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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 14 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 122 142 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.00% 8.41% 6.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.13% 32.13% 23.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 92 90
10th Percentile £351 £411 £424
25th Percentile £405 £430 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +14.83%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 £715
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -

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 320 442 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.47% 26.17% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 319 423
10th Percentile £350 £300 £395
25th Percentile £405 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £31.62 - £42.67
25th Percentile £44.87 £61.25 £47.40
Median hourly rate £91.05 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.68% - +126.98%
75th Percentile £101.14 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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 1 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 1 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 +2 67 £500 +12.36% 28
West Yorkshire -1 53 £500 -4.76% 121
East Yorkshire +4 1 - - 5
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 (7.38%) Apache
1 9 (7.38%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.92%) Confluence
3 5 (4.10%) nginx
3 5 (4.10%) Traefik
4 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.82%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (42.62%) AWS
2 23 (18.85%) GCP
3 18 (14.75%) Azure
4 12 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (9.84%) GitHub
5 8 (6.56%) Serverless
6 7 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (5.74%) AWS Fargate
6 7 (5.74%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.92%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.92%) OCI
7 6 (4.92%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.10%) CloudBees
9 4 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.28%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.46%) npm
11 2 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.93%) DNS
2 11 (9.02%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.92%) Firewall
3 6 (4.92%) Network Security
3 6 (4.92%) SAN
4 4 (3.28%) LAN
4 4 (3.28%) NAS
4 4 (3.28%) VPN
4 4 (3.28%) WAN
5 3 (2.46%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.46%) DHCP
5 3 (2.46%) DWDM
6 2 (1.64%) HTTP
6 2 (1.64%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.82%) BGP
7 1 (0.82%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.82%) OSPF
7 1 (0.82%) SMTP
7 1 (0.82%) SSH
7 1 (0.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.56%) BigQuery
3 7 (5.74%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.92%) Power BI
5 5 (4.10%) Flink
5 5 (4.10%) MySQL
6 4 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.46%) Tableau
8 2 (1.64%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.82%) Big Data
9 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.82%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.82%) Looker
9 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (26.23%) Jenkins
2 26 (21.31%) GitLab
3 22 (18.03%) Git
4 12 (9.84%) JIRA
5 7 (5.74%) Cucumber
5 7 (5.74%) Visual Studio
6 5 (4.10%) Selenium
7 3 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.46%) Vagrant
7 3 (2.46%) webpack
8 2 (1.64%) ERwin
8 2 (1.64%) TestNG
9 1 (0.82%) Babel
9 1 (0.82%) ScriptRunner
General
1 41 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.95%) Finance
3 14 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.66%) Banking
5 6 (4.92%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.64%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.64%) Military
7 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (22.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (16.39%) Senior
3 16 (13.11%) Developer
4 14 (11.48%) Data Engineer
5 11 (9.02%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (8.20%) Lead
7 9 (7.38%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (7.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.56%) Architect
9 7 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.74%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Network Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) Analyst
11 5 (4.10%) Data Protection Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.02%) cloud-init
2 10 (8.20%) Kafka
3 8 (6.56%) REST
4 7 (5.74%) AngularJS
4 7 (5.74%) CSS
4 7 (5.74%) Gherkin
4 7 (5.74%) HTML
4 7 (5.74%) React
5 6 (4.92%) Keycloak
5 6 (4.92%) RESTful
6 5 (4.10%) Middleware
6 5 (4.10%) PySpark
6 5 (4.10%) pytest
7 4 (3.28%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (2.46%) Django
8 3 (2.46%) Flask
8 3 (2.46%) JSON
8 3 (2.46%) Node.js
8 3 (2.46%) Pandas
9 2 (1.64%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (4.92%) PKI
3 5 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.46%) NHS
4 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.64%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.64%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (26.23%) Linux
2 17 (13.93%) Unix
3 15 (12.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (10.66%) CentOS
5 7 (5.74%) Windows
6 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.64%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.82%) AIX
8 1 (0.82%) Solaris
8 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (42.62%) CI/CD
2 50 (40.98%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (36.07%) DevOps
4 37 (30.33%) Agile
5 19 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (13.93%) Containerisation
7 15 (12.30%) ETL
8 13 (10.66%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (10.66%) Data Protection
9 12 (9.84%) Analytics
9 12 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (9.84%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (9.02%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (9.02%) Data Modelling
10 11 (9.02%) Microservices
10 11 (9.02%) Test Automation
11 10 (8.20%) Change Management
11 10 (8.20%) Computer Science
11 10 (8.20%) Migration
12 9 (7.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.85%) SQL
2 22 (18.03%) Bash
3 20 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.93%) Shell Script
5 16 (13.11%) PowerShell
6 13 (10.66%) Go
7 10 (8.20%) Java
8 6 (4.92%) Kotlin
9 5 (4.10%) Ruby
9 5 (4.10%) Scala
9 5 (4.10%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.46%) Groovy
11 2 (1.64%) ActionScript
11 2 (1.64%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (1.64%) PHP
12 1 (0.82%) AppleScript
12 1 (0.82%) Korn
12 1 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.82%) Perl
12 1 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.02%) Degree
4 9 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.74%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.46%) CCNP
7 3 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.64%) CCNA
8 2 (1.64%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.64%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.64%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.64%) OCP
8 2 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.82%) CISM
9 1 (0.82%) CISSP
9 1 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.92%) NCSC
3 4 (3.28%) QA
4 3 (2.46%) GDPR
5 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.82%) NIST
6 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (14.75%) Docker
2 7 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.74%) vSphere
3 4 (3.28%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.46%) VirtualBox
5 2 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 46 (37.70%) Terraform
2 37 (30.33%) Kubernetes
3 32 (26.23%) Ansible
4 12 (9.84%) Packer
5 9 (7.38%) Grafana
5 9 (7.38%) Prometheus
5 9 (7.38%) Puppet
6 7 (5.74%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (4.92%) Consul
7 6 (4.92%) Istio
7 6 (4.92%) linkerd
7 6 (4.92%) Rancher
7 6 (4.92%) vRealize
7 6 (4.92%) ZABBIX
8 5 (4.10%) HAProxy
9 4 (3.28%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.28%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.64%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.82%) Nagios
11 1 (0.82%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (11.48%) Google
2 11 (9.02%) Splunk
3 9 (7.38%) Cisco
3 9 (7.38%) Oracle
3 9 (7.38%) VMware
4 7 (5.74%) Databricks
5 6 (4.92%) Apple
5 6 (4.92%) Commvault
5 6 (4.92%) Okta
6 5 (4.10%) ESET
6 5 (4.10%) Microsoft
7 4 (3.28%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.46%) Arista
8 3 (2.46%) Brio
8 3 (2.46%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.64%) 3PAR
9 2 (1.64%) Brocade
9 2 (1.64%) F5
9 2 (1.64%) IBM Sterling
9 2 (1.64%) Sparx