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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Python 343 110 132
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.65% 12.21% 7.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.45% 36.91% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 80 82
10th Percentile £363 £354 £406
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £528 £615 £615
90th Percentile £588 £680 £650
England median daily rate £516 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.26% +4.55% -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 654 298 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.85% 33.07% 25.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 207 311
10th Percentile £358 £350 £300
25th Percentile £424 £405 £403
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 £625 £650 £630
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £29.38 £27.80
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.62 £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 £100.28 £62.88
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.80%

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 17 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 17 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 +2 245 £481 -12.15% 60
West Yorkshire +1 95 £500 +2.56% 100
North Yorkshire - 6 £375 - 19
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 (7.58%) Confluence
2 15 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.87%) Apache
5 3 (0.87%) SAS
6 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.46%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 98 (28.57%) AWS
2 86 (25.07%) GCP
3 83 (24.20%) GitHub
4 65 (18.95%) Azure
5 57 (16.62%) OpenShift
6 39 (11.37%) Serverless
7 31 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (6.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 19 (5.54%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.37%) Power Platform
12 12 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.50%) Entra ID
13 11 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (3.21%) AWS KMS
13 11 (3.21%) SaaS
14 9 (2.62%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.75%) DNS
2 21 (6.12%) Firewall
3 13 (3.79%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.21%) VPN
5 9 (2.62%) Network Security
6 7 (2.04%) SAN
6 7 (2.04%) WAN
7 6 (1.75%) LAN
8 5 (1.46%) NAS
9 4 (1.17%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.17%) DHCP
9 4 (1.17%) Internet
9 4 (1.17%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.87%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.58%) BGP
11 2 (0.58%) DWDM
11 2 (0.58%) HTTP
11 2 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (15.16%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (10.20%) NoSQL
3 16 (4.66%) MySQL
4 14 (4.08%) MongoDB
4 14 (4.08%) Power BI
5 12 (3.50%) Hadoop
6 10 (2.92%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.62%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.33%) Metadata
8 8 (2.33%) Power Query
8 8 (2.33%) PowerPivot
9 7 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.75%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.46%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.17%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.17%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.87%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 128 (37.32%) Jenkins
2 67 (19.53%) JIRA
3 50 (14.58%) GitLab
4 26 (7.58%) Git
5 19 (5.54%) Postman
6 14 (4.08%) Liquibase
7 10 (2.92%) Selenium
8 8 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.33%) TestRail
9 7 (2.04%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.75%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.75%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.46%) JMeter
12 4 (1.17%) Gatling
12 4 (1.17%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.17%) Maven
12 4 (1.17%) NeoLoad
12 4 (1.17%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 70 (20.41%) Finance
3 54 (15.74%) Banking
4 52 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.87%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.21%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.17%) Legal
9 3 (0.87%) Advertising
9 3 (0.87%) Law
9 3 (0.87%) Marketing
9 3 (0.87%) Publishing
10 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.58%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Games
11 1 (0.29%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Retail
11 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (16.33%) Developer
2 42 (12.24%) Lead
3 41 (11.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (11.37%) Python Developer
5 36 (10.50%) Senior
6 32 (9.33%) GCP Engineer
7 28 (8.16%) Data Engineer
8 25 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (6.41%) Architect
10 20 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.37%) Analyst
12 15 (4.37%) GCP DevOps
