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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 14 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 303 94 108
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.59% 9.49% 6.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.87% 31.33% 24.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 67 72
10th Percentile £378 £405 £407
25th Percentile £450 £463 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -4.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £538 £611 £616
90th Percentile £600 £718 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -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 633 300 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.58% 30.27% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 208 327
10th Percentile £355 £359 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £546 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £704 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - £16.97
25th Percentile £49.25 £26.25 £19.44
Median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +237.62% -59.58%
75th Percentile £49.75 £102.00 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -6.92%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +3 207 £500 -13.04% 54
West Yorkshire -2 90 £500 - 91
North Yorkshire - 4 £375 - 28
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 20 (6.60%) Confluence
2 8 (2.64%) Apache
3 7 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.65%) Apache Pig
4 5 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.66%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 122 (40.26%) AWS
2 91 (30.03%) GCP
3 76 (25.08%) Azure
4 48 (15.84%) Serverless
5 47 (15.51%) GitHub
6 26 (8.58%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (7.59%) Amazon S3
8 21 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (6.93%) Power Platform
9 20 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (6.27%) OpenShift
11 18 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (4.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (3.63%) AWS KMS
15 11 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (2.97%) CloudBees
17 8 (2.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.25%) Firewall
2 14 (4.62%) DNS
3 11 (3.63%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.64%) VPN
5 7 (2.31%) Network Security
6 5 (1.65%) SSL
7 4 (1.32%) Internet
8 3 (0.99%) HTTP
8 3 (0.99%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.66%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.66%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.66%) WAN
9 2 (0.66%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.33%) IOS XR
10 1 (0.33%) Spanning Tree
10 1 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.86%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (11.88%) NoSQL
3 24 (7.92%) SQL Server
4 21 (6.93%) Power BI
5 17 (5.61%) MySQL
6 14 (4.62%) Oracle Database
7 10 (3.30%) Hadoop
7 10 (3.30%) Power Query
7 10 (3.30%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.64%) Apache Hive
9 8 (2.64%) PowerPivot
10 7 (2.31%) Data Mining
11 6 (1.98%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.98%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.98%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.32%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.32%) Tableau
13 3 (0.99%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 113 (37.29%) Jenkins
2 66 (21.78%) GitLab
3 48 (15.84%) JIRA
4 36 (11.88%) Git
5 25 (8.25%) Liquibase
6 19 (6.27%) Postman
7 9 (2.97%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.97%) Selenium
8 8 (2.64%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.64%) TestRail
9 6 (1.98%) PyCharm
9 6 (1.98%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.32%) Gatling
10 4 (1.32%) JMeter
10 4 (1.32%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.32%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.66%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.66%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 64 (21.12%) Finance
3 57 (18.81%) Banking
4 39 (12.87%) Public Sector
5 38 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.60%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.65%) Legal
9 4 (1.32%) Law
10 3 (0.99%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.66%) Police
11 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (14.52%) Developer
1 44 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (12.87%) Senior
3 29 (9.57%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (8.91%) Lead
5 24 (7.92%) Python Developer
6 23 (7.59%) Automation Engineer
6 23 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 21 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (6.60%) Analyst
8 20 (6.60%) GCP Engineer
8 20 (6.60%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.95%) Architect
