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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Python 378 234 147
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.15% 15.13% 9.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.93% 45.17% 32.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 152 107
10th Percentile £363 £338 £408
25th Percentile £425 £409 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -8.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
England median daily rate £550 £537 £600
% change year-on-year +2.42% -10.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £50.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +26.96% -27.27% +5.77%

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 823 518 449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.64% 33.48% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 337 324
10th Percentile £357 £323 £350
25th Percentile £424 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £507
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -4.34% -3.43%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £588
90th Percentile £644 £636 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £18.79 £37.07 £29.25
25th Percentile £21.24 £45.03 £34.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +56.00% +66.35%
75th Percentile £26.63 £82.53 £60.00
90th Percentile £34.80 £92.15 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 0 189 £500 +3.63% 50
West Yorkshire +5 180 £515 +3.00% 139
North Yorkshire -2 5 £625 +47.06% 18
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 9
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 17 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.91%) Confluence
3 5 (1.32%) Apache
3 5 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (1.06%) SAS
5 3 (0.79%) nginx
5 3 (0.79%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 138 (36.51%) AWS
2 98 (25.93%) GCP
3 96 (25.40%) Azure
4 91 (24.07%) GitHub
5 55 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (8.47%) Serverless
7 31 (8.20%) Power Platform
8 18 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 18 (4.76%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.17%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.17%) IaaS
10 12 (3.17%) Vertex AI
11 10 (2.65%) Apigee
11 10 (2.65%) OCI
12 9 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.12%) Datadog
14 7 (1.85%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.41%) DNS
2 21 (5.56%) Firewall
3 20 (5.29%) BIG-IP
4 18 (4.76%) Network Security
5 14 (3.70%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 10 (2.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 8 (2.12%) DHCP
8 8 (2.12%) WAN
9 6 (1.59%) VLAN
9 6 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.32%) SAN
10 5 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.06%) BGP
11 4 (1.06%) LAN
11 4 (1.06%) NAS
12 3 (0.79%) HTTP
12 3 (0.79%) SSL
12 3 (0.79%) VPN
12 3 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.88%) Power BI
2 22 (5.82%) BigQuery
2 22 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.82%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.76%) Metadata
4 15 (3.97%) Big Data
5 12 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.91%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.91%) Tableau
7 9 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.85%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.85%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.32%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.06%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.06%) MySQL
10 4 (1.06%) Parquet
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 85 (22.49%) Jenkins
2 50 (13.23%) JIRA
3 30 (7.94%) Git
4 19 (5.03%) GitLab
5 16 (4.23%) Gatling
5 16 (4.23%) Maven
6 11 (2.91%) JMeter
6 11 (2.91%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.38%) LoadRunner
8 8 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.85%) Postman
9 7 (1.85%) Zephyr
10 6 (1.59%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.59%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.06%) MSBuild
11 4 (1.06%) Selenium
11 4 (1.06%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.79%) ERwin
12 3 (0.79%) Pylint
12 3 (0.79%) SoapUI
General
1 69 (18.25%) Finance
2 67 (17.72%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.05%) Banking
5 37 (9.79%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.91%) Legal
7 7 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.85%) Publishing
8 6 (1.59%) Games
8 6 (1.59%) Retail
9 4 (1.06%) Law
10 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.79%) Marketing
10 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (20.63%) Developer
2 59 (15.61%) Python Developer
3 52 (13.76%) Senior
4 44 (11.64%) Lead
5 39 (10.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (7.41%) Python Engineer
7 23 (6.08%) Data Engineer
8 22 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.29%) Analyst
10 17 (4.50%) Architect
11 15 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 15 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.97%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.44%) Data Analyst
