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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Python 428 148 185
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.79% 12.82% 10.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.39% 40.11% 38.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 101 119
10th Percentile £363 £325 £400
25th Percentile £424 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% -15.83%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £608
90th Percentile £600 £613 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £567
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.00% -5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.79% -26.92% -

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 817 369 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.14% 31.98% 28.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 247 332
10th Percentile £363 £325 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £626 £600 £638
England median daily rate £513 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -1.30% -3.30% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £19.85 £31.53 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% -47.02% +15.74%
75th Percentile £25.25 £66.51 £63.75
90th Percentile £26.90 £85.74 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 16 June 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 June 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 +3 273 £500 - 78
West Yorkshire +3 148 £500 - 129
North Yorkshire - 6 £625 - 54
East Yorkshire -3 2 - - 15
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 (5.14%) Apache Spark
1 22 (5.14%) Confluence
2 11 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.70%) Apache
4 3 (0.70%) SAS
5 2 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.23%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 110 (25.70%) AWS
2 97 (22.66%) GitHub
3 95 (22.20%) GCP
4 84 (19.63%) Azure
5 56 (13.08%) OpenShift
6 45 (10.51%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.54%) Power Platform
8 27 (6.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 21 (4.91%) Serverless
10 14 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.04%) Entra ID
12 12 (2.80%) IaaS
13 11 (2.57%) Apigee
13 11 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.57%) SaaS
14 10 (2.34%) OCI
15 9 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (1.87%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (1.87%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.11%) DNS
2 24 (5.61%) Firewall
3 22 (5.14%) BIG-IP
4 20 (4.67%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.80%) DHCP
5 12 (2.80%) SAN
5 12 (2.80%) WAN
6 11 (2.57%) Network Security
7 10 (2.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 10 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (2.10%) LAN
8 9 (2.10%) NAS
8 9 (2.10%) VPN
9 8 (1.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 6 (1.40%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.93%) BGP
11 4 (0.93%) iSCSI
11 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.93%) VLAN
12 3 (0.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.14%) Power BI
3 17 (3.97%) SQL Server
4 16 (3.74%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.27%) BigQuery
5 14 (3.27%) Hadoop
5 14 (3.27%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.80%) Metadata
7 9 (2.10%) Big Data
7 9 (2.10%) Tableau
8 6 (1.40%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.40%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.17%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.17%) Delta Lake
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.93%) Parquet
10 4 (0.93%) Power Query
11 3 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 118 (27.57%) Jenkins
2 69 (16.12%) JIRA
3 26 (6.07%) GitLab
4 24 (5.61%) Git
5 14 (3.27%) Maven
6 13 (3.04%) Gatling
7 11 (2.57%) Postman
8 8 (1.87%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.40%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.17%) JMeter
11 4 (0.93%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.93%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.70%) ERwin
12 3 (0.70%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.70%) Selenium
13 2 (0.47%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.47%) Zephyr
14 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 90 (21.03%) Social Skills
2 74 (17.29%) Finance
3 59 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.11%) Banking
5 26 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.34%) Legal
8 7 (1.64%) Publishing
9 4 (0.93%) Advertising
10 3 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.70%) Marketing
11 2 (0.47%) Games
11 2 (0.47%) Law
11 2 (0.47%) Retail
11 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (18.93%) Developer
2 54 (12.62%) Python Developer
3 49 (11.45%) Senior
4 48 (11.21%) Lead
5 45 (10.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (8.88%) Architect
7 26 (6.07%) Data Engineer
8 25 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (4.91%) Analyst
10 20 (4.67%) GCP Engineer
11 18 (4.21%) Python Engineer
12 17 (3.97%) Senior Developer
13 16 (3.74%) GCP DevOps
14 13 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (2.80%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.80%) Network Engineer
