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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 14 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Python 299 97 106
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.39% 9.52% 5.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.16% 31.60% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 69 70
10th Percentile £377 £399 £406
25th Percentile £438 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -5.49% +3.41%
75th Percentile £537 £623 £618
90th Percentile £600 £715 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

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 634 307 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.63% 30.13% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 213 323
10th Percentile £352 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £541 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - £16.97
25th Percentile £49.25 £26.25 £19.44
Median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +237.62% -59.58%
75th Percentile £49.75 £102.00 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.36
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.23% -4.07%

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 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 17 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 +5 201 £500 -13.04% 47
West Yorkshire -2 92 £500 - 94
North Yorkshire - 4 £375 - 29
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 20 (6.69%) Confluence
2 8 (2.68%) Apache
3 7 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.67%) Apache Pig
4 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.67%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 121 (40.47%) AWS
2 87 (29.10%) GCP
3 74 (24.75%) Azure
4 47 (15.72%) GitHub
4 47 (15.72%) Serverless
5 26 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 21 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (7.02%) Power Platform
8 20 (6.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.02%) OpenShift
10 16 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.68%) AWS KMS
13 11 (3.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (3.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 9 (3.01%) CloudBees
16 7 (2.34%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.70%) Firewall
2 14 (4.68%) DNS
3 12 (4.01%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.68%) VPN
5 7 (2.34%) Network Security
6 5 (1.67%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.67%) SSL
7 4 (1.34%) Ethernet
7 4 (1.34%) Internet
7 4 (1.34%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.00%) HTTP
9 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.67%) WAN
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.33%) FTP
10 1 (0.33%) IOS XR
10 1 (0.33%) LAN
10 1 (0.33%) SNMP
10 1 (0.33%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.05%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (12.04%) NoSQL
3 24 (8.03%) SQL Server
4 21 (7.02%) Power BI
5 17 (5.69%) MySQL
6 14 (4.68%) Oracle Database
7 10 (3.34%) Hadoop
7 10 (3.34%) Power Query
7 10 (3.34%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.68%) Apache Hive
9 8 (2.68%) PowerPivot
10 7 (2.34%) Data Mining
11 6 (2.01%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.01%) MongoDB
11 6 (2.01%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.34%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.34%) Tableau
13 3 (1.00%) HBase
Development Applications
1 111 (37.12%) Jenkins
2 66 (22.07%) GitLab
3 48 (16.05%) JIRA
4 35 (11.71%) Git
5 26 (8.70%) Liquibase
6 20 (6.69%) Postman
7 9 (3.01%) CircleCI
7 9 (3.01%) Selenium
8 8 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.68%) TestRail
9 6 (2.01%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.01%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.34%) Gatling
10 4 (1.34%) JMeter
10 4 (1.34%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.34%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.67%) MSI
12 2 (0.67%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.67%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 66 (22.07%) Finance
3 57 (19.06%) Banking
4 39 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 37 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.69%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.34%) Law
8 4 (1.34%) Legal
9 3 (1.00%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.67%) Police
10 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (14.38%) Developer
1 43 (14.38%) Senior
2 40 (13.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (9.70%) AWS Engineer
4 26 (8.70%) Lead
5 24 (8.03%) Python Developer
6 23 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
6 23 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 21 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (7.02%) Software Engineer
