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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 380 121 136
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.67% 12.90% 7.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.99% 39.16% 31.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 85 85
10th Percentile £363 £350 £406
25th Percentile £413 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.09% -19.17%
75th Percentile £530 £606 £615
90th Percentile £588 £665 £650
England median daily rate £518 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -6.76% +0.91% -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 691 309 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.32% 32.94% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 210 307
10th Percentile £358 £330 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £623 £650 £627
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £29.38 £23.62
25th Percentile - £31.62 £29.89
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £41.60
Median % change year-on-year - +117.33% -33.44%
75th Percentile - £100.28 £53.30
90th Percentile - £102.00 £59.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -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 2 April 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 April 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 +3 259 £475 -13.24% 40
West Yorkshire 0 114 £490 +3.16% 91
North Yorkshire - 9 £506 - 15
East Yorkshire -18 1 - - 12
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 29 (7.63%) Confluence
2 16 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.79%) SAS
6 2 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 118 (31.05%) AWS
2 97 (25.53%) GitHub
3 89 (23.42%) GCP
4 69 (18.16%) Azure
5 63 (16.58%) OpenShift
6 42 (11.05%) Serverless
7 39 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (6.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 22 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (5.00%) Power Platform
11 17 (4.47%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (3.42%) Apigee
13 13 (3.42%) Entra ID
14 12 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.16%) SaaS
15 11 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (2.89%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.21%) DNS
2 20 (5.26%) Firewall
3 14 (3.68%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.63%) VPN
5 9 (2.37%) SAN
6 8 (2.11%) Network Security
6 8 (2.11%) WAN
7 7 (1.84%) DHCP
7 7 (1.84%) LAN
8 6 (1.58%) BIG-IP
8 6 (1.58%) NAS
9 5 (1.32%) Unified Communications
9 5 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.05%) Internet
10 4 (1.05%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.79%) SNMP
12 2 (0.53%) BGP
12 2 (0.53%) DWDM
12 2 (0.53%) HTTP
12 2 (0.53%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (9.21%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.47%) MongoDB
3 17 (4.47%) MySQL
4 16 (4.21%) Power BI
5 14 (3.68%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.89%) Hadoop
7 10 (2.63%) Metadata
8 9 (2.37%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.11%) Power Query
9 8 (2.11%) PowerPivot
10 7 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.58%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.32%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.32%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.05%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.79%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 136 (35.79%) Jenkins
2 63 (16.58%) JIRA
3 51 (13.42%) GitLab
4 27 (7.11%) Git
5 19 (5.00%) Postman
6 13 (3.42%) Liquibase
7 11 (2.89%) Selenium
8 9 (2.37%) Maven
9 8 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.11%) Gatling
9 8 (2.11%) TestRail
10 6 (1.58%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.58%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.58%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.32%) JMeter
12 4 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.05%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.05%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.05%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 97 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.89%) Finance
3 54 (14.21%) Banking
4 48 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.32%) Publishing
9 4 (1.05%) Legal
10 3 (0.79%) Advertising
10 3 (0.79%) Law
10 3 (0.79%) Marketing
11 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.26%) Games
12 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Retail
12 1 (0.26%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (17.11%) Developer
2 44 (11.58%) Lead
3 40 (10.53%) Python Developer
4 39 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (10.26%) Senior
5 31 (8.16%) Architect
5 31 (8.16%) GCP Engineer
6 26 (6.84%) Data Engineer
7 24 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (5.00%) Analyst
8 19 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (4.21%) Python Engineer
10 14 (3.68%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (3.68%) Software Engineer
11 13 (3.42%) GCP DevOps
