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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 17 37
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -17
Contract jobs citing Python 292 104 75
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.61% 9.12% 4.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.26% 32.50% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 74 59
10th Percentile £370 £406 £395
25th Percentile £425 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £537 £650 £606
90th Percentile £600 £721 £655
England median daily rate £525 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -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 605 320 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.34% 28.07% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 224 309
10th Percentile £350 £359 £346
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -9.30%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £587
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -5.44% -1.46% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £30.00 £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 £97.98 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.29%

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 22 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 22 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 +4 183 £492 -12.62% 129
West Yorkshire 0 104 £500 - 225
North Yorkshire - 4 £425 - 49
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 (7.19%) Confluence
2 9 (3.08%) Apache
3 8 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.71%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.68%) IIS
8 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.71%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 131 (44.86%) AWS
2 86 (29.45%) GCP
3 77 (26.37%) Azure
4 52 (17.81%) Serverless
5 42 (14.38%) GitHub
6 23 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (7.88%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (7.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (7.19%) Amazon S3
9 19 (6.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (5.14%) OpenShift
12 14 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (3.77%) AWS KMS
13 11 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.08%) Azure AKS
14 9 (3.08%) CloudBees
15 6 (2.05%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.93%) Firewall
2 16 (5.48%) DNS
3 11 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.40%) VPN
5 6 (2.05%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.71%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.71%) 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 (0.68%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.68%) 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 49 (16.78%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (14.73%) NoSQL
3 24 (8.22%) SQL Server
4 23 (7.88%) Power BI
5 17 (5.82%) MySQL
6 14 (4.79%) Oracle Database
7 11 (3.77%) Power Query
8 10 (3.42%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.08%) Hadoop
9 9 (3.08%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.74%) Apache Hive
11 7 (2.40%) Data Mining
12 6 (2.05%) DynamoDB
12 6 (2.05%) PowerPivot
12 6 (2.05%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.05%) Tableau
13 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.03%) HBase
14 3 (1.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 111 (38.01%) Jenkins
2 71 (24.32%) GitLab
3 47 (16.10%) JIRA
4 39 (13.36%) Git
5 31 (10.62%) Liquibase
6 11 (3.77%) Postman
7 9 (3.08%) CircleCI
7 9 (3.08%) Selenium
8 8 (2.74%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.74%) TestRail
9 6 (2.05%) PyCharm
9 6 (2.05%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.68%) MSI
10 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.68%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.68%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.34%) Maven
11 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 91 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 76 (26.03%) Finance
3 65 (22.26%) Banking
4 40 (13.70%) Public Sector
5 39 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (8.22%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.37%) Law
8 3 (1.03%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.68%) Legal
9 2 (0.68%) Police
9 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
9 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.34%) Local Government
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (15.75%) Developer
2 45 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (13.70%) Senior
4 33 (11.30%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (8.56%) Python Developer
6 24 (8.22%) Software Engineer
7 23 (7.88%) Automation Engineer
7 23 (7.88%) Data Engineer
8 20 (6.85%) Analyst
9 19 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (5.82%) GCP Engineer
11 16 (5.48%) Lead
12 15 (5.14%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (4.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Python Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
15 12 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.77%) Data Analyst
17 10 (3.42%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.41%) REST
2 38 (13.01%) Elastic Stack
3 37 (12.67%) RESTful
4 25 (8.56%) FastAPI
5 16 (5.48%) TensorFlow
6 15 (5.14%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (4.11%) React
8 10 (3.42%) .NET
9 9 (3.08%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.40%) Django
10 7 (2.40%) Hugging Face
10 7 (2.40%) Node.js
10 7 (2.40%) OpenCV
10 7 (2.40%) Pandas
10 7 (2.40%) Regular Expression
10 7 (2.40%) SpaCy
11 6 (2.05%) Flask
11 6 (2.05%) JWT
11 6 (2.05%) NumPy
11 6 (2.05%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.64%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (10.96%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.19%) NHS
5 15 (5.14%) Algorithms
5 15 (5.14%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.71%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.37%) Clustering
9 4 (1.37%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.68%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 86 (29.45%) Linux
2 13 (4.45%) Windows
3 10 (3.42%) Unix
4 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.03%) VMS
6 1 (0.34%) CentOS
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (54.79%) DevOps
2 138 (47.26%) CI/CD
3 110 (37.67%) Agile
4 94 (32.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (28.08%) Containerisation
6 61 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (16.44%) Test Automation
8 47 (16.10%) Cybersecurity
8 47 (16.10%) Infrastructure Automation
8 47 (16.10%) Root Cause Analysis
9 45 (15.41%) Software Engineering
10 43 (14.73%) Microservices
11 39 (13.36%) Computer Science
12 37 (12.67%) Data Security
12 37 (12.67%) High Availability
13 32 (10.96%) Change Management
13 32 (10.96%) Observability
14 31 (10.62%) Continuous Integration
15 29 (9.93%) Continuous Delivery
15 29 (9.93%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 75 (25.68%) Bash
2 54 (18.49%) SQL
3 47 (16.10%) Java
4 45 (15.41%) Go
5 29 (9.93%) PowerShell
5 29 (9.93%) Shell Script
6 22 (7.53%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.11%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.42%) VBA
9 9 (3.08%) Scala
10 8 (2.74%) C#
11 6 (2.05%) PHP
12 5 (1.71%) Perl
13 4 (1.37%) C++
14 3 (1.03%) C
14 3 (1.03%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.68%) Bicep
15 2 (0.68%) Groovy
15 2 (0.68%) XPath
16 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (14.73%) Degree
2 35 (11.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (11.64%) Security Cleared
4 31 (10.62%) Master's Degree
5 24 (8.22%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.45%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.03%) CISSP
9 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.68%) CISM
9 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) CCIE
10 1 (0.34%) GCIH
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.34%) OCP
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.08%) QA
2 6 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.37%) SLA
4 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.03%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.03%) PMO
4 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (29.11%) Docker
2 14 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.42%) Oracle RAC
3 10 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.71%) vSphere
5 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.03%) HDFS
7 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.68%) KVM
8 1 (0.34%) Ceph
8 1 (0.34%) QEMU
8 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 130 (44.52%) Terraform
2 115 (39.38%) Ansible
3 108 (36.99%) Kubernetes
4 63 (21.58%) Grafana
5 56 (19.18%) Prometheus
6 20 (6.85%) NetBackup
7 12 (4.11%) Puppet
8 10 (3.42%) Control-M
8 10 (3.42%) Data Guard
8 10 (3.42%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (3.42%) Nessus
8 10 (3.42%) yum
9 7 (2.40%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.03%) Hadoop YARN
11 3 (1.03%) Packer
11 3 (1.03%) SCCM
11 3 (1.03%) vRealize
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (20.55%) Splunk
2 36 (12.33%) Microsoft
3 35 (11.99%) Google
4 24 (8.22%) Oracle
5 22 (7.53%) VMware
6 16 (5.48%) Veritas
7 15 (5.14%) Red Hat
8 13 (4.45%) Commvault
8 13 (4.45%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.42%) Tenable
10 9 (3.08%) F5
11 7 (2.40%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.40%) Databricks
11 7 (2.40%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.05%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.05%) Cisco
13 4 (1.37%) Juniper
13 4 (1.37%) Meraki
13 4 (1.37%) Nokia
14 3 (1.03%) SAP