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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 14 26
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing Python 325 96 118
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.17% 10.17% 6.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.47% 32.76% 25.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 69 77
10th Percentile £363 £399 £406
25th Percentile £432 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £537 £623 £615
90th Percentile £588 £728 £660
England median daily rate £520 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -9.57% +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 644 293 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.04% 31.04% 24.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 201 331
10th Percentile £357 £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 £588 £587
90th Percentile £675 £700 £630
England median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -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 6 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 6 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 +4 219 £500 -13.04% 50
West Yorkshire 0 101 £500 - 74
North Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 11
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 24 (7.38%) Confluence
2 9 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.46%) Apache
3 8 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.54%) Apache Pig
5 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.62%) IIS
6 2 (0.62%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 116 (35.69%) AWS
2 92 (28.31%) GCP
3 78 (24.00%) Azure
4 62 (19.08%) GitHub
5 44 (13.54%) Serverless
6 36 (11.08%) OpenShift
7 30 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (6.46%) Amazon S3
9 20 (6.15%) Power Platform
10 19 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (4.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 14 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (3.69%) Entra ID
16 11 (3.38%) AWS KMS
16 11 (3.38%) SaaS
16 11 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.62%) Firewall
2 24 (7.38%) DNS
3 15 (4.62%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.69%) VPN
5 10 (3.08%) Network Security
6 7 (2.15%) WAN
7 6 (1.85%) LAN
8 5 (1.54%) SSL
9 4 (1.23%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.23%) Internet
9 4 (1.23%) NAS
9 4 (1.23%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.92%) DHCP
10 3 (0.92%) SAN
11 2 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.62%) DWDM
11 2 (0.62%) HTTP
11 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (10.77%) NoSQL
3 19 (5.85%) Power BI
4 17 (5.23%) MySQL
5 14 (4.31%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.38%) Hadoop
7 9 (2.77%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.46%) Apache Hive
8 8 (2.46%) Power Query
8 8 (2.46%) PowerPivot
9 7 (2.15%) Data Mining
10 6 (1.85%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.85%) Metadata
10 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.85%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.54%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.23%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.23%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.92%) HBase
Development Applications
1 122 (37.54%) Jenkins
2 65 (20.00%) GitLab
3 61 (18.77%) JIRA
4 26 (8.00%) Git
5 22 (6.77%) Liquibase
6 19 (5.85%) Postman
7 10 (3.08%) Selenium
8 8 (2.46%) CircleCI
8 8 (2.46%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.46%) TestRail
9 6 (1.85%) PyCharm
9 6 (1.85%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.54%) JMeter
11 4 (1.23%) Gatling
11 4 (1.23%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.23%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.92%) Maven
12 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.62%) MSI
General
1 91 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 70 (21.54%) Finance
3 62 (19.08%) Banking
4 41 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.54%) Financial Institution
7 12 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.92%) Law
8 3 (0.92%) Legal
8 3 (0.92%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.62%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.62%) Marketing
9 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.31%) Advertising
10 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.31%) Publishing
10 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (13.23%) Developer
2 43 (13.23%) Senior
3 29 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (8.31%) Lead
5 26 (8.00%) GCP Engineer
6 24 (7.38%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.38%) Python Developer
7 21 (6.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (6.15%) Architect
8 20 (6.15%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.54%) Analyst
10 16 (4.92%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.69%) Python Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (13.23%) REST
2 30 (9.23%) Elastic Stack
2 30 (9.23%) OpenTelemetry
