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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 12 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 333 102 124
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.45% 10.85% 6.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.84% 34.23% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 73 81
10th Percentile £363 £381 £406
25th Percentile £426 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £537 £623 £615
90th Percentile £588 £723 £650
England median daily rate £523 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -9.13% +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 655 298 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.36% 31.70% 25.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 207 338
10th Percentile £358 £359 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £587
90th Percentile £675 £685 £632
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £26.25 £16.97
25th Percentile £49.25 £27.56 £19.44
Median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +130.07% -57.15%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.66 £62.00
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +6 230 £487 -15.30% 50
West Yorkshire -4 98 £500 +0.50% 66
North Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 10
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 (6.91%) Confluence
2 9 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.40%) Apache
3 8 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.50%) Apache Pig
5 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.60%) IIS
6 2 (0.60%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.50%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 116 (34.83%) AWS
2 93 (27.93%) GCP
3 78 (23.42%) Azure
4 64 (19.22%) GitHub
5 45 (13.51%) Serverless
6 41 (12.31%) OpenShift
7 29 (8.71%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (6.31%) Amazon S3
9 20 (6.01%) Power Platform
10 19 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (4.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 13 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.60%) Entra ID
15 11 (3.30%) AWS KMS
15 11 (3.30%) SaaS
15 11 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.71%) Firewall
2 25 (7.51%) DNS
3 15 (4.50%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.60%) VPN
5 10 (3.00%) Network Security
6 7 (2.10%) WAN
7 6 (1.80%) LAN
8 5 (1.50%) SSL
9 4 (1.20%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.20%) Internet
9 4 (1.20%) NAS
9 4 (1.20%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.90%) DHCP
10 3 (0.90%) SAN
11 2 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.60%) DWDM
11 2 (0.60%) HTTP
11 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (10.51%) NoSQL
3 19 (5.71%) Power BI
4 17 (5.11%) MySQL
5 14 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.30%) Hadoop
7 9 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.40%) Apache Hive
8 8 (2.40%) Power Query
8 8 (2.40%) PowerPivot
9 7 (2.10%) Data Mining
9 7 (2.10%) Metadata
10 6 (1.80%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.80%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.80%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.20%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.20%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.90%) HBase
Development Applications
1 123 (36.94%) Jenkins
2 64 (19.22%) GitLab
3 63 (18.92%) JIRA
4 27 (8.11%) Git
5 23 (6.91%) Liquibase
6 19 (5.71%) Postman
7 9 (2.70%) Selenium
8 8 (2.40%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.40%) TestRail
9 7 (2.10%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.80%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.80%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.50%) JMeter
12 4 (1.20%) Gatling
12 4 (1.20%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.20%) Maven
12 4 (1.20%) NeoLoad
12 4 (1.20%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 93 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 73 (21.92%) Finance
3 63 (18.92%) Banking
4 45 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.41%) Financial Institution
7 14 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.20%) Legal
9 3 (0.90%) Law
9 3 (0.90%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.60%) Advertising
10 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.60%) Marketing
10 2 (0.60%) Publishing
10 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (13.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (13.51%) Developer
3 43 (12.91%) Senior
4 28 (8.41%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (8.11%) Data Engineer
5 27 (8.11%) GCP Engineer
5 27 (8.11%) Lead
5 27 (8.11%) Python Developer
6 22 (6.61%) Architect
6 22 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (6.31%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.41%) Analyst
9 15 (4.50%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) Python Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.21%) REST
