Python Contracts in Yorkshire

Python
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 9 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing Python 167 180 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.71% 10.50% 6.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.65% 36.89% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 116 82
10th Percentile £325 £400 £425
25th Percentile £400 £437 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £700
90th Percentile £607 £638 £735
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -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 401 488 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.52% 28.47% 25.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 334 382
10th Percentile £343 £300 £376
25th Percentile £405 £411 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £625
90th Percentile £600 £638 £700
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £31.53 £33.75 £21.31
25th Percentile £31.62 £37.50 £37.33
Median hourly rate £33.11 £52.50 £49.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.93% +6.89% +88.91%
75th Percentile £66.51 £63.75 £57.94
90th Percentile £85.74 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.42%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Yorkshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in Yorkshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Yorkshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Yorkshire

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 5 July 2025. 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 0 94 £493 -2.78% 143
West Yorkshire 0 69 £500 +5.26% 364
East Yorkshire -3 1 - - 45
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (5.39%) Apache
3 5 (2.99%) Confluence
4 4 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Maple
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (32.93%) AWS
2 36 (21.56%) GCP
3 30 (17.96%) Azure
4 19 (11.38%) GitHub
5 17 (10.18%) Serverless
6 15 (8.98%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.19%) OCI
10 6 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.59%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.99%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.99%) CloudBees
11 5 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.40%) dbt
12 4 (2.40%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.17%) Firewall
2 21 (12.57%) TCP/IP
3 12 (7.19%) DNS
4 7 (4.19%) Network Security
5 6 (3.59%) SAN
5 6 (3.59%) VPN
6 4 (2.40%) LAN
6 4 (2.40%) NAS
6 4 (2.40%) WAN
7 3 (1.80%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.80%) DHCP
7 3 (1.80%) DWDM
7 3 (1.80%) HTTP
7 3 (1.80%) SSL
8 2 (1.20%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.60%) BGP
9 1 (0.60%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.60%) OSPF
9 1 (0.60%) SSH
9 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.98%) Power BI
2 14 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.78%) BigQuery
4 11 (6.59%) Tableau
5 10 (5.99%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.79%) Oracle Database
7 7 (4.19%) MySQL
7 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.99%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.99%) Flink
8 5 (2.99%) Looker
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.20%) Big Data
10 2 (1.20%) Bigtable
10 2 (1.20%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.20%) Power Query
10 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (28.14%) Jenkins
2 44 (26.35%) Git
3 20 (11.98%) GitLab
4 15 (8.98%) JIRA
5 14 (8.38%) Postman
6 7 (4.19%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.19%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.99%) Selenium
8 4 (2.40%) webpack
9 3 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.80%) Vagrant
10 2 (1.20%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.20%) TestNG
11 1 (0.60%) Babel
11 1 (0.60%) ScriptRunner
General
1 50 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.15%) Finance
3 24 (14.37%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.18%) Banking
5 12 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.39%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.40%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.20%) Retail
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (14.37%) Developer
2 23 (13.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (12.57%) Senior
4 16 (9.58%) Architect
5 15 (8.98%) Data Engineer
6 14 (8.38%) Automation Engineer
6 14 (8.38%) Lead
7 10 (5.99%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Analyst
8 9 (5.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Technical Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Python Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Technical Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Technical Architect
9 8 (4.79%) Windows Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Data Analyst
12 5 (2.99%) Data Protection Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.38%) React
1 14 (8.38%) RESTful
2 11 (6.59%) REST
3 8 (4.79%) AngularJS
3 8 (4.79%) CSS
3 8 (4.79%) Flask
3 8 (4.79%) HTML
3 8 (4.79%) Kafka
3 8 (4.79%) PySpark
3 8 (4.79%) pytest
4 7 (4.19%) Gherkin
5 6 (3.59%) Middleware
5 6 (3.59%) Node.js
6 5 (2.99%) Django
6 5 (2.99%) FastAPI
7 4 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.40%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.40%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (2.40%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.39%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (3.59%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.99%) NHS
4 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.80%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.20%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.96%) Linux
2 14 (8.38%) Windows
3 12 (7.19%) Unix
4 9 (5.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.99%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.99%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.40%) AIX
6 4 (2.40%) Solaris
7 3 (1.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (1.20%) CentOS
8 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.60%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.92%) Agile
2 64 (38.32%) CI/CD
3 62 (37.13%) DevOps
4 58 (34.73%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (16.17%) Containerisation
6 21 (12.57%) Data Management
7 19 (11.38%) Configuration Management
7 19 (11.38%) ETL
7 19 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (11.38%) Infrastructure Automation
8 18 (10.78%) Microservices
9 15 (8.98%) Analytics
9 15 (8.98%) Data Protection
9 15 (8.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (8.98%) Test Automation
9 15 (8.98%) Visualisation
10 14 (8.38%) Software Engineering
11 13 (7.78%) Computer Science
11 13 (7.78%) Migration
11 13 (7.78%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.16%) SQL
2 24 (14.37%) JavaScript
2 24 (14.37%) Shell Script
3 20 (11.98%) Bash
4 17 (10.18%) PowerShell
5 15 (8.98%) Java
6 10 (5.99%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.59%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.99%) Ruby
8 5 (2.99%) Scala
9 4 (2.40%) Groovy
10 3 (1.80%) ANSI SQL
11 2 (1.20%) ActionScript
11 2 (1.20%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (1.20%) Go
11 2 (1.20%) PHP
11 2 (1.20%) R
12 1 (0.60%) Korn
12 1 (0.60%) Perl
12 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.18%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.38%) Degree
4 12 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.20%) CCNA
8 2 (1.20%) CCNP
8 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.20%) CISSP
8 2 (1.20%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.20%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.20%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.20%) OCP
8 2 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.99%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.59%) QA
3 5 (2.99%) GDPR
4 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.40%) NIST
5 3 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (18.56%) Docker
2 22 (13.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 7 (4.19%) vSphere
5 5 (2.99%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.40%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.80%) VirtualBox
8 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 55 (32.93%) Ansible
2 46 (27.54%) Kubernetes
2 46 (27.54%) Terraform
3 25 (14.97%) Puppet
4 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.59%) Grafana
6 6 (3.59%) vRealize
7 5 (2.99%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (2.99%) SCCM
8 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.40%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.40%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.80%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.20%) Control-M
10 2 (1.20%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.60%) Nagios
11 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.60%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.37%) VMware
3 18 (10.78%) Google
4 15 (8.98%) MuleSoft
5 12 (7.19%) Oracle
6 10 (5.99%) Splunk
7 9 (5.39%) Databricks
8 8 (4.79%) Cisco
8 8 (4.79%) Red Hat
9 7 (4.19%) Commvault
10 5 (2.99%) Apple
11 4 (2.40%) Brio
12 3 (1.80%) Arista
12 3 (1.80%) IBM
12 3 (1.80%) Infoblox
12 3 (1.80%) Veritas
13 2 (1.20%) 3PAR
13 2 (1.20%) EMC
13 2 (1.20%) HP
13 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow