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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 363 109 129
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.61% 11.98% 7.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.18% 37.07% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 76 83
10th Percentile £363 £363 £407
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £536 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +9.34% -18.33%
75th Percentile £532 £623 £615
90th Percentile £600 £700 £650
England median daily rate £520 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.45% -8.25%

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 670 294 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.66% 32.31% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 207 326
10th Percentile £358 £354 £300
25th Percentile £424 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £552
90th Percentile £638 £650 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.23% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £26.25 £27.80
25th Percentile £49.25 £27.56 £40.35
Median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% -0.63% -0.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.66 £62.88
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +3 258 £488 -15.22% 69
West Yorkshire 0 101 £488 -2.50% 87
North Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 19
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 27 (7.44%) Confluence
2 14 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.83%) Apache
5 3 (0.83%) SAS
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.38%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 111 (30.58%) AWS
2 96 (26.45%) GCP
3 80 (22.04%) GitHub
4 73 (20.11%) Azure
5 55 (15.15%) OpenShift
6 43 (11.85%) Serverless
7 31 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (6.61%) Amazon S3
9 21 (5.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 20 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (4.13%) Power Platform
15 14 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.31%) Entra ID
16 12 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (3.03%) AWS KMS
17 11 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.54%) DNS
2 27 (7.44%) Firewall
3 16 (4.41%) TCP/IP
4 15 (4.13%) VPN
5 10 (2.75%) Network Security
6 7 (1.93%) SAN
6 7 (1.93%) WAN
7 6 (1.65%) LAN
8 5 (1.38%) NAS
8 5 (1.38%) SSL
9 4 (1.10%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.10%) Internet
9 4 (1.10%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.83%) DHCP
10 3 (0.83%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.55%) BGP
11 2 (0.55%) DWDM
11 2 (0.55%) HTTP
11 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (11.02%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.68%) MySQL
4 14 (3.86%) Power BI
5 13 (3.58%) Hadoop
5 13 (3.58%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.75%) Metadata
6 10 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.20%) Power Query
8 8 (2.20%) PowerPivot
9 6 (1.65%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.65%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.10%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.10%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.55%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.55%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 139 (38.29%) Jenkins
2 70 (19.28%) JIRA
3 59 (16.25%) GitLab
4 31 (8.54%) Git
5 19 (5.23%) Liquibase
5 19 (5.23%) Postman
6 10 (2.75%) Selenium
7 8 (2.20%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.20%) TestRail
8 7 (1.93%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.65%) PyCharm
9 6 (1.65%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.38%) JMeter
10 5 (1.38%) Maven
10 5 (1.38%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.10%) Gatling
11 4 (1.10%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.10%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 99 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.04%) Finance
3 64 (17.63%) Banking
4 55 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (4.13%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.10%) Legal
9 3 (0.83%) Advertising
9 3 (0.83%) Law
9 3 (0.83%) Marketing
9 3 (0.83%) Publishing
9 3 (0.83%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.55%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (15.43%) Developer
2 49 (13.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (12.40%) Senior
4 40 (11.02%) Lead
5 37 (10.19%) Python Developer
6 33 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
7 28 (7.71%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (7.71%) Data Engineer
8 23 (6.34%) Architect
9 22 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (4.68%) Analyst
10 17 (4.68%) Software Engineer
11 16 (4.41%) GCP DevOps
12 15 (4.13%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
12 15 (4.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 14 (3.86%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (3.58%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.77%) REST
