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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 128 52 69
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 11.72% 9.83% 6.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.89% 28.42% 26.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 37 49
10th Percentile £329 £340 £395
25th Percentile £411 £405 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £588 £738 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -18.75%

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 313 183 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.66% 34.59% 25.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 120 190
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £621 £658 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.60% +11.11% -14.29%
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 17 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 17 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 +3 114 £500 +5.26% 64
Halifax - 7 £400 -
Bradford - 3 £413 - 9
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 (8.59%) Confluence
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.34%) SAS
4 2 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 71 (55.47%) AWS
2 47 (36.72%) GitHub
3 37 (28.91%) Azure
4 33 (25.78%) GCP
5 32 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (17.19%) Serverless
7 20 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (13.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 13 (10.16%) Amazon S3
10 12 (9.38%) Apigee
11 11 (8.59%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (7.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (6.25%) Entra ID
14 7 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (5.47%) SaaS
15 6 (4.69%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (4.69%) Azure Storage
15 6 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (4.69%) OneDrive
15 6 (4.69%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.03%) DNS
1 9 (7.03%) Firewall
2 6 (4.69%) LAN
2 6 (4.69%) Unified Communications
2 6 (4.69%) VPN
2 6 (4.69%) WAN
2 6 (4.69%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.34%) Network Security
3 3 (2.34%) PSTN
4 1 (0.78%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.78%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.78%) FTP
4 1 (0.78%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.78%) NAS
4 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.78%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.78%) SSH
4 1 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.59%) BigQuery
2 11 (8.59%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.81%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.47%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.13%) Metadata
7 3 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.56%) Power BI
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.78%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.16%) JIRA
3 8 (6.25%) Gatling
3 8 (6.25%) Git
4 5 (3.91%) Artifactory
4 5 (3.91%) GitLab
4 5 (3.91%) Maven
5 3 (2.34%) ERwin
6 2 (1.56%) MSI
6 2 (1.56%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.78%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 25 (19.53%) Public Sector
2 12 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.69%) Banking
5 5 (3.91%) Finance
6 3 (2.34%) Marketing
7 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.78%) Games
8 1 (0.78%) Law
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
8 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (26.56%) Developer
2 25 (19.53%) Senior
3 20 (15.63%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (11.72%) Python Developer
6 13 (10.16%) Senior Developer
7 12 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (8.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Tester
10 6 (4.69%) Architect
10 6 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 5 (3.91%) GCP DevOps
11 5 (3.91%) Lead
11 5 (3.91%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.06%) React
2 13 (10.16%) Playwright
3 11 (8.59%) Node.js
4 8 (6.25%) JWT
4 8 (6.25%) OAuth
4 8 (6.25%) REST
5 7 (5.47%) Flask
5 7 (5.47%) JSON
6 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (4.69%) OpenAPI
6 6 (4.69%) Redux
6 6 (4.69%) Swagger
6 6 (4.69%) Zustand
7 5 (3.91%) SAML
7 5 (3.91%) Vue
8 4 (3.13%) .NET
8 4 (3.13%) Django
8 4 (3.13%) Kafka
8 4 (3.13%) Quarkus
9 3 (2.34%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.63%) NHS
2 18 (14.06%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.13%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.34%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.34%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.34%) IoT
4 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Life Science
6 1 (0.78%) PKI
6 1 (0.78%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.38%) Linux
2 11 (8.59%) Windows
3 3 (2.34%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.78%) AIX
5 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (53.13%) CI/CD
2 53 (41.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (38.28%) DevOps
4 43 (33.59%) Agile
5 27 (21.09%) Platform Engineering
6 24 (18.75%) Observability
7 19 (14.84%) Software Engineering
8 17 (13.28%) Containerisation
8 17 (13.28%) Test Automation
9 13 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (9.38%) AI
10 12 (9.38%) Analytics
10 12 (9.38%) Cloud Security
10 12 (9.38%) Code Quality
10 12 (9.38%) Microservices
10 12 (9.38%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (9.38%) Test Strategy
11 11 (8.59%) Front End Development
12 10 (7.81%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (7.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.19%) JavaScript
2 21 (16.41%) Java
3 19 (14.84%) Bash
3 19 (14.84%) SQL
4 17 (13.28%) PowerShell
5 15 (11.72%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.81%) Scala
7 4 (3.13%) C#
8 3 (2.34%) Groovy
9 2 (1.56%) Go
9 2 (1.56%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.78%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) C
10 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.34%) Degree
4 3 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.81%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.69%) WCAG
3 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.34%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.78%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) QA
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (28.13%) Docker
2 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.56%) Firmware
3 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.78%) KVM
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (53.91%) Terraform
2 44 (34.38%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.25%) HAProxy
3 8 (6.25%) Istio
4 6 (4.69%) Grafana
4 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.34%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.34%) Packer
5 3 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.56%) Ansible
6 2 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 17 (13.28%) Google
2 16 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.94%) Splunk
4 11 (8.59%) Databricks
5 7 (5.47%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.34%) Cribl.io
6 3 (2.34%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.34%) Teradata
7 2 (1.56%) Brio
7 2 (1.56%) Cisco
7 2 (1.56%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.56%) New Relic
7 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.56%) VMware
8 1 (0.78%) Brocade
8 1 (0.78%) Centrify
8 1 (0.78%) F5
8 1 (0.78%) IBM
8 1 (0.78%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.78%) Meraki