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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 421 134 182
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.82% 12.42% 10.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.16% 39.18% 37.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 95 121
10th Percentile £363 £330 £411
25th Percentile £424 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -1.38% -16.37%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £600
90th Percentile £599 £620 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -5.83%

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 792 342 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.76% 31.70% 28.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 237 344
10th Percentile £359 £325 £304
25th Percentile £420 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £615 £600 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £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% +7.30%
75th Percentile £25.13 £66.51 £63.75
90th Percentile £25.20 £85.74 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -

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 2 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 2 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 +2 276 £482 -3.60% 31
West Yorkshire +4 138 £495 -1.00% 58
North Yorkshire - 6 £625 - 13
East Yorkshire -10 2 - - 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 21 (4.99%) Apache Spark
1 21 (4.99%) Confluence
2 10 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.71%) SAS
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.24%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 115 (27.32%) AWS
2 98 (23.28%) GitHub
3 95 (22.57%) GCP
4 87 (20.67%) Azure
5 67 (15.91%) OpenShift
6 46 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (6.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 24 (5.70%) Power Platform
9 18 (4.28%) Serverless
10 15 (3.56%) SaaS
11 12 (2.85%) Apigee
11 12 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.85%) Entra ID
12 11 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.38%) IaaS
14 8 (1.90%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (1.66%) OCI
15 7 (1.66%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.50%) DNS
2 21 (4.99%) Firewall
3 20 (4.75%) TCP/IP
4 18 (4.28%) BIG-IP
5 12 (2.85%) DHCP
5 12 (2.85%) SAN
6 10 (2.38%) WAN
7 9 (2.14%) NAS
7 9 (2.14%) Network Security
7 9 (2.14%) VPN
8 8 (1.90%) LAN
8 8 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (1.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 6 (1.43%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.95%) iSCSI
12 3 (0.71%) BGP
12 3 (0.71%) HTTP
12 3 (0.71%) PSTN
12 3 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.51%) Power BI
4 18 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.33%) BigQuery
5 14 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.09%) Hadoop
7 10 (2.38%) Metadata
8 9 (2.14%) Big Data
8 9 (2.14%) Tableau
9 7 (1.66%) MySQL
10 5 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.19%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.19%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.95%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.95%) Parquet
11 4 (0.95%) Power Query
12 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 123 (29.22%) Jenkins
2 71 (16.86%) JIRA
3 36 (8.55%) GitLab
4 24 (5.70%) Git
5 17 (4.04%) Postman
6 13 (3.09%) Gatling
7 12 (2.85%) Maven
8 9 (2.14%) Selenium
9 6 (1.43%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.43%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.43%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.43%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.43%) TestRail
10 5 (1.19%) JMeter
11 4 (0.95%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.95%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.95%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.71%) ERwin
12 3 (0.71%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.48%) Robot Framework
General
1 93 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.39%) Finance
3 60 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.79%) Banking
5 25 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.90%) Legal
8 5 (1.19%) Publishing
9 4 (0.95%) Advertising
9 4 (0.95%) Law
10 3 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.71%) Marketing
11 2 (0.48%) Games
11 2 (0.48%) Retail
11 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (18.53%) Developer
2 52 (12.35%) Lead
3 50 (11.88%) Python Developer
4 44 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (10.45%) Senior
5 38 (9.03%) Architect
6 25 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (5.46%) Data Engineer
8 21 (4.99%) GCP Engineer
9 20 (4.75%) Analyst
10 17 (4.04%) GCP DevOps
11 16 (3.80%) Python Engineer
12 15 (3.56%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.09%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (2.85%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.85%) GCP DevOps Engineer
15 11 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 9 (2.14%) Automation Test Lead
