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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 13 33
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 296 99 83
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.64% 9.38% 4.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.82% 32.78% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 71 64
10th Percentile £372 £405 £402
25th Percentile £435 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £537 £650 £620
90th Percentile £600 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -9.48% +0.87% -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 619 302 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.72% 28.60% 23.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 210 317
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £588
90th Percentile £666 £713 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £26.25 £16.97
25th Percentile £49.25 £29.06 £19.44
Median hourly rate £49.50 £65.21 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +143.49% -61.74%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.66 £62.00
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 +4 195 £500 -13.61% 45
West Yorkshire +1 95 £500 - 98
North Yorkshire - 4 £425 - 19
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 (7.09%) Confluence
2 9 (3.04%) Apache
3 8 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.69%) Apache Pig
6 2 (0.68%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 126 (42.57%) AWS
2 81 (27.36%) GCP
3 72 (24.32%) Azure
4 48 (16.22%) Serverless
5 42 (14.19%) GitHub
6 23 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (7.77%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.43%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (5.74%) OpenShift
10 15 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.72%) AWS KMS
12 11 (3.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.04%) CloudBees
14 6 (2.03%) Amazon ELB
14 6 (2.03%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.46%) Firewall
2 16 (5.41%) DNS
3 11 (3.72%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.36%) VPN
5 6 (2.03%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.69%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.69%) SSL
7 4 (1.35%) Internet
7 4 (1.35%) Network Security
7 4 (1.35%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.01%) HTTP
8 3 (1.01%) NAS
8 3 (1.01%) SAN
9 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.68%) 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 45 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (13.85%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.77%) Power BI
3 23 (7.77%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.74%) MySQL
5 14 (4.73%) Oracle Database
6 12 (4.05%) Power Query
7 10 (3.38%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.04%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.70%) Apache Hive
9 8 (2.70%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.70%) PowerPivot
10 7 (2.36%) Data Mining
11 6 (2.03%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.03%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.69%) Tableau
13 4 (1.35%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.01%) HBase
Development Applications
1 109 (36.82%) Jenkins
2 69 (23.31%) GitLab
3 45 (15.20%) JIRA
4 38 (12.84%) Git
5 29 (9.80%) Liquibase
6 12 (4.05%) Postman
7 9 (3.04%) CircleCI
7 9 (3.04%) Selenium
8 8 (2.70%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.70%) TestRail
9 6 (2.03%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.03%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.68%) MSI
10 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.68%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.68%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.34%) Maven
11 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 95 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 74 (25.00%) Finance
3 62 (20.95%) Banking
4 40 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 39 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (7.43%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.35%) Law
9 3 (1.01%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.68%) Legal
10 2 (0.68%) Police
10 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Local Government
11 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (15.20%) Developer
2 43 (14.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (13.85%) Senior
4 32 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (8.78%) Python Developer
6 23 (7.77%) Automation Engineer
6 23 (7.77%) Software Engineer
7 22 (7.43%) Data Engineer
7 22 (7.43%) Lead
8 20 (6.76%) Analyst
9 19 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (5.74%) GCP Engineer
11 15 (5.07%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (4.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (4.39%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.05%) Python Engineer
14 12 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.38%) Data Analyst
15 10 (3.38%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.19%) REST
2 36 (12.16%) Elastic Stack
3 35 (11.82%) RESTful
4 26 (8.78%) FastAPI
5 16 (5.41%) YAML
6 15 (5.07%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (4.39%) TensorFlow
8 10 (3.38%) .NET
8 10 (3.38%) Node.js
8 10 (3.38%) React
9 8 (2.70%) Django
10 7 (2.36%) Flask
10 7 (2.36%) Pandas
11 6 (2.03%) JWT
11 6 (2.03%) NumPy
11 6 (2.03%) OAuth
11 6 (2.03%) PyTorch
12 5 (1.69%) LDAP
12 5 (1.69%) Middleware
12 5 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (10.47%) Public Cloud
4 22 (7.43%) NHS
5 15 (5.07%) Algorithms
5 15 (5.07%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.38%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.69%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.35%) Clustering
11 4 (1.35%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.35%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (30.07%) Linux
2 14 (4.73%) Windows
3 9 (3.04%) Unix
4 7 (2.36%) CentOS
4 7 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.36%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (56.42%) DevOps
2 147 (49.66%) CI/CD
3 102 (34.46%) Agile
4 92 (31.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (27.03%) Containerisation
6 67 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (16.89%) Test Automation
8 45 (15.20%) Root Cause Analysis
9 43 (14.53%) Infrastructure Automation
10 42 (14.19%) Cybersecurity
11 41 (13.85%) Microservices
12 39 (13.18%) Software Engineering
13 36 (12.16%) Computer Science
13 36 (12.16%) Data Security
14 35 (11.82%) High Availability
15 32 (10.81%) Observability
16 30 (10.14%) Change Management
16 30 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
17 29 (9.80%) Mentoring
17 29 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (25.00%) Bash
2 53 (17.91%) SQL
3 47 (15.88%) Java
4 43 (14.53%) Go
5 29 (9.80%) Shell Script
6 28 (9.46%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.43%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.05%) TypeScript
9 11 (3.72%) Perl
9 11 (3.72%) VBA
10 10 (3.38%) Scala
11 8 (2.70%) C#
12 6 (2.03%) PHP
12 6 (2.03%) Ruby
13 3 (1.01%) C++
13 3 (1.01%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.68%) Bicep
14 2 (0.68%) C
14 2 (0.68%) Groovy
14 2 (0.68%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (13.51%) Degree
2 34 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 32 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (9.80%) Master's Degree
5 24 (8.11%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.72%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.03%) RHCE
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CISM
10 2 (0.68%) CISSP
10 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.34%) CCIE
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) OCP
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.04%) QA
2 6 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.69%) PMO
4 4 (1.35%) SLA
5 3 (1.01%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) NIST
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (28.38%) Docker
2 14 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.38%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.69%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.69%) vSphere
6 4 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.01%) HDFS
7 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.01%) KVM
8 1 (0.34%) Ceph
8 1 (0.34%) Firmware
8 1 (0.34%) QEMU
8 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 128 (43.24%) Ansible
2 126 (42.57%) Terraform
3 103 (34.80%) Kubernetes
4 61 (20.61%) Grafana
5 54 (18.24%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.42%) NetBackup
7 18 (6.08%) Puppet
8 10 (3.38%) Control-M
8 10 (3.38%) Data Guard
8 10 (3.38%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (3.38%) Nessus
8 10 (3.38%) yum
9 6 (2.03%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.35%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.01%) Hadoop YARN
11 3 (1.01%) Packer
11 3 (1.01%) SCCM
11 3 (1.01%) vRealize
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 57 (19.26%) Splunk
2 33 (11.15%) Microsoft
3 30 (10.14%) Google
3 30 (10.14%) Red Hat
4 23 (7.77%) Oracle
5 22 (7.43%) VMware
6 15 (5.07%) Veritas
7 13 (4.39%) Commvault
8 12 (4.05%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.38%) Tenable
10 9 (3.04%) F5
11 7 (2.36%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.03%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.03%) Cisco
12 6 (2.03%) CyberArk
12 6 (2.03%) Databricks
13 4 (1.35%) Juniper
13 4 (1.35%) Meraki
13 4 (1.35%) Nokia
14 3 (1.01%) SAP