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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +27
Contract jobs citing Python 387 245 150
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.44% 15.88% 9.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.97% 47.02% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 158 108
10th Percentile £365 £349 £411
25th Percentile £425 £420 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
England median daily rate £550 £536 £593
% change year-on-year +2.61% -9.54% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £50.00 £69.38
% change year-on-year +26.96% -27.93% +6.73%

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 824 521 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.62% 33.77% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 338 334
10th Percentile £358 £325 £356
25th Percentile £424 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £509
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.12% -3.10%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £588
90th Percentile £639 £650 £649
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 7
10th Percentile £18.79 - £29.25
25th Percentile £21.24 - £34.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.35%
75th Percentile £26.63 - £60.00
90th Percentile £34.80 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +0.78%

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 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 16 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 -1 193 £500 - 83
West Yorkshire +1 186 £500 - 202
North Yorkshire -6 4 £625 +47.06% 43
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 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.36%) Confluence
3 5 (1.29%) Apache
3 5 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (1.03%) SAS
5 3 (0.78%) nginx
5 3 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (36.95%) AWS
2 102 (26.36%) GCP
3 101 (26.10%) Azure
4 93 (24.03%) GitHub
5 56 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (8.79%) Serverless
7 29 (7.49%) Power Platform
8 20 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 17 (4.39%) OpenShift
10 14 (3.62%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.62%) IaaS
11 12 (3.10%) Vertex AI
12 10 (2.58%) Apigee
12 10 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.58%) OCI
13 9 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.07%) Datadog
14 8 (2.07%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.75%) DNS
2 24 (6.20%) Firewall
3 22 (5.68%) BIG-IP
4 20 (5.17%) Network Security
5 15 (3.88%) TCP/IP
6 14 (3.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 12 (3.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 8 (2.07%) DHCP
8 8 (2.07%) WAN
9 6 (1.55%) VLAN
9 6 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.29%) SAN
10 5 (1.29%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.03%) BGP
11 4 (1.03%) LAN
11 4 (1.03%) NAS
11 4 (1.03%) VPN
12 3 (0.78%) HTTP
12 3 (0.78%) SSL
12 3 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.20%) BigQuery
1 24 (6.20%) Power BI
2 21 (5.43%) Metadata
2 21 (5.43%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.88%) Big Data
5 13 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.10%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.58%) Tableau
9 9 (2.33%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.07%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.81%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.03%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.03%) MySQL
13 3 (0.78%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 87 (22.48%) Jenkins
2 54 (13.95%) JIRA
3 31 (8.01%) Git
4 19 (4.91%) GitLab
5 16 (4.13%) Gatling
5 16 (4.13%) Maven
6 11 (2.84%) JMeter
6 11 (2.84%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.33%) LoadRunner
8 8 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.81%) Postman
9 7 (1.81%) Zephyr
10 6 (1.55%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.55%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.03%) MSBuild
11 4 (1.03%) Selenium
11 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.78%) ERwin
12 3 (0.78%) Pylint
12 3 (0.78%) SoapUI
General
1 78 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.86%) Finance
3 44 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.08%) Banking
5 36 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.84%) Legal
7 10 (2.58%) Publishing
8 7 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.29%) Games
9 5 (1.29%) Retail
10 4 (1.03%) Law
11 3 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.78%) Marketing
11 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (19.38%) Developer
2 56 (14.47%) Python Developer
3 54 (13.95%) Senior
4 44 (11.37%) Lead
5 41 (10.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (7.24%) Python Engineer
7 26 (6.72%) Data Engineer
8 22 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.17%) Analyst
10 18 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 16 (4.13%) Architect
12 15 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.62%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.36%) Data Analyst
