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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 410 186 162
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.37% 13.39% 9.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.22% 43.66% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 123 113
10th Percentile £363 £328 £400
25th Percentile £413 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.35% -11.83%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £600
90th Percentile £615 £600 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% -0.38%

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 833 426 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.20% 30.67% 28.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 279 331
10th Percentile £353 £344 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £563 £547 £587
90th Percentile £638 £600 £645
England median daily rate £520 £516 £545
% change year-on-year +0.78% -5.32% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £20.38 £31.53 £34.38
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £37.50
Median hourly rate £24.25 £33.11 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% -28.41% +0.63%
75th Percentile £27.31 £66.51 £61.88
90th Percentile £36.50 £85.74 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +2 241 £496 +4.47% 32
West Yorkshire +4 161 £500 - 69
North Yorkshire -8 5 £700 +64.71% 9
East Yorkshire -3 4 - - 5
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 23 (5.61%) Apache Spark
1 23 (5.61%) Confluence
2 9 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.98%) Apache
5 3 (0.73%) SAS
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.49%) nginx
6 2 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 113 (27.56%) AWS
2 104 (25.37%) GitHub
3 96 (23.41%) GCP
4 81 (19.76%) Azure
5 54 (13.17%) OpenShift
6 49 (11.95%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (6.34%) Power Platform
8 22 (5.37%) Serverless
9 19 (4.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 16 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.17%) Apigee
11 13 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.93%) IaaS
13 11 (2.68%) OCI
13 11 (2.68%) SaaS
14 10 (2.44%) Amazon S3
15 9 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (2.20%) Vertex AI
16 8 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (1.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.76%) DNS
2 24 (5.85%) Firewall
3 23 (5.61%) BIG-IP
4 19 (4.63%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.41%) Network Security
6 12 (2.93%) DHCP
6 12 (2.93%) SAN
7 11 (2.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 11 (2.68%) WAN
8 10 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (2.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (2.20%) NAS
10 8 (1.95%) LAN
10 8 (1.95%) VPN
11 6 (1.46%) Unified Communications
12 5 (1.22%) VLAN
13 4 (0.98%) BGP
13 4 (0.98%) iSCSI
13 4 (0.98%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.12%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.88%) Power BI
4 17 (4.15%) BigQuery
4 17 (4.15%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.90%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.17%) Hadoop
6 13 (3.17%) Metadata
7 9 (2.20%) Big Data
7 9 (2.20%) Tableau
8 8 (1.95%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.22%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.22%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.22%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.98%) Parquet
12 3 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.73%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 120 (29.27%) Jenkins
2 71 (17.32%) JIRA
3 26 (6.34%) Git
4 23 (5.61%) GitLab
5 15 (3.66%) Maven
6 11 (2.68%) Gatling
7 10 (2.44%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.46%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.22%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.98%) MSBuild
10 4 (0.98%) Postman
10 4 (0.98%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.73%) ERwin
11 3 (0.73%) JMeter
11 3 (0.73%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.73%) Selenium
12 2 (0.49%) NeoLoad
12 2 (0.49%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 83 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 75 (18.29%) Finance
3 58 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.02%) Banking
5 27 (6.59%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.44%) Legal
8 8 (1.95%) Publishing
9 5 (1.22%) Games
9 5 (1.22%) Retail
10 4 (0.98%) Advertising
11 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Marketing
12 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.24%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (20.00%) Developer
2 59 (14.39%) Python Developer
3 52 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (11.95%) Senior
5 37 (9.02%) Lead
6 26 (6.34%) Architect
6 26 (6.34%) Data Engineer
6 26 (6.34%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (5.61%) Python Engineer
8 19 (4.63%) Senior Developer
9 18 (4.39%) Analyst
10 17 (4.15%) GCP Engineer
11 15 (3.66%) GCP DevOps
11 15 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (2.93%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.93%) Network Engineer
