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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 433 172 180
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.35% 13.02% 10.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.70% 42.47% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 115 116
10th Percentile £363 £330 £400
25th Percentile £422 £400 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £551 £547 £600
90th Percentile £601 £604 £641
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -0.38%

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 854 405 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.27% 30.66% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 269 335
10th Percentile £363 £349 £300
25th Percentile £421 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £587
90th Percentile £638 £600 £638
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £20.38 £31.53 £33.75
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £37.50
Median hourly rate £24.25 £33.11 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% -36.93% +6.89%
75th Percentile £27.31 £66.51 £63.75
90th Percentile £36.50 £85.74 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +2 266 £500 +1.42% 37
West Yorkshire +5 161 £500 - 68
North Yorkshire - 6 £625 - 13
East Yorkshire -4 2 - - 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 23 (5.31%) Confluence
2 22 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.69%) Apache
5 3 (0.69%) SAS
6 2 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.23%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 117 (27.02%) AWS
2 109 (25.17%) GCP
3 107 (24.71%) GitHub
4 89 (20.55%) Azure
5 55 (12.70%) OpenShift
6 50 (11.55%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 26 (6.00%) Power Platform
9 24 (5.54%) Serverless
10 16 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.23%) Entra ID
12 13 (3.00%) Apigee
12 13 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.00%) IaaS
13 11 (2.54%) SaaS
14 10 (2.31%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.31%) OCI
15 9 (2.08%) Cloud Run
15 9 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (1.85%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.24%) DNS
2 25 (5.77%) Firewall
3 23 (5.31%) BIG-IP
4 20 (4.62%) TCP/IP
5 16 (3.70%) Network Security
6 12 (2.77%) DHCP
6 12 (2.77%) SAN
6 12 (2.77%) WAN
7 11 (2.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 10 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (2.08%) LAN
9 9 (2.08%) NAS
9 9 (2.08%) VPN
10 6 (1.39%) Unified Communications
11 5 (1.15%) VLAN
12 4 (0.92%) BGP
12 4 (0.92%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.92%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (4.85%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.62%) Power BI
4 17 (3.93%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 15 (3.46%) BigQuery
7 14 (3.23%) Hadoop
8 12 (2.77%) Metadata
9 9 (2.08%) Big Data
9 9 (2.08%) Neo4j
9 9 (2.08%) Tableau
10 7 (1.62%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.15%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.15%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.92%) Parquet
14 3 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.69%) MySQL
14 3 (0.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 129 (29.79%) Jenkins
2 76 (17.55%) JIRA
3 29 (6.70%) Git
4 28 (6.47%) GitLab
5 15 (3.46%) Gatling
6 14 (3.23%) Maven
7 12 (2.77%) Postman
8 9 (2.08%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.62%) JMeter
10 6 (1.39%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.39%) NeoLoad
10 6 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.15%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.92%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.92%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.69%) ERwin
13 3 (0.69%) Liquibase
13 3 (0.69%) Selenium
14 2 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 86 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 74 (17.09%) Finance
3 59 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.01%) Banking
5 28 (6.47%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.54%) Legal
8 7 (1.62%) Publishing
9 4 (0.92%) Advertising
9 4 (0.92%) Games
9 4 (0.92%) Retail
10 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.69%) Marketing
11 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.46%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (20.32%) Developer
2 61 (14.09%) Python Developer
3 53 (12.24%) Senior
4 52 (12.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 44 (10.16%) Lead
6 33 (7.62%) Architect
7 26 (6.00%) Data Engineer
7 26 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (4.85%) GCP Engineer
9 20 (4.62%) Python Engineer
10 19 (4.39%) Analyst
10 19 (4.39%) Senior Developer
11 17 (3.93%) GCP DevOps
12 14 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.00%) Network Engineer
14 12 (2.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (2.77%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.77%) GCP DevOps Engineer