2 39 (11.71%) OpenTelemetry
3 31 (9.31%) Elastic Stack
4 30 (9.01%) RESTful
5 26 (7.81%) YAML
6 24 (7.21%) FastAPI
7 18 (5.41%) Node.js
8 15 (4.50%) JSON
9 12 (3.60%) OpenID
9 12 (3.60%) TensorFlow
10 11 (3.30%) Playwright
11 10 (3.00%) Kafka
11 10 (3.00%) LDAP
11 10 (3.00%) React
12 9 (2.70%) Flask
12 9 (2.70%) JWT
12 9 (2.70%) OAuth
12 9 (2.70%) SailPoint
13 8 (2.40%) SAML
14 7 (2.10%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.02%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (8.71%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 19 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (5.41%) NHS
6 15 (4.50%) Algorithms
7 12 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (3.00%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.10%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.80%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.20%) Clustering
12 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.20%) Online Banking
13 3 (0.90%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.90%) PKI
13 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (25.23%) Linux
2 21 (6.31%) Windows
3 12 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.70%) CentOS
4 9 (2.70%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.70%) Unix
5 3 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (57.96%) CI/CD
2 175 (52.55%) DevOps
3 105 (31.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (30.63%) Agile
5 101 (30.33%) Containerisation
6 71 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (17.72%) Observability
8 48 (14.41%) Root Cause Analysis
8 48 (14.41%) Test Automation
9 46 (13.81%) RBAC
10 44 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
11 39 (11.71%) High Availability
12 37 (11.11%) Microservices
13 36 (10.81%) Software Engineering
14 35 (10.51%) Computer Science
14 35 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (10.51%) Infrastructure Automation
15 34 (10.21%) Analytics
15 34 (10.21%) Data Security
16 32 (9.61%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (22.82%) Bash
2 51 (15.32%) Java
3 49 (14.71%) SQL
4 42 (12.61%) Go
5 36 (10.81%) PowerShell
6 24 (7.21%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.41%) Scala
7 18 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.80%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.60%) Perl
10 11 (3.30%) VBA
11 9 (2.70%) Ruby
12 7 (2.10%) Groovy
13 6 (1.80%) PHP
14 5 (1.50%) Bicep
14 5 (1.50%) C#
15 4 (1.20%) Cypher
16 3 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
17 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.60%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (12.01%) Degree
2 30 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (8.71%) Security Cleared
4 26 (7.81%) Master's Degree
5 20 (6.01%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.40%) RHCE
8 5 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.50%) CISM
8 5 (1.50%) CISSP
9 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.90%) CCNP
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.60%) CCNA
11 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.60%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.60%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.30%) QA
2 7 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.50%) HIPAA
3 5 (1.50%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.20%) PMO
4 4 (1.20%) SLA
5 3 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.90%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (27.63%) Docker
2 18 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.00%) vSphere
5 8 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.40%) KVM
6 6 (1.80%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.20%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (1.20%) Firmware
8 3 (0.90%) HDFS
8 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
10 1 (0.30%) Ceph
10 1 (0.30%) NFS
10 1 (0.30%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 139 (41.74%) Terraform
2 133 (39.94%) Kubernetes
3 119 (35.74%) Ansible
4 71 (21.32%) Grafana
5 67 (20.12%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.41%) Puppet
7 17 (5.11%) Control-M
7 17 (5.11%) IBM Guardium
7 17 (5.11%) Nessus
8 15 (4.50%) NetBackup
9 8 (2.40%) Istio
9 8 (2.40%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.10%) Argo
11 6 (1.80%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.90%) Hadoop YARN
13 3 (0.90%) Packer
14 2 (0.60%) PowerCLI
14 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (19.82%) Splunk
2 41 (12.31%) Google
3 40 (12.01%) Red Hat
4 31 (9.31%) Microsoft
5 23 (6.91%) VMware
6 18 (5.41%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.11%) Tenable
8 13 (3.90%) Oracle
9 11 (3.30%) Veritas
10 10 (3.00%) F5
11 9 (2.70%) Commvault
11 9 (2.70%) Databricks
12 8 (2.40%) Pure Storage
13 7 (2.10%) CheckPoint
13 7 (2.10%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.80%) CyberArk
15 5 (1.50%) Cisco
16 4 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
16 4 (1.20%) Infoblox
16 4 (1.20%) Okta