14 13 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (3.36%) Network Engineer
14 13 (3.36%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
16 10 (2.58%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (35.66%) Terraform
2 32 (8.27%) REST
3 28 (7.24%) Node.js
4 26 (6.72%) JSON
5 25 (6.46%) Kafka
5 25 (6.46%) React
6 16 (4.13%) Playwright
7 15 (3.88%) pytest
8 14 (3.62%) CSS
8 14 (3.62%) HTML
8 14 (3.62%) PySpark
9 13 (3.36%) Vue
10 12 (3.10%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (2.84%) .NET
11 11 (2.84%) FastAPI
11 11 (2.84%) Flask
11 11 (2.84%) OAuth
11 11 (2.84%) OpenID
11 11 (2.84%) YAML
12 9 (2.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 87 (22.48%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.20%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.20%) Data Protection Act
2 24 (6.20%) Public Cloud
3 19 (4.91%) NHS
4 14 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.10%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.58%) PKI
8 9 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.55%) Blog
9 6 (1.55%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.29%) Replication
11 4 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.63%) Linux
2 18 (4.65%) Windows
3 12 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.33%) Unix
5 6 (1.55%) VMS
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.78%) zOS
7 2 (0.52%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (54.26%) CI/CD
2 153 (39.53%) DevOps
3 111 (28.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (25.84%) Agile
5 93 (24.03%) Observability
6 65 (16.80%) AI
7 56 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (14.21%) Software Engineering
9 53 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
10 52 (13.44%) Containerisation
11 48 (12.40%) Analytics
12 47 (12.14%) Data Engineering
12 47 (12.14%) Test Automation
13 44 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (10.85%) Data Pipeline
14 42 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (10.59%) Full-Stack Development
16 37 (9.56%) DevSecOps
17 36 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
17 36 (9.30%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 78 (20.16%) Java
2 76 (19.64%) SQL
3 60 (15.50%) Bash
4 50 (12.92%) PowerShell
5 34 (8.79%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.20%) Go
7 19 (4.91%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.39%) Scala
9 12 (3.10%) C#
10 11 (2.84%) ActionScript
10 11 (2.84%) Groovy
11 8 (2.07%) R
12 7 (1.81%) Rust
12 7 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.55%) Bicep
13 6 (1.55%) VBA
14 4 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.78%) C
15 3 (0.78%) Cypher
15 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 58 (14.99%) Security Cleared
2 52 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (1.81%) Degree
5 5 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.29%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.03%) CISSP
7 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.52%) CCSP
8 2 (0.52%) CISM
8 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.52%) GIAC
8 2 (0.52%) NCDA
8 2 (0.52%) NCIE
8 2 (0.52%) OCP
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.52%) RHCA
8 2 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.43%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.07%) NIST
3 6 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.29%) HL7
4 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.03%) GDPR
5 4 (1.03%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.03%) QA
6 3 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.78%) WCAG
7 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (18.86%) Docker
2 13 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.84%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.29%) vSphere
6 4 (1.03%) NFS
7 3 (0.78%) Firmware
7 3 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.52%) SRDF
8 2 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.26%) Ceph
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 107 (27.65%) Kubernetes
2 60 (15.50%) Ansible
3 35 (9.04%) Grafana
4 28 (7.24%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.36%) Argo
6 9 (2.33%) HAProxy
7 7 (1.81%) Control-M
8 6 (1.55%) IBM Guardium
8 6 (1.55%) Nessus
8 6 (1.55%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.29%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.78%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.78%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (0.52%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 50 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.14%) Google
3 29 (7.49%) Databricks
4 22 (5.68%) F5
5 20 (5.17%) Splunk
6 15 (3.88%) IBM
7 14 (3.62%) Dynatrace
8 12 (3.10%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.84%) Red Hat
9 11 (2.84%) VMware
10 10 (2.58%) Cisco
11 7 (1.81%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.81%) Infoblox
11 7 (1.81%) Oracle
11 7 (1.81%) Sonatype
11 7 (1.81%) Tenable
12 6 (1.55%) Brocade
12 6 (1.55%) Dell
12 6 (1.55%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.55%) Pure Storage