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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Python 368 120 137
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 15.84% 12.64% 8.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.18% 39.34% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 85 87
10th Percentile £363 £350 £404
25th Percentile £415 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £615
90th Percentile £588 £650 £650
England median daily rate £518 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -6.76% +0.91% -8.33%

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 692 305 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.79% 32.14% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 212 307
10th Percentile £358 £326 £300
25th Percentile £421 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £563
90th Percentile £625 £650 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £31.62 £23.62
25th Percentile - £44.87 £29.89
Median hourly rate - £91.05 £41.60
Median % change year-on-year - +118.86% -33.44%
75th Percentile - £101.14 £53.30
90th Percentile - £102.00 £59.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +2 241 £475 -9.52% 40
West Yorkshire +3 120 £500 +5.26% 91
North Yorkshire - 9 £506 - 15
East Yorkshire -15 1 - - 12
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 27 (7.34%) Confluence
2 18 (4.89%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.82%) SAS
6 2 (0.54%) Apache
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.36%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 111 (30.16%) AWS
2 93 (25.27%) GitHub
3 80 (21.74%) GCP
4 74 (20.11%) Azure
5 61 (16.58%) OpenShift
6 39 (10.60%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (8.42%) Serverless
8 25 (6.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 23 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (5.43%) Power Platform
11 16 (4.35%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (3.80%) Entra ID
13 13 (3.53%) Apigee
13 13 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (3.53%) SaaS
14 12 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (2.72%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.97%) DNS
2 19 (5.16%) Firewall
3 13 (3.53%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.72%) SAN
5 9 (2.45%) VPN
5 9 (2.45%) WAN
6 8 (2.17%) LAN
7 7 (1.90%) DHCP
7 7 (1.90%) NAS
7 7 (1.90%) Network Security
8 6 (1.63%) BIG-IP
8 6 (1.63%) Unified Communications
8 6 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.09%) Internet
9 4 (1.09%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.82%) PSTN
10 3 (0.82%) SNMP
11 2 (0.54%) BGP
11 2 (0.54%) DWDM
11 2 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.62%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.35%) Power BI
5 15 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.53%) MySQL
7 12 (3.26%) Hadoop
8 10 (2.72%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.72%) Metadata
9 9 (2.45%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.17%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.17%) Power Query
10 8 (2.17%) PowerPivot
11 7 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.63%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.09%) Big Data
14 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.09%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.82%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 119 (32.34%) Jenkins
2 61 (16.58%) JIRA
3 34 (9.24%) GitLab
4 25 (6.79%) Git
5 19 (5.16%) Postman
6 11 (2.99%) Selenium
7 9 (2.45%) Maven
8 8 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.17%) Gatling
8 8 (2.17%) TestRail
9 6 (1.63%) Liquibase
9 6 (1.63%) PyCharm
9 6 (1.63%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.63%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.36%) JMeter
11 4 (1.09%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.09%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.09%) LoadRunner
11 4 (1.09%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 90 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.03%) Finance
3 50 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (12.23%) Banking
5 32 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.36%) Publishing
8 4 (1.09%) Legal
9 3 (0.82%) Advertising
9 3 (0.82%) Law
9 3 (0.82%) Marketing
10 2 (0.54%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.54%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.27%) Games
11 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.27%) Retail
11 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.27%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (18.48%) Developer
2 44 (11.96%) Lead
3 43 (11.68%) Python Developer
4 38 (10.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (9.78%) Senior
6 32 (8.70%) Architect
7 25 (6.79%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.98%) GCP Engineer
10 19 (5.16%) Analyst
10 19 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (4.08%) Python Engineer
12 13 (3.53%) GCP DevOps
12 13 (3.53%) Senior Developer
13 12 (3.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.26%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 10 (2.72%) Automation Engineer
14 10 (2.72%) Automation Test Lead
