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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 13 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 350 97 130
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.84% 10.58% 7.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.19% 34.04% 27.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 70 83
10th Percentile £363 £363 £406
25th Percentile £425 £431 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £615
90th Percentile £600 £726 £650
England median daily rate £518 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.22% -6.25%

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 658 285 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.67% 31.08% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 199 340
10th Percentile £360 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £666 £650 £625
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £26.25 £21.64
25th Percentile £49.25 £27.56 £24.95
Median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £44.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +38.80% -28.98%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.66 £62.44
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.23
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.32
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.03% -7.20%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +4 243 £488 -15.22% 62
West Yorkshire +1 102 £488 -0.76% 59
North Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 11
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 23 (6.57%) Confluence
2 11 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.14%) Apache
4 4 (1.14%) Apache Pig
4 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.57%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 115 (32.86%) AWS
2 95 (27.14%) GCP
3 73 (20.86%) Azure
3 73 (20.86%) GitHub
4 50 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 48 (13.71%) Serverless
6 30 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (6.86%) Amazon S3
8 21 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 19 (5.43%) Power Platform
11 17 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.43%) Entra ID
13 12 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (3.14%) AWS KMS
14 11 (3.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.29%) DNS
2 27 (7.71%) Firewall
3 16 (4.57%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.71%) VPN
5 10 (2.86%) Network Security
6 7 (2.00%) WAN
7 6 (1.71%) LAN
8 5 (1.43%) SSL
9 4 (1.14%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.14%) Internet
9 4 (1.14%) NAS
9 4 (1.14%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.86%) DHCP
10 3 (0.86%) SAN
11 2 (0.57%) BGP
11 2 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.57%) DWDM
11 2 (0.57%) HTTP
11 2 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.14%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (10.86%) NoSQL
3 18 (5.14%) Power BI
4 17 (4.86%) MySQL
5 12 (3.43%) Hadoop
6 11 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.57%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.29%) Metadata
9 8 (2.29%) Power Query
9 8 (2.29%) PowerPivot
10 6 (1.71%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.71%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.71%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.43%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.14%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.14%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.14%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 132 (37.71%) Jenkins
2 64 (18.29%) JIRA
3 62 (17.71%) GitLab
4 29 (8.29%) Git
5 24 (6.86%) Liquibase
6 19 (5.43%) Postman
7 9 (2.57%) Selenium
8 8 (2.29%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.29%) TestRail
9 7 (2.00%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.71%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.71%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.43%) JMeter
12 4 (1.14%) Gatling
12 4 (1.14%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.14%) Maven
12 4 (1.14%) NeoLoad
12 4 (1.14%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 79 (22.57%) Finance
3 63 (18.00%) Banking
4 48 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.14%) Financial Institution
7 15 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.14%) Legal
9 3 (0.86%) Law
9 3 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.57%) Advertising
10 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.57%) Marketing
10 2 (0.57%) Publishing
10 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (15.14%) Developer
2 47 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (13.14%) Senior
4 33 (9.43%) Lead
4 33 (9.43%) Python Developer
5 31 (8.86%) GCP Engineer
6 29 (8.29%) AWS Engineer
6 29 (8.29%) Data Engineer
7 23 (6.57%) Architect
7 23 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (6.29%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.14%) Analyst
10 15 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
10 15 (4.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.00%) GCP DevOps
12 13 (3.71%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (3.71%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.71%) Python Engineer
12 13 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (14.57%) REST
2 40 (11.43%) OpenTelemetry
3 32 (9.14%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (8.86%) RESTful
5 26 (7.43%) FastAPI
5 26 (7.43%) YAML
6 19 (5.43%) Node.js
7 17 (4.86%) JSON
8 12 (3.43%) OpenID
8 12 (3.43%) TensorFlow
9 11 (3.14%) Kafka
9 11 (3.14%) Playwright
9 11 (3.14%) React
10 10 (2.86%) LDAP
11 9 (2.57%) Flask
11 9 (2.57%) JWT
11 9 (2.57%) OAuth
11 9 (2.57%) SailPoint
12 8 (2.29%) SAML
13 7 (2.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (8.57%) Public Cloud
4 21 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (5.14%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.86%) NHS
7 13 (3.71%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (3.43%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.29%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.71%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.43%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.14%) Clustering
12 4 (1.14%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.14%) PKI
12 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.86%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 80 (22.86%) Linux
2 21 (6.00%) Windows
3 13 (3.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.86%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.57%) CentOS
6 8 (2.29%) Unix
7 3 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (59.43%) CI/CD
2 182 (52.00%) DevOps
3 113 (32.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (31.43%) Agile
5 104 (29.71%) Containerisation
6 80 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (17.71%) Observability
8 51 (14.57%) Test Automation
9 49 (14.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 46 (13.14%) RBAC
11 43 (12.29%) Cybersecurity
11 43 (12.29%) High Availability
12 38 (10.86%) Infrastructure Automation
12 38 (10.86%) Microservices
12 38 (10.86%) Migration
12 38 (10.86%) Software Engineering
13 37 (10.57%) Analytics
13 37 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (10.00%) Computer Science
15 34 (9.71%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (22.29%) Bash
2 55 (15.71%) SQL
3 48 (13.71%) Java
4 42 (12.00%) Go
5 34 (9.71%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.43%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.29%) Scala
9 13 (3.71%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.14%) Perl
10 11 (3.14%) VBA
11 9 (2.57%) Groovy
11 9 (2.57%) Ruby
12 6 (1.71%) PHP
13 5 (1.43%) Bicep
13 5 (1.43%) C#
14 4 (1.14%) Cypher
15 3 (0.86%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (11.43%) Degree
2 31 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (7.43%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.71%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.57%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.29%) RHCE
8 5 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.43%) CISM
8 5 (1.43%) CISSP
9 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.86%) CCNP
10 3 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.57%) CCNA
11 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.57%) OCP
11 2 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.14%) QA
2 8 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.14%) PMO
3 4 (1.14%) SLA
3 4 (1.14%) WCAG
4 3 (0.86%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.86%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (26.29%) Docker
2 18 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (4.29%) vSphere
5 10 (2.86%) KVM
5 10 (2.86%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.57%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (1.14%) Firmware
7 4 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
9 1 (0.29%) Ceph
9 1 (0.29%) HDFS
9 1 (0.29%) NFS
9 1 (0.29%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 149 (42.57%) Terraform
2 145 (41.43%) Kubernetes
3 124 (35.43%) Ansible
4 76 (21.71%) Grafana
5 69 (19.71%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.14%) Control-M
6 18 (5.14%) IBM Guardium
6 18 (5.14%) Nessus
6 18 (5.14%) Puppet
7 13 (3.71%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.43%) NetBackup
9 11 (3.14%) Argo
10 10 (2.86%) Istio
11 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.86%) Packer
12 3 (0.86%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.29%) logstash
Vendors
1 72 (20.57%) Splunk
2 43 (12.29%) Google
3 42 (12.00%) Red Hat
4 31 (8.86%) Microsoft
5 25 (7.14%) VMware
6 18 (5.14%) ServiceNow
6 18 (5.14%) Tenable
7 12 (3.43%) Pure Storage
8 11 (3.14%) F5
9 10 (2.86%) Oracle
10 9 (2.57%) Commvault
10 9 (2.57%) Databricks
11 8 (2.29%) Veritas
12 7 (2.00%) CheckPoint
12 7 (2.00%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.43%) Cisco
13 5 (1.43%) Dynatrace
14 4 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (1.14%) Infoblox
14 4 (1.14%) Okta