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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 18 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 -18
Contract jobs citing Python 107 63 56
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 12.88% 7.96% 4.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.54% 24.71% 17.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 46 42
10th Percentile £375 £309 £428
25th Percentile £435 £416 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -8.37% -10.42%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £638
90th Percentile £550 £600 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.73% -8.33%

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 285 255 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.30% 32.24% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 193 236
10th Percentile £365 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £625
90th Percentile £675 £643 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - £17.72
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +40.78% -40.12%
75th Percentile - £39.38 £26.78
90th Percentile - £49.50 £47.91
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -57.38%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 +4 90 £500 - 82
Bradford +5 13 £435 +2.35% 19
Halifax - 4 - - 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 5 (4.67%) Apache
1 5 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 66 (61.68%) AWS
2 35 (32.71%) Azure
3 27 (25.23%) GCP
4 19 (17.76%) Serverless
5 17 (15.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (14.02%) Amazon S3
6 15 (14.02%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (11.21%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (11.21%) GitHub
8 11 (10.28%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (8.41%) Power Platform
9 9 (8.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (5.61%) Amazon ELB
12 5 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.74%) Entra ID
13 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (2.80%) AWS CloudTrail
14 3 (2.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.95%) Firewall
2 7 (6.54%) VPN
3 6 (5.61%) DNS
3 6 (5.61%) SSL
3 6 (5.61%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.74%) Ethernet
4 4 (3.74%) Network Security
4 4 (3.74%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.80%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.93%) HTTP
6 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (8.41%) Power BI
2 8 (7.48%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.54%) Tableau
4 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.67%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.80%) Big Data
6 3 (2.80%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.80%) MySQL
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.87%) Bigtable
7 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.87%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 24 (22.43%) Git
1 24 (22.43%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.35%) GitLab
3 6 (5.61%) JIRA
4 5 (4.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.93%) Maven
5 1 (0.93%) Selenium
5 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 24 (22.43%) Public Sector
2 14 (13.08%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.61%) Banking
5 2 (1.87%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.87%) Legal
6 1 (0.93%) Finance
6 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.93%) Local Government
6 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (25.23%) Senior
2 22 (20.56%) Developer
3 18 (16.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (14.02%) Python Developer
5 13 (12.15%) Architect
6 12 (11.21%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (11.21%) Lead
7 11 (10.28%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (9.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (9.35%) Python Engineer
8 10 (9.35%) Technical Architect
9 9 (8.41%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (7.48%) Analyst
10 8 (7.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (6.54%) AWS Developer
11 7 (6.54%) Data Engineer
11 7 (6.54%) NetBackup Engineer
12 6 (5.61%) Network Engineer
12 6 (5.61%) Senior Developer
12 6 (5.61%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) React
2 10 (9.35%) Django
3 9 (8.41%) Flask
4 8 (7.48%) FastAPI
4 8 (7.48%) RESTful
5 6 (5.61%) Kafka
5 6 (5.61%) PySpark
6 5 (4.67%) GraphQL
6 5 (4.67%) pytest
7 4 (3.74%) Celery
7 4 (3.74%) gRPC
7 4 (3.74%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (3.74%) Node.js
7 4 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (3.74%) WebSockets
8 3 (2.80%) .NET
8 3 (2.80%) CSS
8 3 (2.80%) HTML
8 3 (2.80%) REST
9 2 (1.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) NHS
2 10 (9.35%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.74%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.43%) Linux
2 6 (5.61%) Unix
3 4 (3.74%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.80%) Windows
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.19%) CI/CD
2 39 (36.45%) DevOps
3 28 (26.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (25.23%) Agile
5 20 (18.69%) Containerisation
6 18 (16.82%) Mentoring
7 12 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (11.21%) Visualisation
8 11 (10.28%) Security Monitoring
8 11 (10.28%) Test Automation
9 10 (9.35%) Data Protection
10 9 (8.41%) Clean Code
10 9 (8.41%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (8.41%) Software Engineering
11 8 (7.48%) Business Strategy
11 8 (7.48%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (7.48%) RBAC
12 7 (6.54%) AI
Programming Languages
1 41 (38.32%) Bash
2 16 (14.95%) PowerShell
2 16 (14.95%) SQL
3 12 (11.21%) TypeScript
4 10 (9.35%) Java
5 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.80%) C++
6 3 (2.80%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (2.80%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.87%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (1.87%) C
7 2 (1.87%) C#
7 2 (1.87%) Go
7 2 (1.87%) Scala
8 1 (0.93%) Bicep
8 1 (0.93%) Perl
8 1 (0.93%) R
8 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) CCNA
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.93%) CISSP
6 1 (0.93%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Degree
6 1 (0.93%) GCIH
6 1 (0.93%) OCP
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) SOC 2
2 4 (3.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.74%) QA
3 3 (2.80%) GDPR
3 3 (2.80%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 28 (26.17%) Docker
2 8 (7.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (51.40%) Terraform
2 28 (26.17%) Kubernetes
3 23 (21.50%) Ansible
4 8 (7.48%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.54%) Grafana
5 7 (6.54%) NetBackup
5 7 (6.54%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (3.74%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.87%) Control-M
7 2 (1.87%) Puppet
8 1 (0.93%) Istio
8 1 (0.93%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.93%) SCCM
8 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (11.21%) Google
2 10 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.41%) VMware
4 7 (6.54%) CyberArk
4 7 (6.54%) Oracle
4 7 (6.54%) Veritas
5 6 (5.61%) CheckPoint
5 6 (5.61%) F5
5 6 (5.61%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.61%) Splunk
6 4 (3.74%) Apple
6 4 (3.74%) Cisco
6 4 (3.74%) Databricks
6 4 (3.74%) Juniper
6 4 (3.74%) Nokia
7 3 (2.80%) Meraki
8 2 (1.87%) Brio
8 2 (1.87%) CloudEndure
8 2 (1.87%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.93%) CrowdStrike