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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing Python 383 280 144
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.24% 16.61% 9.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.05% 47.14% 33.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 181 101
10th Percentile £400 £360 £413
25th Percentile £425 £434 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £572 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
England median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £50.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +26.96% -27.27% +5.77%

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 814 594 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.15% 35.23% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 380 309
10th Percentile £361 £345 £356
25th Percentile £419 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £579
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £543
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £18.79 - £26.25
25th Percentile £21.24 £49.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £49.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.52% +23.75% +87.71%
75th Percentile £26.63 £49.75 £58.13
90th Percentile £34.80 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -1 206 £500 - 60
West Yorkshire +2 173 £500 - 113
North Yorkshire -4 5 £535 +25.88% 17
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 4
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 16 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.35%) Apache
2 9 (2.35%) Confluence
3 6 (1.57%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (1.04%) SAS
5 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.78%) nginx
5 3 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 139 (36.29%) AWS
2 112 (29.24%) GCP
3 110 (28.72%) Azure
4 86 (22.45%) GitHub
5 49 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (8.36%) Serverless
7 27 (7.05%) Power Platform
8 23 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (6.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 16 (4.18%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.66%) Cloud Run
11 13 (3.39%) Entra ID
11 13 (3.39%) IaaS
11 13 (3.39%) OpenShift
12 11 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.09%) OCI
13 8 (2.09%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.79%) DNS
1 26 (6.79%) Firewall
1 26 (6.79%) Network Security
2 20 (5.22%) BIG-IP
3 14 (3.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 13 (3.39%) TCP/IP
5 12 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 7 (1.83%) VLAN
7 6 (1.57%) WAN
8 5 (1.31%) DHCP
8 5 (1.31%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.31%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.04%) BGP
9 4 (1.04%) VPN
9 4 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.78%) HTTP
10 3 (0.78%) Internet
10 3 (0.78%) OSPF
10 3 (0.78%) SSL
10 3 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.27%) Power BI
2 21 (5.48%) Metadata
3 19 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 18 (4.70%) BigQuery
4 18 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.66%) Big Data
6 13 (3.39%) Data Lake
7 12 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (2.87%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.61%) Tableau
10 9 (2.35%) Neo4j
11 8 (2.09%) Delta Lake
11 8 (2.09%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.57%) Spark SQL
14 4 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (1.04%) Hadoop
14 4 (1.04%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 84 (21.93%) Jenkins
2 52 (13.58%) JIRA
3 40 (10.44%) Git
4 19 (4.96%) GitLab
5 14 (3.66%) JMeter
6 13 (3.39%) Gatling
6 13 (3.39%) Maven
7 12 (3.13%) Postman
8 10 (2.61%) LoadRunner
9 9 (2.35%) SonarQube
9 9 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (2.09%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.83%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.83%) Zephyr
12 6 (1.57%) NeoLoad
12 6 (1.57%) Selenium
12 6 (1.57%) SoapUI
13 4 (1.04%) MSBuild
13 4 (1.04%) Pylint
13 4 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (21.67%) Finance
2 77 (20.10%) Social Skills
3 46 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.66%) Banking
5 29 (7.57%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.87%) Legal
7 8 (2.09%) Publishing
8 6 (1.57%) Retail
9 5 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.31%) Games
10 4 (1.04%) Law
11 3 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.78%) Marketing
12 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Organisational 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 72 (18.80%) Developer
2 57 (14.88%) Senior
3 56 (14.62%) Python Developer
4 44 (11.49%) Lead
5 43 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 35 (9.14%) Data Engineer
7 24 (6.27%) Python Engineer
8 20 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 17 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (4.18%) Analyst
10 16 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.39%) Network Engineer
