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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +11
Contract jobs citing Python 391 127 140
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.32% 12.43% 8.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.76% 39.08% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 92 91
10th Percentile £363 £352 £411
25th Percentile £416 £405 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £537 £588 £615
90th Percentile £594 £650 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -5.45% -2.22% -6.25%

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 714 325 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.80% 31.80% 25.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 228 309
10th Percentile £358 £350 £310
25th Percentile £418 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
England median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £31.62 £23.62
25th Percentile - £44.87 £29.89
Median hourly rate - £91.05 £41.60
Median % change year-on-year - +118.86% -33.44%
75th Percentile - £101.14 £53.30
90th Percentile - £102.00 £59.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.18
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.92% -0.52%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +3 253 £475 -5.00% 38
West Yorkshire +9 130 £500 +5.26% 58
North Yorkshire - 9 £506 - 13
East Yorkshire -16 1 - - 7
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 (5.37%) Confluence
2 18 (4.60%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.77%) SAS
6 2 (0.51%) Apache
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 120 (30.69%) AWS
2 93 (23.79%) GitHub
3 87 (22.25%) GCP
4 84 (21.48%) Azure
5 64 (16.37%) OpenShift
6 45 (11.51%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (7.16%) Serverless
8 27 (6.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 26 (6.65%) Power Platform
10 20 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (3.58%) Entra ID
13 13 (3.32%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.32%) Apigee
13 13 (3.32%) SaaS
14 12 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.70%) DNS
2 18 (4.60%) Firewall
3 15 (3.84%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.56%) SAN
5 9 (2.30%) VPN
5 9 (2.30%) WAN
6 8 (2.05%) DHCP
6 8 (2.05%) LAN
6 8 (2.05%) Network Security
7 7 (1.79%) BIG-IP
7 7 (1.79%) NAS
8 6 (1.53%) Unified Communications
8 6 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.02%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.77%) Internet
10 3 (0.77%) PSTN
10 3 (0.77%) SNMP
11 2 (0.51%) BGP
11 2 (0.51%) DWDM
11 2 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.63%) Power BI
3 20 (5.12%) SQL Server
4 19 (4.86%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.60%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.58%) BigQuery
7 13 (3.32%) Hadoop
8 10 (2.56%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.56%) Metadata
9 9 (2.30%) MySQL
9 9 (2.30%) Tableau
10 8 (2.05%) Power Query
10 8 (2.05%) PowerPivot
11 5 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.28%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.02%) Big Data
12 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.02%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.77%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 114 (29.16%) Jenkins
2 58 (14.83%) JIRA
3 32 (8.18%) GitLab
4 25 (6.39%) Git
5 20 (5.12%) Postman
6 13 (3.32%) Gatling
7 12 (3.07%) Maven
8 11 (2.81%) Selenium
9 8 (2.05%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.05%) TestRail
10 7 (1.79%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.53%) REST Assured
11 6 (1.53%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.28%) JMeter
12 5 (1.28%) Liquibase
13 4 (1.02%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.02%) LoadRunner
13 4 (1.02%) NeoLoad
14 3 (0.77%) ERwin
14 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 90 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (15.86%) Finance
4 43 (11.00%) Banking
5 33 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.28%) Publishing
8 4 (1.02%) Advertising
8 4 (1.02%) Legal
9 3 (0.77%) Law
9 3 (0.77%) Marketing
10 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.51%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.26%) Games
11 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.26%) Retail
11 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.26%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (18.93%) Developer
2 48 (12.28%) Lead
2 48 (12.28%) Python Developer
3 42 (10.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (9.46%) Senior
5 34 (8.70%) Architect
6 28 (7.16%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (6.39%) Analyst
7 25 (6.39%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.37%) GCP Engineer
9 19 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (3.84%) Python Engineer
11 14 (3.58%) Data Analyst
11 14 (3.58%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.32%) GCP DevOps
13 12 (3.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.07%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (2.56%) Automation Test Lead
16 9 (2.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 31 (7.93%) JSON
2 31 (7.93%) REST
