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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 16 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 301 104 78
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.85% 9.24% 4.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.63% 33.23% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 75 63
10th Percentile £378 £405 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £537 £650 £615
90th Percentile £600 £720 £670
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

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 619 313 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.60% 27.82% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 221 318
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £587
90th Percentile £675 £700 £645
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £30.00 £19.91
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -69.56%
75th Percentile £49.75 £97.98 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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 +6 192 £500 -13.04% 157
West Yorkshire 0 104 £500 - 260
North Yorkshire - 4 £425 - 67
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 21 (6.98%) Confluence
2 9 (2.99%) Apache
3 8 (2.66%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.66%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 132 (43.85%) AWS
2 84 (27.91%) GCP
3 76 (25.25%) Azure
4 53 (17.61%) Serverless
5 42 (13.95%) GitHub
6 23 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (7.64%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (7.64%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.31%) Amazon S3
8 21 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (5.32%) OpenShift
12 15 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (3.65%) AWS KMS
13 11 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (2.99%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.99%) CloudBees
15 6 (1.99%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.63%) Firewall
2 16 (5.32%) DNS
3 11 (3.65%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.33%) VPN
5 6 (1.99%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.66%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.66%) SSL
7 4 (1.33%) Internet
7 4 (1.33%) Network Security
7 4 (1.33%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.00%) HTTP
8 3 (1.00%) NAS
8 3 (1.00%) SAN
9 2 (0.66%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.66%) WAN
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.33%) FTP
10 1 (0.33%) IOS XR
10 1 (0.33%) SNMP
10 1 (0.33%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (15.95%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 24 (7.97%) SQL Server
4 23 (7.64%) Power BI
5 17 (5.65%) MySQL
6 14 (4.65%) Oracle Database
7 12 (3.99%) Power Query
8 10 (3.32%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.99%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.66%) Apache Hive
10 8 (2.66%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.33%) Data Mining
11 7 (2.33%) PowerPivot
12 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.99%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.66%) Tableau
14 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
15 3 (1.00%) HBase
15 3 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 111 (36.88%) Jenkins
2 71 (23.59%) GitLab
3 46 (15.28%) JIRA
4 39 (12.96%) Git
5 31 (10.30%) Liquibase
6 11 (3.65%) Postman
7 9 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.99%) Selenium
8 8 (2.66%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.66%) TestRail
9 6 (1.99%) PyCharm
9 6 (1.99%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.66%) MSI
10 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.66%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.66%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.33%) Maven
11 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.33%) Travis CI
General
1 95 (31.56%) Social Skills
2 78 (25.91%) Finance
3 66 (21.93%) Banking
4 41 (13.62%) Public Sector
5 39 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (7.97%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.33%) Law
9 3 (1.00%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.66%) Legal
10 2 (0.66%) Police
10 2 (0.66%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (15.95%) Developer
2 45 (14.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (13.62%) Senior
4 33 (10.96%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (8.64%) Python Developer
6 24 (7.97%) Software Engineer
7 23 (7.64%) Automation Engineer
8 22 (7.31%) Data Engineer
9 20 (6.64%) Analyst
10 19 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
11 18 (5.98%) Lead
12 17 (5.65%) GCP Engineer
13 15 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (4.65%) Python Engineer
14 14 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
15 13 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
16 12 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 10 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 10 (3.32%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.95%) REST
2 38 (12.62%) Elastic Stack
3 37 (12.29%) RESTful
4 26 (8.64%) FastAPI
5 16 (5.32%) TensorFlow
6 15 (4.98%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (4.32%) React
8 10 (3.32%) .NET
9 9 (2.99%) Node.js
9 9 (2.99%) PyTorch
9 9 (2.99%) YAML
10 8 (2.66%) Django
11 7 (2.33%) Flask
11 7 (2.33%) Hugging Face
11 7 (2.33%) OpenCV
11 7 (2.33%) Pandas
11 7 (2.33%) Regular Expression
11 7 (2.33%) SpaCy
12 6 (1.99%) JWT
12 6 (1.99%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 42 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (10.63%) Public Cloud
4 22 (7.31%) NHS
5 15 (4.98%) Algorithms
5 15 (4.98%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.66%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.66%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.33%) Clustering
11 4 (1.33%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.33%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (29.57%) Linux
2 13 (4.32%) Windows
3 9 (2.99%) Unix
4 4 (1.33%) CentOS
4 4 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (55.48%) DevOps
2 146 (48.50%) CI/CD
3 109 (36.21%) Agile
4 96 (31.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (27.57%) Containerisation
6 65 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (16.28%) Test Automation
8 47 (15.61%) Cybersecurity
8 47 (15.61%) Infrastructure Automation
8 47 (15.61%) Root Cause Analysis
9 45 (14.95%) Software Engineering
10 43 (14.29%) Microservices
11 39 (12.96%) Computer Science
12 38 (12.62%) Data Security
13 37 (12.29%) High Availability
14 32 (10.63%) Change Management
14 32 (10.63%) Observability
15 31 (10.30%) Continuous Integration
16 29 (9.63%) Continuous Delivery
17 28 (9.30%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 75 (24.92%) Bash
2 53 (17.61%) SQL
3 48 (15.95%) Java
4 45 (14.95%) Go
5 29 (9.63%) PowerShell
5 29 (9.63%) Shell Script
6 24 (7.97%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.32%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.65%) VBA
9 9 (2.99%) Scala
10 8 (2.66%) C#
10 8 (2.66%) Perl
11 6 (1.99%) PHP
12 4 (1.33%) C++
13 3 (1.00%) C
13 3 (1.00%) Ruby
13 3 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.66%) Bicep
14 2 (0.66%) Groovy
14 2 (0.66%) XPath
Qualifications
1 43 (14.29%) Degree
2 35 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (11.30%) Security Cleared
4 31 (10.30%) Master's Degree
5 24 (7.97%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.32%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.00%) CISSP
8 3 (1.00%) RHCE
9 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.66%) CISM
9 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.33%) GCIH
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) OCP
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.99%) QA
2 6 (1.99%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.33%) PMO
4 4 (1.33%) SLA
5 3 (1.00%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) NIST
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (28.90%) Docker
2 14 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.32%) Oracle RAC
3 10 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.66%) vSphere
5 4 (1.33%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.00%) HDFS
7 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.66%) KVM
8 1 (0.33%) Ceph
8 1 (0.33%) QEMU
8 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 131 (43.52%) Terraform
2 123 (40.86%) Ansible
3 109 (36.21%) Kubernetes
4 63 (20.93%) Grafana
5 56 (18.60%) Prometheus
6 20 (6.64%) NetBackup
7 15 (4.98%) Puppet
8 10 (3.32%) Control-M
8 10 (3.32%) Data Guard
8 10 (3.32%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (3.32%) Nessus
8 10 (3.32%) yum
9 7 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.33%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.00%) Hadoop YARN
11 3 (1.00%) Packer
11 3 (1.00%) SCCM
11 3 (1.00%) vRealize
12 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (19.93%) Splunk
2 36 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 34 (11.30%) Google
4 24 (7.97%) Oracle
5 23 (7.64%) Red Hat
6 22 (7.31%) VMware
7 16 (5.32%) Veritas
8 13 (4.32%) Commvault
8 13 (4.32%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.32%) Tenable
10 9 (2.99%) F5
11 7 (2.33%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.33%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.99%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.99%) Cisco
12 6 (1.99%) Databricks
13 4 (1.33%) Juniper
13 4 (1.33%) Meraki
13 4 (1.33%) Nokia
14 3 (1.00%) SAP