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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 424 179 168
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 14.94% 13.32% 9.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.60% 43.87% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 121 116
10th Percentile £363 £325 £400
25th Percentile £420 £400 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.44% -16.67%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £600
90th Percentile £615 £600 £645
England median daily rate £526 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -0.76%

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 838 408 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.53% 30.36% 28.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 271 334
10th Percentile £362 £345 £300
25th Percentile £417 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.31%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £585
90th Percentile £638 £600 £642
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £20.38 £31.53 £34.38
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £37.50
Median hourly rate £24.25 £33.11 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% -28.41% +0.63%
75th Percentile £27.31 £66.51 £61.88
90th Percentile £36.50 £85.74 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +3 256 £500 +4.17% 68
West Yorkshire +4 162 £500 - 125
North Yorkshire -7 5 £700 +64.71% 31
East Yorkshire -2 4 - - 21
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 23 (5.42%) Confluence
2 22 (5.19%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.18%) SAS
6 3 (0.71%) Apache
7 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.47%) nginx
7 2 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.24%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 113 (26.65%) AWS
2 108 (25.47%) GitHub
3 101 (23.82%) GCP
4 82 (19.34%) Azure
5 55 (12.97%) OpenShift
6 51 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (5.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 25 (5.90%) Power Platform
8 23 (5.42%) Serverless
9 16 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.07%) Apigee
10 13 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.07%) IaaS
11 11 (2.59%) SaaS
12 10 (2.36%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.36%) OCI
13 9 (2.12%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.89%) Cloud Run
14 8 (1.89%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.67%) DNS
2 25 (5.90%) Firewall
3 23 (5.42%) BIG-IP
4 20 (4.72%) TCP/IP
5 16 (3.77%) Network Security
6 12 (2.83%) DHCP
6 12 (2.83%) SAN
6 12 (2.83%) WAN
7 11 (2.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 10 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (2.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (2.12%) LAN
9 9 (2.12%) NAS
9 9 (2.12%) VPN
10 6 (1.42%) Unified Communications
11 5 (1.18%) VLAN
12 4 (0.94%) BGP
12 4 (0.94%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.94%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (4.95%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.48%) Power BI
4 18 (4.25%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.77%) BigQuery
5 16 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.07%) Hadoop
6 13 (3.07%) Metadata
7 9 (2.12%) Big Data
7 9 (2.12%) Tableau
8 7 (1.65%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.18%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.18%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.94%) Parquet
12 3 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 127 (29.95%) Jenkins
2 72 (16.98%) JIRA
3 28 (6.60%) Git
4 24 (5.66%) GitLab
5 14 (3.30%) Maven
6 11 (2.59%) Gatling
7 9 (2.12%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.65%) Postman
9 6 (1.42%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.18%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.94%) MSBuild
11 4 (0.94%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.71%) ERwin
12 3 (0.71%) JMeter
12 3 (0.71%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.71%) Selenium
13 2 (0.47%) NeoLoad
13 2 (0.47%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (20.05%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.69%) Finance
3 60 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.20%) Banking
5 28 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.36%) Legal
8 7 (1.65%) Publishing
9 5 (1.18%) Retail
10 4 (0.94%) Advertising
10 4 (0.94%) Games
10 4 (0.94%) Marketing
11 3 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.24%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (20.28%) Developer
2 61 (14.39%) Python Developer
3 54 (12.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (12.26%) Senior
5 42 (9.91%) Lead
6 30 (7.08%) Architect
7 26 (6.13%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (5.90%) Data Engineer
9 22 (5.19%) Python Engineer
10 21 (4.95%) GCP Engineer
11 20 (4.72%) Analyst
12 19 (4.48%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.01%) GCP DevOps
14 15 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (3.07%) Data Analyst
