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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 130 51 72
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 11.78% 9.57% 7.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.01% 28.02% 27.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 36 52
10th Percentile £331 £338 £400
25th Percentile £413 £405 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £538 £609 £625
90th Percentile £588 £738 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -18.33%

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 317 182 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.71% 34.15% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 119 191
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £619 £665 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -3.60% +8.11% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £31.62 -
25th Percentile - £44.87 £19.44
Median hourly rate - £91.05 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +339.76% -70.42%
75th Percentile - £101.14 £21.97
90th Percentile - £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £91.05 £41.60
% change year-on-year - +118.86% -33.44%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 +5 116 £500 +5.26% 77
Halifax - 7 £400 - 1
Bradford - 3 £413 - 6
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 11 (8.46%) Confluence
2 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.31%) SAS
4 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.77%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 73 (56.15%) AWS
2 48 (36.92%) GitHub
3 38 (29.23%) Azure
4 33 (25.38%) GCP
4 33 (25.38%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (16.92%) Serverless
6 20 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (13.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 13 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 12 (9.23%) Apigee
10 11 (8.46%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (6.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (6.15%) Entra ID
13 7 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (5.38%) SaaS
14 6 (4.62%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (4.62%) Azure Storage
14 6 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (4.62%) OneDrive
14 6 (4.62%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.92%) DNS
1 9 (6.92%) Firewall
2 6 (4.62%) LAN
2 6 (4.62%) Unified Communications
2 6 (4.62%) VPN
2 6 (4.62%) WAN
2 6 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.31%) Network Security
3 3 (2.31%) PSTN
4 1 (0.77%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.77%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.77%) FTP
4 1 (0.77%) Internet
4 1 (0.77%) SAN
4 1 (0.77%) SNMP
4 1 (0.77%) SSH
4 1 (0.77%) TACACS
4 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.77%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.23%) SQL Server
3 11 (8.46%) BigQuery
4 10 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.38%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.62%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.08%) Metadata
8 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.54%) Power BI
10 1 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.77%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (28.46%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.00%) JIRA
3 9 (6.92%) Gatling
4 8 (6.15%) Git
5 6 (4.62%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.62%) Maven
6 5 (3.85%) GitLab
7 3 (2.31%) ERwin
8 2 (1.54%) MSI
8 2 (1.54%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 25 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 12 (9.23%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.62%) Banking
5 5 (3.85%) Finance
6 3 (2.31%) Marketing
7 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.54%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.77%) Games
8 1 (0.77%) Law
8 1 (0.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (26.92%) Developer
2 25 (19.23%) Senior
3 21 (16.15%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (12.31%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (12.31%) Python Developer
5 13 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 12 (9.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) GCP Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Tester
8 6 (4.62%) Architect
8 6 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (4.62%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 5 (3.85%) GCP DevOps
9 5 (3.85%) Lead
9 5 (3.85%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.85%) React
2 14 (10.77%) Playwright
3 11 (8.46%) Node.js
4 8 (6.15%) JWT
4 8 (6.15%) OAuth
4 8 (6.15%) REST
5 7 (5.38%) Flask
5 7 (5.38%) JSON
6 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (4.62%) OpenAPI
6 6 (4.62%) Redux
6 6 (4.62%) Swagger
6 6 (4.62%) Zustand
7 5 (3.85%) SAML
7 5 (3.85%) Vue
8 4 (3.08%) .NET
8 4 (3.08%) Django
8 4 (3.08%) Kafka
8 4 (3.08%) Quarkus
9 3 (2.31%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.38%) NHS
2 18 (13.85%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.08%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.31%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.31%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.31%) IoT
4 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.77%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.23%) Linux
2 11 (8.46%) Windows
3 3 (2.31%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.77%) AIX
5 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (52.31%) CI/CD
2 53 (40.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (38.46%) DevOps
4 43 (33.08%) Agile
5 28 (21.54%) Platform Engineering
6 24 (18.46%) Observability
7 19 (14.62%) Software Engineering
8 17 (13.08%) Containerisation
8 17 (13.08%) Test Automation
9 13 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (9.23%) AI
10 12 (9.23%) Analytics
10 12 (9.23%) Cloud Security
10 12 (9.23%) Code Quality
10 12 (9.23%) Microservices
10 12 (9.23%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (9.23%) Test Strategy
11 11 (8.46%) Front End Development
12 10 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.92%) Java
1 22 (16.92%) JavaScript
2 19 (14.62%) Bash
2 19 (14.62%) SQL
3 17 (13.08%) PowerShell
4 15 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 11 (8.46%) Scala
6 4 (3.08%) C#
7 3 (2.31%) Groovy
8 2 (1.54%) Go
8 2 (1.54%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.77%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.77%) Bicep
9 1 (0.77%) C
9 1 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 35 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.08%) Degree
3 4 (3.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.62%) WCAG
3 4 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.31%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.77%) NIST
5 1 (0.77%) QA
5 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (28.46%) Docker
2 5 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.54%) Firmware
3 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.77%) KVM
4 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (53.85%) Terraform
2 45 (34.62%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.92%) HAProxy
4 8 (6.15%) Istio
5 6 (4.62%) Grafana
5 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.31%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (2.31%) Packer
6 3 (2.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.54%) Ansible
7 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 17 (13.08%) Google
1 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.77%) Splunk
3 11 (8.46%) Databricks
4 7 (5.38%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.31%) Cribl.io
5 3 (2.31%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.31%) Teradata
6 2 (1.54%) Brio
6 2 (1.54%) Cisco
6 2 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.54%) New Relic
6 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.54%) VMware
7 1 (0.77%) Centrify
7 1 (0.77%) Ciena
7 1 (0.77%) F5
7 1 (0.77%) IBM
7 1 (0.77%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.77%) Meraki