15 10 (2.44%) Automation Engineer
15 10 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 36 (8.78%) JSON
3 34 (8.29%) REST
4 31 (7.56%) Node.js
5 26 (6.34%) React
6 22 (5.37%) FastAPI
7 20 (4.88%) Kafka
8 16 (3.90%) Playwright
9 15 (3.66%) PySpark
10 13 (3.17%) YAML
11 11 (2.68%) RESTful
12 10 (2.44%) pytest
13 9 (2.20%) .NET
13 9 (2.20%) Apache Avro
13 9 (2.20%) Protocol Buffers
13 9 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (2.20%) SLSA
14 7 (1.71%) CSS
14 7 (1.71%) LDAP
14 7 (1.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 69 (16.83%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
3 27 (6.59%) Data Centre
4 21 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (3.90%) NHS
6 15 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.93%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.44%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.95%) Replication
10 7 (1.71%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.71%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.71%) PKI
11 6 (1.46%) Blog
11 6 (1.46%) EMC VMAX
11 6 (1.46%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.15%) Linux
2 34 (8.29%) Windows
3 18 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.46%) Unix
6 5 (1.22%) VMS
7 3 (0.73%) zOS
8 2 (0.49%) AIX
8 2 (0.49%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.49%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.24%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.24%) Solaris
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (53.66%) CI/CD
2 171 (41.71%) DevOps
3 113 (27.56%) Agile
4 102 (24.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (21.71%) Observability
6 82 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (17.80%) Containerisation
8 53 (12.93%) Test Automation
9 47 (11.46%) AI
10 46 (11.22%) Analytics
10 46 (11.22%) Platform Engineering
11 44 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (10.00%) Data Engineering
13 39 (9.51%) API Development
13 39 (9.51%) Data Protection
13 39 (9.51%) Performance Optimisation
13 39 (9.51%) Software Engineering
14 38 (9.27%) Migration
14 38 (9.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (9.02%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 79 (19.27%) Bash
2 59 (14.39%) SQL
3 55 (13.41%) Java
4 53 (12.93%) PowerShell
5 32 (7.80%) JavaScript
6 26 (6.34%) Go
7 19 (4.63%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.90%) Groovy
9 14 (3.41%) Scala
10 9 (2.20%) ActionScript
10 9 (2.20%) R
11 8 (1.95%) C#
11 8 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.95%) VBA
12 7 (1.71%) Rust
13 5 (1.22%) Bicep
14 2 (0.49%) Cypher
14 2 (0.49%) JCL
14 2 (0.49%) REXX
14 2 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 37 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 26 (6.34%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (2.68%) Degree
5 5 (1.22%) CISSP
5 5 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.73%) CISM
7 3 (0.73%) OCP
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.49%) GIAC
8 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.49%) NCDA
8 2 (0.49%) NCIE
8 2 (0.49%) RHCA
9 1 (0.24%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.24%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.95%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.46%) WCAG
4 5 (1.22%) NIST
4 5 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.98%) HL7
5 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.73%) QA
6 3 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (18.05%) Docker
2 27 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.12%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (5.12%) vSphere
4 13 (3.17%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.20%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.95%) Firmware
6 8 (1.95%) KVM
7 6 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.22%) Active Directory
8 5 (1.22%) NFS
9 4 (0.98%) SRDF
10 2 (0.49%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.24%) Ceph
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 144 (35.12%) Terraform
2 128 (31.22%) Kubernetes
3 96 (23.41%) Ansible
4 50 (12.20%) Grafana
5 49 (11.95%) Prometheus
6 23 (5.61%) Argo
7 19 (4.63%) vCenter Server
8 15 (3.66%) Control-M
9 14 (3.41%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (3.41%) Nessus
10 9 (2.20%) HAProxy
11 8 (1.95%) NetBackup
11 8 (1.95%) Puppet
12 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.22%) Istio
14 4 (0.98%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.98%) PowerCLI
14 4 (0.98%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 3 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
15 3 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 41 (10.00%) Google
1 41 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.51%) Splunk
3 33 (8.05%) VMware
4 27 (6.59%) Databricks
5 26 (6.34%) Red Hat
6 25 (6.10%) F5
7 19 (4.63%) Pure Storage
8 14 (3.41%) Tenable
9 13 (3.17%) Cisco
10 12 (2.93%) Dynatrace
11 11 (2.68%) Infoblox
11 11 (2.68%) ServiceNow
12 10 (2.44%) Dell
12 10 (2.44%) IBM
13 9 (2.20%) Sonatype
14 8 (1.95%) Brocade
15 6 (1.46%) Broadcom
15 6 (1.46%) Commvault
15 6 (1.46%) Veritas