10 13 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.30%) Automation Test Lead
12 10 (3.30%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.53%) REST
2 33 (10.89%) Elastic Stack
2 33 (10.89%) RESTful
3 26 (8.58%) FastAPI
4 23 (7.59%) YAML
5 17 (5.61%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (4.95%) Node.js
7 12 (3.96%) OpenID
8 11 (3.63%) Playwright
8 11 (3.63%) TensorFlow
9 10 (3.30%) .NET
9 10 (3.30%) React
10 9 (2.97%) JWT
10 9 (2.97%) LDAP
10 9 (2.97%) OAuth
10 9 (2.97%) SailPoint
11 8 (2.64%) SAML
12 7 (2.31%) Flask
13 6 (1.98%) NumPy
13 6 (1.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.52%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (10.23%) Public Cloud
3 22 (7.26%) NHS
4 15 (4.95%) Algorithms
4 15 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.96%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.32%) Clustering
10 4 (1.32%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.32%) Online Banking
11 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.66%) PKI
12 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (28.05%) Linux
2 10 (3.30%) Windows
3 9 (2.97%) CentOS
3 9 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.97%) Ubuntu
3 9 (2.97%) Unix
4 3 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.33%) VMS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (57.43%) DevOps
2 166 (54.79%) CI/CD
3 99 (32.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (31.35%) Agile
5 86 (28.38%) Containerisation
6 65 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (18.15%) Test Automation
8 47 (15.51%) Root Cause Analysis
9 40 (13.20%) Cybersecurity
9 40 (13.20%) Microservices
10 36 (11.88%) Infrastructure Automation
10 36 (11.88%) Observability
10 36 (11.88%) RBAC
11 34 (11.22%) Computer Science
11 34 (11.22%) Data Security
12 33 (10.89%) High Availability
12 33 (10.89%) Software Engineering
13 31 (10.23%) Mentoring
14 30 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (9.57%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 70 (23.10%) Bash
2 59 (19.47%) Java
3 49 (16.17%) SQL
4 42 (13.86%) Go
5 26 (8.58%) Shell Script
6 25 (8.25%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.26%) JavaScript
8 18 (5.94%) Scala
9 16 (5.28%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.96%) Perl
11 9 (2.97%) VBA
12 8 (2.64%) C#
12 8 (2.64%) Ruby
13 6 (1.98%) PHP
14 4 (1.32%) Bicep
14 4 (1.32%) Cypher
15 3 (0.99%) C++
15 3 (0.99%) Groovy
15 3 (0.99%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.66%) XPath
Qualifications
1 37 (12.21%) Degree
2 32 (10.56%) Security Cleared
3 30 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (8.58%) Master's Degree
5 22 (7.26%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.64%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.64%) RHCE
7 5 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.66%) CCNP
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.66%) CISM
9 2 (0.66%) CISSP
9 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.33%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.33%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.63%) QA
2 6 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.65%) HIPAA
3 5 (1.65%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.32%) PMO
4 4 (1.32%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.33%) NIST
5 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (27.39%) Docker
2 10 (3.30%) Oracle RAC
2 10 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 3 (0.99%) HDFS
5 3 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.99%) KVM
6 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.66%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) Ceph
7 1 (0.33%) Firmware
7 1 (0.33%) QEMU
7 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 129 (42.57%) Terraform
2 123 (40.59%) Ansible
3 105 (34.65%) Kubernetes
4 60 (19.80%) Grafana
5 53 (17.49%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.27%) NetBackup
6 19 (6.27%) Puppet
7 10 (3.30%) Control-M
7 10 (3.30%) Data Guard
7 10 (3.30%) IBM Guardium
7 10 (3.30%) Nessus
7 10 (3.30%) yum
8 6 (1.98%) Istio
8 6 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.99%) Hadoop YARN
9 3 (0.99%) Packer
10 2 (0.66%) Argo
10 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.66%) SCCM
10 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (18.48%) Splunk
2 38 (12.54%) Google
3 36 (11.88%) Red Hat
4 30 (9.90%) Microsoft
5 23 (7.59%) Oracle
6 18 (5.94%) ServiceNow
7 16 (5.28%) VMware
8 15 (4.95%) Veritas
9 13 (4.29%) Commvault
10 10 (3.30%) Tenable
11 8 (2.64%) Databricks
12 7 (2.31%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.98%) CheckPoint
13 6 (1.98%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.98%) F5
14 4 (1.32%) Cisco
14 4 (1.32%) Okta
15 3 (0.99%) SAP
16 2 (0.66%) Brio
16 2 (0.66%) Meraki