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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Python 378 235 152
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 13.23% 15.31% 10.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.49% 45.81% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 152 109
10th Percentile £366 £346 £407
25th Percentile £425 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.44%
75th Percentile £583 £538 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
England median daily rate £550 £538 £596
% change year-on-year +2.33% -9.78% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £64.99 £50.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +29.98% -27.27% +4.79%

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 813 513 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.45% 33.42% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 333 335
10th Percentile £359 £325 £352
25th Percentile £424 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £649
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £18.79 £37.07 £29.25
25th Percentile £21.24 £45.03 £34.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +56.00% +66.35%
75th Percentile £26.63 £82.53 £60.00
90th Percentile £34.80 £92.15 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 0 189 £500 +0.70% 55
West Yorkshire +2 181 £500 - 118
North Yorkshire -6 4 £625 +47.06% 40
East Yorkshire - 4 - - 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 16 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.44%) Confluence
3 5 (1.32%) Apache
3 5 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (1.06%) SAS
5 3 (0.79%) nginx
5 3 (0.79%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 139 (36.77%) AWS
2 101 (26.72%) GCP
3 97 (25.66%) Azure
4 88 (23.28%) GitHub
5 55 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (8.47%) Serverless
7 29 (7.67%) Power Platform
8 19 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 16 (4.23%) OpenShift
11 15 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.17%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.17%) IaaS
12 12 (3.17%) Vertex AI
13 10 (2.65%) Apigee
13 10 (2.65%) OCI
14 9 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (2.12%) Datadog
15 8 (2.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.14%) DNS
2 22 (5.82%) Firewall
3 20 (5.29%) BIG-IP
4 18 (4.76%) Network Security
5 14 (3.70%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 10 (2.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 8 (2.12%) DHCP
8 8 (2.12%) WAN
9 6 (1.59%) VLAN
9 6 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.32%) SAN
10 5 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.06%) BGP
11 4 (1.06%) LAN
11 4 (1.06%) NAS
12 3 (0.79%) HTTP
12 3 (0.79%) SSL
12 3 (0.79%) VPN
12 3 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.35%) BigQuery
1 24 (6.35%) Power BI
2 21 (5.56%) Metadata
3 20 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 14 (3.70%) Big Data
5 12 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.91%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.65%) Tableau
8 8 (2.12%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.85%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.32%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.06%) MySQL
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.79%) Parquet
12 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 84 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 52 (13.76%) JIRA
3 29 (7.67%) Git
4 19 (5.03%) GitLab
5 16 (4.23%) Gatling
5 16 (4.23%) Maven
6 11 (2.91%) JMeter
6 11 (2.91%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.38%) LoadRunner
8 8 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.85%) Postman
9 7 (1.85%) Zephyr
10 6 (1.59%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.59%) NeoLoad
11 4 (1.06%) MSBuild
11 4 (1.06%) Selenium
11 4 (1.06%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.79%) ERwin
12 3 (0.79%) Pylint
12 3 (0.79%) SoapUI
General
1 72 (19.05%) Finance
1 72 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (10.32%) Banking
4 36 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.91%) Legal
6 10 (2.65%) Publishing
7 7 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.32%) Games
8 5 (1.32%) Retail
9 4 (1.06%) Law
10 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.79%) Marketing
10 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (19.58%) Developer
2 56 (14.81%) Python Developer
3 53 (14.02%) Senior
4 44 (11.64%) Lead
5 41 (10.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (7.41%) Python Engineer
7 26 (6.88%) Data Engineer
8 22 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.29%) Analyst
10 16 (4.23%) Architect
10 16 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 15 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.70%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.44%) Data Analyst
14 12 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.17%) Software Engineer
15 11 (2.91%) Network Engineer
16 10 (2.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (35.45%) Terraform
2 30 (7.94%) REST
3 28 (7.41%) Node.js
4 26 (6.88%) JSON
5 25 (6.61%) Kafka
6 24 (6.35%) React
7 16 (4.23%) Playwright
8 15 (3.97%) pytest
9 14 (3.70%) CSS
9 14 (3.70%) HTML
9 14 (3.70%) PySpark
10 13 (3.44%) Vue
11 12 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 11 (2.91%) YAML
13 10 (2.65%) .NET
13 10 (2.65%) FastAPI
13 10 (2.65%) Flask
13 10 (2.65%) OAuth
13 10 (2.65%) OpenID
14 9 (2.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 85 (22.49%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.08%) Data Protection Act
3 22 (5.82%) Data Centre
3 22 (5.82%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.03%) NHS
5 14 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.17%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.38%) PKI
9 6 (1.59%) Blog
9 6 (1.59%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.32%) Replication
11 3 (0.79%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.90%) Linux
2 17 (4.50%) Windows
3 12 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.38%) Unix
5 6 (1.59%) VMS
6 5 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.79%) zOS
8 2 (0.53%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.26%) AIX
9 1 (0.26%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (53.44%) CI/CD
2 148 (39.15%) DevOps
3 107 (28.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (25.66%) Agile
5 91 (24.07%) Observability
6 62 (16.40%) AI
7 53 (14.02%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (13.49%) Containerisation
9 51 (13.49%) Software Engineering
10 46 (12.17%) Data Engineering
10 46 (12.17%) Test Automation
11 45 (11.90%) Analytics
12 42 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (10.85%) Data Pipeline
14 40 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (10.32%) Full-Stack Development
16 35 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
16 35 (9.26%) DevSecOps
17 34 (8.99%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.84%) Java
1 75 (19.84%) SQL
2 60 (15.87%) Bash
3 47 (12.43%) PowerShell
4 33 (8.73%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.35%) Go
6 17 (4.50%) Scala
6 17 (4.50%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.91%) C#
7 11 (2.91%) Groovy
8 9 (2.38%) ActionScript
9 8 (2.12%) R
10 7 (1.85%) Rust
10 7 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.59%) VBA
12 5 (1.32%) Bicep
13 4 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.79%) Cypher
14 3 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 58 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 52 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (1.85%) Degree
5 5 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.06%) CISSP
7 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.53%) CCSP
8 2 (0.53%) CISM
8 2 (0.53%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.53%) GIAC
8 2 (0.53%) NCDA
8 2 (0.53%) NCIE
8 2 (0.53%) OCP
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.53%) RHCA
8 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.12%) NIST
3 6 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.32%) HL7
4 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.06%) GDPR
5 4 (1.06%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.79%) QA
6 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.79%) WCAG
7 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (19.05%) Docker
2 12 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.65%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.32%) vSphere
6 4 (1.06%) NFS
7 3 (0.79%) Firmware
7 3 (0.79%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.53%) SRDF
8 2 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.26%) Ceph
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 106 (28.04%) Kubernetes
2 59 (15.61%) Ansible
3 35 (9.26%) Grafana
4 28 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.44%) Argo
6 9 (2.38%) HAProxy
7 7 (1.85%) Control-M
8 6 (1.59%) IBM Guardium
8 6 (1.59%) Nessus
9 5 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 5 (1.32%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.79%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.79%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 47 (12.43%) Google
1 47 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.67%) Databricks
3 20 (5.29%) F5
3 20 (5.29%) Splunk
4 15 (3.97%) IBM
5 14 (3.70%) Dynatrace
6 12 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.91%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.65%) Cisco
8 10 (2.65%) VMware
9 7 (1.85%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.85%) Infoblox
9 7 (1.85%) Oracle
9 7 (1.85%) Sonatype
9 7 (1.85%) Tenable
10 6 (1.59%) Brocade
10 6 (1.59%) Dell
10 6 (1.59%) Pure Storage
11 5 (1.32%) Foundry