14 10 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (2.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.60%) OpenTelemetry
2 33 (8.97%) REST
3 30 (8.15%) JSON
4 29 (7.88%) YAML
5 23 (6.25%) Node.js
6 21 (5.71%) FastAPI
7 20 (5.43%) Playwright
8 18 (4.89%) React
9 14 (3.80%) Kafka
10 12 (3.26%) LDAP
10 12 (3.26%) OpenID
10 12 (3.26%) RESTful
11 10 (2.72%) .NET
11 10 (2.72%) JWT
11 10 (2.72%) OAuth
12 9 (2.45%) Apache Avro
12 9 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (2.45%) Flask
12 9 (2.45%) Protocol Buffers
12 9 (2.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.32%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (5.43%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (5.43%) NHS
4 19 (5.16%) Data Centre
5 17 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.26%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.63%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.63%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.36%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (1.36%) Replication
8 5 (1.36%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.09%) Clustering
9 4 (1.09%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.09%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.09%) PKI
10 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.82%) IoT
10 3 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.30%) Linux
2 28 (7.61%) Windows
3 18 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.72%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.45%) CentOS
6 6 (1.63%) Unix
7 3 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.54%) VMS
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.27%) AIX
9 1 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (55.98%) CI/CD
2 175 (47.55%) DevOps
3 98 (26.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (25.00%) Agile
5 89 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (20.92%) Containerisation
7 63 (17.12%) Test Automation
8 62 (16.85%) Observability
9 50 (13.59%) RBAC
10 49 (13.32%) Migration
11 47 (12.77%) Analytics
12 42 (11.41%) Platform Engineering
13 38 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (9.51%) Data Modelling
16 32 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
17 31 (8.42%) AI
17 31 (8.42%) Validation
18 30 (8.15%) Software Engineering
19 29 (7.88%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 76 (20.65%) Bash
2 57 (15.49%) SQL
3 54 (14.67%) Java
4 36 (9.78%) JavaScript
4 36 (9.78%) PowerShell
5 25 (6.79%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.89%) Go
7 16 (4.35%) Scala
8 13 (3.53%) Groovy
8 13 (3.53%) VBA
9 9 (2.45%) Ruby
10 8 (2.17%) Perl
10 8 (2.17%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.90%) C#
12 6 (1.63%) PHP
13 4 (1.09%) Bicep
13 4 (1.09%) Cypher
14 3 (0.82%) R
15 2 (0.54%) C
15 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 43 (11.68%) Security Cleared
2 33 (8.97%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.62%) Degree
4 8 (2.17%) RHCE
5 7 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.36%) CISM
7 5 (1.36%) CISSP
8 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.82%) CCNP
9 3 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.82%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.82%) OCP
9 3 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.54%) CCNA
10 2 (0.54%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.54%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.53%) QA
2 9 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.63%) WCAG
4 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.09%) PMO
5 4 (1.09%) SLA
6 2 (0.54%) NIST
6 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (18.75%) Docker
2 25 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.43%) vSphere
4 16 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.53%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.72%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.72%) KVM
7 7 (1.90%) Firmware
8 5 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.09%) Active Directory
9 4 (1.09%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.82%) SRDF
11 2 (0.54%) NFS
12 1 (0.27%) Ceph
12 1 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.27%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 141 (38.32%) Terraform
2 126 (34.24%) Kubernetes
3 110 (29.89%) Ansible
4 51 (13.86%) Grafana
5 42 (11.41%) Prometheus
6 19 (5.16%) Puppet
7 18 (4.89%) vCenter Server
8 14 (3.80%) Argo
9 11 (2.99%) Control-M
9 11 (2.99%) IBM Guardium
9 11 (2.99%) Nessus
10 10 (2.72%) Istio
11 9 (2.45%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.09%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.09%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.82%) Packer
14 3 (0.82%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 54 (14.67%) Splunk
2 47 (12.77%) Red Hat
3 35 (9.51%) Microsoft
4 32 (8.70%) Google
5 31 (8.42%) VMware
6 19 (5.16%) Databricks
7 18 (4.89%) Pure Storage
8 17 (4.62%) ServiceNow
9 12 (3.26%) Cisco
10 11 (2.99%) Tenable
11 8 (2.17%) F5
12 7 (1.90%) Commvault
12 7 (1.90%) Dell
12 7 (1.90%) Veritas
13 6 (1.63%) Infoblox
13 6 (1.63%) Sonatype
14 5 (1.36%) Dynatrace
15 4 (1.09%) Broadcom
15 4 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (1.09%) Okta