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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 152 57 90
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 12.43% 9.45% 8.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.55% 29.23% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 40 67
10th Percentile £334 £324 £346
25th Percentile £413 £409 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -18.33%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £615
90th Percentile £608 £578 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £503
% change year-on-year - -0.50% -16.25%
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 349 195 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.54% 32.34% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 127 217
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £575 £640
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £19.85 £31.53 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.25 £66.51 -
90th Percentile £26.90 £85.74 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £62.50
% change year-on-year -27.51% -47.02% +15.74%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +2 134 £500 - 45
Halifax - 13 £463 - 1
Bradford - 3 £538 - 7
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 8 (5.26%) Confluence
2 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.97%) SAS
4 2 (1.32%) Apache
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.66%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 73 (48.03%) AWS
2 58 (38.16%) GitHub
3 41 (26.97%) GCP
4 36 (23.68%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (23.03%) Azure
6 19 (12.50%) Serverless
7 17 (11.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 12 (7.89%) Apigee
8 12 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (6.58%) IaaS
9 10 (6.58%) SaaS
10 9 (5.92%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.61%) Power Platform
11 7 (4.61%) Vertex AI
12 6 (3.95%) Cloud Run
12 6 (3.95%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (3.95%) OneDrive
13 5 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.84%) Firewall
2 13 (8.55%) BIG-IP
2 13 (8.55%) DNS
3 11 (7.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 10 (6.58%) WAN
4 10 (6.58%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 8 (5.26%) Network Security
6 7 (4.61%) LAN
6 7 (4.61%) VPN
7 6 (3.95%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.95%) Unified Communications
8 5 (3.29%) VLAN
9 4 (2.63%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.97%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (1.97%) OSPF
10 3 (1.97%) PSTN
10 3 (1.97%) SSL
10 3 (1.97%) VXLAN
10 3 (1.97%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.55%) BigQuery
2 13 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.95%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.63%) Metadata
5 4 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.63%) Power BI
6 3 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.97%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.32%) Parquet
7 2 (1.32%) Power Query
8 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.66%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (28.29%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.50%) JIRA
3 11 (7.24%) Git
3 11 (7.24%) GitLab
4 9 (5.92%) Gatling
5 6 (3.95%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.95%) Maven
6 3 (1.97%) ERwin
7 1 (0.66%) Flyway
7 1 (0.66%) Spinnaker
General
1 21 (13.82%) Public Sector
2 14 (9.21%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.58%) Finance
4 9 (5.92%) Banking
5 7 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.95%) Legal
7 3 (1.97%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Games
8 2 (1.32%) Retail
9 1 (0.66%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (27.63%) Developer
2 37 (24.34%) Senior
3 21 (13.82%) Python Developer
4 18 (11.84%) Senior Developer
5 16 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (7.89%) GCP Engineer
7 11 (7.24%) Network Engineer
8 10 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.92%) GCP DevOps
10 8 (5.26%) Lead
11 7 (4.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.61%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 6 (3.95%) Analyst
12 6 (3.95%) Architect
12 6 (3.95%) Backend Developer
12 6 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.50%) React
2 14 (9.21%) Playwright
3 10 (6.58%) REST
4 9 (5.92%) JSON
4 9 (5.92%) Node.js
5 8 (5.26%) PySpark
5 8 (5.26%) Vue
6 7 (4.61%) Redux
6 7 (4.61%) RESTful
6 7 (4.61%) Zustand
7 6 (3.95%) Flask
7 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (3.29%) CSS
8 5 (3.29%) HTML
8 5 (3.29%) Kafka
8 5 (3.29%) OpenAPI
8 5 (3.29%) Quarkus
8 5 (3.29%) Swagger
9 4 (2.63%) .NET
9 4 (2.63%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.11%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.18%) Data Centre
3 14 (9.21%) NHS
4 6 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.29%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.63%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.97%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.97%) IoT
8 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.32%) Replication
8 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.32%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.66%) Life Science
9 1 (0.66%) PKI
9 1 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.87%) Linux
2 12 (7.89%) Windows
3 7 (4.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.32%) AIX
4 2 (1.32%) Unix
5 1 (0.66%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (59.21%) CI/CD
2 60 (39.47%) DevOps
3 58 (38.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (34.87%) Agile
5 28 (18.42%) Observability
6 21 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (13.82%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (12.50%) Code Quality
7 19 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 18 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (11.18%) Performance Optimisation
9 17 (11.18%) Software Engineering
10 16 (10.53%) Microservices
11 15 (9.87%) Cloud Security
11 15 (9.87%) Front End Development
12 14 (9.21%) AI
13 13 (8.55%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (8.55%) Test Automation
14 12 (7.89%) High Availability
15 11 (7.24%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.76%) Bash
2 26 (17.11%) SQL
3 24 (15.79%) Java
4 22 (14.47%) PowerShell
5 18 (11.84%) JavaScript
6 14 (9.21%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.24%) Scala
8 9 (5.92%) ActionScript
9 3 (1.97%) C#
9 3 (1.97%) Groovy
10 2 (1.32%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.66%) Bicep
11 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.66%) Go
11 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.63%) Degree
4 4 (2.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.61%) WCAG
3 3 (1.97%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) HL7
5 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 35 (23.03%) Docker
2 8 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.63%) Firmware
4 3 (1.97%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.66%) KVM
5 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (47.37%) Terraform
2 41 (26.97%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.92%) HAProxy
4 7 (4.61%) Ansible
4 7 (4.61%) Istio
5 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.97%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.32%) Grafana
7 2 (1.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.66%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (15.79%) Google
2 16 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.55%) Databricks
3 13 (8.55%) F5
4 7 (4.61%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.95%) IBM
6 4 (2.63%) Cisco
6 4 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.97%) Arista
7 3 (1.97%) Aruba
7 3 (1.97%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.97%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.97%) Teradata
7 3 (1.97%) VMware
8 2 (1.32%) Brocade
8 2 (1.32%) Foundry
8 2 (1.32%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.32%) New Relic
8 2 (1.32%) Palantir
8 2 (1.32%) Splunk