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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing Python 357 117 130
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.21% 12.70% 7.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.68% 37.99% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 86 80
10th Percentile £363 £350 £406
25th Percentile £425 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £530 £605 £615
90th Percentile £588 £663 £650
England median daily rate £520 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -7.56% +2.27% -8.33%

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 665 308 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.19% 33.44% 25.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 216 306
10th Percentile £362 £328 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £29.38 £27.80
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.62 £40.35
Median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +45.83% -0.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.28 £62.88
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +2 249 £480 -10.11% 51
West Yorkshire -1 103 £500 +5.26% 94
North Yorkshire - 8 £463 - 15
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 28 (7.84%) Confluence
2 15 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.84%) Apache
5 3 (0.84%) SAS
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.40%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 105 (29.41%) AWS
2 90 (25.21%) GitHub
3 87 (24.37%) GCP
4 71 (19.89%) Azure
5 61 (17.09%) OpenShift
6 39 (10.92%) Serverless
7 33 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (6.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 19 (5.32%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.48%) Power Platform
12 15 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (3.64%) Entra ID
14 12 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.36%) SaaS
15 11 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.08%) AWS KMS
16 9 (2.52%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.24%) DNS
2 21 (5.88%) Firewall
3 13 (3.64%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.08%) VPN
5 9 (2.52%) Network Security
6 8 (2.24%) SAN
6 8 (2.24%) WAN
7 7 (1.96%) LAN
8 5 (1.40%) NAS
8 5 (1.40%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.12%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.12%) DHCP
9 4 (1.12%) Internet
9 4 (1.12%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.56%) HTTP
10 2 (0.56%) PSTN
10 2 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.56%) SNMP
10 2 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (9.80%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.76%) MySQL
4 16 (4.48%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.92%) Power BI
5 14 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.36%) Hadoop
7 9 (2.52%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.24%) Metadata
8 8 (2.24%) Power Query
8 8 (2.24%) PowerPivot
9 7 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.68%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.40%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.40%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.40%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.12%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.84%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 135 (37.82%) Jenkins
2 64 (17.93%) JIRA
3 50 (14.01%) GitLab
4 26 (7.28%) Git
5 19 (5.32%) Postman
6 14 (3.92%) Liquibase
7 10 (2.80%) Selenium
8 8 (2.24%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.24%) Gatling
8 8 (2.24%) TestRail
9 7 (1.96%) Maven
10 6 (1.68%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.68%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.68%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.40%) JMeter
12 4 (1.12%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.12%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.12%) NeoLoad
12 4 (1.12%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 93 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 70 (19.61%) Finance
3 53 (14.85%) Banking
4 48 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.08%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.12%) Legal
9 3 (0.84%) Advertising
9 3 (0.84%) Law
9 3 (0.84%) Marketing
9 3 (0.84%) Publishing
10 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.56%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Games
11 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Retail
11 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (15.13%) Developer
2 46 (12.89%) Lead
3 41 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (10.92%) Senior
5 35 (9.80%) Python Developer
6 32 (8.96%) GCP Engineer
7 28 (7.84%) Data Engineer
8 27 (7.56%) Architect
9 25 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
10 20 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.20%) Analyst
11 15 (4.20%) GCP DevOps
12 14 (3.92%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 14 (3.92%) Python Engineer
13 13 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.64%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.80%) Automation Test Lead
16 9 (2.52%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (12.61%) REST
2 42 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
3 27 (7.56%) YAML
4 24 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (6.44%) FastAPI
5 23 (6.44%) RESTful
6 21 (5.88%) JSON
7 18 (5.04%) Node.js
8 15 (4.20%) Playwright
9 12 (3.36%) OpenID
10 11 (3.08%) Kafka
10 11 (3.08%) React
11 10 (2.80%) Flask
11 10 (2.80%) LDAP
12 9 (2.52%) JWT
12 9 (2.52%) OAuth
12 9 (2.52%) SailPoint
13 8 (2.24%) Pandas
13 8 (2.24%) Protocol Buffers
13 8 (2.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (6.44%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.04%) Data Centre
6 16 (4.48%) NHS
7 15 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.40%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.40%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.12%) Clustering
11 4 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
11 4 (1.12%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.12%) PKI
11 4 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 76 (21.29%) Linux
2 28 (7.84%) Windows
3 17 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.80%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.52%) CentOS
5 9 (2.52%) Unix
6 3 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.56%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (59.66%) CI/CD
2 191 (53.50%) DevOps
3 108 (30.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (27.45%) Agile
5 92 (25.77%) Containerisation
6 85 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (17.37%) Test Automation
8 57 (15.97%) Observability
9 47 (13.17%) Migration
9 47 (13.17%) RBAC
10 41 (11.48%) Analytics
11 40 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (10.64%) High Availability
13 37 (10.36%) Root Cause Analysis
14 36 (10.08%) Platform Engineering
15 35 (9.80%) Infrastructure Automation
15 35 (9.80%) Microservices
15 35 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
17 33 (9.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 82 (22.97%) Bash
2 55 (15.41%) SQL
3 44 (12.32%) Java
4 34 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 32 (8.96%) Go
6 29 (8.12%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.60%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.20%) Scala
9 11 (3.08%) Groovy
9 11 (3.08%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.08%) VBA
10 9 (2.52%) Ruby
11 8 (2.24%) Perl
12 6 (1.68%) PHP
13 5 (1.40%) Bicep
14 4 (1.12%) C#
14 4 (1.12%) Cypher
15 2 (0.56%) C
15 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.40%) Degree
3 27 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.24%) RHCE
7 5 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.40%) CISM
7 5 (1.40%) CISSP
8 3 (0.84%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.84%) CCNP
8 3 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.84%) OCP
8 3 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.56%) CCNA
9 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.56%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.56%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.36%) QA
2 8 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.40%) WCAG
4 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.12%) PMO
4 4 (1.12%) SLA
5 3 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 78 (21.85%) Docker
2 25 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.88%) vSphere
4 16 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.92%) VMware NSX
6 11 (3.08%) KVM
7 10 (2.80%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.68%) Firmware
9 5 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (1.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
11 2 (0.56%) SRDF
12 1 (0.28%) Ceph
12 1 (0.28%) NFS
12 1 (0.28%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 144 (40.34%) Terraform
2 140 (39.22%) Kubernetes
3 129 (36.13%) Ansible
4 69 (19.33%) Grafana
5 59 (16.53%) Prometheus
6 22 (6.16%) Puppet
7 18 (5.04%) vCenter Server
8 15 (4.20%) Argo
9 14 (3.92%) Control-M
9 14 (3.92%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (3.92%) Nessus
10 12 (3.36%) NetBackup
11 11 (3.08%) Istio
12 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.12%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.12%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.84%) Packer
14 3 (0.84%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
15 2 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 66 (18.49%) Splunk
2 49 (13.73%) Red Hat
3 35 (9.80%) Google
4 34 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 33 (9.24%) VMware
6 18 (5.04%) Pure Storage
7 16 (4.48%) ServiceNow
8 14 (3.92%) Tenable
9 12 (3.36%) Databricks
10 11 (3.08%) Commvault
11 10 (2.80%) Cisco
12 8 (2.24%) F5
12 8 (2.24%) Oracle
12 8 (2.24%) Veritas
13 5 (1.40%) Dell
13 5 (1.40%) Dynatrace
14 4 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (1.12%) HP
14 4 (1.12%) Okta
14 4 (1.12%) Sonatype