Python Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Python
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 16 39
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -15
Contract jobs citing Python 118 60 51
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 13.44% 7.92% 4.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.44% 25.00% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 42 39
10th Percentile £363 £292 £442
25th Percentile £431 £410 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -6.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £638
90th Percentile £550 £600 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £507 £550
% change year-on-year -1.38% -7.82% -4.35%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 307 240 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.97% 31.66% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 176 209
10th Percentile £358 £328 £360
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £567 £625
90th Percentile £675 £648 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £17.38
25th Percentile - £26.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +40.78% -40.12%
75th Percentile - £39.38 £25.58
90th Percentile - £49.50 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £36.25 £21.31
% change year-on-year +36.55% +70.11% -57.38%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Python job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in West Yorkshire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 November 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
Leeds +2 101 £500 - 89
Bradford +6 13 £435 +2.35% 17
Halifax - 4 - -
Python
Yorkshire

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 7 (5.93%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.08%) Confluence
3 5 (4.24%) Apache
3 5 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 72 (61.02%) AWS
2 42 (35.59%) Azure
3 26 (22.03%) GCP
4 22 (18.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (16.10%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (16.10%) GitHub
5 19 (16.10%) Serverless
6 18 (15.25%) Amazon S3
7 15 (12.71%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (11.86%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (10.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (7.63%) Power Platform
12 8 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (5.08%) Amazon ELB
14 6 (5.08%) Entra ID
15 5 (4.24%) Azure Storage
15 5 (4.24%) dbt
16 4 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.10%) Firewall
2 9 (7.63%) DNS
3 7 (5.93%) VPN
4 6 (5.08%) SSL
4 6 (5.08%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.39%) Ethernet
5 4 (3.39%) Network Security
5 4 (3.39%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.54%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.63%) Power BI
3 8 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.78%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.78%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.93%) Tableau
5 6 (5.08%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.24%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.39%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.54%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.69%) Bigtable
9 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.69%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.85%) Parquet
10 1 (0.85%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (27.12%) Jenkins
2 21 (17.80%) Git
3 10 (8.47%) JIRA
4 9 (7.63%) GitLab
5 5 (4.24%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.69%) MSI
7 1 (0.85%) Maven
7 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (23.73%) Public Sector
2 13 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (11.02%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.08%) Banking
4 2 (1.69%) Health Technology
4 2 (1.69%) Legal
5 1 (0.85%) Finance
5 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.85%) Local Government
5 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (22.03%) Senior
2 22 (18.64%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (16.95%) Developer
3 20 (16.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (11.86%) Python Developer
5 13 (11.02%) Architect
6 12 (10.17%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (9.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.47%) Data Engineer
8 10 (8.47%) Technical Architect
9 9 (7.63%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (6.78%) Analyst
10 8 (6.78%) Lead
10 8 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.78%) Python Engineer
10 8 (6.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.93%) AWS Developer
11 7 (5.93%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.93%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.02%) React
2 9 (7.63%) Django
3 7 (5.93%) FastAPI
3 7 (5.93%) Flask
3 7 (5.93%) RESTful
4 6 (5.08%) Kafka
5 5 (4.24%) GraphQL
5 5 (4.24%) JWT
5 5 (4.24%) OAuth
5 5 (4.24%) SAML
6 4 (3.39%) Celery
6 4 (3.39%) gRPC
6 4 (3.39%) PySpark
6 4 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.39%) WebSockets
7 3 (2.54%) .NET
7 3 (2.54%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.69%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.69%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.25%) NHS
2 12 (10.17%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.39%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.19%) Linux
2 6 (5.08%) Unix
3 4 (3.39%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.54%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.54%) Windows
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.98%) CI/CD
1 46 (38.98%) DevOps
2 38 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (26.27%) Agile
4 21 (17.80%) Containerisation
5 16 (13.56%) Mentoring
6 14 (11.86%) Software Engineering
7 12 (10.17%) Infrastructure Automation
7 12 (10.17%) Visualisation
8 11 (9.32%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (9.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (9.32%) Observability
8 11 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (9.32%) Security Monitoring
9 10 (8.47%) Cloud Security
9 10 (8.47%) Data Protection
9 10 (8.47%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (7.63%) Test Strategy
11 8 (6.78%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.90%) Bash
2 18 (15.25%) SQL
3 17 (14.41%) PowerShell
4 12 (10.17%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.47%) Java
5 10 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.54%) C
6 3 (2.54%) C++
6 3 (2.54%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.69%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (1.69%) C#
7 2 (1.69%) Go
7 2 (1.69%) Scala
8 1 (0.85%) Bicep
8 1 (0.85%) Perl
8 1 (0.85%) R
8 1 (0.85%) Rust
8 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.39%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) CCNA
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.85%) CISSP
5 1 (0.85%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.85%) Degree
5 1 (0.85%) GCIH
5 1 (0.85%) OCP
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.24%) SOC 2
2 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.54%) GDPR
3 3 (2.54%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.54%) NIST
4 2 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 32 (27.12%) Docker
2 8 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (55.08%) Terraform
2 31 (26.27%) Kubernetes
3 23 (19.49%) Ansible
4 9 (7.63%) Grafana
5 8 (6.78%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.93%) NetBackup
6 7 (5.93%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (3.39%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.54%) Packer
9 2 (1.69%) Control-M
9 2 (1.69%) Puppet
9 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.85%) Istio
10 1 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.85%) SCCM
10 1 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (14.41%) Splunk
2 13 (11.02%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.17%) Google
4 9 (7.63%) VMware
5 7 (5.93%) CyberArk
5 7 (5.93%) Oracle
5 7 (5.93%) Veritas
6 6 (5.08%) CheckPoint
6 6 (5.08%) Databricks
6 6 (5.08%) F5
6 6 (5.08%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.39%) Apple
7 4 (3.39%) Cisco
7 4 (3.39%) Juniper
7 4 (3.39%) Nokia
8 3 (2.54%) Meraki
9 2 (1.69%) Brio
9 2 (1.69%) CloudEndure
9 2 (1.69%) Cribl.io
9 2 (1.69%) Zscaler