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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 15 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 -23
Contract jobs citing Python 291 116 76
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.02% 9.10% 4.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.83% 31.35% 18.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 79 57
10th Percentile £369 £404 £390
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £613
90th Percentile £608 £715 £660
England median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -3.33%

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 596 370 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.82% 29.02% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 250 304
10th Percentile £350 £359 £330
25th Percentile £406 £419 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.05%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -69.56%
75th Percentile £49.75 £96.64 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +4 171 £500 -13.04% 64
West Yorkshire +2 115 £500 - 103
North Yorkshire - 4 £425 - 24
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 (7.22%) Confluence
2 10 (3.44%) Apache
3 9 (3.09%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.72%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.69%) IIS
8 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.72%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 128 (43.99%) AWS
2 81 (27.84%) GCP
3 72 (24.74%) Azure
4 53 (18.21%) Serverless
5 40 (13.75%) GitHub
6 23 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (7.90%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (7.56%) Amazon S3
8 21 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.47%) OpenShift
13 11 (3.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.09%) Azure AKS
14 9 (3.09%) CloudBees
15 8 (2.75%) AWS KMS
16 6 (2.06%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.31%) Firewall
2 13 (4.47%) DNS
3 12 (4.12%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.41%) VPN
5 6 (2.06%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.72%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.72%) SSL
7 4 (1.37%) Internet
7 4 (1.37%) Network Security
7 4 (1.37%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.03%) HTTP
8 3 (1.03%) NAS
8 3 (1.03%) SAN
9 2 (0.69%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.69%) WAN
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.34%) FTP
10 1 (0.34%) IOS XR
10 1 (0.34%) SNMP
10 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.18%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (16.15%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.90%) Power BI
4 18 (6.19%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.81%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.78%) MySQL
6 11 (3.78%) Power Query
7 10 (3.44%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.44%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.09%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.75%) Apache Hive
10 7 (2.41%) Data Mining
10 7 (2.41%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.06%) PowerPivot
11 6 (2.06%) RDBMS
11 6 (2.06%) Tableau
12 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.03%) HBase
13 3 (1.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 109 (37.46%) Jenkins
2 64 (21.99%) GitLab
3 40 (13.75%) Git
4 39 (13.40%) JIRA
5 31 (10.65%) Liquibase
6 9 (3.09%) Postman
7 6 (2.06%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.06%) PyCharm
8 3 (1.03%) Selenium
9 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.69%) MSI
9 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.69%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.69%) TestRail
9 2 (0.69%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 90 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 69 (23.71%) Finance
3 62 (21.31%) Banking
4 41 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (13.75%) Public Sector
6 24 (8.25%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.03%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.69%) Legal
8 2 (0.69%) Police
8 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.34%) Law
9 1 (0.34%) Local Government
9 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (16.15%) Developer
1 47 (16.15%) Senior
2 44 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (11.34%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (8.59%) Python Developer
4 25 (8.59%) Software Engineer
5 24 (8.25%) Automation Engineer
6 23 (7.90%) Data Engineer
7 20 (6.87%) Analyst
8 19 (6.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (5.50%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (5.15%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (4.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.81%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.47%) Architect
12 13 (4.47%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.78%) Data Analyst
15 10 (3.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.43%) RESTful
2 40 (13.75%) REST
3 37 (12.71%) Elastic Stack
4 29 (9.97%) FastAPI
5 16 (5.50%) TensorFlow
6 14 (4.81%) OpenTelemetry
6 14 (4.81%) React
7 11 (3.78%) Django
8 10 (3.44%) Flask
9 9 (3.09%) PyTorch
10 8 (2.75%) Node.js
11 7 (2.41%) Hugging Face
11 7 (2.41%) OpenCV
11 7 (2.41%) Pandas
11 7 (2.41%) Regular Expression
11 7 (2.41%) SpaCy
12 6 (2.06%) JWT
12 6 (2.06%) NumPy
12 6 (2.06%) OAuth
13 5 (1.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (15.12%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.68%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (11.00%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.22%) NHS
5 18 (6.19%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.15%) Algorithms
7 10 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.09%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.41%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.37%) Clustering
11 4 (1.37%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.03%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 83 (28.52%) Linux
2 11 (3.78%) Windows
3 8 (2.75%) Unix
4 5 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.37%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.03%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (53.26%) DevOps
2 133 (45.70%) CI/CD
3 114 (39.18%) Agile
4 92 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 81 (27.84%) Containerisation
6 61 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (16.15%) Microservices
8 46 (15.81%) Software Engineering
9 44 (15.12%) Infrastructure Automation
10 43 (14.78%) Cybersecurity
11 42 (14.43%) Root Cause Analysis
11 42 (14.43%) Test Automation
12 39 (13.40%) Computer Science
13 37 (12.71%) Data Security
14 36 (12.37%) High Availability
15 32 (11.00%) Change Management
16 31 (10.65%) Continuous Integration
17 29 (9.97%) Continuous Delivery
17 29 (9.97%) Data Protection
17 29 (9.97%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 76 (26.12%) Bash
2 45 (15.46%) SQL
3 42 (14.43%) Go
4 35 (12.03%) Java
5 26 (8.93%) PowerShell
5 26 (8.93%) Shell Script
6 17 (5.84%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.47%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.44%) VBA
9 9 (3.09%) Scala
10 8 (2.75%) C#
11 5 (1.72%) Perl
12 4 (1.37%) C++
13 3 (1.03%) C
13 3 (1.03%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.69%) Bicep
14 2 (0.69%) Groovy
14 2 (0.69%) XPath
15 1 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (14.78%) Degree
2 35 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (11.68%) Security Cleared
4 31 (10.65%) Master's Degree
5 24 (8.25%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.81%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.03%) CISSP
10 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.69%) CISM
10 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.34%) CCIE
11 1 (0.34%) GCIH
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) OCP
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.37%) QA
3 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.03%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.03%) PMO
3 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (29.21%) Docker
2 18 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.44%) Oracle RAC
3 10 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.72%) vSphere
5 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.03%) HDFS
7 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.69%) KVM
7 2 (0.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.34%) Ceph
8 1 (0.34%) QEMU
8 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 130 (44.67%) Terraform
2 116 (39.86%) Ansible
3 107 (36.77%) Kubernetes
4 58 (19.93%) Grafana
5 54 (18.56%) Prometheus
6 20 (6.87%) NetBackup
7 16 (5.50%) Puppet
8 10 (3.44%) Control-M
8 10 (3.44%) Data Guard
8 10 (3.44%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (3.44%) Nessus
8 10 (3.44%) yum
9 7 (2.41%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.37%) SCCM
10 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.03%) Hadoop YARN
11 3 (1.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (19.59%) Splunk
2 43 (14.78%) Microsoft
3 35 (12.03%) Google
4 25 (8.59%) VMware
5 21 (7.22%) Oracle
6 16 (5.50%) Veritas
7 15 (5.15%) Red Hat
8 13 (4.47%) Commvault
9 10 (3.44%) Tenable
10 9 (3.09%) F5
11 8 (2.75%) Databricks
12 7 (2.41%) CyberArk
12 7 (2.41%) Palo Alto
13 6 (2.06%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.06%) Cisco
13 6 (2.06%) MuleSoft
14 5 (1.72%) ServiceNow
15 4 (1.37%) Apple
15 4 (1.37%) Meraki
15 4 (1.37%) Nokia