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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing Python 381 225 146
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.28% 14.85% 9.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.41% 45.55% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 149 106
10th Percentile £367 £351 £406
25th Percentile £424 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -6.76% -2.50%
75th Percentile £586 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
England median daily rate £550 £537 £578
% change year-on-year +2.42% -7.13% -3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £60.37 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.99% -19.23% -

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 821 494 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.63% 32.61% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 326 317
10th Percentile £353 £325 £334
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -1.07%
75th Percentile £564 £548 £588
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £18.79 £37.07 £34.38
25th Percentile £21.24 £45.03 £37.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +34.92% +117.03%
75th Percentile £26.63 £82.53 £61.88
90th Percentile £34.80 £92.15 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +8.14%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +1 204 £500 - 38
West Yorkshire +1 168 £500 - 91
North Yorkshire -3 5 £625 +47.06% 14
East Yorkshire -1 4 - - 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 (5.51%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.67%) Confluence
3 5 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.05%) Apache
4 4 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (1.05%) SAS
5 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 128 (33.60%) AWS
2 96 (25.20%) GCP
3 95 (24.93%) GitHub
4 90 (23.62%) Azure
5 55 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (7.61%) Power Platform
6 29 (7.61%) Serverless
7 25 (6.56%) OpenShift
8 17 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 14 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.15%) IaaS
11 11 (2.89%) OCI
11 11 (2.89%) Vertex AI
12 10 (2.62%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.62%) Apigee
13 8 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.10%) Datadog
14 7 (1.84%) Cloud Run
14 7 (1.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.14%) DNS
2 20 (5.25%) Firewall
3 19 (4.99%) BIG-IP
4 15 (3.94%) Network Security
4 15 (3.94%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 9 (2.36%) DHCP
6 9 (2.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (2.36%) SAN
7 8 (2.10%) WAN
8 6 (1.57%) VLAN
8 6 (1.57%) VPN
8 6 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.31%) BGP
9 5 (1.31%) NAS
9 5 (1.31%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.05%) iSCSI
10 4 (1.05%) LAN
11 3 (0.79%) HTTP
11 3 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
1 24 (6.30%) Power BI
2 22 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.51%) BigQuery
4 19 (4.99%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.46%) Metadata
6 12 (3.15%) Big Data
6 12 (3.15%) Hadoop
6 12 (3.15%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.89%) Tableau
8 9 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (2.36%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.84%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.31%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.05%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.05%) Parquet
12 3 (0.79%) MySQL
12 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 94 (24.67%) Jenkins
2 53 (13.91%) JIRA
3 30 (7.87%) Git
4 20 (5.25%) GitLab
5 16 (4.20%) Gatling
6 14 (3.67%) Maven
7 11 (2.89%) JMeter
8 9 (2.36%) LoadRunner
8 9 (2.36%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.84%) Postman
9 7 (1.84%) Zephyr
10 6 (1.57%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.57%) NeoLoad
11 5 (1.31%) Selenium
11 5 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.05%) MSBuild
12 4 (1.05%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.79%) ERwin
13 3 (0.79%) SoapUI
14 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
General
1 69 (18.11%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.85%) Finance
3 54 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (10.50%) Banking
5 36 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.89%) Legal
7 8 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.10%) Publishing
8 6 (1.57%) Games
8 6 (1.57%) Retail
9 4 (1.05%) Law
10 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.79%) Marketing
10 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Advertising
11 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (20.47%) Developer
2 57 (14.96%) Python Developer
3 52 (13.65%) Lead
4 49 (12.86%) Senior
5 39 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 29 (7.61%) Python Engineer
7 23 (6.04%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.25%) Analyst
10 18 (4.72%) Architect
11 17 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (4.20%) Senior Developer
13 15 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