13 13 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (3.17%) Software Engineer
15 11 (2.91%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 11 (2.91%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (35.71%) Terraform
2 30 (7.94%) REST
3 28 (7.41%) Node.js
4 27 (7.14%) JSON
5 26 (6.88%) Kafka
6 25 (6.61%) React
7 16 (4.23%) Playwright
8 15 (3.97%) CSS
8 15 (3.97%) HTML
8 15 (3.97%) PySpark
9 14 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
9 14 (3.70%) pytest
9 14 (3.70%) Vue
10 11 (2.91%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.91%) Flask
11 10 (2.65%) .NET
11 10 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (2.65%) YAML
12 9 (2.38%) LDAP
12 9 (2.38%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 86 (22.75%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.82%) Data Protection Act
3 21 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 20 (5.29%) Data Centre
5 19 (5.03%) NHS
6 14 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.17%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.91%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.38%) Onboarding
11 8 (2.12%) PKI
12 6 (1.59%) Blog
12 6 (1.59%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.32%) Replication
14 4 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.06%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.90%) Linux
2 17 (4.50%) Windows
3 12 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.38%) Unix
5 6 (1.59%) VMS
6 5 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.79%) zOS
8 2 (0.53%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.26%) AIX
9 1 (0.26%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (53.17%) CI/CD
2 153 (40.48%) DevOps
3 106 (28.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (25.93%) Agile
5 92 (24.34%) Observability
6 60 (15.87%) AI
7 53 (14.02%) Containerisation
7 53 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
9 48 (12.70%) Software Engineering
10 47 (12.43%) Test Automation
11 43 (11.38%) Analytics
11 43 (11.38%) Data Engineering
12 39 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (10.32%) Full-Stack Development
13 38 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 37 (9.79%) Data Pipeline
15 35 (9.26%) DevSecOps
16 34 (8.99%) Validation
17 33 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.84%) Java
2 74 (19.58%) SQL
3 60 (15.87%) Bash
4 44 (11.64%) PowerShell
5 35 (9.26%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.08%) Go
7 18 (4.76%) Scala
7 18 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.91%) C#
8 11 (2.91%) Groovy
9 9 (2.38%) ActionScript
9 9 (2.38%) R
10 7 (1.85%) Rust
10 7 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.59%) VBA
12 4 (1.06%) Bicep
12 4 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.79%) Cypher
13 3 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 58 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 52 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.12%) Degree
5 5 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.06%) CISSP
7 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.53%) CCSP
8 2 (0.53%) CISM
8 2 (0.53%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.53%) GIAC
8 2 (0.53%) NCDA
8 2 (0.53%) NCIE
8 2 (0.53%) OCP
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.53%) RHCA
8 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.50%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.12%) NIST
3 6 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.32%) HL7
4 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.06%) GDPR
5 4 (1.06%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.79%) QA
6 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.79%) WCAG
7 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (19.58%) Docker
2 11 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.38%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.59%) vSphere
6 4 (1.06%) NFS
6 4 (1.06%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.79%) Firmware
8 2 (0.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.53%) SRDF
8 2 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.26%) Ceph
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 107 (28.31%) Kubernetes
2 60 (15.87%) Ansible
3 37 (9.79%) Grafana
4 29 (7.67%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.70%) Argo
6 9 (2.38%) HAProxy
7 8 (2.12%) Control-M
8 7 (1.85%) IBM Guardium
8 7 (1.85%) Nessus
9 6 (1.59%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.32%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (0.79%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.79%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 2 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (11.90%) Google
1 45 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.20%) Databricks
3 21 (5.56%) Splunk
4 20 (5.29%) F5
5 15 (3.97%) IBM
6 13 (3.44%) Dynatrace
7 12 (3.17%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.91%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.91%) VMware
9 10 (2.65%) Cisco
10 8 (2.12%) Tenable
11 7 (1.85%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.85%) Infoblox
11 7 (1.85%) Oracle
11 7 (1.85%) Pure Storage
11 7 (1.85%) Sonatype
12 6 (1.59%) Brocade
12 6 (1.59%) Dell
13 5 (1.32%) Foundry