3 29 (7.42%) YAML
4 25 (6.39%) Playwright
5 24 (6.14%) Node.js
6 23 (5.88%) FastAPI
7 19 (4.86%) React
8 16 (4.09%) Kafka
9 13 (3.32%) LDAP
10 12 (3.07%) OpenID
11 11 (2.81%) .NET
12 10 (2.56%) RESTful
13 9 (2.30%) Apache Avro
13 9 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (2.30%) Protocol Buffers
13 9 (2.30%) SailPoint
14 8 (2.05%) Flask
14 8 (2.05%) PySpark
15 7 (1.79%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.37%) Data Protection Act
2 21 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (5.12%) NHS
4 18 (4.60%) Data Centre
5 16 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.81%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.28%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.28%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (1.28%) Replication
8 5 (1.28%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.02%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.02%) PKI
10 3 (0.77%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.77%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.77%) IoT
10 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 63 (16.11%) Linux
2 32 (8.18%) Windows
3 20 (5.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.56%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.30%) CentOS
6 6 (1.53%) Unix
7 3 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.77%) VMS
7 3 (0.77%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.51%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.26%) AIX
9 1 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (55.24%) CI/CD
2 175 (44.76%) DevOps
3 103 (26.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (23.53%) Agile
6 86 (21.99%) Containerisation
7 72 (18.41%) Observability
8 62 (15.86%) Test Automation
9 51 (13.04%) RBAC
10 49 (12.53%) Migration
11 48 (12.28%) Analytics
12 46 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
13 40 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (8.95%) AI
14 35 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
15 33 (8.44%) Validation
16 31 (7.93%) Data Modelling
16 31 (7.93%) Data Pipeline
16 31 (7.93%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (19.69%) Bash
2 66 (16.88%) Java
3 62 (15.86%) SQL
4 37 (9.46%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.44%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.39%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.37%) Scala
8 19 (4.86%) Go
9 14 (3.58%) VBA
10 13 (3.32%) Groovy
11 9 (2.30%) R
11 9 (2.30%) Ruby
11 9 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.05%) Perl
13 7 (1.79%) C#
14 6 (1.53%) PHP
15 5 (1.28%) Bicep
16 4 (1.02%) Cypher
17 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 43 (11.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.58%) Degree
4 9 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.30%) RHCE
5 5 (1.28%) CISM
5 5 (1.28%) CISSP
5 5 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.77%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.77%) CCNP
6 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.77%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.77%) OCP
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.51%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.32%) QA
2 10 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.53%) HIPAA
4 6 (1.53%) WCAG
5 4 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.02%) NIST
5 4 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.02%) PMO
5 4 (1.02%) SLA
6 3 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (20.20%) Docker
2 28 (7.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.12%) vSphere
4 18 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.32%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.56%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.56%) KVM
7 7 (1.79%) Firmware
8 5 (1.28%) Active Directory
8 5 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.02%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.77%) SRDF
11 2 (0.51%) Ceph
11 2 (0.51%) NFS
12 1 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.26%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 150 (38.36%) Terraform
2 139 (35.55%) Kubernetes
3 111 (28.39%) Ansible
4 56 (14.32%) Grafana
5 49 (12.53%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.60%) Puppet
6 18 (4.60%) vCenter Server
7 16 (4.09%) Argo
8 15 (3.84%) Control-M
9 14 (3.58%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (3.58%) Nessus
10 10 (2.56%) Istio
11 9 (2.30%) HAProxy
12 7 (1.79%) NetBackup
13 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.02%) PowerCLI
15 3 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.77%) Packer
15 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
16 2 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 50 (12.79%) Splunk
2 46 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 42 (10.74%) Microsoft
4 34 (8.70%) VMware
5 33 (8.44%) Google
6 21 (5.37%) Databricks
7 18 (4.60%) Pure Storage
8 17 (4.35%) ServiceNow
9 14 (3.58%) Tenable
10 12 (3.07%) Cisco
11 9 (2.30%) F5
12 7 (1.79%) Dell
12 7 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.79%) Infoblox
13 6 (1.53%) Commvault
13 6 (1.53%) Sonatype
13 6 (1.53%) Veritas
14 4 (1.02%) EMC
14 4 (1.02%) HP
14 4 (1.02%) NetApp