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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Python 426 140 182
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.78% 12.62% 10.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.05% 39.44% 37.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 100 120
10th Percentile £363 £325 £400
25th Percentile £424 £397 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -0.50% -17.11%
75th Percentile £538 £552 £604
90th Percentile £600 £607 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -5.83%

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 803 355 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.75% 32.01% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 243 343
10th Percentile £361 £325 £300
25th Percentile £420 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £625 £600 £638
England median daily rate £513 £523 £540
% change year-on-year -2.01% -3.15% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £31.53 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% -47.02% +15.74%
75th Percentile £25.13 £66.51 £63.75
90th Percentile £25.20 £85.74 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +3 274 £488 -2.50% 23
West Yorkshire +6 145 £500 - 58
North Yorkshire - 6 £625 - 8
East Yorkshire -8 2 - - 3
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 22 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.93%) Confluence
3 11 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.70%) Apache
5 3 (0.70%) SAS
6 2 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.23%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 116 (27.23%) AWS
2 98 (23.00%) GitHub
3 97 (22.77%) GCP
4 86 (20.19%) Azure
5 56 (13.15%) OpenShift
6 47 (11.03%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 27 (6.34%) Power Platform
8 20 (4.69%) Serverless
9 16 (3.76%) SaaS
10 13 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.05%) Entra ID
11 11 (2.58%) Apigee
11 11 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.58%) IaaS
12 10 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.35%) OCI
13 9 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.88%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.39%) DNS
2 23 (5.40%) Firewall
3 20 (4.69%) BIG-IP
3 20 (4.69%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.82%) DHCP
4 12 (2.82%) SAN
5 11 (2.58%) WAN
6 10 (2.35%) Network Security
7 9 (2.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 9 (2.11%) NAS
7 9 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.88%) LAN
8 8 (1.88%) VPN
9 7 (1.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 6 (1.41%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.94%) BGP
11 4 (0.94%) iSCSI
12 3 (0.70%) OSPF
12 3 (0.70%) SSL
12 3 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.93%) Power BI
4 18 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.29%) BigQuery
5 14 (3.29%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.05%) Hadoop
7 12 (2.82%) Metadata
8 9 (2.11%) Big Data
8 9 (2.11%) Tableau
9 7 (1.64%) MySQL
10 6 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.41%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.17%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.17%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.94%) Parquet
12 4 (0.94%) Power Query
13 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 123 (28.87%) Jenkins
2 74 (17.37%) JIRA
3 33 (7.75%) GitLab
4 23 (5.40%) Git
5 17 (3.99%) Postman
6 14 (3.29%) Maven
7 13 (3.05%) Gatling
8 9 (2.11%) Selenium
9 8 (1.88%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.41%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.41%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.41%) TestRail
11 5 (1.17%) JMeter
12 4 (0.94%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.94%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.70%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.70%) ERwin
13 3 (0.70%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 91 (21.36%) Social Skills
2 72 (16.90%) Finance
3 59 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.15%) Banking
5 27 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.35%) Legal
8 7 (1.64%) Publishing
9 4 (0.94%) Advertising
9 4 (0.94%) Law
10 3 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.70%) Marketing
11 2 (0.47%) Games
11 2 (0.47%) Retail
11 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (18.54%) Developer
2 54 (12.68%) Lead
3 52 (12.21%) Python Developer
4 47 (11.03%) Senior
5 44 (10.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (8.92%) Architect
7 25 (5.87%) Data Engineer
7 25 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (4.69%) Analyst
8 20 (4.69%) GCP Engineer
9 17 (3.99%) Python Engineer
10 16 (3.76%) GCP DevOps
10 16 (3.76%) Senior Developer
11 12 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (2.82%) Data Analyst
12 11 (2.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (2.58%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (2.35%) Network Engineer