15 11 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.16%) OpenTelemetry
2 36 (8.31%) JSON
2 36 (8.31%) Node.js
2 36 (8.31%) REST
3 26 (6.00%) React
4 24 (5.54%) Playwright
5 23 (5.31%) FastAPI
6 18 (4.16%) YAML
7 16 (3.70%) Kafka
7 16 (3.70%) PySpark
8 14 (3.23%) RESTful
9 11 (2.54%) LDAP
9 11 (2.54%) OpenID
10 10 (2.31%) pytest
11 9 (2.08%) .NET
11 9 (2.08%) Apache Avro
11 9 (2.08%) Protocol Buffers
11 9 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.85%) SLSA
13 7 (1.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 77 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.70%) Data Centre
2 29 (6.70%) Data Protection Act
3 21 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (3.93%) NHS
5 16 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.77%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.85%) Replication
9 7 (1.62%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.62%) PKI
10 6 (1.39%) Blog
10 6 (1.39%) EMC VMAX
11 5 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.15%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.39%) Linux
2 34 (7.85%) Windows
3 19 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.39%) Unix
6 5 (1.15%) VMS
7 3 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.69%) zOS
8 2 (0.46%) AIX
8 2 (0.46%) CentOS
8 2 (0.46%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.23%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (55.20%) CI/CD
2 186 (42.96%) DevOps
3 119 (27.48%) Agile
4 109 (25.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 90 (20.79%) Observability
6 84 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (18.94%) Containerisation
8 61 (14.09%) Test Automation
9 50 (11.55%) Platform Engineering
10 49 (11.32%) Analytics
11 46 (10.62%) AI
11 46 (10.62%) RBAC
12 43 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (9.47%) API Development
13 41 (9.47%) Migration
14 39 (9.01%) Data Engineering
15 38 (8.78%) Data Protection
15 38 (8.78%) Software Engineering
16 37 (8.55%) Performance Optimisation
16 37 (8.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (18.48%) Bash
2 67 (15.47%) Java
3 59 (13.63%) SQL
4 54 (12.47%) PowerShell
5 30 (6.93%) Go
5 30 (6.93%) JavaScript
6 27 (6.24%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.08%) Scala
8 15 (3.46%) Groovy
9 9 (2.08%) ActionScript
9 9 (2.08%) R
9 9 (2.08%) VBA
10 8 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.62%) Bicep
11 7 (1.62%) C#
11 7 (1.62%) Rust
12 6 (1.39%) Cypher
13 4 (0.92%) Perl
14 3 (0.69%) Ruby
15 2 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (8.55%) Security Cleared
2 26 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (3.00%) Degree
4 7 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.15%) CISSP
6 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.69%) CISM
7 3 (0.69%) OCP
7 3 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.69%) RHCE
8 2 (0.46%) CCNA
8 2 (0.46%) CCNP
8 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.46%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.46%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.62%) Accessibility
1 7 (1.62%) QA
2 6 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.39%) HIPAA
2 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.39%) WCAG
3 5 (1.15%) NIST
3 5 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.92%) HL7
5 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.23%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (17.78%) Docker
2 27 (6.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (4.85%) vSphere
5 13 (3.00%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.85%) Firmware
7 8 (1.85%) KVM
8 6 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
9 5 (1.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (1.15%) NFS
10 4 (0.92%) SRDF
11 2 (0.46%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.23%) Ceph
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 151 (34.87%) Terraform
2 132 (30.48%) Kubernetes
3 102 (23.56%) Ansible
4 52 (12.01%) Grafana
5 50 (11.55%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.85%) Argo
7 19 (4.39%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.70%) Control-M
9 15 (3.46%) IBM Guardium
9 15 (3.46%) Nessus
10 10 (2.31%) Puppet
11 9 (2.08%) HAProxy
11 9 (2.08%) Istio
12 8 (1.85%) NetBackup
13 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.92%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.92%) PowerCLI
14 4 (0.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 3 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
15 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 52 (12.01%) Google
2 44 (10.16%) Microsoft
3 41 (9.47%) Splunk
4 33 (7.62%) VMware
5 32 (7.39%) Red Hat
6 27 (6.24%) Databricks
7 25 (5.77%) F5
8 19 (4.39%) Pure Storage
9 17 (3.93%) ServiceNow
10 15 (3.46%) Tenable
11 14 (3.23%) Cisco
12 11 (2.54%) Dynatrace
12 11 (2.54%) Infoblox
13 10 (2.31%) Dell
14 9 (2.08%) IBM
15 8 (1.85%) Brocade
15 8 (1.85%) Sonatype
16 6 (1.39%) Broadcom
16 6 (1.39%) Commvault
16 6 (1.39%) Veritas