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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +24
Contract jobs citing Python 367 225 150
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 12.93% 14.69% 9.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.48% 44.55% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 149 108
10th Percentile £363 £344 £408
25th Percentile £425 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £536
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -9.09% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £575 £650
England median daily rate £550 £537 £580
% change year-on-year +2.42% -7.41% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +26.27% -25.93% +3.85%

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 807 505 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.43% 32.96% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 331 325
10th Percentile £353 £325 £344
25th Percentile £422 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £505
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -4.36% -3.81%
75th Percentile £569 £547 £588
90th Percentile £644 £609 £650
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £18.79 £37.07 £34.38
25th Percentile £21.24 £45.03 £37.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +34.92% +92.35%
75th Percentile £26.63 £82.53 £61.88
90th Percentile £34.80 £92.15 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +1 185 £500 +5.15% 55
West Yorkshire +1 173 £500 - 121
North Yorkshire -4 5 £625 +47.06% 20
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 9
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 15 (4.09%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.00%) Confluence
3 5 (1.36%) Apache
3 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (1.09%) SAS
5 3 (0.82%) nginx
5 3 (0.82%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 133 (36.24%) AWS
2 94 (25.61%) Azure
3 93 (25.34%) GCP
4 91 (24.80%) GitHub
5 55 (14.99%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (8.72%) Serverless
7 31 (8.45%) Power Platform
8 18 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (4.90%) OpenShift
9 17 (4.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 15 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.27%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.27%) IaaS
12 11 (3.00%) Vertex AI
13 10 (2.72%) Apigee
13 10 (2.72%) OCI
14 9 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.91%) Cloud Run
15 7 (1.91%) Datadog
15 7 (1.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.36%) DNS
2 19 (5.18%) BIG-IP
2 19 (5.18%) Firewall
3 16 (4.36%) Network Security
4 14 (3.81%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 9 (2.45%) DHCP
6 9 (2.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 8 (2.18%) WAN
8 6 (1.63%) SAN
8 6 (1.63%) VLAN
8 6 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.36%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.09%) BGP
10 4 (1.09%) LAN
10 4 (1.09%) NAS
11 3 (0.82%) HTTP
11 3 (0.82%) SSL
11 3 (0.82%) VPN
11 3 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.08%) Power BI
2 22 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.99%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.72%) BigQuery
4 16 (4.36%) Metadata
5 13 (3.54%) Big Data
6 12 (3.27%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.00%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.00%) Tableau
8 10 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (2.45%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.91%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.63%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.36%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.09%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.09%) MySQL
13 4 (1.09%) Parquet
14 3 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 84 (22.89%) Jenkins
2 49 (13.35%) JIRA
3 29 (7.90%) Git
4 19 (5.18%) GitLab
5 16 (4.36%) Gatling
6 15 (4.09%) Maven
7 11 (3.00%) JMeter
8 10 (2.72%) SonarQube
9 9 (2.45%) LoadRunner
10 7 (1.91%) Postman
10 7 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.91%) Zephyr
11 6 (1.63%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.63%) NeoLoad
12 4 (1.09%) MSBuild
12 4 (1.09%) Selenium
12 4 (1.09%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.82%) ERwin
13 3 (0.82%) SoapUI
14 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
General
1 68 (18.53%) Finance
2 64 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.08%) Banking
4 37 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.00%) Legal
6 7 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.91%) Publishing
7 6 (1.63%) Games
7 6 (1.63%) Retail
8 4 (1.09%) Law
9 3 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.82%) Marketing
9 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.27%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (20.71%) Developer
2 57 (15.53%) Python Developer
3 50 (13.62%) Senior
4 43 (11.72%) Lead
5 38 (10.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (7.63%) Python Engineer
7 23 (6.27%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (5.99%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.45%) Analyst
10 17 (4.63%) Architect
