 49 (13.03%) Migration
11 47 (12.50%) Analytics
12 44 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (8.24%) AI
15 31 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
15 31 (8.24%) Data Modelling
15 31 (8.24%) Validation
16 30 (7.98%) High Availability
16 30 (7.98%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (20.21%) Bash
2 61 (16.22%) Java
3 55 (14.63%) SQL
4 38 (10.11%) PowerShell
5 36 (9.57%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.65%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.32%) Scala
8 17 (4.52%) Go
9 13 (3.46%) Groovy
9 13 (3.46%) VBA
10 9 (2.39%) Ruby
10 9 (2.39%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.13%) Perl
12 7 (1.86%) C#
13 6 (1.60%) PHP
14 5 (1.33%) Bicep
15 4 (1.06%) Cypher
16 3 (0.80%) R
17 2 (0.53%) C
17 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 46 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.46%) Degree
4 9 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.13%) RHCE
6 5 (1.33%) CISM
6 5 (1.33%) CISSP
6 5 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.80%) CCNP
7 3 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.80%) OCP
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.53%) CCNA
8 2 (0.53%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.53%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.46%) QA
2 10 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.60%) WCAG
4 5 (1.33%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.06%) PMO
5 4 (1.06%) SLA
6 3 (0.80%) NIST
6 3 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (20.48%) Docker
2 25 (6.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.32%) vSphere
4 16 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.46%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.66%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.66%) KVM
7 7 (1.86%) Firmware
8 5 (1.33%) Active Directory
8 5 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.80%) SRDF
11 2 (0.53%) NFS
12 1 (0.27%) Ceph
12 1 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.27%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 144 (38.30%) Terraform
2 135 (35.90%) Kubernetes
3 108 (28.72%) Ansible
4 53 (14.10%) Grafana
5 46 (12.23%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.79%) Puppet
6 18 (4.79%) vCenter Server
7 15 (3.99%) Control-M
8 14 (3.72%) Argo
8 14 (3.72%) IBM Guardium
8 14 (3.72%) Nessus
9 10 (2.66%) Istio
10 8 (2.13%) HAProxy
11 7 (1.86%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.06%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.80%) Packer
14 3 (0.80%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 53 (14.10%) Splunk
2 45 (11.97%) Red Hat
3 39 (10.37%) Microsoft
4 32 (8.51%) Google
5 31 (8.24%) VMware
6 20 (5.32%) Databricks
7 18 (4.79%) Pure Storage
8 17 (4.52%) ServiceNow
9 14 (3.72%) Tenable
10 12 (3.19%) Cisco
11 8 (2.13%) F5
12 7 (1.86%) Dell
12 7 (1.86%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.60%) Infoblox
13 6 (1.60%) Sonatype
13 6 (1.60%) Veritas
14 5 (1.33%) Commvault
15 4 (1.06%) EMC
15 4 (1.06%) HP
15 4 (1.06%) NetApp