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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 16 38
Rank change year-on-year +11 +22 -20
Contract jobs citing Python 298 129 83
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.60% 9.49% 4.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.99% 32.41% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 87 61
10th Percentile £358 £370 £400
25th Percentile £420 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £611 £625
90th Percentile £615 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.13% -2.08%

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 621 398 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 34.60% 29.26% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 273 311
10th Percentile £339 £355 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £593
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £28.75 £19.91
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -52.95%
75th Percentile £49.75 £49.38 £25.58
90th Percentile - £72.41 £44.39
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -2.87% +7.44% -3.20%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +1 174 £500 -9.09% 36
West Yorkshire +6 118 £500 - 110
North Yorkshire - 4 £425 - 29
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 20 (6.71%) Confluence
2 11 (3.69%) Apache
3 10 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.68%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.67%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.67%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 122 (40.94%) AWS
2 80 (26.85%) GCP
3 71 (23.83%) Azure
4 52 (17.45%) Serverless
5 38 (12.75%) GitHub
6 28 (9.40%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (7.05%) Amazon S3
8 21 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.02%) AWS KMS
13 9 (3.02%) CloudBees
14 8 (2.68%) Azure AKS
15 6 (2.01%) dbt
15 6 (2.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.09%) Firewall
2 22 (7.38%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.36%) DNS
4 7 (2.35%) VPN
5 6 (2.01%) SSL
6 5 (1.68%) Network Security
6 5 (1.68%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.34%) Ethernet
7 4 (1.34%) Internet
8 3 (1.01%) NAS
8 3 (1.01%) SAN
8 3 (1.01%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.67%) HTTP
9 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.67%) WAN
10 1 (0.34%) BGP
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.34%) OSPF
10 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.78%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (15.77%) NoSQL
3 28 (9.40%) Power BI
4 18 (6.04%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.03%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.69%) MySQL
6 11 (3.69%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.69%) Tableau
7 10 (3.36%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.36%) Power Query
8 9 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.02%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.68%) Apache Hive
10 7 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.35%) Data Mining
10 7 (2.35%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.35%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.68%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.68%) PowerPivot
12 4 (1.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 115 (38.59%) Jenkins
2 59 (19.80%) GitLab
3 50 (16.78%) Git
4 39 (13.09%) JIRA
5 30 (10.07%) Liquibase
6 18 (6.04%) Postman
7 6 (2.01%) PyCharm
8 5 (1.68%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.01%) Selenium
10 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.67%) MSI
10 2 (0.67%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.67%) TestRail
10 2 (0.67%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.34%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.34%) Maven
11 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 87 (29.19%) Social Skills
2 76 (25.50%) Finance
3 61 (20.47%) Banking
4 45 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (12.42%) Public Sector
6 25 (8.39%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.01%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.67%) Legal
8 2 (0.67%) Police
9 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.34%) Law
9 1 (0.34%) Local Government
9 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Retail
9 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (18.12%) Senior
2 45 (15.10%) Developer
3 42 (14.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (11.07%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (8.39%) Data Engineer
5 25 (8.39%) Software Engineer
6 24 (8.05%) Automation Engineer
6 24 (8.05%) Python Developer
7 20 (6.71%) Analyst
8 19 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (5.37%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (5.03%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (5.03%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.70%) Architect
11 14 (4.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.36%) Data Analyst
12 13 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.69%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.09%) RESTful
2 37 (12.42%) REST
