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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +24
Contract jobs citing Python 384 247 142
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.13% 15.87% 9.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.72% 45.66% 32.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 159 100
10th Percentile £394 £374 £412
25th Percentile £425 £435 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -6.76% -6.74%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £610 £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 £66.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +33.00% -28.57% +7.69%

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 822 541 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.10% 34.77% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 349 317
10th Percentile £361 £340 £356
25th Percentile £420 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £584
90th Percentile £638 £675 £645
England median daily rate £525 £515 £545
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £18.79 - £29.25
25th Percentile £21.24 £49.25 £34.38
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 £60.00
90th Percentile £34.80 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 0 201 £500 - 71
West Yorkshire +2 178 £500 - 158
North Yorkshire -6 3 £458 +7.65% 31
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 14 (3.65%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.86%) Confluence
3 6 (1.56%) Apache
3 6 (1.56%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (1.04%) SAS
5 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.78%) nginx
5 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (1.56%) 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
Cloud Services
1 140 (36.46%) AWS
2 114 (29.69%) GCP
3 105 (27.34%) Azure
4 87 (22.66%) GitHub
5 53 (13.80%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (8.59%) Serverless
7 26 (6.77%) Power Platform
8 24 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 21 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (3.91%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.65%) Cloud Run
11 14 (3.65%) OpenShift
12 13 (3.39%) IaaS
13 12 (3.13%) Entra ID
13 12 (3.13%) Vertex AI
14 10 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (2.08%) OCI
17 7 (1.82%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.77%) DNS
2 25 (6.51%) Firewall
3 24 (6.25%) Network Security
4 22 (5.73%) BIG-IP
5 15 (3.91%) TCP/IP
6 14 (3.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 12 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 7 (1.82%) DHCP
8 7 (1.82%) WAN
9 6 (1.56%) VLAN
10 5 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.30%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.04%) BGP
11 4 (1.04%) NAS
11 4 (1.04%) SAN
11 4 (1.04%) VPN
12 3 (0.78%) HTTP
12 3 (0.78%) LAN
12 3 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.77%) BigQuery
2 23 (5.99%) Power BI
3 20 (5.21%) Metadata
3 20 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 18 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (3.91%) Big Data
6 13 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.60%) Tableau
9 7 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.82%) Neo4j
10 6 (1.56%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.30%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.04%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 79 (20.57%) Jenkins
2 55 (14.32%) JIRA
3 33 (8.59%) Git
4 17 (4.43%) GitLab
5 13 (3.39%) Gatling
5 13 (3.39%) JMeter
5 13 (3.39%) Maven
6 10 (2.60%) LoadRunner
7 9 (2.34%) SonarQube
8 8 (2.08%) Postman
8 8 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.82%) Claude Code
9 7 (1.82%) Zephyr
10 6 (1.56%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.04%) MSBuild
11 4 (1.04%) Selenium
11 4 (1.04%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.78%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.78%) SoapUI
General
1 82 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 80 (20.83%) Finance
3 47 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (10.68%) Banking
5 32 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.86%) Legal
7 8 (2.08%) Publishing
8 6 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.30%) Games
9 5 (1.30%) Retail
10 4 (1.04%) Law
11 3 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.78%) Marketing
11 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Influencing 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 76 (19.79%) Developer
2 60 (15.63%) Senior
3 56 (14.58%) Python Developer
4 42 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (10.94%) Lead
5 29 (7.55%) Data Engineer
6 24 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 22 (5.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 17 (4.43%) Analyst
