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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 13 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 302 96 121
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.45% 10.18% 6.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.95% 32.65% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 67 80
10th Percentile £363 £405 £406
25th Percentile £435 £463 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £537 £623 £615
90th Percentile £571 £730 £653
England median daily rate £523 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -9.13% +2.22% -6.25%

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 617 294 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.56% 31.18% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 197 331
10th Percentile £356 £359 £325
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £546 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £513 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £26.25 £16.97
25th Percentile £49.25 £27.56 £19.44
Median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +130.07% -57.15%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.66 £62.00
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +5 206 £500 -13.04% 52
West Yorkshire -4 90 £500 - 75
North Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 10
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 22 (7.28%) Confluence
2 8 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.32%) Apache
4 6 (1.99%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.66%) Apache Pig
6 2 (0.66%) IIS
6 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.66%) SAS
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 113 (37.42%) AWS
2 85 (28.15%) GCP
3 74 (24.50%) Azure
4 52 (17.22%) GitHub
5 45 (14.90%) Serverless
6 28 (9.27%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (9.27%) OpenShift
7 22 (7.28%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (5.96%) Power Platform
10 16 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 11 (3.64%) AWS KMS
13 11 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (3.31%) Entra ID
15 8 (2.65%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.61%) Firewall
2 18 (5.96%) DNS
3 12 (3.97%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.98%) VPN
5 8 (2.65%) Network Security
6 5 (1.66%) SSL
6 5 (1.66%) WAN
7 4 (1.32%) Internet
7 4 (1.32%) LAN
8 3 (0.99%) NAS
8 3 (0.99%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.66%) DWDM
9 2 (0.66%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.66%) HTTP
9 2 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.66%) SAN
9 2 (0.66%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.66%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (11.92%) NoSQL
3 18 (5.96%) Power BI
4 17 (5.63%) MySQL
5 15 (4.97%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.64%) Hadoop
7 9 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.98%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.65%) Apache Hive
8 8 (2.65%) Power Query
8 8 (2.65%) PowerPivot
9 7 (2.32%) Data Mining
9 7 (2.32%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.99%) Metadata
10 6 (1.99%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.66%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.66%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.32%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.99%) HBase
Development Applications
1 112 (37.09%) Jenkins
2 65 (21.52%) GitLab
3 53 (17.55%) JIRA
4 26 (8.61%) Git
5 22 (7.28%) Liquibase
6 18 (5.96%) Postman
7 9 (2.98%) Selenium
8 8 (2.65%) CircleCI
8 8 (2.65%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.65%) TestRail
9 6 (1.99%) PyCharm
9 6 (1.99%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.32%) Gatling
10 4 (1.32%) JMeter
10 4 (1.32%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.32%) NeoLoad
10 4 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.99%) Maven
11 3 (0.99%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.66%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 63 (20.86%) Finance
3 60 (19.87%) Banking
4 40 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.93%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.96%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.99%) Law
8 3 (0.99%) Legal
8 3 (0.99%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.66%) Marketing
9 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.33%) Publishing
10 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (14.24%) Developer
2 40 (13.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (12.91%) Senior
4 29 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (8.61%) Lead
6 24 (7.95%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.95%) Python Developer
7 21 (6.95%) GCP Engineer
8 20 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (6.62%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.96%) Analyst
10 16 (5.30%) Architect
10 16 (5.30%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.97%) Python Engineer
