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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 16 41
Rank change year-on-year +6 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing Python 119 68 49
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 13.33% 8.74% 3.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.76% 26.36% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 48 37
10th Percentile £366 £317 £432
25th Percentile £425 £412 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £538 £591 £638
90th Percentile £550 £716 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -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 307 258 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.38% 33.16% 22.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 183 208
10th Percentile £363 £334 £344
25th Percentile £409 £408 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £570 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £17.38
25th Percentile - £26.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +52.51% -40.12%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £25.58
90th Percentile - £80.49 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -52.95%

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 22 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 22 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 +5 101 £500 - 71
Bradford +5 14 £435 +2.35% 15
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 6 (5.04%) Confluence
2 5 (4.20%) Apache
2 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 73 (61.34%) AWS
2 42 (35.29%) Azure
3 25 (21.01%) GCP
4 21 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 21 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (17.65%) Serverless
5 20 (16.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (15.97%) GitHub
7 15 (12.61%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (10.92%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (9.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (7.56%) Power Platform
12 7 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.04%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (5.04%) Azure Storage
13 6 (5.04%) Entra ID
14 4 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.13%) Firewall
2 8 (6.72%) DNS
3 6 (5.04%) VPN
4 5 (4.20%) Ethernet
4 5 (4.20%) SD-WAN
4 5 (4.20%) SSL
4 5 (4.20%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.36%) Wireshark
6 3 (2.52%) Network Security
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.84%) FTP
7 1 (0.84%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.84%) SNMP
7 1 (0.84%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.84%) SSH
7 1 (0.84%) TACACS
7 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.56%) Power BI
3 8 (6.72%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.88%) Tableau
5 6 (5.04%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.36%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.84%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.84%) MySQL
9 1 (0.84%) Power Query
9 1 (0.84%) QlikView
9 1 (0.84%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (26.05%) Jenkins
2 18 (15.13%) Git
3 8 (6.72%) GitLab
3 8 (6.72%) JIRA
4 5 (4.20%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.68%) MSI
6 1 (0.84%) Maven
6 1 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.84%) Spinnaker
General
1 30 (25.21%) Public Sector
2 13 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (10.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.04%) Banking
4 2 (1.68%) Health Technology
4 2 (1.68%) Legal
5 1 (0.84%) Finance
5 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.84%) Local Government
5 1 (0.84%) Retail
5 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (21.85%) Senior
2 22 (18.49%) Developer
3 21 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (13.45%) Python Developer
6 11 (9.24%) Architect
6 11 (9.24%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (8.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 10 (8.40%) Data Engineer
7 10 (8.40%) Technical Architect
8 9 (7.56%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.56%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (6.72%) Analyst
9 8 (6.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Python Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) AWS Developer
10 7 (5.88%) NetBackup Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.92%) React
2 11 (9.24%) Django
3 9 (7.56%) FastAPI
3 9 (7.56%) Flask
4 7 (5.88%) RESTful
5 6 (5.04%) JWT
5 6 (5.04%) OAuth
6 5 (4.20%) GraphQL
6 5 (4.20%) SAML
7 4 (3.36%) Celery
7 4 (3.36%) gRPC
7 4 (3.36%) Kafka
7 4 (3.36%) Node.js
7 4 (3.36%) PySpark
7 4 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (3.36%) WebSockets
8 3 (2.52%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (1.68%) AWS CDK
9 2 (1.68%) FHIR
9 2 (1.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.81%) NHS
2 13 (10.92%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.36%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.84%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.01%) Linux
2 4 (3.36%) Mac OS
2 4 (3.36%) Unix
3 3 (2.52%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (2.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.66%) CI/CD
2 44 (36.97%) DevOps
3 41 (34.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (27.73%) Agile
5 20 (16.81%) Containerisation
6 17 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 14 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 12 (10.08%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (10.08%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (10.08%) Test Automation
8 12 (10.08%) Visualisation
9 11 (9.24%) Observability
9 11 (9.24%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (8.40%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (8.40%) Data Protection
10 10 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.40%) Security Monitoring
10 10 (8.40%) Test Strategy
11 9 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 41 (34.45%) Bash
2 18 (15.13%) PowerShell
3 16 (13.45%) SQL
4 14 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.40%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.72%) Java
7 3 (2.52%) C
7 3 (2.52%) C#
7 3 (2.52%) C++
7 3 (2.52%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (1.68%) Bicep
8 2 (1.68%) Go
9 1 (0.84%) Perl
9 1 (0.84%) R
9 1 (0.84%) Rust
9 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.68%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.84%) CCNA
4 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.84%) CISSP
4 1 (0.84%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.84%) Degree
4 1 (0.84%) GCIH
4 1 (0.84%) OCP
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.52%) HIPAA
2 3 (2.52%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.84%) GDPR
4 1 (0.84%) NIST
4 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 34 (28.57%) Docker
2 8 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (56.30%) Terraform
2 32 (26.89%) Kubernetes
3 22 (18.49%) Ansible
4 8 (6.72%) Grafana
5 7 (5.88%) NetBackup
5 7 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (5.04%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.36%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.52%) Packer
9 2 (1.68%) Istio
9 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.84%) Puppet
10 1 (0.84%) SCCM
10 1 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (13.45%) Splunk
2 13 (10.92%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.08%) Google
4 9 (7.56%) VMware
5 7 (5.88%) CyberArk
5 7 (5.88%) Oracle
5 7 (5.88%) Veritas
6 6 (5.04%) CheckPoint
6 6 (5.04%) Databricks
6 6 (5.04%) F5
6 6 (5.04%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.20%) Cisco
8 4 (3.36%) Apple
8 4 (3.36%) Juniper
8 4 (3.36%) Meraki
8 4 (3.36%) Nokia
9 2 (1.68%) Brio
9 2 (1.68%) CloudEndure
9 2 (1.68%) Cribl.io
9 2 (1.68%) Zscaler