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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 301 97 116
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.41% 10.09% 6.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.24% 32.66% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 69 77
10th Percentile £368 £405 £406
25th Percentile £438 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £537 £623 £615
90th Percentile £588 £728 £660
England median daily rate £525 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%

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 624 297 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.95% 30.91% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 203 322
10th Percentile £356 £359 £339
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +4 208 £500 -13.04% 66
West Yorkshire -2 88 £500 - 99
North Yorkshire - 4 £375 - 22
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 (6.98%) Confluence
2 7 (2.33%) Apache
2 7 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.66%) Apache Pig
4 4 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.66%) IIS
5 2 (0.66%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 121 (40.20%) AWS
2 91 (30.23%) GCP
3 76 (25.25%) Azure
4 51 (16.94%) GitHub
5 47 (15.61%) Serverless
6 29 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (7.31%) Amazon S3
8 21 (6.98%) OpenShift
9 20 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (5.98%) Power Platform
11 16 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 11 (3.65%) AWS KMS
14 11 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (2.99%) CloudBees
16 8 (2.66%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.64%) Firewall
2 15 (4.98%) DNS
3 13 (4.32%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.99%) VPN
5 8 (2.66%) Network Security
6 5 (1.66%) SSL
7 4 (1.33%) Internet
8 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.00%) WAN
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.66%) DWDM
9 2 (0.66%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.66%) HTTP
9 2 (0.66%) LAN
9 2 (0.66%) NAS
9 2 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.66%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.66%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.33%) BGP
10 1 (0.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (14.95%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (12.62%) NoSQL
3 18 (5.98%) Power BI
3 18 (5.98%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.65%) MySQL
5 10 (3.32%) Hadoop
6 9 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.66%) Apache Hive
7 8 (2.66%) Oracle Database
7 8 (2.66%) Power Query
7 8 (2.66%) PowerPivot
8 7 (2.33%) Data Mining
9 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.99%) Metadata
9 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.99%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.33%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.00%) HBase
Development Applications
1 117 (38.87%) Jenkins
2 65 (21.59%) GitLab
3 51 (16.94%) JIRA
4 30 (9.97%) Git
5 25 (8.31%) Liquibase
6 19 (6.31%) Postman
7 9 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.99%) Selenium
8 8 (2.66%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.66%) TestRail
9 6 (1.99%) PyCharm
9 6 (1.99%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.33%) Gatling
10 4 (1.33%) JMeter
10 4 (1.33%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.33%) NeoLoad
10 4 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.00%) Maven
11 3 (1.00%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.66%) Zephyr
General
1 83 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 63 (20.93%) Finance
3 59 (19.60%) Banking
4 39 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (11.63%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.64%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.33%) Law
9 3 (1.00%) Legal
9 3 (1.00%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Police
10 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Publishing
11 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (15.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (14.62%) Developer
3 39 (12.96%) Senior
4 29 (9.63%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (8.64%) Lead
6 25 (8.31%) Python Developer
7 22 (7.31%) Data Engineer
8 20 (6.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (6.64%) GCP Engineer
8 20 (6.64%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.98%) Analyst
9 18 (5.98%) Automation Engineer
10 15 (4.98%) Architect
11 13 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (3.65%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.32%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.95%) REST
2 34 (11.30%) RESTful
3 33 (10.96%) Elastic Stack
4 24 (7.97%) YAML
5 23 (7.64%) FastAPI
6 21 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
7 17 (5.65%) Node.js
8 12 (3.99%) OpenID
9 11 (3.65%) Playwright
9 11 (3.65%) TensorFlow
10 10 (3.32%) LDAP
10 10 (3.32%) React
11 9 (2.99%) Flask
11 9 (2.99%) JWT
11 9 (2.99%) OAuth
11 9 (2.99%) SailPoint
12 8 (2.66%) .NET
12 8 (2.66%) SAML
13 6 (1.99%) Django
13 6 (1.99%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.30%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (10.30%) Public Cloud
3 21 (6.98%) NHS
4 15 (4.98%) Algorithms
5 14 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.99%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.99%) Credit Risk
8 6 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.66%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.33%) Clustering
10 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.33%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 79 (26.25%) Linux
2 11 (3.65%) Windows
3 10 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.99%) CentOS
4 9 (2.99%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.99%) Unix
5 3 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (58.14%) CI/CD
2 172 (57.14%) DevOps
3 98 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (30.90%) Agile
5 91 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 61 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (17.94%) Test Automation
8 48 (15.95%) Root Cause Analysis
9 41 (13.62%) Observability
10 40 (13.29%) Cybersecurity
11 38 (12.62%) RBAC
12 37 (12.29%) Infrastructure Automation
12 37 (12.29%) Microservices
13 36 (11.96%) Software Engineering
14 34 (11.30%) Computer Science
14 34 (11.30%) Data Security
15 33 (10.96%) High Availability
16 30 (9.97%) Mentoring
17 29 (9.63%) Data Protection
18 28 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (22.92%) Bash
2 60 (19.93%) Java
3 46 (15.28%) SQL
4 41 (13.62%) Go
5 25 (8.31%) PowerShell
6 20 (6.64%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.64%) Shell Script
7 18 (5.98%) Scala
8 17 (5.65%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.99%) Perl
10 9 (2.99%) VBA
11 8 (2.66%) Ruby
12 6 (1.99%) C#
12 6 (1.99%) PHP
13 4 (1.33%) Bicep
13 4 (1.33%) Cypher
13 4 (1.33%) Groovy
14 3 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.66%) C++
15 2 (0.66%) XPath
Qualifications
1 37 (12.29%) Degree
2 30 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
2 30 (9.97%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.64%) Master's Degree
4 20 (6.64%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.66%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.66%) RHCE
6 5 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.00%) CCNP
7 3 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.66%) CCNA
8 2 (0.66%) CISM
8 2 (0.66%) CISSP
8 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.66%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.66%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.32%) QA
2 6 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.66%) HIPAA
3 5 (1.66%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.33%) PMO
4 4 (1.33%) SLA
5 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (28.90%) Docker
2 10 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 4 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.00%) HDFS
5 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.00%) KVM
6 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.66%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) Ceph
7 1 (0.33%) Firmware
7 1 (0.33%) NFS
7 1 (0.33%) QEMU
7 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 130 (43.19%) Terraform
2 119 (39.53%) Ansible
3 110 (36.54%) Kubernetes
4 64 (21.26%) Grafana
5 57 (18.94%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.31%) NetBackup
6 19 (6.31%) Puppet
7 13 (4.32%) Control-M
7 13 (4.32%) IBM Guardium
7 13 (4.32%) Nessus
8 6 (1.99%) Istio
8 6 (1.99%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.33%) Data Guard
9 4 (1.33%) yum
10 3 (1.00%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (1.00%) Packer
11 2 (0.66%) Argo
11 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.66%) SCCM
11 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (18.27%) Splunk
2 37 (12.29%) Google
2 37 (12.29%) Red Hat
3 28 (9.30%) Microsoft
4 18 (5.98%) ServiceNow
5 17 (5.65%) Oracle
6 15 (4.98%) Veritas
6 15 (4.98%) VMware
7 13 (4.32%) Commvault
7 13 (4.32%) Tenable
8 7 (2.33%) Databricks
8 7 (2.33%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.99%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.99%) Cisco
9 6 (1.99%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.99%) F5
10 4 (1.33%) Okta
11 3 (1.00%) SAP
12 2 (0.66%) Brio
12 2 (0.66%) EMC