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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +26
Contract jobs citing Python 385 246 144
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.23% 15.79% 9.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.84% 46.24% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 157 102
10th Percentile £381 £370 £409
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -6.76% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
England median daily rate £550 £530 £600
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.63% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £50.00 £69.38
% change year-on-year +26.96% -27.93% +6.73%

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 822 532 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.25% 34.15% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 342 320
10th Percentile £361 £340 £356
25th Percentile £424 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £585
90th Percentile £638 £675 £648
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 7
10th Percentile £18.79 - £29.25
25th Percentile £21.24 - £34.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.35%
75th Percentile £26.63 - £60.00
90th Percentile £34.80 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 0 196 £500 - 89
West Yorkshire 0 183 £500 - 181
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 10
North Yorkshire -5 3 £458 +7.65% 45
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 15 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.86%) Confluence
3 6 (1.56%) Apache
3 6 (1.56%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (1.04%) SAS
4 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.78%) nginx
5 3 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (36.62%) AWS
2 111 (28.83%) GCP
3 103 (26.75%) Azure
4 88 (22.86%) GitHub
5 55 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (8.83%) Serverless
7 30 (7.79%) Power Platform
8 24 (6.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 21 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.64%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.64%) Cloud Run
12 13 (3.38%) IaaS
12 13 (3.38%) OpenShift
13 12 (3.12%) Vertex AI
14 11 (2.86%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.60%) Apigee
15 10 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (2.60%) OCI
16 9 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.01%) DNS
2 25 (6.49%) Firewall
3 22 (5.71%) BIG-IP
3 22 (5.71%) Network Security
4 15 (3.90%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 12 (3.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 8 (2.08%) DHCP
8 7 (1.82%) WAN
9 6 (1.56%) VLAN
10 5 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.30%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.04%) BGP
11 4 (1.04%) NAS
11 4 (1.04%) SAN
11 4 (1.04%) VPN
12 3 (0.78%) HTTP
12 3 (0.78%) Internet
12 3 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.75%) BigQuery
1 26 (6.75%) Power BI
2 22 (5.71%) Metadata
3 17 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.16%) Big Data
5 13 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.12%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.86%) Tableau
8 10 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.60%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.82%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.82%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.30%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 80 (20.78%) Jenkins
2 55 (14.29%) JIRA
3 34 (8.83%) Git
4 18 (4.68%) GitLab
5 13 (3.38%) Gatling
5 13 (3.38%) JMeter
5 13 (3.38%) Maven
6 11 (2.86%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.60%) LoadRunner
8 8 (2.08%) Postman
8 8 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.82%) Zephyr
10 6 (1.56%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.04%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.04%) MSBuild
11 4 (1.04%) Selenium
11 4 (1.04%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.78%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.78%) SoapUI
General
1 80 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.74%) Finance
3 50 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (10.39%) Banking
5 35 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.86%) Legal
7 10 (2.60%) Publishing
8 7 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.30%) Games
9 5 (1.30%) Retail
10 4 (1.04%) Law
11 3 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.78%) Marketing
11 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (20.78%) Developer
2 58 (15.06%) Python Developer
3 56 (14.55%) Senior
4 42 (10.91%) Lead
5 41 (10.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 29 (7.53%) Data Engineer
7 26 (6.75%) Python Engineer
8 20 (5.19%) Analyst
9 19 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (4.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 16 (4.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.64%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.38%) Architect
13 13 (3.38%) Data Analyst
13 13 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (3.38%) Network Engineer
14 12 (3.12%) Software Engineer
15 11 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
16 10 (2.60%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (36.36%) Terraform
2 32 (8.31%) REST
3 31 (8.05%) Node.js
4 28 (7.27%) React
5 26 (6.75%) Kafka
6 24 (6.23%) JSON
7 19 (4.94%) pytest
8 17 (4.42%) OAuth
9 16 (4.16%) OpenID
9 16 (4.16%) PySpark
10 15 (3.90%) OAuth2
11 14 (3.64%) CSS
11 14 (3.64%) HTML
12 13 (3.38%) Playwright
12 13 (3.38%) Vue
13 12 (3.12%) FastAPI
13 12 (3.12%) Flask
13 12 (3.12%) YAML
14 11 (2.86%) RESTful
15 10 (2.60%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 88 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.75%) Data Protection Act
3 25 (6.49%) Data Centre
4 24 (6.23%) Public Cloud
5 18 (4.68%) NHS
6 16 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.64%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.60%) PKI
10 6 (1.56%) Blog
10 6 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.56%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.30%) Replication
12 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (10.65%) Linux
2 16 (4.16%) Windows
3 11 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.34%) Unix
5 6 (1.56%) VMS
5 6 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.78%) zOS
7 2 (0.52%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (55.32%) CI/CD
2 148 (38.44%) DevOps
3 118 (30.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (27.01%) Agile
5 103 (26.75%) Observability
6 68 (17.66%) AI
7 56 (14.55%) Software Engineering
8 55 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (14.03%) Test Automation
10 52 (13.51%) Containerisation
10 52 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (13.25%) Data Engineering
12 48 (12.47%) Analytics
13 47 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
14 45 (11.69%) Full-Stack Development
15 43 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
17 40 (10.39%) Validation
18 38 (9.87%) Cybersecurity
18 38 (9.87%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 78 (20.26%) SQL
2 71 (18.44%) Java
3 57 (14.81%) Bash
4 51 (13.25%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 31 (8.05%) Go
7 18 (4.68%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.38%) C#
8 13 (3.38%) Scala
9 11 (2.86%) ActionScript
9 11 (2.86%) Groovy
10 8 (2.08%) R
11 7 (1.82%) Rust
11 7 (1.82%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.56%) Bicep
12 6 (1.56%) VBA
13 4 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.78%) C
14 3 (0.78%) Cypher
14 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 53 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 47 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.86%) Degree
4 9 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.04%) CISSP
8 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.52%) CCSP
9 2 (0.52%) CISM
9 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.52%) GIAC
9 2 (0.52%) NCDA
9 2 (0.52%) NCIE
9 2 (0.52%) RHCA
9 2 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.26%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.23%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.34%) NIST
4 8 (2.08%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.56%) QA
7 5 (1.30%) HL7
7 5 (1.30%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.04%) GDPR
8 4 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.52%) WCAG
11 1 (0.26%) GRC
11 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (17.92%) Docker
2 13 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (3.12%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.04%) NFS
6 3 (0.78%) Firmware
7 2 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.52%) SRDF
7 2 (0.52%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.52%) vSphere
8 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.26%) Ceph
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 106 (27.53%) Kubernetes
2 54 (14.03%) Ansible
3 33 (8.57%) Grafana
4 28 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.60%) Argo
6 8 (2.08%) Control-M
7 7 (1.82%) IBM Guardium
7 7 (1.82%) Nessus
8 5 (1.30%) HAProxy
8 5 (1.30%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.78%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 3 (0.78%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.52%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.52%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.52%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 55 (14.29%) Google
2 48 (12.47%) Microsoft
3 33 (8.57%) Databricks
4 22 (5.71%) F5
5 18 (4.68%) Splunk
6 17 (4.42%) ServiceNow
7 16 (4.16%) Dynatrace
7 16 (4.16%) IBM
8 9 (2.34%) Cisco
9 8 (2.08%) Okta
9 8 (2.08%) Tenable
10 7 (1.82%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.82%) Foundry
10 7 (1.82%) Infoblox
10 7 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.82%) Sonatype
10 7 (1.82%) VMware
11 6 (1.56%) Brocade
11 6 (1.56%) Oracle
11 6 (1.56%) Palantir