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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 112 53 73
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 10.86% 10.56% 6.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.46% 29.44% 27.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 37 53
10th Percentile £321 £328 £403
25th Percentile £403 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £588 £738 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -4.40% +4.17% -20.00%

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 299 180 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 29.00% 35.86% 25.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 115 192
10th Percentile £313 £318 £300
25th Percentile £413 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £588
90th Percentile £626 £725 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £29.38 £23.70
25th Percentile - £31.62 £30.08
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £41.35
Median % change year-on-year - +118.64% -40.93%
75th Percentile - £100.28 £51.99
90th Percentile - £102.00 £58.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £90.42 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +45.83% -0.80%

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 31 March 2026.

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 31 March 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
Leeds +2 100 £500 +5.26% 70
Halifax - 7 £400 -
Bradford - 1 £413 - 10
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 10 (8.93%) Confluence
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.68%) SAS
4 2 (1.79%) Apache
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 63 (56.25%) AWS
2 44 (39.29%) GitHub
3 29 (25.89%) Azure
3 29 (25.89%) GitHub Actions
4 23 (20.54%) GCP
4 23 (20.54%) Serverless
5 21 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (16.07%) Amazon S3
7 13 (11.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (11.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 12 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (10.71%) Apigee
9 11 (9.82%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (6.25%) Entra ID
12 6 (5.36%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (5.36%) Azure Storage
12 6 (5.36%) SaaS
13 5 (4.46%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.61%) Firewall
2 11 (9.82%) DNS
3 8 (7.14%) VPN
4 5 (4.46%) LAN
4 5 (4.46%) Network Security
4 5 (4.46%) Unified Communications
4 5 (4.46%) WAN
4 5 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.79%) PSTN
6 2 (1.79%) SSL
7 1 (0.89%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.89%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.89%) FTP
7 1 (0.89%) SAN
7 1 (0.89%) SNMP
7 1 (0.89%) SSH
7 1 (0.89%) TACACS
7 1 (0.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.36%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.57%) Metadata
6 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.79%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.79%) Power BI
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.89%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 37 (33.04%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.71%) Git
2 12 (10.71%) JIRA
3 8 (7.14%) GitLab
4 4 (3.57%) Gatling
5 3 (2.68%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.68%) ERwin
5 3 (2.68%) Maven
6 2 (1.79%) MSI
6 2 (1.79%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 11 (9.82%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.36%) Banking
5 5 (4.46%) Finance
6 3 (2.68%) Marketing
7 2 (1.79%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Games
8 1 (0.89%) Law
8 1 (0.89%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (25.00%) Developer
2 26 (23.21%) Senior
3 17 (15.18%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (10.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (10.71%) GCP Engineer
5 12 (10.71%) Python Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Tester
8 6 (5.36%) Architect
8 6 (5.36%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.46%) GCP DevOps
9 5 (4.46%) Lead
9 5 (4.46%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.50%) React
2 9 (8.04%) Node.js
2 9 (8.04%) Playwright
3 8 (7.14%) Flask
3 8 (7.14%) REST
4 7 (6.25%) JSON
4 7 (6.25%) JWT
4 7 (6.25%) OAuth
5 6 (5.36%) OpenAPI
5 6 (5.36%) Swagger
6 5 (4.46%) Django
6 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (4.46%) Redux
6 5 (4.46%) SAML
6 5 (4.46%) Vue
6 5 (4.46%) Zustand
7 4 (3.57%) FastAPI
7 4 (3.57%) Kafka
7 4 (3.57%) pytest
8 3 (2.68%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.18%) Cloud Native
1 17 (15.18%) NHS
2 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.68%) Credit Risk
3 3 (2.68%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.79%) IoT
4 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.89%) Life Science
5 1 (0.89%) PKI
5 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.89%) Replication
5 1 (0.89%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.82%) Linux
2 10 (8.93%) Windows
3 3 (2.68%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.89%) AIX
5 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.93%) CI/CD
2 51 (45.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (43.75%) DevOps
4 40 (35.71%) Agile
5 24 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
6 21 (18.75%) Observability
7 19 (16.96%) Software Engineering
8 17 (15.18%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 12 (10.71%) Analytics
10 12 (10.71%) Cloud Security
10 12 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.82%) Code Quality
11 11 (9.82%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (9.82%) Test Strategy
12 10 (8.93%) Front End Development
12 10 (8.93%) Validation
13 9 (8.04%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (8.04%) Microservices
13 9 (8.04%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.64%) Bash
2 21 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 18 (16.07%) PowerShell
3 18 (16.07%) SQL
4 14 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.61%) Java
6 6 (5.36%) Scala
7 5 (4.46%) C#
8 3 (2.68%) Groovy
9 2 (1.79%) Go
9 2 (1.79%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.89%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.89%) Bicep
10 1 (0.89%) C
10 1 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (30.36%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.79%) Degree
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.46%) WCAG
3 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.89%) NIST
5 1 (0.89%) QA
5 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (30.36%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.79%) Firmware
2 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.79%) vSphere
3 1 (0.89%) KVM
3 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (60.71%) Terraform
2 39 (34.82%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.04%) Ansible
4 8 (7.14%) Istio
5 6 (5.36%) Grafana
6 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.57%) HAProxy
8 3 (2.68%) Packer
9 2 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.89%) SCCM
10 1 (0.89%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (12.50%) Splunk
2 13 (11.61%) Google
3 11 (9.82%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.14%) Databricks
5 5 (4.46%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.57%) VMware
7 3 (2.68%) Cribl.io
7 3 (2.68%) F5
7 3 (2.68%) Teradata
8 2 (1.79%) Brio
8 2 (1.79%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.79%) Cisco
8 2 (1.79%) CloudEndure
8 2 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.79%) New Relic
8 2 (1.79%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.89%) Brocade
9 1 (0.89%) Ciena
9 1 (0.89%) Meraki