2 30 (9.23%) RESTful
3 25 (7.69%) YAML
4 19 (5.85%) FastAPI
5 18 (5.54%) Node.js
6 12 (3.69%) OpenID
6 12 (3.69%) TensorFlow
7 11 (3.38%) JSON
7 11 (3.38%) Playwright
8 10 (3.08%) LDAP
8 10 (3.08%) React
9 9 (2.77%) JWT
9 9 (2.77%) OAuth
9 9 (2.77%) SailPoint
10 8 (2.46%) .NET
10 8 (2.46%) Flask
10 8 (2.46%) SAML
11 7 (2.15%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.77%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (8.62%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.15%) NHS
5 17 (5.23%) Data Centre
6 15 (4.62%) Algorithms
6 15 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (3.69%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.15%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.85%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.54%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.23%) Clustering
12 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.23%) Online Banking
13 3 (0.92%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.92%) PKI
13 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 81 (24.92%) Linux
2 20 (6.15%) Windows
3 11 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.77%) CentOS
4 9 (2.77%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.77%) Unix
5 3 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (57.85%) CI/CD
2 174 (53.54%) DevOps
3 105 (32.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (30.46%) Agile
5 96 (29.54%) Containerisation
6 64 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (16.31%) Observability
8 51 (15.69%) Test Automation
9 48 (14.77%) Root Cause Analysis
10 44 (13.54%) RBAC
11 42 (12.92%) Cybersecurity
12 38 (11.69%) High Availability
13 37 (11.38%) Microservices
14 35 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (10.46%) Computer Science
15 34 (10.46%) Infrastructure Automation
15 34 (10.46%) Software Engineering
16 33 (10.15%) Data Security
17 31 (9.54%) Change Management
17 31 (9.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 76 (23.38%) Bash
2 53 (16.31%) Java
3 48 (14.77%) SQL
4 41 (12.62%) Go
5 34 (10.46%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.08%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.54%) Scala
7 18 (5.54%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.92%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.69%) Perl
10 11 (3.38%) VBA
11 9 (2.77%) Ruby
12 6 (1.85%) C#
12 6 (1.85%) Groovy
12 6 (1.85%) PHP
13 4 (1.23%) Bicep
13 4 (1.23%) Cypher
14 3 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.62%) C++
15 2 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 39 (12.00%) Degree
2 30 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (8.62%) Security Cleared
4 26 (8.00%) Master's Degree
5 20 (6.15%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.77%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.46%) RHCE
8 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.23%) CISM
9 4 (1.23%) CISSP
10 3 (0.92%) CCNP
10 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.62%) CCNA
11 2 (0.62%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.62%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.62%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.31%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.38%) QA
2 7 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.54%) HIPAA
3 5 (1.54%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.23%) PMO
4 4 (1.23%) SLA
5 3 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.92%) WCAG
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (26.77%) Docker
2 16 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.77%) vSphere
5 7 (2.15%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.15%) KVM
6 5 (1.54%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.92%) Firmware
8 3 (0.92%) HDFS
8 3 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
10 1 (0.31%) Ceph
10 1 (0.31%) NFS
10 1 (0.31%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 138 (42.46%) Terraform
2 123 (37.85%) Kubernetes
3 119 (36.62%) Ansible
4 66 (20.31%) Grafana
5 59 (18.15%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.54%) Puppet
7 17 (5.23%) NetBackup
8 14 (4.31%) Control-M
8 14 (4.31%) IBM Guardium
8 14 (4.31%) Nessus
9 8 (2.46%) Istio
10 7 (2.15%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.85%) Argo
11 6 (1.85%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.92%) Hadoop YARN
13 3 (0.92%) Packer
14 2 (0.62%) PowerCLI
14 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (18.46%) Splunk
2 40 (12.31%) Google
2 40 (12.31%) Red Hat
3 30 (9.23%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.46%) VMware
5 18 (5.54%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.31%) Tenable
7 13 (4.00%) Oracle
7 13 (4.00%) Veritas
8 11 (3.38%) Commvault
9 10 (3.08%) F5
10 8 (2.46%) Databricks
11 7 (2.15%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.15%) Pure Storage
12 6 (1.85%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.85%) CyberArk
13 5 (1.54%) Cisco
14 4 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (1.23%) Infoblox
14 4 (1.23%) Okta