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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Python 387 220 153
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.60% 14.83% 9.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.37% 46.32% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 148 109
10th Percentile £367 £343 £400
25th Percentile £420 £406 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £507
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -2.78% -11.83%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £600
90th Percentile £639 £602 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £58.13 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.86% -20.05% -

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 817 475 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.71% 32.03% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 314 321
10th Percentile £363 £322 £340
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.85% -2.34%
75th Percentile £563 £542 £588
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
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% +37.79%
75th Percentile £26.63 £82.53 £61.88
90th Percentile £34.80 £92.15 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +2 218 £500 +3.63% 44
West Yorkshire +2 160 £500 - 100
East Yorkshire -1 4 - - 10
North Yorkshire -4 4 £700 +64.71% 14
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 22 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.39%) Confluence
3 5 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.03%) Apache
5 3 (0.78%) SAS
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 2 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 123 (31.78%) AWS
2 96 (24.81%) GitHub
3 94 (24.29%) GCP
4 79 (20.41%) Azure
5 49 (12.66%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (9.82%) OpenShift
7 28 (7.24%) Serverless
8 27 (6.98%) Power Platform
9 17 (4.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.10%) Apigee
11 12 (3.10%) IaaS
11 12 (3.10%) OCI
12 11 (2.84%) Amazon S3
12 11 (2.84%) Vertex AI
13 8 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.07%) Datadog
14 7 (1.81%) SaaS
15 6 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.01%) DNS
2 21 (5.43%) Firewall
3 19 (4.91%) BIG-IP
4 15 (3.88%) TCP/IP
5 12 (3.10%) Network Security
6 11 (2.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 9 (2.33%) DHCP
7 9 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (2.33%) SAN
8 7 (1.81%) WAN
9 6 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.29%) NAS
10 5 (1.29%) VLAN
10 5 (1.29%) VPN
11 4 (1.03%) BGP
11 4 (1.03%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.03%) LAN
11 4 (1.03%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (0.78%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.68%) Power BI
2 22 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.39%) BigQuery
3 17 (4.39%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.13%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.62%) Metadata
6 12 (3.10%) Hadoop
7 9 (2.33%) Big Data
7 9 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.33%) Tableau
8 7 (1.81%) Neo4j
9 6 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.03%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.03%) Parquet
12 3 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.78%) MySQL
12 3 (0.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 99 (25.58%) Jenkins
2 58 (14.99%) JIRA
3 27 (6.98%) Git
4 20 (5.17%) GitLab
5 15 (3.88%) Gatling
5 15 (3.88%) Maven
6 10 (2.58%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.55%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.55%) JMeter
7 6 (1.55%) NeoLoad
8 5 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.29%) Zephyr
9 4 (1.03%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.03%) MSBuild
9 4 (1.03%) Postman
9 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.78%) ERwin
10 3 (0.78%) Selenium
11 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.52%) Robot Framework
General
1 74 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.57%) Finance
3 59 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.04%) Banking
5 32 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.84%) Legal
8 9 (2.33%) Publishing
9 6 (1.55%) Games
9 6 (1.55%) Retail
10 3 (0.78%) Advertising
10 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.78%) Law
10 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Marketing
12 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (22.22%) Developer
2 65 (16.80%) Python Developer
3 46 (11.89%) Lead
4 45 (11.63%) Senior
5 43 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 29 (7.49%) Python Engineer
7 25 (6.46%) Data Engineer
8 23 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.17%) Architect
10 19 (4.91%) Analyst
11 17 (4.39%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 13 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.10%) Data Analyst