3 35 (11.74%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (9.40%) FastAPI
5 16 (5.37%) TensorFlow
6 14 (4.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 14 (4.70%) React
7 10 (3.36%) Django
8 9 (3.02%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.68%) Flask
10 7 (2.35%) Hugging Face
10 7 (2.35%) OpenCV
10 7 (2.35%) Pandas
10 7 (2.35%) Regular Expression
10 7 (2.35%) SpaCy
11 6 (2.01%) JWT
11 6 (2.01%) Kafka
11 6 (2.01%) Node.js
11 6 (2.01%) NumPy
11 6 (2.01%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.43%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.07%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (10.40%) Public Cloud
4 19 (6.38%) NHS
5 18 (6.04%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.03%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.02%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.01%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.34%) Clustering
11 4 (1.34%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.34%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.01%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (28.19%) Linux
2 17 (5.70%) Windows
3 12 (4.03%) Unix
4 7 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.34%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.01%) AIX
7 3 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.01%) Solaris
7 3 (1.01%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.67%) CentOS
8 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.67%) VMS
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.34%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (53.36%) DevOps
2 125 (41.95%) CI/CD
3 124 (41.61%) Agile
4 83 (27.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 77 (25.84%) Containerisation
6 60 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (15.77%) Microservices
8 45 (15.10%) Infrastructure Automation
8 45 (15.10%) Software Engineering
9 44 (14.77%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (13.09%) Computer Science
11 38 (12.75%) Test Automation
12 37 (12.42%) Root Cause Analysis
13 36 (12.08%) Configuration Management
14 35 (11.74%) Data Security
15 32 (10.74%) High Availability
16 30 (10.07%) Continuous Integration
17 29 (9.73%) Continuous Delivery
17 29 (9.73%) Data Protection
17 29 (9.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 64 (21.48%) Bash
2 52 (17.45%) SQL
3 41 (13.76%) Go
4 35 (11.74%) Java
5 29 (9.73%) Shell Script
6 24 (8.05%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.37%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.03%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.02%) Scala
9 9 (3.02%) VBA
10 7 (2.35%) C#
11 5 (1.68%) Perl
12 4 (1.34%) C++
13 3 (1.01%) C
13 3 (1.01%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.67%) XPath
15 1 (0.34%) Groovy
15 1 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.34%) Rust
15 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (14.43%) Degree
2 35 (11.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 35 (11.74%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.40%) Master's Degree
4 24 (8.05%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.03%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) CCIE
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) CCNP
10 1 (0.34%) CISSP
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.34%) OCP
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.02%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.34%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.01%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.01%) QA
4 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.67%) GDPR
4 2 (0.67%) NIST
4 2 (0.67%) PMO
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (26.85%) Docker
2 27 (9.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.36%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.01%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (1.68%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.68%) vSphere
7 4 (1.34%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.01%) HDFS
9 2 (0.67%) KVM
10 1 (0.34%) Ceph
10 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.34%) QEMU
10 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 118 (39.60%) Ansible
2 117 (39.26%) Terraform
3 94 (31.54%) Kubernetes
4 53 (17.79%) Grafana
5 50 (16.78%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.39%) Puppet
7 20 (6.71%) NetBackup
8 11 (3.69%) Control-M
9 10 (3.36%) Data Guard
9 10 (3.36%) IBM Guardium
9 10 (3.36%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (3.36%) Nessus
9 10 (3.36%) yum
10 8 (2.68%) SCCM
11 7 (2.35%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.34%) vCenter Server
13 3 (1.01%) Hadoop YARN
13 3 (1.01%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (19.13%) Splunk
2 48 (16.11%) Microsoft
3 37 (12.42%) Google
4 34 (11.41%) VMware
5 23 (7.72%) Oracle
6 19 (6.38%) Red Hat
7 17 (5.70%) MuleSoft
8 16 (5.37%) Veritas
9 14 (4.70%) Commvault
10 11 (3.69%) Databricks
11 10 (3.36%) Tenable
12 9 (3.02%) F5
13 7 (2.35%) CyberArk
13 7 (2.35%) Palo Alto
14 6 (2.01%) CheckPoint
15 5 (1.68%) Cisco
15 5 (1.68%) ServiceNow
16 4 (1.34%) Apple
16 4 (1.34%) Juniper
16 4 (1.34%) Nokia