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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing Python 378 261 142
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.16% 15.94% 9.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.96% 46.11% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 164 100
10th Percentile £400 £365 £413
25th Percentile £425 £432 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £574 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £611 £650
England median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +26.27% -28.57% +7.69%

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 805 566 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.03% 34.58% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 359 315
10th Percentile £353 £344 £356
25th Percentile £417 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £582
90th Percentile £638 £675 £649
England median daily rate £525 £514 £543
% change year-on-year +2.14% -5.25% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £18.79 - £29.25
25th Percentile £21.24 £49.25 £34.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £49.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.52% +23.75% +87.71%
75th Percentile £26.63 £49.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £34.80 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -1 201 £500 - 96
West Yorkshire +1 172 £500 - 179
North Yorkshire -5 5 £535 +25.88% 36
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 6
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 12 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.12%) Confluence
3 6 (1.59%) Apache
3 6 (1.59%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (1.06%) SAS
5 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.79%) nginx
5 3 (0.79%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (35.98%) AWS
2 113 (29.89%) GCP
3 110 (29.10%) Azure
4 86 (22.75%) GitHub
5 51 (13.49%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (8.47%) Serverless
7 27 (7.14%) Power Platform
8 24 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (6.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 15 (3.97%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.70%) Cloud Run
11 13 (3.44%) IaaS
12 12 (3.17%) Entra ID
12 12 (3.17%) OpenShift
13 10 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (2.65%) Vertex AI
14 9 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (2.12%) OCI
16 7 (1.85%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.88%) Firewall
1 26 (6.88%) Network Security
2 25 (6.61%) DNS
3 20 (5.29%) BIG-IP
4 14 (3.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 13 (3.44%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 6 (1.59%) VLAN
7 6 (1.59%) WAN
8 5 (1.32%) DHCP
8 5 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.32%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.06%) BGP
9 4 (1.06%) VPN
9 4 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.79%) HTTP
10 3 (0.79%) Internet
10 3 (0.79%) SAN
10 3 (0.79%) SSL
10 3 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.35%) Power BI
2 22 (5.82%) BigQuery
3 20 (5.29%) Metadata
3 20 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 18 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.70%) Big Data
6 13 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.91%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.91%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.65%) Tableau
9 9 (2.38%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.85%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.59%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.32%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.06%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.06%) Relational Database
14 3 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 82 (21.69%) Jenkins
2 51 (13.49%) JIRA
3 36 (9.52%) Git
4 17 (4.50%) GitLab
5 14 (3.70%) JMeter
6 13 (3.44%) Gatling
6 13 (3.44%) Maven
7 12 (3.17%) Postman
8 10 (2.65%) LoadRunner
9 9 (2.38%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.12%) Claude Code
10 8 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.85%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.85%) Zephyr
12 6 (1.59%) NeoLoad
12 6 (1.59%) Selenium
12 6 (1.59%) SoapUI
13 4 (1.06%) MSBuild
13 4 (1.06%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.79%) Pylint
General
1 82 (21.69%) Finance
2 78 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 48 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.79%) Banking
5 29 (7.67%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.91%) Legal
7 8 (2.12%) Publishing
8 6 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.32%) Games
9 5 (1.32%) Retail
10 4 (1.06%) Law
11 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.79%) Marketing
12 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Organisational 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 72 (19.05%) Developer
2 58 (15.34%) Senior
3 56 (14.81%) Python Developer
4 43 (11.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (11.38%) Lead
5 29 (7.67%) Data Engineer
6 24 (6.35%) Python Engineer