8 20 (6.69%) Analyst
9 18 (6.02%) GCP Engineer
10 13 (4.35%) Architect
10 13 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.01%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (4.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.01%) Test Engineer
12 10 (3.34%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.71%) REST
2 33 (11.04%) Elastic Stack
3 32 (10.70%) RESTful
4 26 (8.70%) FastAPI
5 18 (6.02%) YAML
6 15 (5.02%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (4.01%) Node.js
8 11 (3.68%) OpenID
8 11 (3.68%) Playwright
8 11 (3.68%) TensorFlow
9 10 (3.34%) .NET
9 10 (3.34%) React
10 9 (3.01%) LDAP
10 9 (3.01%) SailPoint
11 8 (2.68%) JWT
11 8 (2.68%) OAuth
12 7 (2.34%) Flask
12 7 (2.34%) SAML
13 6 (2.01%) NumPy
13 6 (2.01%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.70%) Public Cloud
3 30 (10.03%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (7.36%) NHS
5 15 (5.02%) Algorithms
5 15 (5.02%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.68%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.34%) Clustering
11 4 (1.34%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.34%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 84 (28.09%) Linux
2 11 (3.68%) Windows
3 9 (3.01%) Unix
4 8 (2.68%) CentOS
4 8 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.68%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (56.19%) DevOps
2 157 (52.51%) CI/CD
3 94 (31.44%) Agile
3 94 (31.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (27.42%) Containerisation
5 65 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (19.06%) Test Automation
7 44 (14.72%) Root Cause Analysis
8 40 (13.38%) Cybersecurity
9 39 (13.04%) Microservices
10 38 (12.71%) Infrastructure Automation
11 34 (11.37%) Data Security
11 34 (11.37%) Software Engineering
12 33 (11.04%) Computer Science
12 33 (11.04%) High Availability
12 33 (11.04%) Observability
13 29 (9.70%) Data Protection
13 29 (9.70%) Mentoring
13 29 (9.70%) RBAC
14 28 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.08%) Bash
2 57 (19.06%) Java
3 49 (16.39%) SQL
4 42 (14.05%) Go
5 27 (9.03%) Shell Script
6 25 (8.36%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.36%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.02%) Scala
9 16 (5.35%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.68%) Perl
11 9 (3.01%) VBA
12 8 (2.68%) C#
13 7 (2.34%) Ruby
14 6 (2.01%) PHP
15 4 (1.34%) Cypher
16 3 (1.00%) Bicep
16 3 (1.00%) C++
16 3 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
17 2 (0.67%) C
17 2 (0.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 36 (12.04%) Degree
2 32 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (8.70%) Master's Degree
5 22 (7.36%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.34%) RHCE
8 5 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.67%) CCNP
10 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.67%) CISM
10 2 (0.67%) CISSP
10 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.33%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.33%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.33%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.68%) QA
2 6 (2.01%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.34%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.34%) PMO
4 4 (1.34%) SLA
4 4 (1.34%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (27.09%) Docker
2 11 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.34%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 3 (1.00%) HDFS
6 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.00%) KVM
7 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.67%) vSphere
8 1 (0.33%) Ceph
8 1 (0.33%) Firmware
8 1 (0.33%) QEMU
8 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 125 (41.81%) Terraform
2 123 (41.14%) Ansible
3 103 (34.45%) Kubernetes
4 58 (19.40%) Grafana
5 51 (17.06%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.35%) NetBackup
6 19 (6.35%) Puppet
7 10 (3.34%) Control-M
7 10 (3.34%) Data Guard
7 10 (3.34%) IBM Guardium
7 10 (3.34%) Nessus
7 10 (3.34%) yum
8 6 (2.01%) Istio
8 6 (2.01%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.00%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (1.00%) Packer
9 3 (1.00%) SCCM
10 2 (0.67%) Argo
10 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (18.39%) Splunk
2 36 (12.04%) Google
3 32 (10.70%) Microsoft
3 32 (10.70%) Red Hat
4 23 (7.69%) Oracle
5 18 (6.02%) VMware
6 17 (5.69%) ServiceNow
7 15 (5.02%) Veritas
8 13 (4.35%) Commvault
9 10 (3.34%) Tenable
10 8 (2.68%) Databricks
11 7 (2.34%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.01%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.01%) Cisco
12 6 (2.01%) CyberArk
12 6 (2.01%) F5
13 4 (1.34%) Meraki
14 3 (1.00%) Juniper
14 3 (1.00%) Nokia
14 3 (1.00%) SAP