14 12 (3.10%) Software Engineer
15 11 (2.84%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 11 (2.84%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.79%) REST
2 33 (8.53%) JSON
3 31 (8.01%) OpenTelemetry
4 29 (7.49%) Node.js
5 25 (6.46%) React
6 20 (5.17%) FastAPI
6 20 (5.17%) Kafka
7 16 (4.13%) Playwright
8 14 (3.62%) PySpark
9 13 (3.36%) CSS
10 12 (3.10%) HTML
10 12 (3.10%) Vue
10 12 (3.10%) YAML
11 10 (2.58%) Flask
11 10 (2.58%) pytest
11 10 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (2.33%) .NET
12 9 (2.33%) RESTful
12 9 (2.33%) SLSA
13 8 (2.07%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.46%) Data Protection Act
3 22 (5.68%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.39%) NHS
5 16 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.10%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.84%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.33%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.81%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.55%) Blog
12 6 (1.55%) EMC VMAX
12 6 (1.55%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.55%) PKI
12 6 (1.55%) Replication
13 5 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.03%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 47 (12.14%) Linux
2 24 (6.20%) Windows
3 16 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.55%) Unix
4 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.03%) VMS
6 3 (0.78%) zOS
7 2 (0.52%) AIX
7 2 (0.52%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.26%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.26%) Solaris
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (53.75%) CI/CD
2 162 (41.86%) DevOps
3 103 (26.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (26.36%) Agile
5 88 (22.74%) Observability
6 80 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (16.80%) Containerisation
8 52 (13.44%) AI
8 52 (13.44%) Test Automation
9 47 (12.14%) Analytics
9 47 (12.14%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 42 (10.85%) Data Engineering
12 38 (9.82%) Full-Stack Development
13 37 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (9.56%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (9.30%) API Development
14 36 (9.30%) Data Protection
15 35 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
16 34 (8.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 68 (17.57%) Bash
2 65 (16.80%) SQL
3 61 (15.76%) Java
4 42 (10.85%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.53%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.68%) Go
7 17 (4.39%) Scala
7 17 (4.39%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.62%) Groovy
9 9 (2.33%) R
10 8 (2.07%) ActionScript
10 8 (2.07%) C#
11 7 (1.81%) Rust
12 6 (1.55%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.55%) VBA
13 5 (1.29%) Bicep
14 3 (0.78%) C
14 3 (0.78%) Cypher
15 2 (0.52%) Perl
15 2 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.33%) 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%) OCP
7 3 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
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%) RHCA
9 1 (0.26%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.29%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.29%) HL7
2 5 (1.29%) NIST
2 5 (1.29%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.03%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.03%) QA
3 4 (1.03%) WCAG
4 3 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.26%) SLA
6 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (19.12%) Docker
2 20 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.62%) vSphere
4 13 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (2.33%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.81%) Active Directory
7 6 (1.55%) Firmware
8 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.03%) KVM
9 4 (1.03%) NFS
9 4 (1.03%) SRDF
9 4 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.26%) Ceph
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 136 (35.14%) Terraform
2 110 (28.42%) Kubernetes
3 78 (20.16%) Ansible
4 43 (11.11%) Grafana
5 41 (10.59%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.91%) Argo
7 13 (3.36%) Control-M
7 13 (3.36%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.10%) IBM Guardium
8 12 (3.10%) Nessus
9 9 (2.33%) HAProxy
10 8 (2.07%) NetBackup
10 8 (2.07%) Puppet
11 4 (1.03%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.03%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.78%) Istio
13 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (10.59%) Google
2 38 (9.82%) Microsoft
3 32 (8.27%) Splunk
4 27 (6.98%) Databricks
5 25 (6.46%) VMware
6 21 (5.43%) F5
7 20 (5.17%) Red Hat
8 13 (3.36%) Pure Storage
9 12 (3.10%) Cisco
9 12 (3.10%) ServiceNow
9 12 (3.10%) Tenable
10 11 (2.84%) Dynatrace
11 10 (2.58%) Dell
11 10 (2.58%) IBM
12 9 (2.33%) Sonatype
13 7 (1.81%) Brocade
13 7 (1.81%) Infoblox
14 6 (1.55%) Broadcom
14 6 (1.55%) Commvault
14 6 (1.55%) Veritas