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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 345 98 129
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 16.68% 10.69% 7.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.35% 34.03% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 71 82
10th Percentile £363 £363 £406
25th Percentile £422 £419 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £530 £600 £615
90th Percentile £588 £725 £650
England median daily rate £519 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -9.70% +2.22% -6.25%

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 659 288 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.87% 31.41% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 202 338
10th Percentile £360 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
England median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.52% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £26.25 £21.64
25th Percentile £49.25 £27.56 £24.95
Median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £44.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +38.80% -28.98%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.66 £62.44
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.23
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £61.05
% change year-on-year +3.17% +3.19% -6.08%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +3 237 £482 -16.17% 58
West Yorkshire -2 103 £488 - 63
North Yorkshire - 5 £375 - 10
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 23 (6.67%) Confluence
2 8 (2.32%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.74%) Apache
4 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.16%) Apache Pig
4 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.58%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.45%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 116 (33.62%) AWS
2 98 (28.41%) GCP
3 78 (22.61%) Azure
4 71 (20.58%) GitHub
5 48 (13.91%) OpenShift
6 46 (13.33%) Serverless
7 30 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (6.38%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 19 (5.51%) Power Platform
10 17 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.48%) Entra ID
14 11 (3.19%) AWS KMS
14 11 (3.19%) SaaS
14 11 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.41%) Firewall
2 27 (7.83%) DNS
3 15 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.48%) VPN
5 10 (2.90%) Network Security
6 7 (2.03%) WAN
7 6 (1.74%) LAN
8 5 (1.45%) SSL
9 4 (1.16%) BIG-IP
9 4 (1.16%) Internet
9 4 (1.16%) NAS
9 4 (1.16%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.87%) DHCP
10 3 (0.87%) SAN
11 2 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.58%) DWDM
11 2 (0.58%) HTTP
11 2 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.58%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.36%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (10.14%) NoSQL
3 18 (5.22%) Power BI
4 17 (4.93%) MySQL
5 14 (4.06%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.61%) Hadoop
7 9 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.32%) Metadata
8 8 (2.32%) Power Query
8 8 (2.32%) PowerPivot
9 6 (1.74%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.74%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.74%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.74%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.45%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.16%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.16%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.58%) HBase
Development Applications
1 128 (37.10%) Jenkins
2 64 (18.55%) JIRA
3 61 (17.68%) GitLab
4 28 (8.12%) Git
5 23 (6.67%) Liquibase
6 19 (5.51%) Postman
7 9 (2.61%) Selenium
8 8 (2.32%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.32%) TestRail
9 7 (2.03%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.74%) PyCharm
10 6 (1.74%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.45%) JMeter
12 4 (1.16%) Gatling
12 4 (1.16%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.16%) Maven
12 4 (1.16%) NeoLoad
12 4 (1.16%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 77 (22.32%) Finance
3 64 (18.55%) Banking
4 46 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.22%) Financial Institution
7 15 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.16%) Legal
9 3 (0.87%) Law
9 3 (0.87%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.58%) Advertising
10 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.58%) Marketing
10 2 (0.58%) Publishing
10 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (14.49%) Developer
2 45 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (12.75%) Senior
4 33 (9.57%) Python Developer
5 30 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
5 30 (8.70%) Lead
6 29 (8.41%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (7.54%) Data Engineer
8 22 (6.38%) Architect
8 22 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (6.09%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.22%) Analyst