7 22 (5.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 19 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (4.23%) Analyst
10 15 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.44%) Network Engineer
12 13 (3.44%) Software Engineer
13 12 (3.17%) Data Analyst
13 12 (3.17%) Senior Developer
14 11 (2.91%) Architect
14 11 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (2.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (34.92%) Terraform
2 33 (8.73%) REST
3 27 (7.14%) Node.js
4 25 (6.61%) React
5 24 (6.35%) Kafka
6 19 (5.03%) pytest
7 18 (4.76%) OAuth
7 18 (4.76%) OpenID
8 16 (4.23%) JSON
8 16 (4.23%) OAuth2
9 15 (3.97%) HTML
9 15 (3.97%) PySpark
10 13 (3.44%) CSS
11 12 (3.17%) Flask
11 12 (3.17%) Vue
11 12 (3.17%) YAML
12 11 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
12 11 (2.91%) RESTful
13 10 (2.65%) FastAPI
13 10 (2.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (24.07%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.88%) Public Cloud
3 25 (6.61%) Data Centre
4 23 (6.08%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.97%) NHS
7 14 (3.70%) AI Agents
8 12 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (3.17%) PKI
9 11 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (2.91%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.91%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.59%) Blog
10 6 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.59%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.32%) Replication
12 4 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.38%) Linux
2 16 (4.23%) Windows
3 12 (3.17%) Unix
4 10 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.85%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.59%) VMS
7 3 (0.79%) zOS
8 2 (0.53%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.26%) AIX
9 1 (0.26%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (58.20%) CI/CD
2 154 (40.74%) DevOps
3 116 (30.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (26.98%) Observability
5 101 (26.72%) Agile
6 72 (19.05%) AI
7 60 (15.87%) Software Engineering
8 56 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (14.02%) Test Automation
10 51 (13.49%) Containerisation
10 51 (13.49%) Platform Engineering
11 50 (13.23%) Data Pipeline
12 47 (12.43%) Data Engineering
13 46 (12.17%) Analytics
14 43 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
15 42 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
17 39 (10.32%) LLM
17 39 (10.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (21.16%) SQL
2 69 (18.25%) Java
3 57 (15.08%) Bash
4 55 (14.55%) PowerShell
5 32 (8.47%) Go
6 31 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.29%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.97%) C#
9 12 (3.17%) Scala
10 11 (2.91%) ActionScript
11 9 (2.38%) Groovy
12 7 (1.85%) Rust
13 6 (1.59%) Bicep
13 6 (1.59%) R
13 6 (1.59%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (1.06%) VBA
15 3 (0.79%) C
15 3 (0.79%) Cypher
15 3 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 51 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 45 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.91%) Degree
4 10 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.32%) CISSP
7 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.53%) CCNP
9 2 (0.53%) CCSP
9 2 (0.53%) CISM
9 2 (0.53%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.53%) GIAC
9 2 (0.53%) NCDA
9 2 (0.53%) NCIE
9 2 (0.53%) RHCA
9 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.12%) NIST
4 7 (1.85%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.32%) HL7
6 5 (1.32%) QA
6 5 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.06%) GDPR
8 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (17.99%) Docker
2 13 (3.44%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.06%) NFS
5 2 (0.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (0.53%) Firmware
5 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.53%) SRDF
5 2 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.53%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.26%) Ceph
6 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 107 (28.31%) Kubernetes
2 53 (14.02%) Ansible
3 36 (9.52%) Grafana
4 31 (8.20%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.65%) Argo
6 8 (2.12%) Control-M
7 7 (1.85%) IBM Guardium
7 7 (1.85%) Nessus
8 5 (1.32%) HAProxy
8 5 (1.32%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.79%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 3 (0.79%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.53%) SnapMirror
10 2 (0.53%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 56 (14.81%) Google
2 52 (13.76%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.67%) Databricks
4 20 (5.29%) F5
5 19 (5.03%) Splunk
6 18 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 17 (4.50%) Dynatrace
7 17 (4.50%) IBM
8 9 (2.38%) Cisco
9 8 (2.12%) Okta
9 8 (2.12%) Tenable
9 8 (2.12%) VMware
10 7 (1.85%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.85%) Foundry
10 7 (1.85%) Oracle
11 6 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.59%) Palantir
12 5 (1.32%) Arista
12 5 (1.32%) New Relic
12 5 (1.32%) Sonatype