13 10 (2.35%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.86%) OpenTelemetry
2 36 (8.45%) JSON
2 36 (8.45%) REST
3 35 (8.22%) Node.js
4 33 (7.75%) YAML
5 23 (5.40%) Playwright
5 23 (5.40%) React
6 22 (5.16%) FastAPI
7 17 (3.99%) Kafka
8 15 (3.52%) PySpark
9 13 (3.05%) LDAP
9 13 (3.05%) OpenID
10 11 (2.58%) .NET
10 11 (2.58%) RESTful
11 9 (2.11%) Apache Avro
11 9 (2.11%) Protocol Buffers
11 9 (2.11%) SailPoint
12 8 (1.88%) SLSA
12 8 (1.88%) Vue
13 7 (1.64%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 61 (14.32%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.04%) Data Centre
3 27 (6.34%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.05%) NHS
7 12 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.35%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.64%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.64%) Replication
10 6 (1.41%) EMC VMAX
10 6 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.41%) PKI
11 5 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.94%) Blog
12 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 66 (15.49%) Linux
2 40 (9.39%) Windows
3 24 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.88%) CentOS
6 7 (1.64%) Unix
6 7 (1.64%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.94%) VMS
8 3 (0.70%) zOS
9 2 (0.47%) AIX
9 2 (0.47%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (55.16%) CI/CD
2 185 (43.43%) DevOps
3 107 (25.12%) Agile
4 100 (23.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (19.25%) Containerisation
6 82 (19.25%) Observability
7 61 (14.32%) Test Automation
8 58 (13.62%) RBAC
9 50 (11.74%) Analytics
10 48 (11.27%) Migration
11 46 (10.80%) AI
12 43 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 42 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (9.86%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (8.92%) Data Engineering
15 37 (8.69%) Data Protection
16 36 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
17 34 (7.98%) Data Pipeline
17 34 (7.98%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 78 (18.31%) Java
2 76 (17.84%) Bash
3 63 (14.79%) SQL
4 49 (11.50%) PowerShell
5 37 (8.69%) JavaScript
6 27 (6.34%) Go
7 24 (5.63%) TypeScript
8 21 (4.93%) Scala
9 13 (3.05%) Groovy
10 11 (2.58%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.58%) VBA
11 10 (2.35%) Perl
12 9 (2.11%) R
12 9 (2.11%) Ruby
13 7 (1.64%) ActionScript
14 6 (1.41%) C#
14 6 (1.41%) PHP
15 5 (1.17%) Bicep
16 4 (0.94%) Cypher
16 4 (0.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (8.92%) Security Cleared
2 26 (6.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.82%) Degree
5 9 (2.11%) RHCE
6 6 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.94%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.70%) CISM
8 3 (0.70%) CISSP
8 3 (0.70%) OCP
8 3 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.47%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.47%) NCDA
9 2 (0.47%) NCIE
9 2 (0.47%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.82%) QA
2 9 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.64%) WCAG
4 6 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.41%) HIPAA
4 6 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.17%) NIST
5 5 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.94%) SLA
7 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.47%) PMO
9 1 (0.23%) GDPR
9 1 (0.23%) HL7
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 74 (17.37%) Docker
2 28 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (4.93%) vSphere
5 13 (3.05%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.35%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.11%) KVM
8 8 (1.88%) Firmware
9 6 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.17%) NFS
11 4 (0.94%) Active Directory
11 4 (0.94%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.94%) SRDF
12 2 (0.47%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.47%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.23%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 138 (32.39%) Terraform
2 127 (29.81%) Kubernetes
3 113 (26.53%) Ansible
4 48 (11.27%) Grafana
5 44 (10.33%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.46%) Argo
6 19 (4.46%) vCenter Server
7 16 (3.76%) Puppet
8 15 (3.52%) Control-M
9 14 (3.29%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (3.29%) Nessus
10 9 (2.11%) HAProxy
10 9 (2.11%) Istio
11 8 (1.88%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.94%) PowerCLI
13 4 (0.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 3 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
14 3 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.47%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 47 (11.03%) Red Hat
2 44 (10.33%) Google
3 42 (9.86%) Microsoft
4 41 (9.62%) Splunk
5 34 (7.98%) VMware
6 27 (6.34%) Databricks
7 24 (5.63%) ServiceNow
8 22 (5.16%) F5
9 19 (4.46%) Pure Storage
10 14 (3.29%) Tenable
11 12 (2.82%) Cisco
12 11 (2.58%) Infoblox
13 10 (2.35%) Dell
14 8 (1.88%) Brocade
14 8 (1.88%) IBM
14 8 (1.88%) Sonatype
15 7 (1.64%) Dynatrace
16 6 (1.41%) Broadcom
16 6 (1.41%) Commvault
16 6 (1.41%) Oracle