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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 91 64 68
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 10.01% 10.79% 5.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.70% 31.07% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 44 51
10th Percentile £363 £384 £425
25th Percentile £409 £413 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £533 £613 £625
90th Percentile £550 £738 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -

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 270 206 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 29.70% 34.74% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 137 193
10th Percentile £354 £359 £332
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £613
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £26.25 £16.56
25th Percentile - £27.56 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £61.61 £23.74
Median % change year-on-year - +159.50% -64.16%
75th Percentile - £100.66 £35.59
90th Percentile - £102.00 £51.43
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £26.78
% change year-on-year -19.66% +130.07% -57.15%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -4 84 £500 - 54
Halifax - 6 £500 -
Bradford -6 3 £424 -0.35% 23
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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.20%) Apache
3 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.20%) SAS
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (67.03%) AWS
2 36 (39.56%) Azure
3 26 (28.57%) GitHub
4 22 (24.18%) GCP
5 21 (23.08%) Amazon S3
5 21 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (20.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 19 (20.88%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (20.88%) Serverless
7 15 (16.48%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (12.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (6.59%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (6.59%) Azure Storage
12 5 (5.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (4.40%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.40%) Entra ID
14 3 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.78%) Firewall
2 9 (9.89%) DNS
3 6 (6.59%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.59%) VPN
4 5 (5.49%) Network Security
4 5 (5.49%) SSL
5 2 (2.20%) Ethernet
5 2 (2.20%) LAN
5 2 (2.20%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.20%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.20%) WAN
5 2 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.20%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.10%) FTP
6 1 (1.10%) IOS XR
6 1 (1.10%) SNMP
6 1 (1.10%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.10%) SSH
6 1 (1.10%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.79%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.59%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.20%) Metadata
7 2 (2.20%) Power BI
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.10%) Big Data
8 1 (1.10%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.10%) MySQL
8 1 (1.10%) Parquet
8 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (37.36%) Jenkins
2 14 (15.38%) Git
3 10 (10.99%) GitLab
4 8 (8.79%) JIRA
5 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.20%) MSI
7 1 (1.10%) Maven
7 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.10%) Spinnaker
General
1 26 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 8 (8.79%) Banking
3 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.30%) Finance
5 2 (2.20%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.20%) Marketing
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Law
6 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (26.37%) Senior
2 19 (20.88%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (19.78%) Developer
3 18 (19.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 10 (10.99%) AWS DevOps
5 10 (10.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (8.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Lead
8 6 (6.59%) NetBackup Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Tester
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Python Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) Flask
1 9 (9.89%) React
2 6 (6.59%) Django
2 6 (6.59%) FastAPI
2 6 (6.59%) JWT
2 6 (6.59%) Node.js
2 6 (6.59%) OAuth
3 5 (5.49%) SAML
4 3 (3.30%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (3.30%) Vue
5 2 (2.20%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.20%) FHIR
5 2 (2.20%) Kafka
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.20%) Redux
5 2 (2.20%) RESTful
5 2 (2.20%) Zustand
6 1 (1.10%) HTML5
6 1 (1.10%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.08%) NHS
2 12 (13.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.20%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Life Science
5 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.27%) Linux
2 7 (7.69%) Windows
3 4 (4.40%) Unix
4 3 (3.30%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (49.45%) CI/CD
2 42 (46.15%) DevOps
3 41 (45.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (25.27%) Agile
5 18 (19.78%) Containerisation
6 13 (14.29%) Observability
7 12 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Automation
7 12 (13.19%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
8 11 (12.09%) Software Engineering
9 10 (10.99%) Cloud Security
10 9 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (9.89%) Security Monitoring
10 9 (9.89%) Task Automation
10 9 (9.89%) Test Automation
10 9 (9.89%) Test Strategy
11 8 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (7.69%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.16%) Bash
2 20 (21.98%) PowerShell
3 14 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.99%) SQL
5 8 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.59%) Java
7 3 (3.30%) C#
7 3 (3.30%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (2.20%) Bicep
8 2 (2.20%) Go
9 1 (1.10%) C
9 1 (1.10%) C++
9 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.10%) Rust
9 1 (1.10%) Scala
9 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.10%) OCP
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.30%) HIPAA
2 3 (3.30%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.20%) WCAG
4 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.10%) NIST
4 1 (1.10%) QA
4 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (36.26%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.10%) Firmware
4 1 (1.10%) KVM
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (63.74%) Terraform
2 33 (36.26%) Kubernetes
3 19 (20.88%) Ansible
4 10 (10.99%) Grafana
5 6 (6.59%) NetBackup
5 6 (6.59%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.49%) Istio
7 3 (3.30%) Packer
8 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.10%) Puppet
9 1 (1.10%) SCCM
9 1 (1.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (16.48%) Splunk
2 10 (10.99%) Google
3 9 (9.89%) VMware
4 7 (7.69%) Oracle
5 6 (6.59%) CheckPoint
5 6 (6.59%) CyberArk
5 6 (6.59%) F5
5 6 (6.59%) Microsoft
5 6 (6.59%) Palo Alto
5 6 (6.59%) Veritas
6 4 (4.40%) Databricks
7 2 (2.20%) Brio
7 2 (2.20%) Cisco
7 2 (2.20%) CloudEndure
7 2 (2.20%) Cribl.io
7 2 (2.20%) Meraki
7 2 (2.20%) Teradata
7 2 (2.20%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.10%) Juniper
8 1 (1.10%) Nokia