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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 353 108 130
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.15% 12.03% 7.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.40% 36.99% 28.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 78 81
10th Percentile £363 £354 £406
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.79% +6.58% -20.83%
75th Percentile £530 £620 £615
90th Percentile £588 £690 £650
England median daily rate £518 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% +4.09% -8.33%

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 661 292 451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.24% 32.52% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 206 318
10th Percentile £358 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £627 £650 £627
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £28.34 £27.80
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.47 £40.35
Median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +45.83% -0.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £102.00 £62.88
90th Percentile - - £63.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 March 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 March 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 +2 253 £482 -12.36% 65
West Yorkshire -2 96 £488 -1.27% 89
North Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 15
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 26 (7.37%) Confluence
2 14 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.27%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.85%) Apache
5 3 (0.85%) SAS
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.42%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 101 (28.61%) AWS
2 91 (25.78%) GCP
3 82 (23.23%) GitHub
4 71 (20.11%) Azure
5 57 (16.15%) OpenShift
6 39 (11.05%) Serverless
7 31 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (6.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 19 (5.38%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (4.25%) Power Platform
13 12 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.40%) Entra ID
14 11 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (3.12%) AWS KMS
14 11 (3.12%) SaaS
15 9 (2.55%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.50%) DNS
2 23 (6.52%) Firewall
3 13 (3.68%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.12%) VPN
5 9 (2.55%) Network Security
6 7 (1.98%) SAN
6 7 (1.98%) WAN
7 6 (1.70%) LAN
8 5 (1.42%) NAS
9 4 (1.13%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.13%) DHCP
9 4 (1.13%) Internet
9 4 (1.13%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.85%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.57%) BGP
11 2 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.57%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (15.58%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (10.20%) NoSQL
3 16 (4.53%) MySQL
4 14 (3.97%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.97%) Power BI
5 12 (3.40%) Hadoop
6 11 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.55%) Metadata
7 9 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.27%) Power Query
8 8 (2.27%) PowerPivot
9 7 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.70%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.42%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.42%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.13%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.13%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.85%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.57%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 129 (36.54%) Jenkins
2 69 (19.55%) JIRA
3 51 (14.45%) GitLab
4 26 (7.37%) Git
5 19 (5.38%) Postman
6 15 (4.25%) Liquibase
7 10 (2.83%) Selenium
8 8 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.27%) TestRail
9 7 (1.98%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.70%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.70%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.42%) JMeter
12 4 (1.13%) Gatling
12 4 (1.13%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.13%) Maven
12 4 (1.13%) NeoLoad
12 4 (1.13%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.68%) Finance
3 58 (16.43%) Banking
4 54 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.40%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.13%) Legal
9 3 (0.85%) Advertising
9 3 (0.85%) Law
9 3 (0.85%) Marketing
9 3 (0.85%) Publishing
10 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.57%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (15.86%) Developer
2 41 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (11.61%) Lead
3 39 (11.05%) Python Developer
4 36 (10.20%) Senior
5 32 (9.07%) GCP Engineer
6 27 (7.65%) Data Engineer
7 25 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (6.52%) Architect
9 20 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (4.53%) Analyst
10 16 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.25%) GCP DevOps
12 14 (3.97%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.68%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.68%) Software Engineer
14 12 (3.40%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 10 (2.83%) AWS DevOps
16 10 (2.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.03%) OpenTelemetry
1 46 (13.03%) REST
2 30 (8.50%) FastAPI
3 27 (7.65%) YAML
4 25 (7.08%) Elastic Stack
4 25 (7.08%) RESTful
5 19 (5.38%) JSON
6 18 (5.10%) Node.js
7 12 (3.40%) OpenID
8 11 (3.12%) Playwright
9 10 (2.83%) Kafka
9 10 (2.83%) LDAP
9 10 (2.83%) React
9 10 (2.83%) TensorFlow
10 9 (2.55%) Flask
10 9 (2.55%) JWT
10 9 (2.55%) OAuth
10 9 (2.55%) SailPoint
11 8 (2.27%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.88%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.80%) Public Cloud
4 23 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (5.10%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.82%) NHS
7 15 (4.25%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.55%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.70%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.13%) Clustering
11 4 (1.13%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.13%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.13%) PKI
11 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.85%) EMC VMAX
12 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (21.81%) Linux
2 26 (7.37%) Windows
3 16 (4.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.83%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.83%) Unix
5 9 (2.55%) CentOS
6 3 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.57%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (59.77%) CI/CD
2 182 (51.56%) DevOps
3 107 (30.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (28.90%) Agile
5 99 (28.05%) Containerisation
6 89 (25.21%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (18.98%) Observability
8 59 (16.71%) Test Automation
9 46 (13.03%) RBAC
10 42 (11.90%) Migration
11 40 (11.33%) Root Cause Analysis
12 39 (11.05%) Analytics
13 38 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
14 36 (10.20%) High Availability
15 34 (9.63%) Infrastructure Automation
16 33 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
16 33 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (9.07%) Data Modelling
17 32 (9.07%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 82 (23.23%) Bash
2 53 (15.01%) SQL
3 40 (11.33%) Java
4 36 (10.20%) PowerShell
5 33 (9.35%) Go
6 26 (7.37%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.10%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.68%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.12%) Groovy
9 11 (3.12%) Scala
9 11 (3.12%) VBA
10 10 (2.83%) Perl
11 9 (2.55%) Ruby
12 6 (1.70%) PHP
13 5 (1.42%) Bicep
14 4 (1.13%) C#
14 4 (1.13%) Cypher
15 3 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (8.50%) Degree
1 30 (8.50%) Security Cleared
2 21 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (5.38%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.82%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.27%) RHCE
6 5 (1.42%) CISM
6 5 (1.42%) CISSP
7 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.85%) CCNP
8 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.57%) CCNA
9 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.57%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.57%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.40%) QA
2 7 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.13%) PMO
3 4 (1.13%) SLA
3 4 (1.13%) WCAG
4 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (23.51%) Docker
2 23 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.10%) vSphere
4 16 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.12%) KVM
5 11 (3.12%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.83%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.70%) Firmware
8 5 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
10 2 (0.57%) SRDF
11 1 (0.28%) Ceph
11 1 (0.28%) NFS
11 1 (0.28%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 144 (40.79%) Kubernetes
2 140 (39.66%) Terraform
3 124 (35.13%) Ansible
4 75 (21.25%) Grafana
5 68 (19.26%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.95%) Control-M
6 21 (5.95%) IBM Guardium
6 21 (5.95%) Nessus
6 21 (5.95%) Puppet
7 15 (4.25%) vCenter Server
8 13 (3.68%) NetBackup
9 12 (3.40%) Argo
10 11 (3.12%) Istio
11 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.13%) PowerCLI
12 3 (0.85%) Packer
12 3 (0.85%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 67 (18.98%) Splunk
2 45 (12.75%) Red Hat
3 39 (11.05%) Google
4 31 (8.78%) VMware
5 30 (8.50%) Microsoft
6 21 (5.95%) Tenable
7 18 (5.10%) ServiceNow
8 14 (3.97%) Pure Storage
9 10 (2.83%) Commvault
10 9 (2.55%) Cisco
10 9 (2.55%) Databricks
10 9 (2.55%) Oracle
10 9 (2.55%) Veritas
11 8 (2.27%) F5
12 5 (1.42%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (1.13%) Dell
13 4 (1.13%) Infoblox
13 4 (1.13%) Okta
13 4 (1.13%) Sonatype