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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 386 121 147
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.65% 11.70% 8.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.99% 38.54% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 88 98
10th Percentile £363 £351 £410
25th Percentile £415 £405 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £615
90th Percentile £595 £641 £647
England median daily rate £525 £550 £567
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.04% -5.46%

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 715 314 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.99% 30.37% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 222 314
10th Percentile £357 £350 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £615 £636 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £31.62 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £44.87 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £91.05 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.64% +45.68% -
75th Percentile £25.00 £101.14 £63.75
90th Percentile - £102.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +2 260 £475 -5.00% 27
West Yorkshire +9 120 £488 -1.27% 68
North Yorkshire - 6 £625 - 17
East Yorkshire -11 2 - - 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 20 (5.18%) Confluence
2 19 (4.92%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.85%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.78%) SAS
6 2 (0.52%) Apache
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 108 (27.98%) AWS
2 89 (23.06%) GCP
3 84 (21.76%) GitHub
4 82 (21.24%) Azure
5 65 (16.84%) OpenShift
6 40 (10.36%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 25 (6.48%) Power Platform
9 20 (5.18%) Serverless
10 14 (3.63%) Apigee
10 14 (3.63%) SaaS
11 13 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.11%) Entra ID
13 8 (2.07%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.81%) Vertex AI
15 6 (1.55%) Cloud Run
15 6 (1.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.55%) DNS
2 16 (4.15%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.89%) Firewall
4 11 (2.85%) SAN
5 10 (2.59%) BIG-IP
5 10 (2.59%) DHCP
6 9 (2.33%) VPN
6 9 (2.33%) WAN
7 8 (2.07%) LAN
7 8 (2.07%) NAS
7 8 (2.07%) Network Security
8 7 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.55%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.04%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.78%) PSTN
11 3 (0.78%) SNMP
12 2 (0.52%) BGP
12 2 (0.52%) DWDM
12 2 (0.52%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.44%) Power BI
3 19 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 17 (4.40%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.63%) BigQuery
5 14 (3.63%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.37%) Hadoop
7 10 (2.59%) Metadata
7 10 (2.59%) Tableau
8 7 (1.81%) Big Data
8 7 (1.81%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.81%) MySQL
8 7 (1.81%) Power Query
9 5 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.30%) PowerPivot
10 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.04%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.78%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 109 (28.24%) Jenkins
2 55 (14.25%) JIRA
3 32 (8.29%) GitLab
4 23 (5.96%) Git
5 18 (4.66%) Postman
6 13 (3.37%) Gatling
7 12 (3.11%) Maven
8 9 (2.33%) Selenium
9 7 (1.81%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.55%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.55%) TestRail
11 5 (1.30%) JMeter
12 4 (1.04%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.04%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.04%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.04%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.78%) ERwin
13 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 90 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.32%) Finance
3 60 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.10%) Banking
5 26 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.30%) Legal
7 5 (1.30%) Publishing
8 4 (1.04%) Advertising
8 4 (1.04%) Law
9 3 (0.78%) Marketing
10 2 (0.52%) Games
10 2 (0.52%) Retail
10 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (19.17%) Developer
2 50 (12.95%) Lead
3 46 (11.92%) Python Developer
4 44 (11.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (10.10%) Senior
6 36 (9.33%) Architect
7 23 (5.96%) Analyst
8 22 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.44%) Data Engineer
9 21 (5.44%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (3.89%) Python Engineer
10 15 (3.89%) Senior Developer
11 14 (3.63%) GCP DevOps
12 12 (3.11%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.11%) Data Analyst
12 12 (3.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (2.33%) Automation Test Lead
13 9 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 31 (8.03%) YAML
3 30 (7.77%) JSON
4 28 (7.25%) REST
5 27 (6.99%) Node.js
6 23 (5.96%) FastAPI
6 23 (5.96%) Playwright