16 13 (3.07%) Network Engineer
17 12 (2.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (2.83%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 11 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.38%) OpenTelemetry
2 35 (8.25%) JSON
3 33 (7.78%) Node.js
4 32 (7.55%) REST
5 26 (6.13%) React
6 23 (5.42%) FastAPI
7 19 (4.48%) Kafka
7 19 (4.48%) Playwright
8 16 (3.77%) YAML
9 15 (3.54%) PySpark
10 12 (2.83%) RESTful
11 10 (2.36%) pytest
12 9 (2.12%) .NET
12 9 (2.12%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.12%) Protocol Buffers
12 9 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (1.89%) SLSA
14 7 (1.65%) Flask
14 7 (1.65%) LDAP
14 7 (1.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 72 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.84%) Data Protection Act
3 28 (6.60%) Data Centre
4 21 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (4.01%) NHS
6 15 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.07%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.83%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.89%) Replication
10 7 (1.65%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.65%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.65%) PKI
11 6 (1.42%) Blog
11 6 (1.42%) EMC VMAX
11 6 (1.42%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (13.92%) Linux
2 34 (8.02%) Windows
3 19 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.42%) Unix
6 5 (1.18%) VMS
7 3 (0.71%) zOS
8 2 (0.47%) AIX
8 2 (0.47%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (54.25%) CI/CD
2 181 (42.69%) DevOps
3 116 (27.36%) Agile
4 109 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 90 (21.23%) Observability
6 84 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (18.16%) Containerisation
8 55 (12.97%) Test Automation
9 48 (11.32%) Analytics
10 46 (10.85%) Platform Engineering
11 44 (10.38%) AI
11 44 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (9.91%) Migration
13 40 (9.43%) API Development
14 39 (9.20%) Data Engineering
14 39 (9.20%) RBAC
15 38 (8.96%) Data Protection
15 38 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 38 (8.96%) Software Engineering
16 37 (8.73%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 80 (18.87%) Bash
2 59 (13.92%) SQL
3 58 (13.68%) Java
4 54 (12.74%) PowerShell
5 32 (7.55%) JavaScript
6 28 (6.60%) Go
7 22 (5.19%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.01%) Scala
9 15 (3.54%) Groovy
10 9 (2.12%) ActionScript
10 9 (2.12%) R
10 9 (2.12%) VBA
11 8 (1.89%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.65%) C#
12 7 (1.65%) Rust
13 6 (1.42%) Bicep
14 3 (0.71%) Perl
15 2 (0.47%) JCL
15 2 (0.47%) PHP
15 2 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (8.73%) Security Cleared
2 26 (6.13%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.83%) Degree
5 6 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.18%) CISSP
7 4 (0.94%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.71%) CISM
8 3 (0.71%) OCP
8 3 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.47%) CCNA
9 2 (0.47%) CCNP
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.47%) GIAC
9 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.47%) RHCA
9 2 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.65%) Accessibility
1 7 (1.65%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.42%) WCAG
3 5 (1.18%) HIPAA
3 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.18%) NIST
3 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.94%) HL7
5 3 (0.71%) QA
5 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (18.16%) Docker
2 27 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (4.95%) vSphere
5 13 (3.07%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.12%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.89%) Firmware
7 8 (1.89%) KVM
8 6 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.18%) Active Directory
9 5 (1.18%) NFS
10 4 (0.94%) SRDF
11 2 (0.47%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.47%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.24%) Ceph
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 151 (35.61%) Terraform
2 132 (31.13%) Kubernetes
3 101 (23.82%) Ansible
4 53 (12.50%) Grafana
5 51 (12.03%) Prometheus
6 23 (5.42%) Argo
7 19 (4.48%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.77%) Control-M
9 15 (3.54%) IBM Guardium
9 15 (3.54%) Nessus
10 9 (2.12%) HAProxy
10 9 (2.12%) Puppet
11 8 (1.89%) Istio
11 8 (1.89%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.94%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.94%) PowerCLI
13 4 (0.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
14 3 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 46 (10.85%) Google
2 43 (10.14%) Microsoft
3 40 (9.43%) Splunk
4 33 (7.78%) VMware
5 30 (7.08%) Red Hat
6 26 (6.13%) Databricks
7 25 (5.90%) F5
8 19 (4.48%) Pure Storage
9 15 (3.54%) Tenable
10 14 (3.30%) Cisco
11 12 (2.83%) ServiceNow
12 11 (2.59%) Dynatrace
12 11 (2.59%) Infoblox
13 10 (2.36%) Dell
13 10 (2.36%) IBM
14 8 (1.89%) Brocade
14 8 (1.89%) Sonatype
15 6 (1.42%) Broadcom
15 6 (1.42%) Commvault
15 6 (1.42%) Veritas