11 15 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
12 14 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.48%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.48%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.91%) REST
2 41 (11.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 31 (8.99%) Elastic Stack
3 31 (8.99%) RESTful
4 26 (7.54%) FastAPI
4 26 (7.54%) YAML
5 18 (5.22%) Node.js
6 16 (4.64%) JSON
7 12 (3.48%) OpenID
7 12 (3.48%) TensorFlow
8 11 (3.19%) Kafka
8 11 (3.19%) Playwright
9 10 (2.90%) LDAP
9 10 (2.90%) React
10 9 (2.61%) Flask
10 9 (2.61%) JWT
10 9 (2.61%) OAuth
10 9 (2.61%) SailPoint
11 8 (2.32%) SAML
12 7 (2.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 52 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (8.41%) Public Cloud
4 21 (6.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (5.51%) Data Centre
6 17 (4.93%) NHS
7 13 (3.77%) Algorithms
8 12 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.32%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.03%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.74%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.45%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.16%) Clustering
13 4 (1.16%) Online Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.87%) PKI
14 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
15 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (24.06%) Linux
2 21 (6.09%) Windows
3 12 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.61%) CentOS
4 9 (2.61%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.61%) Unix
5 3 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (58.26%) CI/CD
2 179 (51.88%) DevOps
3 109 (31.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 105 (30.43%) Containerisation
5 104 (30.14%) Agile
6 76 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (17.68%) Observability
8 49 (14.20%) RBAC
8 49 (14.20%) Root Cause Analysis
9 48 (13.91%) Test Automation
10 44 (12.75%) Cybersecurity
11 42 (12.17%) High Availability
12 38 (11.01%) Microservices
13 37 (10.72%) Software Engineering
14 36 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (10.43%) Infrastructure Automation
14 36 (10.43%) Migration
15 35 (10.14%) Computer Science
16 34 (9.86%) Analytics
17 33 (9.57%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (23.19%) Bash
2 50 (14.49%) SQL
3 49 (14.20%) Java
4 41 (11.88%) Go
5 39 (11.30%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.25%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.64%) Scala
9 14 (4.06%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.19%) Perl
10 11 (3.19%) VBA
11 9 (2.61%) Groovy
11 9 (2.61%) Ruby
12 6 (1.74%) PHP
13 5 (1.45%) Bicep
13 5 (1.45%) C#
14 4 (1.16%) Cypher
15 3 (0.87%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (11.59%) Degree
2 30 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (8.41%) Security Cleared
4 26 (7.54%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.80%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.32%) RHCE
8 5 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.45%) CISM
8 5 (1.45%) CISSP
9 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.87%) CCNP
10 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.58%) CCNA
11 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.58%) OCP
11 2 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.19%) QA
2 7 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.45%) HIPAA
3 5 (1.45%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.16%) PMO
4 4 (1.16%) SLA
5 3 (0.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (26.96%) Docker
2 20 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (4.06%) vSphere
5 9 (2.61%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.61%) KVM
5 9 (2.61%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (1.16%) Firmware
6 4 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.58%) HDFS
8 1 (0.29%) Ceph
8 1 (0.29%) NFS
8 1 (0.29%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 145 (42.03%) Terraform
2 142 (41.16%) Kubernetes
3 123 (35.65%) Ansible
4 73 (21.16%) Grafana
5 68 (19.71%) Prometheus
6 19 (5.51%) Puppet
7 18 (5.22%) Control-M
7 18 (5.22%) IBM Guardium
7 18 (5.22%) Nessus
8 15 (4.35%) NetBackup
9 12 (3.48%) vCenter Server
10 10 (2.90%) Argo
10 10 (2.90%) Istio
11 6 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.87%) Packer
13 3 (0.87%) PowerCLI
14 2 (0.58%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (19.42%) Splunk
2 44 (12.75%) Google
3 42 (12.17%) Red Hat
4 30 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 26 (7.54%) VMware
6 18 (5.22%) Tenable
7 17 (4.93%) ServiceNow
8 13 (3.77%) Oracle
9 11 (3.19%) Pure Storage
9 11 (3.19%) Veritas
10 10 (2.90%) F5
11 9 (2.61%) Commvault
11 9 (2.61%) Databricks
12 7 (2.03%) CheckPoint
12 7 (2.03%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.74%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.45%) Cisco
14 5 (1.45%) Dynatrace
15 4 (1.16%) Infoblox
15 4 (1.16%) Okta