7 20 (5.18%) React
8 17 (4.40%) Kafka
9 13 (3.37%) LDAP
9 13 (3.37%) OpenID
10 11 (2.85%) .NET
11 10 (2.59%) RESTful
12 9 (2.33%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.33%) Protocol Buffers
12 9 (2.33%) PySpark
12 9 (2.33%) SailPoint
13 8 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (2.07%) Flask
14 7 (1.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.69%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.74%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (5.18%) Data Centre
3 20 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.37%) NHS
6 9 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.07%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.55%) Replication
9 5 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.30%) EMC VMAX
9 5 (1.30%) PKI
9 5 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.78%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.78%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.78%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.78%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (16.32%) Linux
2 34 (8.81%) Windows
3 20 (5.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.07%) CentOS
6 6 (1.55%) Unix
7 4 (1.04%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.78%) VMS
9 2 (0.52%) AIX
9 2 (0.52%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.52%) zOS
10 1 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (55.44%) CI/CD
2 171 (44.30%) DevOps
3 96 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (24.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (23.06%) Agile
6 86 (22.28%) Containerisation
7 70 (18.13%) Observability
8 62 (16.06%) Test Automation
9 51 (13.21%) RBAC
10 49 (12.69%) Analytics
10 49 (12.69%) Migration
11 40 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (9.59%) AI
13 37 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
14 34 (8.81%) Business Intelligence
14 34 (8.81%) Data Protection
15 32 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (8.29%) Technical Leadership
16 31 (8.03%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 81 (20.98%) Bash
2 66 (17.10%) Java
3 60 (15.54%) SQL
4 40 (10.36%) PowerShell
5 32 (8.29%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.96%) Go
6 23 (5.96%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.70%) Scala
8 13 (3.37%) Groovy
9 12 (3.11%) VBA
10 9 (2.33%) Perl
10 9 (2.33%) R
10 9 (2.33%) Ruby
10 9 (2.33%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.55%) Bicep
11 6 (1.55%) PHP
12 5 (1.30%) C#
13 4 (1.04%) Cypher
14 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 31 (8.03%) Security Cleared
2 22 (5.70%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.85%) Degree
4 10 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.33%) RHCE
6 5 (1.30%) CISM
6 5 (1.30%) CISSP
6 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.78%) OCP
7 3 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.52%) CCNA
8 2 (0.52%) CCNP
8 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.52%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.52%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.37%) QA
2 10 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.81%) WCAG
4 6 (1.55%) HIPAA
4 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.04%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.04%) NIST
6 4 (1.04%) PMO
6 4 (1.04%) SLA
7 3 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.26%) HL7
System Software
1 76 (19.69%) Docker
2 28 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.18%) vSphere
4 19 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.37%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.59%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.33%) KVM
8 8 (2.07%) Firmware
9 5 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (1.04%) Active Directory
10 4 (1.04%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.78%) NFS
11 3 (0.78%) SRDF
12 1 (0.26%) Ceph
12 1 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 137 (35.49%) Kubernetes
1 137 (35.49%) Terraform
2 116 (30.05%) Ansible
3 53 (13.73%) Grafana
4 48 (12.44%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.66%) Puppet
5 18 (4.66%) vCenter Server
6 16 (4.15%) Argo
7 15 (3.89%) Control-M
8 14 (3.63%) IBM Guardium
8 14 (3.63%) Nessus
9 10 (2.59%) Istio
10 9 (2.33%) HAProxy
11 7 (1.81%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.04%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.78%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 2 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 46 (11.92%) Red Hat
2 42 (10.88%) Splunk
3 38 (9.84%) Microsoft
4 36 (9.33%) Google
5 35 (9.07%) VMware
6 22 (5.70%) Databricks
7 18 (4.66%) Pure Storage
8 17 (4.40%) ServiceNow
9 14 (3.63%) Tenable
10 12 (3.11%) Cisco
10 12 (3.11%) F5
11 9 (2.33%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.07%) Dell
13 7 (1.81%) Dynatrace
14 6 (1.55%) Brocade
14 6 (1.55%) Commvault
14 6 (1.55%) Sonatype
14 6 (1.55%) Veritas
15 5 (1.30%) IBM
15 5 (1.30%) Oracle