Python Contracts in West Yorkshire

Python
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 52 75 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.54% 7.50% 6.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.81% 28.96% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 54 74
10th Percentile £345 £400 £413
25th Percentile £405 £441 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £700
90th Percentile £738 £650 £713
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +17.07%

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 187 259 472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.31% 25.90% 28.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 190 344
10th Percentile £325 £300 £402
25th Percentile £405 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £31.62 - £57.55
25th Percentile £44.87 £19.44 £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.05 £20.71 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +339.76% -70.42% +169.23%
75th Percentile £101.14 £21.97 -
90th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 £41.60 £62.50
% change year-on-year +118.86% -33.44% +126.98%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in West Yorkshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in West Yorkshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in West Yorkshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in West Yorkshire

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 25 April 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 0 50 £475 -13.64% 102
Python
Yorkshire

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 5 (9.62%) nginx
1 5 (9.62%) Traefik
2 2 (3.85%) Apache
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (67.31%) AWS
2 12 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (19.23%) Azure
3 10 (19.23%) GCP
4 7 (13.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (13.46%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (13.46%) AWS Fargate
5 6 (11.54%) Entra ID
5 6 (11.54%) Serverless
5 6 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (9.62%) Power Platform
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.77%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (5.77%) npm
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.85%) GitHub
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) DNS
1 7 (13.46%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.85%) Firewall
2 2 (3.85%) HTTP
3 1 (1.92%) DHCP
3 1 (1.92%) LAN
3 1 (1.92%) Network Security
3 1 (1.92%) SSL
3 1 (1.92%) VLAN
3 1 (1.92%) VPN
3 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.62%) BigQuery
2 5 (9.62%) Power BI
3 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.85%) Tableau
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.92%) Big Data
4 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.92%) Looker
4 1 (1.92%) MySQL
4 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) GitLab
2 12 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.62%) Git
4 4 (7.69%) JIRA
4 4 (7.69%) Selenium
5 3 (5.77%) webpack
6 1 (1.92%) Babel
6 1 (1.92%) ERwin
6 1 (1.92%) Postman
6 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (19.23%) Public Sector
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Health Technology
5 2 (3.85%) Military
6 1 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) DevOps Engineer
1 15 (28.85%) Senior
2 9 (17.31%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (13.46%) Developer
3 7 (13.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Python Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Architect
6 4 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Lead
7 3 (5.77%) SQL Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) SQL Data Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Angular Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) cloud-init
2 8 (15.38%) Kafka
3 6 (11.54%) Keycloak
4 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.77%) CSS
4 3 (5.77%) HTML
4 3 (5.77%) pytest
5 2 (3.85%) Flask
5 2 (3.85%) JSON
5 2 (3.85%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (3.85%) Node.js
5 2 (3.85%) Pandas
5 2 (3.85%) Playwright
5 2 (3.85%) React
5 2 (3.85%) REST
5 2 (3.85%) RESTful
5 2 (3.85%) Web Services
6 1 (1.92%) Next.js
6 1 (1.92%) PySpark
6 1 (1.92%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) PKI
2 3 (5.77%) NHS
3 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Linux
2 13 (25.00%) CentOS
2 13 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (23.08%) Unix
4 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.85%) Windows
5 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (48.08%) DevOps
3 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (15.38%) Agile
5 8 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 8 (15.38%) ETL
6 7 (13.46%) Analytics
6 7 (13.46%) Data Engineering
6 7 (13.46%) Secrets Management
7 6 (11.54%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 6 (11.54%) Identity Management
7 6 (11.54%) Observability
7 6 (11.54%) Static Application Security Testing
7 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 5 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (9.62%) Data Governance
8 5 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (9.62%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Bash
2 15 (28.85%) SQL
3 12 (23.08%) Go
4 4 (7.69%) Scala
5 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.92%) AppleScript
7 1 (1.92%) Java
7 1 (1.92%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (40.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.46%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) NCSC
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (55.77%) Terraform
2 12 (23.08%) Packer
3 11 (21.15%) Kubernetes
4 7 (13.46%) Grafana
4 7 (13.46%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (13.46%) Prometheus
5 6 (11.54%) Consul
5 6 (11.54%) Istio
5 6 (11.54%) linkerd
5 6 (11.54%) Rancher
5 6 (11.54%) ZABBIX
6 5 (9.62%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.85%) Ansible
8 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Apple
1 6 (11.54%) Google
1 6 (11.54%) Okta
1 6 (11.54%) Splunk
2 5 (9.62%) Databricks
2 5 (9.62%) ESET
3 3 (5.77%) Brio
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.92%) F5
5 1 (1.92%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.92%) Sparx
5 1 (1.92%) Workday