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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 168 88 60
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 12.40% 11.73% 7.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.30% 36.51% 22.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 58 45
10th Percentile £345 £359 £293
25th Percentile £413 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £594
90th Percentile £643 £550 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
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 388 241 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.63% 32.13% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 154 201
10th Percentile £341 £350 £319
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £586
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £497 £507
% change year-on-year +0.70% -2.07% -1.07%
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% +117.03%

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 21 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 21 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 +2 143 £520 +4.00% 48
Bradford -12 12 £375 -13.79% 4
Halifax 0 8 £520 - 1
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 (2.38%) Confluence
1 4 (2.38%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.79%) SAS
3 2 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 90 (53.57%) AWS
2 61 (36.31%) GitHub
3 41 (24.40%) GitHub Actions
4 38 (22.62%) Azure
5 35 (20.83%) GCP
6 26 (15.48%) Serverless
7 13 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (6.55%) Vertex AI
9 10 (5.95%) Apigee
9 10 (5.95%) IaaS
9 10 (5.95%) Power Platform
10 9 (5.36%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (2.98%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.98%) SaaS
12 4 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (2.38%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.33%) Firewall
2 12 (7.14%) BIG-IP
3 11 (6.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 10 (5.95%) DNS
5 8 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 6 (3.57%) Network Security
6 6 (3.57%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.57%) WAN
6 6 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.98%) VLAN
8 4 (2.38%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.79%) BGP
9 3 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (1.79%) LAN
9 3 (1.79%) OSPF
9 3 (1.79%) SSL
9 3 (1.79%) VPN
9 3 (1.79%) VXLAN
9 3 (1.79%) WLAN
10 2 (1.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.52%) BigQuery
1 16 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.36%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.36%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.76%) Power BI
5 6 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.57%) Metadata
6 4 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (1.79%) Tableau
8 2 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.19%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.19%) MySQL
8 2 (1.19%) Parquet
8 2 (1.19%) Power Query
8 2 (1.19%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.60%) Redis
9 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 14 (8.33%) JIRA
3 12 (7.14%) Git
4 10 (5.95%) Gatling
4 10 (5.95%) GitLab
5 7 (4.17%) Maven
6 6 (3.57%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.98%) JMeter
7 5 (2.98%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.79%) ERwin
8 3 (1.79%) Postman
8 3 (1.79%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.19%) Pylint
9 2 (1.19%) Selenium
10 1 (0.60%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.60%) Flyway
10 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.60%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (19.64%) Public Sector
2 22 (13.10%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.33%) Finance
4 13 (7.74%) Banking
5 9 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.36%) Legal
6 6 (3.57%) Games
7 5 (2.98%) Retail
8 3 (1.79%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (30.36%) Developer
2 36 (21.43%) Senior
3 33 (19.64%) Python Developer
4 18 (10.71%) Lead
5 15 (8.93%) Senior Developer
6 13 (7.74%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 11 (6.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 10 (5.95%) Network Engineer
9 10 (5.95%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) Backend Developer
12 7 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
13 6 (3.57%) Analyst
13 6 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Software Engineer
14 5 (2.98%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (44.64%) Terraform
2 17 (10.12%) React
3 15 (8.93%) HTML
4 14 (8.33%) CSS
4 14 (8.33%) Kafka
4 14 (8.33%) Playwright
4 14 (8.33%) Vue
5 11 (6.55%) Flask
6 9 (5.36%) JSON
6 9 (5.36%) PySpark
7 7 (4.17%) REST
7 7 (4.17%) RESTful
8 6 (3.57%) Node.js
8 6 (3.57%) OAuth
9 5 (2.98%) FHIR
9 5 (2.98%) Quarkus
10 4 (2.38%) Hugging Face
10 4 (2.38%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.38%) pytest
10 4 (2.38%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.71%) NHS
3 15 (8.93%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.36%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.98%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.98%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.38%) Sports Betting
8 3 (1.79%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.19%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.19%) IoT
9 2 (1.19%) Replication
9 2 (1.19%) Robotics
10 1 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.55%) Linux
2 7 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (4.17%) Windows
3 2 (1.19%) AIX
4 1 (0.60%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (57.74%) CI/CD
2 62 (36.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (34.52%) DevOps
4 52 (30.95%) Agile
5 33 (19.64%) Observability
6 22 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
6 22 (13.10%) Test Automation
7 21 (12.50%) AI
7 21 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 21 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (11.90%) Code Quality
8 20 (11.90%) Microservices
9 19 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (10.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (10.12%) Software Engineering
11 16 (9.52%) Data Engineering
12 15 (8.93%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (8.93%) Machine Learning
13 14 (8.33%) Analytics
14 13 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.02%) SQL
2 29 (17.26%) Java
3 24 (14.29%) Bash
3 24 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 14 (8.33%) Scala
5 14 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.76%) ActionScript
7 3 (1.79%) C#
7 3 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.79%) Groovy
8 2 (1.19%) PHP
9 1 (0.60%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 44 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 41 (24.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.98%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.19%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.98%) HL7
3 4 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.79%) GDPR
4 3 (1.79%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.79%) WCAG
5 2 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 45 (26.79%) Docker
2 7 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.36%) HAProxy
3 8 (4.76%) Ansible
4 6 (3.57%) Grafana
5 4 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.19%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (10.71%) Google
2 17 (10.12%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.33%) Databricks
4 13 (7.74%) IBM
5 12 (7.14%) Dynatrace
5 12 (7.14%) F5
6 4 (2.38%) Cisco
6 4 (2.38%) Foundry
6 4 (2.38%) New Relic
6 4 (2.38%) Palantir
6 4 (2.38%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.38%) Splunk
7 3 (1.79%) Arista
7 3 (1.79%) Aruba
7 3 (1.79%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.79%) Teradata
8 2 (1.19%) Brio
8 2 (1.19%) Brocade
8 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.19%) VMware