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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 13 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +26 -21
Contract jobs citing Python 242 150 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.67% 9.97% 4.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.36% 32.68% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 108 66
10th Percentile £358 £411 £413
25th Percentile £421 £466 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -4.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £638
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
England median daily rate £535 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -8.94% -2.08% -

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 522 459 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 33.81% 30.52% 23.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 333 333
10th Percentile £339 £357 £363
25th Percentile £400 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £29.25 £18.32
25th Percentile - £34.38 £21.31
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £24.05
Median % change year-on-year - +66.35% -7.52%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £43.43
90th Percentile - £63.75 £50.55
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 0 140 £500 -6.98% 45
West Yorkshire +6 97 £500 - 104
North Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 30
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.13%) Apache
1 10 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.72%) Confluence
3 8 (3.31%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.07%) Apache Pig
5 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.83%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 95 (39.26%) AWS
2 65 (26.86%) GCP
3 54 (22.31%) Azure
4 33 (13.64%) Serverless
5 24 (9.92%) Power Platform
6 19 (7.85%) GitHub
7 15 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (4.55%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.13%) CloudBees
12 9 (3.72%) Azure AKS
13 8 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (2.07%) dbt
17 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (13.22%) Firewall
2 21 (8.68%) TCP/IP
3 12 (4.96%) DNS
4 7 (2.89%) NAS
4 7 (2.89%) SAN
5 6 (2.48%) SSL
5 6 (2.48%) VPN
6 4 (1.65%) Ethernet
6 4 (1.65%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.24%) Network Security
7 3 (1.24%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.83%) HTTP
9 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.33%) NoSQL
2 24 (9.92%) Power BI
3 21 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (7.02%) SQL Server
5 13 (5.37%) Oracle Database
5 13 (5.37%) Tableau
6 11 (4.55%) BigQuery
6 11 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.31%) Apache Hive
7 8 (3.31%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.89%) Data Mining
9 6 (2.48%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.48%) Power Query
10 5 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.07%) Looker
11 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.65%) MySQL
11 4 (1.65%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.24%) HBase
Development Applications
1 83 (34.30%) Jenkins
2 56 (23.14%) Git
3 44 (18.18%) GitLab
4 20 (8.26%) Liquibase
5 19 (7.85%) JIRA
6 16 (6.61%) Postman
7 3 (1.24%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.83%) Selenium
8 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.41%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 69 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.97%) Finance
3 36 (14.88%) Banking
4 30 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (11.57%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.20%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.83%) Legal
7 2 (0.83%) Police
7 2 (0.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.41%) Law
8 1 (0.41%) Local Government
8 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.41%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.41%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (18.60%) Senior
2 39 (16.12%) Developer
3 38 (15.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 20 (8.26%) Data Engineer
6 18 (7.44%) Python Developer
7 16 (6.61%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.20%) Analyst
8 15 (6.20%) Architect
8 15 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (6.20%) Lead
8 15 (6.20%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Data Analyst
10 10 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Senior Technical Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.72%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.16%) RESTful
2 22 (9.09%) REST
3 19 (7.85%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (7.44%) FastAPI
5 13 (5.37%) React
6 10 (4.13%) Middleware
6 10 (4.13%) TensorFlow
7 9 (3.72%) Kafka
7 9 (3.72%) PyTorch
8 8 (3.31%) Django
8 8 (3.31%) Node.js
8 8 (3.31%) PySpark
9 7 (2.89%) Flask
9 7 (2.89%) Hugging Face
9 7 (2.89%) OpenCV
9 7 (2.89%) Regular Expression
9 7 (2.89%) SpaCy
10 6 (2.48%) .NET
10 6 (2.48%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.48%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.16%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.20%) Public Cloud
3 13 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.55%) NHS
5 9 (3.72%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.65%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.83%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 68 (28.10%) Linux
2 19 (7.85%) Windows
3 11 (4.55%) Unix
4 8 (3.31%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.65%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.24%) AIX
7 3 (1.24%) Solaris
7 3 (1.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.83%) VMS
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.41%) SUSE
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (48.35%) DevOps
2 95 (39.26%) Agile
3 89 (36.78%) CI/CD
4 58 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (20.66%) Containerisation
6 44 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (14.88%) Infrastructure Automation
8 34 (14.05%) Software Engineering
9 30 (12.40%) Microservices
10 29 (11.98%) Configuration Management
10 29 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (11.57%) Test Automation
12 24 (9.92%) Data Protection
12 24 (9.92%) Visualisation
13 23 (9.50%) Mentoring
14 22 (9.09%) Decision-Making
14 22 (9.09%) Machine Learning
15 21 (8.68%) Analytics
15 21 (8.68%) Artificial Intelligence
15 21 (8.68%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.66%) Bash
2 44 (18.18%) SQL
3 38 (15.70%) Shell Script
4 37 (15.29%) Java
5 24 (9.92%) Go
5 24 (9.92%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.20%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.79%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.13%) Scala
9 5 (2.07%) Perl
10 4 (1.65%) C#
10 4 (1.65%) C++
10 4 (1.65%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.65%) VBA
11 3 (1.24%) ANSI SQL
11 3 (1.24%) Groovy
11 3 (1.24%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.83%) C
12 2 (0.83%) R
13 1 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.50%) Degree
3 21 (8.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.61%) Master's Degree
4 16 (6.61%) SC Cleared
5 15 (6.20%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.41%) CCNA
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.41%) CISSP
11 1 (0.41%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.41%) OCP
11 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.89%) QA
3 6 (2.48%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.65%) GDPR
5 3 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.24%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.24%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 54 (22.31%) Docker
2 31 (12.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.13%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (3.31%) vSphere
6 7 (2.89%) Active Directory
6 7 (2.89%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 7 (2.89%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.24%) HDFS
8 1 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.41%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 96 (39.67%) Ansible
2 77 (31.82%) Terraform
3 66 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 27 (11.16%) Grafana
4 27 (11.16%) Prometheus
5 24 (9.92%) Puppet
6 15 (6.20%) NetBackup
7 10 (4.13%) Data Guard
7 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (4.13%) yum
8 7 (2.89%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (2.89%) SCCM
8 7 (2.89%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.89%) vRealize
9 4 (1.65%) Control-M
9 4 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.24%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.83%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.83%) Nessus
Vendors
1 38 (15.70%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.88%) VMware
3 32 (13.22%) Google
3 32 (13.22%) Splunk
4 21 (8.68%) Oracle
5 17 (7.02%) MuleSoft
6 15 (6.20%) Veritas
7 12 (4.96%) Red Hat
8 10 (4.13%) Commvault
9 9 (3.72%) Databricks
10 7 (2.89%) CyberArk
10 7 (2.89%) F5
11 6 (2.48%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.65%) Apple
12 4 (1.65%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.65%) Cisco
12 4 (1.65%) Juniper
12 4 (1.65%) Nokia
12 4 (1.65%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.65%) SAP