13 14 (4.08%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.79%) Automation Engineer
15 12 (3.50%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.50%) Software Engineer
16 11 (3.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 10 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
17 10 (2.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.12%) REST
2 44 (12.83%) OpenTelemetry
3 28 (8.16%) FastAPI
4 27 (7.87%) YAML
5 24 (7.00%) Elastic Stack
6 23 (6.71%) RESTful
7 19 (5.54%) JSON
8 17 (4.96%) Node.js
9 12 (3.50%) OpenID
10 11 (3.21%) Kafka
10 11 (3.21%) Playwright
11 10 (2.92%) Flask
11 10 (2.92%) LDAP
11 10 (2.92%) React
12 9 (2.62%) JWT
12 9 (2.62%) OAuth
12 9 (2.62%) SailPoint
13 8 (2.33%) Apache Avro
13 8 (2.33%) Pandas
13 8 (2.33%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (6.71%) Public Cloud
4 18 (5.25%) Data Centre
5 17 (4.96%) NHS
6 15 (4.37%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.46%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.46%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.17%) Clustering
11 4 (1.17%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.17%) PKI
11 4 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.87%) EMC VMAX
12 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.87%) Replication
12 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (21.28%) Linux
2 26 (7.58%) Windows
3 16 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.92%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.62%) CentOS
5 9 (2.62%) Unix
6 3 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.58%) VMS
8 1 (0.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (60.64%) CI/CD
2 180 (52.48%) DevOps
3 107 (31.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (29.15%) Agile
5 92 (26.82%) Containerisation
6 85 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (18.37%) Observability
8 60 (17.49%) Test Automation
9 44 (12.83%) RBAC
10 42 (12.24%) Migration
11 38 (11.08%) Analytics
11 38 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (10.79%) Root Cause Analysis
13 35 (10.20%) High Availability
14 34 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
15 33 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
15 33 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
15 33 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (9.04%) Data Modelling
16 31 (9.04%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 79 (23.03%) Bash
2 53 (15.45%) SQL
3 37 (10.79%) Java
4 33 (9.62%) PowerShell
5 32 (9.33%) Go
6 27 (7.87%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.54%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.21%) Groovy
8 11 (3.21%) Scala
8 11 (3.21%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.21%) VBA
9 9 (2.62%) Ruby
10 8 (2.33%) Perl
11 6 (1.75%) PHP
12 5 (1.46%) Bicep
13 4 (1.17%) C#
13 4 (1.17%) Cypher
14 2 (0.58%) C
14 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (8.75%) Degree
1 30 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 20 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.96%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.33%) RHCE
6 5 (1.46%) CISM
6 5 (1.46%) CISSP
7 3 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.87%) CCNP
7 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.58%) CCNA
8 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.58%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.58%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.50%) QA
2 7 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.17%) PMO
3 4 (1.17%) SLA
3 4 (1.17%) WCAG
4 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 78 (22.74%) Docker
2 21 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.25%) vSphere
4 16 (4.66%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.21%) KVM
5 11 (3.21%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.92%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.75%) Firmware
8 5 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
10 2 (0.58%) SRDF
11 1 (0.29%) Ceph
11 1 (0.29%) NFS
11 1 (0.29%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 139 (40.52%) Terraform
2 138 (40.23%) Kubernetes
3 122 (35.57%) Ansible
4 72 (20.99%) Grafana
5 65 (18.95%) Prometheus
6 21 (6.12%) Puppet
7 19 (5.54%) Control-M
7 19 (5.54%) IBM Guardium
7 19 (5.54%) Nessus
8 15 (4.37%) vCenter Server
9 12 (3.50%) Argo
10 11 (3.21%) Istio
10 11 (3.21%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.17%) PowerCLI
12 3 (0.87%) Packer
12 3 (0.87%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 63 (18.37%) Splunk
2 45 (13.12%) Red Hat
3 35 (10.20%) Google
4 29 (8.45%) Microsoft
4 29 (8.45%) VMware
5 19 (5.54%) Tenable
6 16 (4.66%) ServiceNow
7 14 (4.08%) Pure Storage
8 10 (2.92%) Commvault
8 10 (2.92%) Databricks
9 9 (2.62%) Cisco
10 8 (2.33%) F5
11 7 (2.04%) Oracle
11 7 (2.04%) Veritas
12 5 (1.46%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (1.17%) Dell
13 4 (1.17%) Infoblox
13 4 (1.17%) Okta
13 4 (1.17%) Sonatype