2 43 (11.85%) OpenTelemetry
3 29 (7.99%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (7.99%) FastAPI
4 28 (7.71%) RESTful
5 27 (7.44%) YAML
6 18 (4.96%) JSON
6 18 (4.96%) Node.js
7 12 (3.31%) OpenID
8 11 (3.03%) Kafka
8 11 (3.03%) Playwright
8 11 (3.03%) TensorFlow
9 10 (2.75%) LDAP
9 10 (2.75%) React
10 9 (2.48%) Flask
10 9 (2.48%) JWT
10 9 (2.48%) OAuth
10 9 (2.48%) SailPoint
11 8 (2.20%) Apache Avro
11 8 (2.20%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.33%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.44%) Public Cloud
4 22 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (4.96%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.68%) NHS
7 15 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.75%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.75%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.93%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.38%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.10%) Clustering
12 4 (1.10%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.10%) PKI
12 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.83%) EMC VMAX
13 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 80 (22.04%) Linux
2 26 (7.16%) Windows
3 16 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.75%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.75%) Unix
5 9 (2.48%) CentOS
6 3 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.55%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (59.78%) CI/CD
2 189 (52.07%) DevOps
3 114 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (30.03%) Agile
5 104 (28.65%) Containerisation
6 88 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (18.18%) Observability
8 61 (16.80%) Test Automation
9 46 (12.67%) Root Cause Analysis
10 45 (12.40%) RBAC
11 41 (11.29%) High Availability
11 41 (11.29%) Migration
12 40 (11.02%) Analytics
12 40 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
13 39 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (10.47%) Infrastructure Automation
15 36 (9.92%) Microservices
16 34 (9.37%) Software Engineering
17 33 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
18 32 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 86 (23.69%) Bash
2 57 (15.70%) SQL
3 45 (12.40%) Java
4 38 (10.47%) Go
5 36 (9.92%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.16%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.96%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.86%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.58%) Scala
10 11 (3.03%) Groovy
10 11 (3.03%) Perl
10 11 (3.03%) VBA
11 9 (2.48%) Ruby
12 6 (1.65%) PHP
13 5 (1.38%) Bicep
13 5 (1.38%) C#
14 4 (1.10%) Cypher
15 3 (0.83%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.55%) C
16 2 (0.55%) XPath
Qualifications
1 36 (9.92%) Degree
2 32 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.51%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.20%) RHCE
7 7 (1.93%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.38%) CISM
8 5 (1.38%) CISSP
9 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.83%) CCNP
10 3 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.55%) CCNA
11 2 (0.55%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.55%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.55%) OCP
11 2 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.31%) QA
2 7 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.10%) PMO
3 4 (1.10%) SLA
3 4 (1.10%) WCAG
4 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.83%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.83%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (25.62%) Docker
2 22 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (4.68%) vSphere
4 16 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.03%) KVM
6 10 (2.75%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.75%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.38%) Firmware
7 5 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.55%) SRDF
10 1 (0.28%) Ceph
10 1 (0.28%) NFS
10 1 (0.28%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 148 (40.77%) Kubernetes
2 147 (40.50%) Terraform
3 130 (35.81%) Ansible
4 76 (20.94%) Grafana
5 69 (19.01%) Prometheus
6 22 (6.06%) Puppet
7 20 (5.51%) Control-M
7 20 (5.51%) IBM Guardium
7 20 (5.51%) Nessus
8 14 (3.86%) NetBackup
8 14 (3.86%) vCenter Server
9 11 (3.03%) Argo
9 11 (3.03%) Istio
10 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.10%) PowerCLI
10 4 (1.10%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.83%) Packer
12 2 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 71 (19.56%) Splunk
2 45 (12.40%) Red Hat
3 42 (11.57%) Google
4 31 (8.54%) Microsoft
5 30 (8.26%) VMware
6 20 (5.51%) Tenable
7 18 (4.96%) ServiceNow
8 13 (3.58%) Pure Storage
9 12 (3.31%) F5
10 11 (3.03%) Commvault
11 10 (2.75%) Veritas
12 9 (2.48%) Cisco
12 9 (2.48%) Oracle
13 8 (2.20%) Databricks
14 7 (1.93%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.93%) Palo Alto
15 5 (1.38%) Dynatrace
16 4 (1.10%) Infoblox
16 4 (1.10%) Okta
16 4 (1.10%) Sonatype