14 13 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (3.41%) Data Analyst
14 13 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (3.41%) Network Engineer
15 11 (2.89%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 11 (2.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.40%) REST
2 29 (7.61%) Node.js
3 28 (7.35%) JSON
4 25 (6.56%) React
5 24 (6.30%) Kafka
6 17 (4.46%) OpenTelemetry
7 16 (4.20%) Playwright
8 15 (3.94%) CSS
8 15 (3.94%) HTML
8 15 (3.94%) PySpark
9 14 (3.67%) Vue
10 13 (3.41%) FastAPI
11 12 (3.15%) pytest
12 11 (2.89%) Flask
12 11 (2.89%) YAML
13 10 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (2.36%) .NET
14 9 (2.36%) LDAP
15 8 (2.10%) OpenID
15 8 (2.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 78 (20.47%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.30%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (5.25%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.46%) NHS
5 14 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.41%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.36%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.84%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.57%) Blog
12 6 (1.57%) EMC VMAX
12 6 (1.57%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.57%) PKI
12 6 (1.57%) Replication
12 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (12.34%) Linux
2 22 (5.77%) Windows
3 16 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.84%) Unix
5 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.05%) VMS
7 3 (0.79%) zOS
8 2 (0.52%) AIX
8 2 (0.52%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.26%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
9 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (54.33%) CI/CD
2 159 (41.73%) DevOps
3 108 (28.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (27.82%) Agile
5 88 (23.10%) Observability
6 63 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (15.22%) Containerisation
7 58 (15.22%) Test Automation
8 53 (13.91%) AI
9 50 (13.12%) Analytics
10 48 (12.60%) Platform Engineering
11 47 (12.34%) Data Engineering
12 42 (11.02%) Software Engineering
13 39 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (9.97%) Data Pipeline
14 38 (9.97%) Full-Stack Development
15 37 (9.71%) Business Intelligence
16 35 (9.19%) Stakeholder Management
17 33 (8.66%) Data Protection
18 32 (8.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 77 (20.21%) SQL
2 68 (17.85%) Bash
3 66 (17.32%) Java
4 41 (10.76%) PowerShell
5 37 (9.71%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.56%) Go
7 18 (4.72%) Scala
8 17 (4.46%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.89%) Groovy
10 10 (2.62%) C#
11 9 (2.36%) R
12 8 (2.10%) ActionScript
13 7 (1.84%) Rust
14 6 (1.57%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.57%) VBA
15 4 (1.05%) Bicep
16 3 (0.79%) C
16 3 (0.79%) Cypher
16 3 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 54 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 45 (11.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.10%) Degree
5 5 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.31%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.52%) CISSP
7 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.52%) GIAC
7 2 (0.52%) NCDA
7 2 (0.52%) NCIE
7 2 (0.52%) OCP
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.52%) RHCA
7 2 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.94%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.84%) NIST
3 5 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.31%) HL7
3 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.31%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.05%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.05%) QA
4 4 (1.05%) WCAG
5 3 (0.79%) GDPR
5 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (19.69%) Docker
2 16 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.36%) vSphere
4 8 (2.10%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.31%) Firmware
5 5 (1.31%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.05%) NFS
6 4 (1.05%) SRDF
7 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.52%) KVM
8 2 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.26%) Ceph
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 136 (35.70%) Terraform
2 102 (26.77%) Kubernetes
3 71 (18.64%) Ansible
4 39 (10.24%) Grafana
5 31 (8.14%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.94%) Argo
7 9 (2.36%) Control-M
7 9 (2.36%) HAProxy
8 8 (2.10%) IBM Guardium
8 8 (2.10%) Nessus
8 8 (2.10%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.57%) NetBackup
9 6 (1.57%) Puppet
10 4 (1.05%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.52%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (11.55%) Google
2 42 (11.02%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.61%) Databricks
4 28 (7.35%) Splunk
5 21 (5.51%) F5
6 19 (4.99%) VMware
7 16 (4.20%) IBM
8 15 (3.94%) Red Hat
9 14 (3.67%) Cisco
10 13 (3.41%) Dynatrace
11 12 (3.15%) ServiceNow
12 10 (2.62%) Dell
13 9 (2.36%) Pure Storage
14 8 (2.10%) Sonatype
14 8 (2.10%) Tenable
15 7 (1.84%) Brocade
15 7 (1.84%) Infoblox
16 6 (1.57%) Broadcom
16 6 (1.57%) New Relic
17 5 (1.31%) Foundry