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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 164 85 58
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 12.13% 11.44% 6.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.82% 36.32% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 56 44
10th Percentile £363 £319 £291
25th Percentile £413 £435 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £579
90th Percentile £639 £553 £643
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -11.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £28.00 - -

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 383 234 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.33% 31.49% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 148 198
10th Percentile £350 £347 £309
25th Percentile £413 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £630 £575 £646
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £501
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.60% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.85 £37.07 £33.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £45.03 £35.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +46.82% +99.44%
75th Percentile £25.25 £82.53 £50.63
90th Percentile £26.90 £92.15 £54.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £46.25
% change year-on-year -61.54% +34.92% +37.79%

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 August 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 11 August 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 +1 139 £515 +3.00% 72
Bradford -8 11 £375 -13.79% 6
Halifax - 11 £425 - 2
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 4 (2.44%) Confluence
2 2 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.22%) SAS
2 2 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) Apache
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.61%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 86 (52.44%) AWS
2 61 (37.20%) GitHub
3 39 (23.78%) GitHub Actions
4 38 (23.17%) GCP
5 31 (18.90%) Azure
6 27 (16.46%) Serverless
7 14 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (8.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 13 (7.93%) Apigee
9 11 (6.71%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.71%) Vertex AI
10 10 (6.10%) IaaS
11 8 (4.88%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.05%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.05%) SaaS
14 4 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (2.44%) Cloud Run
14 4 (2.44%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.15%) Firewall
2 12 (7.32%) BIG-IP
3 11 (6.71%) DNS
3 11 (6.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 8 (4.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 6 (3.66%) Network Security
5 6 (3.66%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.66%) WAN
5 6 (3.66%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (3.05%) VLAN
7 4 (2.44%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.44%) VPN
8 3 (1.83%) BGP
8 3 (1.83%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.83%) LAN
8 3 (1.83%) OSPF
8 3 (1.83%) SSL
8 3 (1.83%) VXLAN
8 3 (1.83%) WLAN
9 2 (1.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.76%) BigQuery
1 16 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.49%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.66%) Power BI
6 5 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.44%) Metadata
7 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.22%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.22%) MySQL
9 2 (1.22%) Parquet
9 2 (1.22%) Power Query
9 2 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.22%) Tableau
10 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.61%) QlikView
10 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (23.78%) Jenkins
2 14 (8.54%) JIRA
3 12 (7.32%) Git
4 10 (6.10%) Gatling
4 10 (6.10%) GitLab
5 7 (4.27%) Maven
6 6 (3.66%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.83%) ERwin
8 2 (1.22%) Pylint
9 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.61%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.61%) Flyway
9 1 (0.61%) JMeter
9 1 (0.61%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.61%) Postman
9 1 (0.61%) Selenium
9 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.61%) Spinnaker
General
1 29 (17.68%) Public Sector
2 21 (12.80%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.10%) Finance
4 9 (5.49%) Legal
5 8 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.27%) Banking
7 6 (3.66%) Games
8 5 (3.05%) Retail
9 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.22%) Marketing
9 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (31.71%) Developer
2 32 (19.51%) Python Developer
2 32 (19.51%) Senior
3 17 (10.37%) Senior Developer
4 15 (9.15%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (7.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (7.93%) Lead
6 11 (6.71%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 10 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.10%) Network Engineer
7 10 (6.10%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.49%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.88%) Backend Developer
9 8 (4.88%) Senior Backend Developer
10 7 (4.27%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) GCP DevOps
11 6 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.98%) React
2 14 (8.54%) HTML
2 14 (8.54%) Playwright
3 13 (7.93%) CSS
3 13 (7.93%) Vue
4 11 (6.71%) REST
5 10 (6.10%) Flask
6 9 (5.49%) JSON
6 9 (5.49%) Kafka
7 8 (4.88%) RESTful
8 7 (4.27%) Node.js
8 7 (4.27%) PySpark
9 6 (3.66%) OAuth
10 5 (3.05%) FHIR
10 5 (3.05%) Quarkus
11 4 (2.44%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.44%) OpenAPI
11 4 (2.44%) PyTorch
11 4 (2.44%) Redux
11 4 (2.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (21.34%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.37%) NHS
3 15 (9.15%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.66%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.05%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.05%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.44%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.44%) Sports Betting
9 3 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.22%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.22%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.22%) IoT
10 2 (1.22%) Replication
10 2 (1.22%) Robotics
10 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.32%) Linux
2 8 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.27%) Windows
4 2 (1.22%) AIX
4 2 (1.22%) Unix
5 1 (0.61%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (59.15%) CI/CD
2 66 (40.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (37.20%) DevOps
4 54 (32.93%) Agile
5 34 (20.73%) Observability
6 24 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (13.41%) Code Quality
8 21 (12.80%) Containerisation
8 21 (12.80%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (12.20%) AI
9 20 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (12.20%) Microservices
10 19 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (11.59%) Test Automation
11 18 (10.98%) Software Engineering
12 16 (9.76%) Performance Optimisation
13 14 (8.54%) Cloud Security
13 14 (8.54%) Front End Development
14 12 (7.32%) Data Engineering
14 12 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.73%) SQL
2 28 (17.07%) Java
3 27 (16.46%) Bash
4 22 (13.41%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.98%) PowerShell
6 14 (8.54%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.93%) Scala
8 8 (4.88%) ActionScript
9 5 (3.05%) Groovy
10 3 (1.83%) C#
11 2 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.22%) PHP
11 2 (1.22%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 40 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 35 (21.34%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.05%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.05%) HL7
3 4 (2.44%) WCAG
4 3 (1.83%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.22%) GDPR
6 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 41 (25.00%) Docker
2 7 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 80 (48.78%) Terraform
2 35 (21.34%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.49%) HAProxy
4 8 (4.88%) Ansible
5 5 (3.05%) Grafana
6 4 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.22%) Istio
7 2 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.22%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (12.80%) Google
2 15 (9.15%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.32%) Databricks
3 12 (7.32%) F5
4 11 (6.71%) Dynatrace
5 9 (5.49%) IBM
6 4 (2.44%) Cisco
6 4 (2.44%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.83%) Arista
7 3 (1.83%) Aruba
7 3 (1.83%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.83%) New Relic
7 3 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.83%) Splunk
8 2 (1.22%) Brio
8 2 (1.22%) Brocade
8 2 (1.22%) Foundry
8 2 (1.22%) Palantir
8 2 (1.22%) Teradata
8 2 (1.22%) VMware