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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 123 165 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.82% 9.93% 5.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.30% 36.18% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 113 83
10th Percentile £351 £411 £425
25th Percentile £405 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +12.94%
75th Percentile £556 £615 £700
90th Percentile £619 £644 £733
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 313 456 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.07% 27.44% 26.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 327 412
10th Percentile £350 £308 £400
25th Percentile £406 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £609
90th Percentile £600 £627 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.48% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile £31.59 - £42.79
25th Percentile £31.76 £61.25 £52.03
Median hourly rate £91.69 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.70% - +126.98%
75th Percentile £102.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - - £71.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +23.10%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -1 68 £500 +3.09% 54
West Yorkshire -7 50 £494 -0.25% 211
East Yorkshire +3 1 - - 12
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 9 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.50%) Apache
3 6 (4.88%) Confluence
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) nginx
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (40.65%) AWS
2 25 (20.33%) GCP
3 18 (14.63%) Azure
4 15 (12.20%) GitHub
5 12 (9.76%) Serverless
6 8 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.69%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (5.69%) OCI
7 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.07%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.07%) CloudBees
10 4 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.25%) Google Compute Engine
10 4 (3.25%) npm
11 3 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.63%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.57%) DNS
2 7 (5.69%) Firewall
2 7 (5.69%) Network Security
2 7 (5.69%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.88%) SAN
4 5 (4.07%) VPN
5 4 (3.25%) LAN
5 4 (3.25%) NAS
5 4 (3.25%) WAN
6 3 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.44%) DHCP
6 3 (2.44%) DWDM
6 3 (2.44%) HTTP
7 2 (1.63%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.63%) SSL
8 1 (0.81%) BGP
8 1 (0.81%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.81%) OSPF
8 1 (0.81%) SMTP
8 1 (0.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.32%) BigQuery
2 8 (6.50%) Oracle Database
3 7 (5.69%) MySQL
3 7 (5.69%) Power BI
4 6 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.07%) Flink
6 4 (3.25%) Tableau
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.44%) Big Data
7 3 (2.44%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.63%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.81%) QlikView
9 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (23.58%) Jenkins
2 27 (21.95%) Git
3 21 (17.07%) GitLab
4 14 (11.38%) JIRA
5 7 (5.69%) Cucumber
5 7 (5.69%) Visual Studio
6 5 (4.07%) Selenium
7 4 (3.25%) webpack
8 3 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.44%) Vagrant
9 2 (1.63%) TestNG
10 1 (0.81%) Babel
10 1 (0.81%) ScriptRunner
General
1 43 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.58%) Finance
3 15 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.94%) Banking
6 7 (5.69%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.25%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Military
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (20.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (14.63%) Developer
3 17 (13.82%) Senior
4 13 (10.57%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.76%) Lead
6 10 (8.13%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (7.32%) Architect
8 7 (5.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Python Developer
8 7 (5.69%) Python Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (5.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Analyst
9 6 (4.88%) Network Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Data Protection Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.25%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (3.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.32%) React
1 9 (7.32%) REST
2 8 (6.50%) AngularJS
2 8 (6.50%) CSS
2 8 (6.50%) HTML
2 8 (6.50%) pytest
3 7 (5.69%) Gherkin
3 7 (5.69%) RESTful
4 6 (4.88%) Middleware
4 6 (4.88%) PySpark
5 5 (4.07%) cloud-init
5 5 (4.07%) Kafka
5 5 (4.07%) Node.js
6 4 (3.25%) Flask
6 4 (3.25%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.44%) .NET
7 3 (2.44%) Pandas
7 3 (2.44%) Web Services
8 2 (1.63%) Django
8 2 (1.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.50%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (4.07%) NHS
3 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.63%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.81%) PKI
5 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.95%) Linux
2 11 (8.94%) Unix
3 8 (6.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (5.69%) Windows
5 6 (4.88%) CentOS
6 4 (3.25%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.63%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.81%) AIX
8 1 (0.81%) Solaris
8 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (43.90%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (43.09%) CI/CD
3 41 (33.33%) DevOps
4 37 (30.08%) Agile
5 20 (16.26%) Containerisation
6 15 (12.20%) ETL
6 15 (12.20%) Test Automation
7 14 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (10.57%) Data Protection
8 13 (10.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (10.57%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (9.76%) Analytics
9 12 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (9.76%) Microservices
10 11 (8.94%) TDD
11 10 (8.13%) Change Management
11 10 (8.13%) Computer Science
11 10 (8.13%) Workflow
12 9 (7.32%) Data Modelling
12 9 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.89%) Shell Script
1 22 (17.89%) SQL
2 21 (17.07%) JavaScript
3 17 (13.82%) Bash
4 16 (13.01%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.94%) Java
6 7 (5.69%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.88%) Go
7 6 (4.88%) Kotlin
7 6 (4.88%) Scala
8 5 (4.07%) Ruby
9 3 (2.44%) Groovy
10 2 (1.63%) ActionScript
10 2 (1.63%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (1.63%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (1.63%) PHP
10 2 (1.63%) R
11 1 (0.81%) AppleScript
11 1 (0.81%) Korn
11 1 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 23 (18.70%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.94%) Degree
4 9 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.25%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.44%) CCNP
7 3 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.63%) CCNA
8 2 (1.63%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.63%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.63%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.63%) OCP
8 2 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.81%) CISM
9 1 (0.81%) CISSP
9 1 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.88%) QA
3 5 (4.07%) GDPR
4 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.44%) NIST
5 3 (2.44%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (18.70%) Docker
2 7 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.69%) vSphere
3 4 (3.25%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.44%) VirtualBox
5 2 (1.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 41 (33.33%) Terraform
2 37 (30.08%) Ansible
3 36 (29.27%) Kubernetes
4 10 (8.13%) Puppet
5 6 (4.88%) vRealize
6 5 (4.07%) Packer
6 5 (4.07%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.25%) Grafana
7 4 (3.25%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.25%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.63%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.81%) Consul
9 1 (0.81%) Control-M
9 1 (0.81%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.81%) Istio
9 1 (0.81%) Nagios
9 1 (0.81%) Rancher
9 1 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (11.38%) Google
2 10 (8.13%) Oracle
3 9 (7.32%) Cisco
3 9 (7.32%) VMware
4 7 (5.69%) Commvault
4 7 (5.69%) Splunk
5 6 (4.88%) Databricks
5 6 (4.88%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.07%) Brio
7 4 (3.25%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.44%) Arista
8 3 (2.44%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.63%) 3PAR
9 2 (1.63%) Apple
9 2 (1.63%) Brocade
9 2 (1.63%) EMC
9 2 (1.63%) F5
9 2 (1.63%) HP
9 2 (1.63%) IBM Sterling
9 2 (1.63%) Veritas