11 15 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 15 (4.09%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.54%) Data Analyst
13 13 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (3.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 11 (3.00%) Network Engineer
16 10 (2.72%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (36.51%) Terraform
2 29 (7.90%) REST
3 28 (7.63%) Node.js
4 27 (7.36%) JSON
5 26 (7.08%) Kafka
6 25 (6.81%) React
7 16 (4.36%) Playwright
8 15 (4.09%) CSS
8 15 (4.09%) HTML
8 15 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
8 15 (4.09%) PySpark
9 14 (3.81%) Vue
10 13 (3.54%) pytest
11 11 (3.00%) FastAPI
11 11 (3.00%) Flask
12 10 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (2.72%) YAML
13 9 (2.45%) .NET
13 9 (2.45%) LDAP
14 8 (2.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 82 (22.34%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.99%) Data Protection Act
3 19 (5.18%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.18%) NHS
4 17 (4.63%) Public Cloud
5 14 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.27%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (3.00%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.18%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.63%) Blog
10 6 (1.63%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.36%) PKI
11 5 (1.36%) Replication
12 4 (1.09%) EMC VMAX
12 4 (1.09%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.26%) Linux
2 18 (4.90%) Windows
3 13 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.18%) Unix
5 5 (1.36%) VMS
5 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.82%) zOS
7 2 (0.54%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.54%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.27%) AIX
8 1 (0.27%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (52.86%) CI/CD
2 149 (40.60%) DevOps
3 106 (28.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (25.89%) Agile
5 91 (24.80%) Observability
6 57 (15.53%) AI
7 53 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (14.17%) Containerisation
8 52 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (12.81%) Test Automation
10 44 (11.99%) Software Engineering
11 43 (11.72%) Analytics
12 41 (11.17%) Data Engineering
13 40 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (10.63%) Full-Stack Development
15 36 (9.81%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (9.26%) Validation
17 32 (8.72%) Business Intelligence
17 32 (8.72%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 72 (19.62%) Java
1 72 (19.62%) SQL
2 61 (16.62%) Bash
3 41 (11.17%) PowerShell
4 35 (9.54%) JavaScript
5 23 (6.27%) Go
6 18 (4.90%) Scala
6 18 (4.90%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.72%) C#
7 10 (2.72%) Groovy
8 9 (2.45%) R
9 8 (2.18%) ActionScript
10 7 (1.91%) Rust
11 6 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.63%) VBA
12 4 (1.09%) Bicep
12 4 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.82%) Cypher
13 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.54%) JCL
Qualifications
1 56 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.18%) Degree
5 5 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.82%) CISSP
7 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.54%) GIAC
7 2 (0.54%) NCDA
7 2 (0.54%) NCIE
7 2 (0.54%) OCP
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.54%) RHCA
7 2 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.63%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.18%) NIST
3 6 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.36%) HL7
4 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.09%) GDPR
5 4 (1.09%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.82%) QA
6 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.82%) WCAG
7 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (19.62%) Docker
2 11 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.18%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.63%) vSphere
6 4 (1.09%) Firmware
6 4 (1.09%) NFS
6 4 (1.09%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.54%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.54%) SRDF
7 2 (0.54%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.27%) Ceph
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 103 (28.07%) Kubernetes
2 62 (16.89%) Ansible
3 36 (9.81%) Grafana
4 30 (8.17%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.81%) Argo
6 9 (2.45%) HAProxy
7 8 (2.18%) Control-M
8 7 (1.91%) IBM Guardium
8 7 (1.91%) Nessus
9 6 (1.63%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.36%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.09%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 2 (0.54%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.54%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (11.99%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.44%) Google
3 30 (8.17%) Databricks
4 21 (5.72%) Splunk
5 19 (5.18%) F5
6 15 (4.09%) IBM
7 13 (3.54%) Dynatrace
7 13 (3.54%) Red Hat
8 12 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 12 (3.27%) VMware
9 11 (3.00%) Cisco
10 8 (2.18%) Dell
10 8 (2.18%) Pure Storage
10 8 (2.18%) Tenable
11 7 (1.91%) Infoblox
11 7 (1.91%) Oracle
11 7 (1.91%) Sonatype
12 6 (1.63%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.63%) Brocade
13 5 (1.36%) Foundry