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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 16 39
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 -20
Contract jobs citing Python 301 123 76
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.56% 9.28% 4.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.02% 31.30% 18.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 82 56
10th Percentile £362 £364 £388
25th Percentile £419 £432 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -0.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £614
90th Percentile £613 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £600 £576
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.26% -4.08%

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 614 393 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 33.77% 29.64% 22.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 263 293
10th Percentile £345 £355 £326
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -57.38%
75th Percentile £49.75 £96.64 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +3 176 £500 -11.11% 34
West Yorkshire +4 120 £500 +0.50% 68
North Yorkshire - 4 £425 - 17
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 20 (6.64%) Confluence
2 10 (3.32%) Apache
3 9 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.66%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.33%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.66%) IIS
8 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.66%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 125 (41.53%) AWS
2 81 (26.91%) GCP
3 71 (23.59%) Azure
4 53 (17.61%) Serverless
5 39 (12.96%) GitHub
6 29 (9.63%) Power Platform
7 23 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (7.64%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (7.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (7.31%) Amazon S3
9 21 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (2.99%) Azure AKS
13 9 (2.99%) CloudBees
14 8 (2.66%) AWS KMS
15 6 (1.99%) Azure Storage
15 6 (1.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.62%) Firewall
2 21 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.99%) DNS
4 6 (1.99%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.99%) VPN
5 5 (1.66%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.66%) SSL
6 4 (1.33%) Internet
6 4 (1.33%) Network Security
6 4 (1.33%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.00%) NAS
7 3 (1.00%) SAN
8 2 (0.66%) HTTP
8 2 (0.66%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.66%) WAN
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.33%) FTP
9 1 (0.33%) IOS XR
9 1 (0.33%) SNMP
9 1 (0.33%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.61%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (15.61%) NoSQL
3 29 (9.63%) Power BI
4 18 (5.98%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.65%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.65%) MySQL
6 11 (3.65%) Power Query
6 11 (3.65%) Tableau
7 10 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.32%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.99%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.66%) Apache Hive
10 7 (2.33%) Data Mining
10 7 (2.33%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.99%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.99%) PowerPivot
11 6 (1.99%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 116 (38.54%) Jenkins
2 59 (19.60%) GitLab
3 48 (15.95%) Git
4 38 (12.62%) JIRA
5 31 (10.30%) Liquibase
6 19 (6.31%) Postman
7 6 (1.99%) PyCharm
8 5 (1.66%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.00%) Selenium
10 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.66%) MSI
10 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.66%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.66%) TestRail
10 2 (0.66%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.33%) Maven
11 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 89 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 77 (25.58%) Finance
3 63 (20.93%) Banking
4 45 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (13.29%) Public Sector
6 24 (7.97%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.00%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.66%) Legal
8 2 (0.66%) Police
8 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.33%) Law
9 1 (0.33%) Local Government
9 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (17.94%) Senior
2 48 (15.95%) Developer
3 42 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (10.96%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (8.97%) Python Developer
6 25 (8.31%) Software Engineer
7 24 (7.97%) Automation Engineer
7 24 (7.97%) Data Engineer
8 21 (6.98%) Analyst
9 19 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (5.32%) GCP Engineer
11 15 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (4.98%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (4.32%) Architect
13 13 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (3.99%) Data Analyst
14 12 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.65%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.95%) RESTful
2 40 (13.29%) REST
3 34 (11.30%) Elastic Stack
4 29 (9.63%) FastAPI
5 16 (5.32%) TensorFlow
6 14 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 14 (4.65%) React
7 11 (3.65%) Django
8 10 (3.32%) Flask
9 9 (2.99%) PyTorch
10 8 (2.66%) Node.js
11 7 (2.33%) Hugging Face
11 7 (2.33%) OpenCV
11 7 (2.33%) Pandas
11 7 (2.33%) Regular Expression
11 7 (2.33%) SpaCy
12 6 (1.99%) JWT
12 6 (1.99%) NumPy
12 6 (1.99%) OAuth
13 5 (1.66%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (10.63%) Public Cloud
4 21 (6.98%) NHS
5 18 (5.98%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.98%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.33%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.33%) Clustering
10 4 (1.33%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.33%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.00%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 84 (27.91%) Linux
2 17 (5.65%) Windows
3 11 (3.65%) Unix
4 7 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.33%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.00%) AIX
7 3 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.00%) Solaris
7 3 (1.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.66%) CentOS
8 2 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.66%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (53.16%) DevOps
2 126 (41.86%) CI/CD
3 125 (41.53%) Agile
4 87 (28.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 76 (25.25%) Containerisation
6 59 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (15.61%) Microservices
8 46 (15.28%) Software Engineering
9 45 (14.95%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (14.95%) Infrastructure Automation
10 40 (13.29%) Test Automation
11 39 (12.96%) Computer Science
12 38 (12.62%) Root Cause Analysis
13 37 (12.29%) Data Security
14 35 (11.63%) Configuration Management
15 33 (10.96%) High Availability
16 30 (9.97%) Continuous Integration
17 29 (9.63%) Change Management
17 29 (9.63%) Data Protection
17 29 (9.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 66 (21.93%) Bash
2 51 (16.94%) SQL
3 42 (13.95%) Go
4 35 (11.63%) Java
5 26 (8.64%) Shell Script
6 25 (8.31%) PowerShell
7 17 (5.65%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.32%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.32%) VBA
10 9 (2.99%) Scala
11 8 (2.66%) C#
12 5 (1.66%) Perl
13 4 (1.33%) C++
14 3 (1.00%) C
14 3 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.66%) Bicep
15 2 (0.66%) XPath
16 1 (0.33%) Groovy
16 1 (0.33%) R
16 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (14.29%) Degree
2 35 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 35 (11.63%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.30%) Master's Degree
4 24 (7.97%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.33%) CCIE
10 1 (0.33%) CCNA
10 1 (0.33%) CCNP
10 1 (0.33%) CISSP
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) OCP
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.66%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.00%) PMO
2 3 (1.00%) QA
2 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
4 1 (0.33%) NIST
4 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (27.24%) Docker
2 27 (8.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.32%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (1.66%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.66%) vSphere
7 4 (1.33%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.00%) HDFS
9 2 (0.66%) KVM
10 1 (0.33%) Ceph
10 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.33%) QEMU
10 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 122 (40.53%) Terraform
2 117 (38.87%) Ansible
3 96 (31.89%) Kubernetes
4 53 (17.61%) Grafana
5 49 (16.28%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.97%) Puppet
7 20 (6.64%) NetBackup
8 10 (3.32%) Control-M
8 10 (3.32%) Data Guard
8 10 (3.32%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (3.32%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (3.32%) Nessus
8 10 (3.32%) yum
9 8 (2.66%) SCCM
10 7 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.33%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.00%) Hadoop YARN
12 3 (1.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (18.60%) Splunk
2 49 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 37 (12.29%) Google
4 34 (11.30%) VMware
5 22 (7.31%) Oracle
6 19 (6.31%) Red Hat
7 17 (5.65%) MuleSoft
8 16 (5.32%) Veritas
9 13 (4.32%) Commvault
10 10 (3.32%) Databricks
10 10 (3.32%) Tenable
11 9 (2.99%) F5
12 7 (2.33%) CyberArk
12 7 (2.33%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.99%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.99%) Cisco
14 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
15 4 (1.33%) Apple
15 4 (1.33%) Meraki
15 4 (1.33%) Nokia