16 9 (2.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.21%) OpenTelemetry
2 35 (8.31%) JSON
3 34 (8.08%) Node.js
3 34 (8.08%) REST
4 32 (7.60%) YAML
5 23 (5.46%) Playwright
5 23 (5.46%) React
6 22 (5.23%) FastAPI
7 17 (4.04%) Kafka
8 13 (3.09%) LDAP
8 13 (3.09%) OpenID
8 13 (3.09%) PySpark
9 11 (2.61%) .NET
10 10 (2.38%) RESTful
11 9 (2.14%) Apache Avro
11 9 (2.14%) Protocol Buffers
11 9 (2.14%) SailPoint
12 8 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (1.90%) Vue
13 7 (1.66%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.06%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.65%) Data Centre
3 27 (6.41%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.85%) NHS
6 12 (2.85%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.66%) Replication
9 6 (1.43%) EMC VMAX
9 6 (1.43%) PKI
10 5 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 68 (16.15%) Linux
2 37 (8.79%) Windows
3 23 (5.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.14%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.90%) CentOS
6 6 (1.43%) Unix
7 5 (1.19%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.71%) VMS
8 3 (0.71%) zOS
9 2 (0.48%) AIX
9 2 (0.48%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (55.58%) CI/CD
2 185 (43.94%) DevOps
3 103 (24.47%) Agile
3 103 (24.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (20.43%) Containerisation
6 81 (19.24%) Observability
7 61 (14.49%) Test Automation
8 57 (13.54%) RBAC
9 51 (12.11%) Migration
10 48 (11.40%) Analytics
11 45 (10.69%) AI
12 43 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (9.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (9.74%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (8.79%) Data Protection
16 36 (8.55%) Data Engineering
16 36 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
17 34 (8.08%) Performance Optimisation
18 33 (7.84%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 87 (20.67%) Bash
2 76 (18.05%) Java
3 61 (14.49%) SQL
4 46 (10.93%) PowerShell
5 37 (8.79%) JavaScript
6 25 (5.94%) Go
7 24 (5.70%) TypeScript
8 21 (4.99%) Scala
9 13 (3.09%) Groovy
10 11 (2.61%) VBA
11 10 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.14%) Perl
12 9 (2.14%) R
12 9 (2.14%) Ruby
13 6 (1.43%) ActionScript
13 6 (1.43%) PHP
14 5 (1.19%) Bicep
14 5 (1.19%) C#
15 4 (0.95%) Cypher
15 4 (0.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (7.84%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.46%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (2.85%) Degree
4 9 (2.14%) RHCE
5 6 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.19%) CISM
6 5 (1.19%) CISSP
7 4 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.71%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.71%) OCP
8 3 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.48%) CCNA
9 2 (0.48%) CCNP
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.48%) NCDA
9 2 (0.48%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.09%) QA
2 9 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.66%) WCAG
4 6 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.43%) HIPAA
4 6 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.95%) NIST
6 4 (0.95%) SLA
7 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.48%) PMO
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 74 (17.58%) Docker
2 29 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.23%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (4.99%) vSphere
5 13 (3.09%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.61%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.14%) KVM
8 8 (1.90%) Firmware
9 6 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.19%) NFS
11 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
11 4 (0.95%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.95%) SRDF
12 2 (0.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.48%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.24%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 144 (34.20%) Terraform
2 136 (32.30%) Kubernetes
3 122 (28.98%) Ansible
4 53 (12.59%) Grafana
5 49 (11.64%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.51%) vCenter Server
7 18 (4.28%) Puppet
8 17 (4.04%) Argo
9 15 (3.56%) Control-M
10 14 (3.33%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (3.33%) Nessus
11 9 (2.14%) HAProxy
11 9 (2.14%) Istio
12 8 (1.90%) NetBackup
13 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.95%) PowerCLI
14 4 (0.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 3 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
15 3 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.71%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 47 (11.16%) Red Hat
2 44 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 43 (10.21%) Google
4 42 (9.98%) Splunk
5 36 (8.55%) VMware
6 27 (6.41%) Databricks
7 24 (5.70%) ServiceNow
8 20 (4.75%) F5
9 19 (4.51%) Pure Storage
10 14 (3.33%) Tenable
11 12 (2.85%) Cisco
12 11 (2.61%) Infoblox
13 10 (2.38%) Dell
14 8 (1.90%) Brocade
15 7 (1.66%) Dynatrace
15 7 (1.66%) IBM
16 6 (1.43%) Broadcom
16 6 (1.43%) Commvault
16 6 (1.43%) Sonatype
16 6 (1.43%) Veritas