12 13 (3.39%) Software Engineer
13 12 (3.13%) Data Analyst
14 11 (2.87%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (2.87%) Senior Developer
15 10 (2.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (35.25%) Terraform
2 35 (9.14%) REST
3 26 (6.79%) Node.js
4 25 (6.53%) Kafka
5 24 (6.27%) React
6 19 (4.96%) pytest
7 18 (4.70%) OpenID
8 17 (4.44%) OAuth
8 17 (4.44%) PySpark
9 16 (4.18%) JSON
10 15 (3.92%) HTML
10 15 (3.92%) OAuth2
11 13 (3.39%) CSS
11 13 (3.39%) Flask
12 12 (3.13%) Vue
12 12 (3.13%) YAML
13 11 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
13 11 (2.87%) RESTful
13 11 (2.87%) SAML
14 10 (2.61%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 90 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.79%) Public Cloud
3 24 (6.27%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.27%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 13 (3.39%) NHS
5 13 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.13%) PKI
7 11 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.57%) Blog
9 6 (1.57%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.04%) Replication
10 4 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.75%) Linux
2 14 (3.66%) Windows
3 12 (3.13%) Unix
4 10 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.57%) VMS
7 3 (0.78%) zOS
8 2 (0.52%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.26%) AIX
9 1 (0.26%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (57.70%) CI/CD
2 158 (41.25%) DevOps
3 118 (30.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (26.89%) Agile
5 98 (25.59%) Observability
6 74 (19.32%) AI
7 62 (16.19%) Software Engineering
8 56 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
9 54 (14.10%) Test Automation
10 52 (13.58%) Platform Engineering
11 50 (13.05%) Data Engineering
12 48 (12.53%) Containerisation
13 46 (12.01%) Analytics
14 44 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (11.23%) Validation
16 42 (10.97%) Full-Stack Development
17 40 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
17 40 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
18 38 (9.92%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 87 (22.72%) SQL
2 67 (17.49%) Java
3 58 (15.14%) Bash
4 55 (14.36%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.62%) Go
6 31 (8.09%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.18%) C#
9 12 (3.13%) Scala
10 11 (2.87%) ActionScript
11 10 (2.61%) Groovy
12 7 (1.83%) Rust
12 7 (1.83%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.57%) R
14 5 (1.31%) Bicep
15 4 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.04%) VBA
16 3 (0.78%) C
16 3 (0.78%) Cypher
16 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 53 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 48 (12.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.87%) Degree
4 10 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.31%) CISSP
7 4 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.52%) CCNP
9 2 (0.52%) CCSP
9 2 (0.52%) CISM
9 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.52%) GIAC
9 2 (0.52%) RHCA
10 1 (0.26%) CCIE
10 1 (0.26%) CCNA
10 1 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.53%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.83%) NIST
3 5 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.31%) HIPAA
3 5 (1.31%) HL7
3 5 (1.31%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.31%) QA
3 5 (1.31%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.04%) GDPR
5 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
6 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (17.23%) Docker
2 13 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.87%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.04%) NFS
6 2 (0.52%) Firmware
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.52%) vSphere
7 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.26%) Ceph
7 1 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.26%) etcd
7 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.26%) SRDF
7 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 106 (27.68%) Kubernetes
2 54 (14.10%) Ansible
3 36 (9.40%) Grafana
4 29 (7.57%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.61%) Argo
6 8 (2.09%) Control-M
7 7 (1.83%) IBM Guardium
7 7 (1.83%) Nessus
8 6 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.31%) HAProxy
9 5 (1.31%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.04%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (0.78%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.26%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (14.62%) Google
2 53 (13.84%) Microsoft
3 30 (7.83%) Databricks
4 21 (5.48%) ServiceNow
5 20 (5.22%) F5
6 19 (4.96%) Splunk
7 17 (4.44%) Dynatrace
7 17 (4.44%) IBM
8 8 (2.09%) Cisco
8 8 (2.09%) Okta
8 8 (2.09%) Tenable
8 8 (2.09%) VMware
9 7 (1.83%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.83%) Foundry
9 7 (1.83%) Oracle
10 6 (1.57%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.57%) Palantir
11 5 (1.31%) Brio
11 5 (1.31%) Infoblox
11 5 (1.31%) Red Hat