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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 396 123 165
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.66% 11.82% 9.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.73% 39.30% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 86 113
10th Percentile £363 £351 £411
25th Percentile £420 £405 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £615
90th Percentile £594 £619 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%

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 737 313 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.15% 30.07% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 221 327
10th Percentile £358 £350 £308
25th Percentile £413 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £615 £600 £627
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £31.59 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.76 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £91.69 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.82% +46.70% -
75th Percentile £25.00 £102.00 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 19 May 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 May 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 +2 266 £475 -5.00% 75
West Yorkshire +7 124 £489 -1.01% 144
North Yorkshire - 6 £625 - 18
East Yorkshire -10 2 - - 8
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 21 (5.30%) Confluence
2 19 (4.80%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.76%) SAS
6 2 (0.51%) Apache
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 110 (27.78%) AWS
2 92 (23.23%) GCP
3 85 (21.46%) GitHub
4 81 (20.45%) Azure
5 65 (16.41%) OpenShift
6 40 (10.10%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 22 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 19 (4.80%) Serverless
10 14 (3.54%) SaaS
11 13 (3.28%) Apigee
12 12 (3.03%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (1.77%) Vertex AI
17 6 (1.52%) OCI
17 6 (1.52%) OneDrive
17 6 (1.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.33%) DNS
2 16 (4.04%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.79%) Firewall
4 11 (2.78%) SAN
5 10 (2.53%) BIG-IP
5 10 (2.53%) DHCP
6 9 (2.27%) VPN
6 9 (2.27%) WAN
7 8 (2.02%) LAN
7 8 (2.02%) NAS
7 8 (2.02%) Network Security
8 7 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.52%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.01%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.76%) PSTN
11 3 (0.76%) SNMP
12 2 (0.51%) BGP
12 2 (0.51%) DWDM
12 2 (0.51%) HTTP
12 2 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.30%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.29%) Power BI
5 14 (3.54%) BigQuery
5 14 (3.54%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.28%) Hadoop
7 10 (2.53%) Metadata
8 9 (2.27%) Tableau
9 7 (1.77%) Big Data
9 7 (1.77%) MySQL
10 6 (1.52%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.01%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.01%) Power Query
13 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.76%) Delta Lake
14 2 (0.51%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 111 (28.03%) Jenkins
2 60 (15.15%) JIRA
3 33 (8.33%) GitLab
4 24 (6.06%) Git
5 17 (4.29%) Postman
6 13 (3.28%) Gatling
7 12 (3.03%) Maven
8 9 (2.27%) Selenium
9 6 (1.52%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.52%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.52%) TestRail
10 5 (1.26%) JMeter
11 4 (1.01%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.01%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.01%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.01%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.76%) ERwin
13 2 (0.51%) Robot Framework
General
1 87 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.41%) Finance
3 58 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.09%) Banking
5 26 (6.57%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.52%) Legal
8 5 (1.26%) Publishing
9 4 (1.01%) Advertising
9 4 (1.01%) Law
10 3 (0.76%) Marketing
11 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.51%) Games
11 2 (0.51%) Retail
11 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (19.70%) Developer
2 50 (12.63%) Lead
2 50 (12.63%) Python Developer
3 45 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (10.35%) Senior
5 36 (9.09%) Architect
6 22 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (5.30%) Data Engineer
7 21 (5.30%) GCP Engineer
8 19 (4.80%) Analyst
9 15 (3.79%) GCP DevOps
9 15 (3.79%) Python Engineer
9 15 (3.79%) Senior Developer
10 12 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (3.03%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 11 (2.78%) Data Analyst
12 10 (2.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (2.27%) Automation Test Lead
13 9 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.27%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.86%) OpenTelemetry
2 32 (8.08%) Node.js