12 12 (3.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.16%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.16%) Senior Developer
13 10 (2.63%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.84%) REST
2 40 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
3 29 (7.63%) JSON
3 29 (7.63%) YAML
4 24 (6.32%) RESTful
5 23 (6.05%) Elastic Stack
6 22 (5.79%) Node.js
7 20 (5.26%) FastAPI
7 20 (5.26%) Playwright
8 16 (4.21%) React
9 13 (3.42%) Kafka
10 12 (3.16%) OpenID
11 10 (2.63%) .NET
11 10 (2.63%) JWT
11 10 (2.63%) LDAP
11 10 (2.63%) OAuth
12 9 (2.37%) Flask
12 9 (2.37%) SailPoint
13 8 (2.11%) Apache Avro
13 8 (2.11%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.47%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (6.32%) Public Cloud
5 19 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (4.74%) Data Centre
6 18 (4.74%) NHS
7 10 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.58%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.05%) Clustering
11 4 (1.05%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.05%) EMC VMAX
11 4 (1.05%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.05%) PKI
11 4 (1.05%) Replication
12 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 74 (19.47%) Linux
2 27 (7.11%) Windows
3 18 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.63%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.37%) CentOS
5 9 (2.37%) Unix
6 3 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.53%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (58.16%) CI/CD
2 193 (50.79%) DevOps
3 112 (29.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (26.84%) Agile
5 91 (23.95%) Containerisation
6 85 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (18.95%) Test Automation
8 59 (15.53%) Observability
9 49 (12.89%) Migration
10 48 (12.63%) RBAC
11 44 (11.58%) Analytics
12 41 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (10.79%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (10.26%) High Availability
13 39 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
14 36 (9.47%) Root Cause Analysis
14 36 (9.47%) Software Engineering
15 35 (9.21%) Microservices
16 34 (8.95%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 82 (21.58%) Bash
2 56 (14.74%) SQL
3 53 (13.95%) Java
4 34 (8.95%) JavaScript
4 34 (8.95%) PowerShell
5 31 (8.16%) Go
6 24 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.95%) Scala
8 13 (3.42%) Groovy
8 13 (3.42%) VBA
9 12 (3.16%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.37%) Ruby
11 8 (2.11%) C#
11 8 (2.11%) Perl
12 6 (1.58%) PHP
13 4 (1.05%) Bicep
13 4 (1.05%) Cypher
14 3 (0.79%) R
15 2 (0.53%) C
15 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 44 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 33 (8.68%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.37%) Degree
4 19 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.21%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.11%) RHCE
7 6 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.32%) CISM
8 5 (1.32%) CISSP
9 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.79%) CCNP
9 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.79%) OCP
9 3 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.53%) CCNA
10 2 (0.53%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.53%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.42%) QA
2 8 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.32%) WCAG
4 4 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.05%) PMO
4 4 (1.05%) SLA
5 3 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 78 (20.53%) Docker
2 24 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.53%) vSphere
4 16 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.68%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.89%) KVM
7 9 (2.37%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.84%) Firmware
9 5 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (1.05%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
11 2 (0.53%) SRDF
12 1 (0.26%) Ceph
12 1 (0.26%) NFS
12 1 (0.26%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 155 (40.79%) Terraform
2 138 (36.32%) Kubernetes
3 130 (34.21%) Ansible
4 64 (16.84%) Grafana
5 54 (14.21%) Prometheus
6 22 (5.79%) Puppet
7 18 (4.74%) vCenter Server
8 15 (3.95%) Argo
9 12 (3.16%) NetBackup
10 11 (2.89%) Control-M
10 11 (2.89%) IBM Guardium
10 11 (2.89%) Nessus
11 10 (2.63%) Istio
12 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.05%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.05%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.79%) Packer
14 3 (0.79%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
15 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 66 (17.37%) Splunk
2 51 (13.42%) Red Hat
3 36 (9.47%) Google
3 36 (9.47%) Microsoft
4 32 (8.42%) VMware
5 18 (4.74%) Pure Storage
6 17 (4.47%) ServiceNow
7 16 (4.21%) Databricks
8 11 (2.89%) Cisco
8 11 (2.89%) Commvault
8 11 (2.89%) Tenable
9 9 (2.37%) F5
10 8 (2.11%) Oracle
10 8 (2.11%) Veritas
11 6 (1.58%) Dell
11 6 (1.58%) Infoblox
11 6 (1.58%) Sonatype
12 5 (1.32%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (1.05%) Okta