8 17 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (3.39%) Network Engineer
10 13 (3.39%) Senior Developer
10 13 (3.39%) Software Engineer
11 11 (2.86%) Architect
11 11 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (2.86%) Data Analyst
12 10 (2.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (36.20%) Terraform
2 32 (8.33%) REST
3 28 (7.29%) Node.js
3 28 (7.29%) React
4 24 (6.25%) Kafka
5 19 (4.95%) pytest
6 18 (4.69%) JSON
7 17 (4.43%) OAuth
7 17 (4.43%) OpenID
8 16 (4.17%) PySpark
9 15 (3.91%) OAuth2
10 14 (3.65%) CSS
10 14 (3.65%) HTML
11 12 (3.13%) Flask
11 12 (3.13%) Vue
12 11 (2.86%) .NET
12 11 (2.86%) FastAPI
12 11 (2.86%) Playwright
12 11 (2.86%) RESTful
13 10 (2.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.51%) Data Centre
2 25 (6.51%) Public Cloud
3 23 (5.99%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.17%) NHS
6 14 (3.65%) AI Agents
7 12 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.86%) PKI
8 11 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.56%) Blog
9 6 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.56%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.56%) Replication
9 6 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.20%) Linux
2 16 (4.17%) Windows
3 11 (2.86%) Unix
4 10 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.56%) VMS
5 6 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.78%) zOS
7 2 (0.52%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (56.51%) CI/CD
2 152 (39.58%) DevOps
3 116 (30.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (26.82%) Observability
5 101 (26.30%) Agile
6 74 (19.27%) AI
7 61 (15.89%) Software Engineering
8 54 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (13.80%) Platform Engineering
10 52 (13.54%) Containerisation
10 52 (13.54%) Test Automation
11 50 (13.02%) Data Engineering
11 50 (13.02%) Data Pipeline
12 46 (11.98%) Analytics
13 45 (11.72%) Full-Stack Development
14 44 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 40 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
15 40 (10.42%) LLM
16 39 (10.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.53%) SQL
2 72 (18.75%) Java
3 54 (14.06%) Bash
3 54 (14.06%) PowerShell
4 33 (8.59%) JavaScript
5 32 (8.33%) Go
6 19 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.17%) C#
8 13 (3.39%) Scala
9 11 (2.86%) ActionScript
10 9 (2.34%) Groovy
11 7 (1.82%) Rust
12 6 (1.56%) Bicep
12 6 (1.56%) R
12 6 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.56%) VBA
13 4 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.78%) C
14 3 (0.78%) Cypher
14 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 49 (12.76%) Security Cleared
2 43 (11.20%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.13%) Degree
4 10 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.30%) CISSP
6 5 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.78%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
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%) NCDA
9 2 (0.52%) NCIE
9 2 (0.52%) RHCA
9 2 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.34%) NIST
4 8 (2.08%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.56%) QA
7 5 (1.30%) HL7
7 5 (1.30%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.04%) GDPR
8 4 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.52%) WCAG
11 1 (0.26%) GRC
11 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (18.23%) Docker
2 13 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.04%) NFS
5 2 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (0.52%) Firmware
5 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.52%) SRDF
5 2 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.52%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.26%) Ceph
6 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 107 (27.86%) Kubernetes
2 54 (14.06%) Ansible
3 34 (8.85%) Grafana
4 29 (7.55%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.60%) Argo
6 8 (2.08%) Control-M
7 7 (1.82%) IBM Guardium
7 7 (1.82%) Nessus
8 5 (1.30%) HAProxy
8 5 (1.30%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.78%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (0.78%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.52%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.52%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.52%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 57 (14.84%) Google
2 51 (13.28%) Microsoft
3 31 (8.07%) Databricks
4 22 (5.73%) F5
5 19 (4.95%) Splunk
6 17 (4.43%) Dynatrace
7 16 (4.17%) IBM
7 16 (4.17%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.60%) Cisco
9 8 (2.08%) Okta
9 8 (2.08%) Tenable
9 8 (2.08%) VMware
10 7 (1.82%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.82%) Foundry
10 7 (1.82%) Infoblox
10 7 (1.82%) Oracle
11 6 (1.56%) Brocade
11 6 (1.56%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.56%) Palantir
11 6 (1.56%) Red Hat