12 12 (3.97%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (3.31%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.58%) REST
2 32 (10.60%) RESTful
3 31 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
4 25 (8.28%) OpenTelemetry
5 24 (7.95%) YAML
6 21 (6.95%) FastAPI
7 17 (5.63%) Node.js
8 12 (3.97%) OpenID
8 12 (3.97%) TensorFlow
9 11 (3.64%) Playwright
10 10 (3.31%) LDAP
10 10 (3.31%) React
11 9 (2.98%) Flask
11 9 (2.98%) JWT
11 9 (2.98%) OAuth
11 9 (2.98%) SailPoint
12 8 (2.65%) .NET
12 8 (2.65%) SAML
13 7 (2.32%) JSON
14 6 (1.99%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.24%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.93%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (9.27%) Public Cloud
4 19 (6.29%) NHS
5 15 (4.97%) Algorithms
5 15 (4.97%) Data Centre
6 13 (4.30%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.99%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.66%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.32%) Clustering
12 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.32%) Online Banking
13 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.66%) PKI
14 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (25.50%) Linux
2 16 (5.30%) Windows
3 11 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.98%) CentOS
4 9 (2.98%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.98%) Unix
5 3 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.66%) VMS
6 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (57.62%) CI/CD
2 162 (53.64%) DevOps
3 95 (31.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (30.79%) Containerisation
5 91 (30.13%) Agile
6 60 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (16.89%) Test Automation
8 47 (15.56%) Root Cause Analysis
9 44 (14.57%) Observability
10 41 (13.58%) Cybersecurity
11 40 (13.25%) RBAC
12 36 (11.92%) Microservices
13 34 (11.26%) Computer Science
13 34 (11.26%) Software Engineering
14 33 (10.93%) Data Security
14 33 (10.93%) High Availability
14 33 (10.93%) Infrastructure Automation
15 30 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (9.60%) Data Protection
17 28 (9.27%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (23.84%) Bash
2 54 (17.88%) Java
3 47 (15.56%) SQL
4 39 (12.91%) Go
5 30 (9.93%) PowerShell
6 20 (6.62%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.96%) Scala
8 17 (5.63%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.97%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.97%) Perl
11 9 (2.98%) VBA
12 8 (2.65%) Ruby
13 6 (1.99%) C#
13 6 (1.99%) PHP
14 4 (1.32%) Bicep
14 4 (1.32%) Cypher
14 4 (1.32%) Groovy
15 3 (0.99%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.66%) C++
16 2 (0.66%) XPath
Qualifications
1 39 (12.91%) Degree
2 30 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (9.60%) Security Cleared
4 26 (8.61%) Master's Degree
5 20 (6.62%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.98%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.65%) RHCE
8 5 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.99%) CCNP
10 3 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.99%) CISM
10 3 (0.99%) CISSP
11 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.66%) CCNA
11 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.66%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.66%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.31%) QA
2 6 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.66%) HIPAA
3 5 (1.66%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.32%) PMO
4 4 (1.32%) SLA
5 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (28.15%) Docker
2 13 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.99%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.99%) KVM
5 5 (1.66%) vSphere
6 4 (1.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.99%) Firmware
7 3 (0.99%) HDFS
7 3 (0.99%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
8 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.33%) Ceph
9 1 (0.33%) NFS
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 127 (42.05%) Terraform
2 112 (37.09%) Ansible
3 109 (36.09%) Kubernetes
4 64 (21.19%) Grafana
5 57 (18.87%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.96%) NetBackup
6 18 (5.96%) Puppet
7 14 (4.64%) Control-M
7 14 (4.64%) IBM Guardium
7 14 (4.64%) Nessus
8 6 (1.99%) Istio
8 6 (1.99%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.32%) Argo
9 4 (1.32%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.99%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (0.99%) Packer
11 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 56 (18.54%) Splunk
2 38 (12.58%) Red Hat
3 36 (11.92%) Google
4 27 (8.94%) Microsoft
5 18 (5.96%) ServiceNow
5 18 (5.96%) VMware
6 14 (4.64%) Oracle
6 14 (4.64%) Tenable
6 14 (4.64%) Veritas
7 12 (3.97%) Commvault
8 7 (2.32%) Databricks
8 7 (2.32%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.99%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.99%) Cisco
9 6 (1.99%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.99%) F5
10 4 (1.32%) Okta
10 4 (1.32%) Pure Storage
11 3 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.99%) SAP