16 11 (2.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 11 (2.57%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 10 (2.34%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.81%) OpenTelemetry
2 36 (8.41%) JSON
2 36 (8.41%) Node.js
3 33 (7.71%) REST
3 33 (7.71%) YAML
4 24 (5.61%) React
5 23 (5.37%) Playwright
6 22 (5.14%) FastAPI
7 16 (3.74%) PySpark
8 15 (3.50%) Kafka
9 12 (2.80%) RESTful
10 9 (2.10%) Apache Avro
10 9 (2.10%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (1.87%) LDAP
11 8 (1.87%) OpenID
11 8 (1.87%) SLSA
11 8 (1.87%) Vue
12 7 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.64%) Redux
12 7 (1.64%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 65 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.24%) Data Centre
3 28 (6.54%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.04%) NHS
7 12 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.57%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.87%) Replication
10 7 (1.64%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.64%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.40%) EMC VMAX
11 6 (1.40%) PKI
12 5 (1.17%) Blog
12 5 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.93%) Mainframe
14 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (15.42%) Linux
2 37 (8.64%) Windows
3 24 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.10%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.87%) CentOS
6 7 (1.64%) Unix
6 7 (1.64%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.93%) VMS
8 3 (0.70%) zOS
9 2 (0.47%) AIX
9 2 (0.47%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.23%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (54.91%) CI/CD
2 183 (42.76%) DevOps
3 108 (25.23%) Agile
4 100 (23.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (19.16%) Observability
7 81 (18.93%) Containerisation
8 58 (13.55%) RBAC
9 56 (13.08%) Test Automation
10 51 (11.92%) Analytics
11 48 (11.21%) Migration
12 46 (10.75%) AI
13 44 (10.28%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 39 (9.11%) Data Engineering
16 38 (8.88%) Data Protection
17 35 (8.18%) API Development
17 35 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
17 35 (8.18%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 77 (17.99%) Bash
2 70 (16.36%) Java
3 57 (13.32%) SQL
4 49 (11.45%) PowerShell
5 31 (7.24%) JavaScript
6 27 (6.31%) Go
7 24 (5.61%) TypeScript
8 21 (4.91%) Scala
9 13 (3.04%) Groovy
10 11 (2.57%) VBA
11 10 (2.34%) Perl
12 9 (2.10%) R
12 9 (2.10%) Ruby
12 9 (2.10%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.87%) ActionScript
14 7 (1.64%) C#
15 5 (1.17%) Bicep
15 5 (1.17%) Rust
16 4 (0.93%) Cypher
17 2 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 37 (8.64%) Security Cleared
2 26 (6.07%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.80%) Degree
5 9 (2.10%) RHCE
6 6 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.70%) CISM
8 3 (0.70%) CISSP
8 3 (0.70%) OCP
8 3 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.47%) CCNA
9 2 (0.47%) CCNP
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.47%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.47%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.10%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.64%) QA
2 7 (1.64%) WCAG
3 6 (1.40%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.40%) HIPAA
3 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.17%) NIST
4 5 (1.17%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.47%) PMO
6 2 (0.47%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) HL7
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 73 (17.06%) Docker
2 28 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.14%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (4.91%) vSphere
5 13 (3.04%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.34%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.10%) Firmware
7 9 (2.10%) KVM
8 6 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.17%) NFS
10 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
10 4 (0.93%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.93%) SRDF
11 2 (0.47%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.47%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.23%) Ceph
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 139 (32.48%) Terraform
2 126 (29.44%) Kubernetes
3 113 (26.40%) Ansible
4 47 (10.98%) Grafana
5 46 (10.75%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.44%) Argo
6 19 (4.44%) vCenter Server
7 16 (3.74%) Puppet
8 15 (3.50%) Control-M
9 14 (3.27%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (3.27%) Nessus
10 9 (2.10%) HAProxy
10 9 (2.10%) Istio
11 8 (1.87%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.93%) PowerCLI
13 4 (0.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
14 3 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 47 (10.98%) Red Hat
2 46 (10.75%) Google
3 42 (9.81%) Microsoft
4 41 (9.58%) Splunk
5 34 (7.94%) VMware
6 27 (6.31%) Databricks
7 24 (5.61%) F5
8 19 (4.44%) Pure Storage
9 18 (4.21%) ServiceNow
10 14 (3.27%) Cisco
10 14 (3.27%) Tenable
11 11 (2.57%) Infoblox
12 10 (2.34%) Dell
13 8 (1.87%) Brocade
13 8 (1.87%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.87%) IBM
13 8 (1.87%) Sonatype
14 6 (1.40%) Broadcom
14 6 (1.40%) Commvault
14 6 (1.40%) Veritas