2 32 (8.08%) REST
3 31 (7.83%) JSON
3 31 (7.83%) YAML
4 23 (5.81%) Playwright
5 22 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 22 (5.56%) React
6 17 (4.29%) Kafka
7 13 (3.28%) LDAP
7 13 (3.28%) OpenID
8 11 (2.78%) .NET
9 10 (2.53%) PySpark
9 10 (2.53%) RESTful
10 9 (2.27%) Apache Avro
10 9 (2.27%) Protocol Buffers
10 9 (2.27%) SailPoint
11 8 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.02%) Flask
11 8 (2.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.63%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.03%) NHS
7 10 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.27%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.52%) PKI
9 6 (1.52%) Replication
10 5 (1.26%) EMC VMAX
10 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.01%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.76%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 64 (16.16%) Linux
2 35 (8.84%) Windows
3 20 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.02%) CentOS
6 6 (1.52%) Unix
7 5 (1.26%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.76%) VMS
9 2 (0.51%) AIX
9 2 (0.51%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.51%) zOS
10 1 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (54.80%) CI/CD
2 173 (43.69%) DevOps
3 95 (23.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (22.98%) Agile
6 86 (21.72%) Containerisation
7 74 (18.69%) Observability
8 61 (15.40%) Test Automation
9 54 (13.64%) RBAC
10 50 (12.63%) Migration
11 45 (11.36%) Analytics
12 42 (10.61%) AI
13 41 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (9.34%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (9.09%) Data Protection
16 35 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
17 33 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
18 32 (8.08%) API Development
18 32 (8.08%) Data Engineering
18 32 (8.08%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 82 (20.71%) Bash
2 72 (18.18%) Java
3 58 (14.65%) SQL
4 42 (10.61%) PowerShell
5 35 (8.84%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.06%) Go
6 24 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.56%) Scala
8 13 (3.28%) Groovy
9 10 (2.53%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.27%) Perl
10 9 (2.27%) R
10 9 (2.27%) Ruby
10 9 (2.27%) VBA
11 6 (1.52%) Bicep
11 6 (1.52%) PHP
12 5 (1.26%) C#
13 4 (1.01%) Cypher
14 3 (0.76%) Rust
15 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 30 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (5.30%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.78%) Degree
4 10 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.27%) RHCE
6 5 (1.26%) CISM
6 5 (1.26%) CISSP
6 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.76%) OCP
7 3 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.51%) CCNA
8 2 (0.51%) CCNP
8 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.51%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.51%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.51%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.28%) QA
2 9 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.77%) WCAG
4 6 (1.52%) HIPAA
4 6 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.01%) NIST
6 4 (1.01%) SLA
7 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.76%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.51%) PMO
9 1 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 76 (19.19%) Docker
2 28 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.05%) vSphere
4 19 (4.80%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.28%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.53%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.27%) KVM
8 8 (2.02%) Firmware
9 5 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (1.01%) Active Directory
10 4 (1.01%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.76%) NFS
11 3 (0.76%) SRDF
12 1 (0.25%) Ceph
12 1 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 137 (34.60%) Kubernetes
1 137 (34.60%) Terraform
2 115 (29.04%) Ansible
3 53 (13.38%) Grafana
4 48 (12.12%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.55%) Puppet
5 18 (4.55%) vCenter Server
6 16 (4.04%) Argo
7 15 (3.79%) Control-M
8 14 (3.54%) IBM Guardium
8 14 (3.54%) Nessus
9 10 (2.53%) Istio
10 9 (2.27%) HAProxy
11 7 (1.77%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.01%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.76%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 2 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 46 (11.62%) Red Hat
2 42 (10.61%) Splunk
3 41 (10.35%) Microsoft
4 38 (9.60%) Google
5 35 (8.84%) VMware
6 23 (5.81%) Databricks
7 22 (5.56%) ServiceNow
8 18 (4.55%) Pure Storage
9 14 (3.54%) Tenable
10 12 (3.03%) Cisco
10 12 (3.03%) F5
11 9 (2.27%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.02%) Dell
13 7 (1.77%) Dynatrace
14 6 (1.52%) Brocade
14 6 (1.52%) Commvault
14 6 (1.52%) Sonatype
14 6 (1.52%) Veritas
15 5 (1.26%) IBM
15 5 (1.26%) Oracle