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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Python 96 54 68
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 10.04% 10.49% 6.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.50% 30.00% 26.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 36 50
10th Percentile £360 £356 £411
25th Percentile £413 £405 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.75% -16.67%
75th Percentile £526 £609 £625
90th Percentile £588 £738 £678
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £513 £480
% change year-on-year -5.46% +6.77% -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 263 180 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.51% 34.95% 23.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 119 191
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £588
90th Percentile £623 £725 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £509 £450
% change year-on-year -3.19% +13.06% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £28.34 £23.70
25th Percentile - £31.47 £30.08
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £41.35
Median % change year-on-year - +118.64% -40.93%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £51.99
90th Percentile - - £58.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
% change year-on-year -45.25% +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 9 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 9 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 +1 91 £500 +5.26% 62
Halifax - 9 £400 -
Bradford - 1 £413 - 16
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 9 (9.38%) Confluence
2 4 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.13%) Apache
3 3 (3.13%) SAS
4 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 50 (52.08%) AWS
2 36 (37.50%) GitHub
3 32 (33.33%) Azure
4 28 (29.17%) GCP
5 24 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (20.83%) Amazon S3
6 20 (20.83%) Serverless
7 19 (19.79%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (15.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (13.54%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (11.46%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (6.25%) Apigee
14 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (6.25%) Azure Storage
14 6 (6.25%) Entra ID
15 5 (5.21%) Azure AKS
15 5 (5.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.63%) Firewall
2 11 (11.46%) DNS
3 8 (8.33%) VPN
4 5 (5.21%) Network Security
5 4 (4.17%) LAN
5 4 (4.17%) Unified Communications
5 4 (4.17%) WAN
5 4 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (3.13%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.08%) SSL
8 1 (1.04%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.04%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.04%) FTP
8 1 (1.04%) PSTN
8 1 (1.04%) SAN
8 1 (1.04%) SNMP
8 1 (1.04%) SSH
8 1 (1.04%) TACACS
8 1 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.21%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.17%) Metadata
5 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.08%) Power BI
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.04%) Big Data
7 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.04%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.04%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.04%) MySQL
7 1 (1.04%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 37 (38.54%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.50%) Git
3 11 (11.46%) JIRA
4 7 (7.29%) GitLab
5 4 (4.17%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.08%) MSI
7 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.04%) Spinnaker
General
1 18 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 9 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Banking
4 4 (4.17%) Finance
5 3 (3.13%) Marketing
6 2 (2.08%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.04%) Law
7 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Senior
2 18 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (17.71%) Developer
3 17 (17.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (10.42%) Python Developer
7 9 (9.38%) Data Engineer
8 8 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Lead
10 6 (6.25%) GCP DevOps
10 6 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 5 (5.21%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Network Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Python Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Tester
12 4 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) React
2 8 (8.33%) Flask
3 7 (7.29%) Node.js
3 7 (7.29%) REST
4 6 (6.25%) JWT
4 6 (6.25%) OAuth
5 5 (5.21%) Django
5 5 (5.21%) FastAPI
5 5 (5.21%) SAML
6 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (4.17%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.17%) Redux
6 4 (4.17%) Swagger
6 4 (4.17%) Zustand
7 3 (3.13%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (3.13%) Vue
8 2 (2.08%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.08%) FHIR
8 2 (2.08%) PySpark
8 2 (2.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.71%) NHS
2 14 (14.58%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.13%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Life Science
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) PKI
6 1 (1.04%) Replication
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.71%) Linux
2 9 (9.38%) Windows
3 3 (3.13%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (3.13%) Unix
4 1 (1.04%) AIX
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (57.29%) CI/CD
2 50 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (48.96%) DevOps
4 29 (30.21%) Agile
5 20 (20.83%) Observability
6 17 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (15.63%) Cloud Security
8 14 (14.58%) Containerisation
9 13 (13.54%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (11.46%) Software Engineering
11 10 (10.42%) Analytics
11 10 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (10.42%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (10.42%) Test Strategy
12 9 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (9.38%) Validation
13 8 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.17%) Bash
2 20 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 15 (15.63%) SQL
4 9 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.13%) Groovy
5 3 (3.13%) Java
5 3 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (2.08%) Bicep
6 2 (2.08%) C#
6 2 (2.08%) Go
7 1 (1.04%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.04%) C
7 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.04%) Scala
7 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) Degree
3 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.17%) WCAG
3 3 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.04%) NIST
5 1 (1.04%) QA
5 1 (1.04%) SLA
5 1 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (29.17%) Docker
2 4 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.08%) Firmware
3 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.08%) vSphere
4 1 (1.04%) KVM
4 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 60 (62.50%) Terraform
2 39 (40.63%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.46%) Ansible
4 9 (9.38%) Grafana
4 9 (9.38%) Istio
5 5 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.13%) Packer
8 2 (2.08%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.04%) Puppet
9 1 (1.04%) SCCM
9 1 (1.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (1.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) Google
2 15 (15.63%) Splunk
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.25%) VMware
5 5 (5.21%) Databricks
5 5 (5.21%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.13%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.13%) F5
6 3 (3.13%) Oracle
6 3 (3.13%) Teradata
7 2 (2.08%) Brio
7 2 (2.08%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.08%) Cisco
7 2 (2.08%) CloudEndure
7 2 (2.08%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.08%) New Relic
7 2 (2.08%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.08%) Veritas