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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 16 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 122 54 74
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 10.95% 9.75% 7.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.26% 28.72% 28.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 39 54
10th Percentile £321 £345 £400
25th Percentile £409 £409 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £623
90th Percentile £595 £738 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%

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 303 188 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.20% 33.94% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 126 195
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.11% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £91.05 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £91.05 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +45.68% -

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +3 108 £500 - 56
Halifax - 7 £400 - 1
Bradford - 3 £413 - 5
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 6 (4.92%) Confluence
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.46%) SAS
3 1 (0.82%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 65 (53.28%) AWS
2 41 (33.61%) GitHub
3 34 (27.87%) Azure
3 34 (27.87%) GCP
4 28 (22.95%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (14.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 18 (14.75%) Serverless
6 15 (12.30%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (9.84%) Apigee
8 10 (8.20%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.56%) SaaS
10 7 (5.74%) Vertex AI
11 6 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.92%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (4.92%) OneDrive
11 6 (4.92%) Power Platform
12 5 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.56%) Firewall
2 7 (5.74%) DNS
2 7 (5.74%) WAN
2 7 (5.74%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (4.92%) LAN
3 6 (4.92%) Unified Communications
3 6 (4.92%) VPN
4 3 (2.46%) Network Security
4 3 (2.46%) PSTN
5 2 (1.64%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.82%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.82%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.82%) SAN
6 1 (0.82%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.82%) SSH
6 1 (0.82%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.66%) BigQuery
2 12 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.56%) DynamoDB
3 8 (6.56%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.92%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.28%) Metadata
6 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.46%) Power BI
7 2 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.64%) Power Query
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.82%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.82%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (24.59%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.38%) Gatling
3 8 (6.56%) Git
3 8 (6.56%) JIRA
4 6 (4.92%) Artifactory
4 6 (4.92%) GitLab
4 6 (4.92%) Maven
5 3 (2.46%) ERwin
6 2 (1.64%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.82%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (18.03%) Public Sector
2 11 (9.02%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.92%) Banking
5 5 (4.10%) Finance
6 3 (2.46%) Marketing
7 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Games
7 2 (1.64%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.64%) Retail
8 1 (0.82%) Law
8 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (31.15%) Developer
2 29 (23.77%) Senior
3 16 (13.11%) Python Developer
3 16 (13.11%) Senior Developer
4 15 (12.30%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (9.84%) GCP Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Lead
8 7 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (5.74%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Architect
9 6 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Analyst
10 5 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) GCP DevOps
10 5 (4.10%) Principal Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Data Scientist
11 4 (3.28%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.93%) React
2 14 (11.48%) Playwright
3 12 (9.84%) Node.js
4 8 (6.56%) Flask
4 8 (6.56%) REST
5 7 (5.74%) JSON
5 7 (5.74%) Redux
5 7 (5.74%) Zustand
6 6 (4.92%) Kafka
6 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (4.92%) OpenAPI
6 6 (4.92%) Swagger
6 6 (4.92%) Vue
7 5 (4.10%) Django
7 5 (4.10%) Quarkus
8 4 (3.28%) .NET
8 4 (3.28%) FastAPI
8 4 (3.28%) OAuth
8 4 (3.28%) PySpark
8 4 (3.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.11%) NHS
3 5 (4.10%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.46%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.46%) IoT
5 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.64%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.02%) Windows
2 10 (8.20%) Linux
3 2 (1.64%) Unix
4 1 (0.82%) AIX
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (54.92%) CI/CD
2 47 (38.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (36.07%) DevOps
4 42 (34.43%) Agile
5 20 (16.39%) Observability
5 20 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (13.93%) Test Automation
7 16 (13.11%) Containerisation
8 15 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (11.48%) AI
9 14 (11.48%) Microservices
9 14 (11.48%) Performance Optimisation
9 14 (11.48%) Software Engineering
10 13 (10.66%) Code Quality
11 12 (9.84%) Analytics
11 12 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (9.84%) Front End Development
12 10 (8.20%) Data Engineering
12 10 (8.20%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (8.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.67%) Java
1 24 (19.67%) SQL
2 19 (15.57%) Bash
3 16 (13.11%) JavaScript
3 16 (13.11%) PowerShell
4 13 (10.66%) TypeScript
5 12 (9.84%) Scala
6 4 (3.28%) C#
7 3 (2.46%) Groovy
8 2 (1.64%) Bicep
8 2 (1.64%) Go
8 2 (1.64%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.82%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.28%) Degree
5 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.74%) WCAG
3 4 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.46%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.82%) QA
5 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (31.15%) Docker
2 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.64%) Firmware
3 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.82%) KVM
4 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (51.64%) Terraform
2 45 (36.89%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.38%) HAProxy
4 8 (6.56%) Istio
5 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.28%) Grafana
7 3 (2.46%) Ansible
7 3 (2.46%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (2.46%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.82%) Packer
8 1 (0.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (14.75%) Google
2 16 (13.11%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.84%) Databricks
4 7 (5.74%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.28%) Splunk
6 3 (2.46%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.46%) Teradata
7 2 (1.64%) Brio
7 2 (1.64%) Cisco
7 2 (1.64%) F5
7 2 (1.64%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.64%) New Relic
7 2 (1.64%) Oracle
7 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.64%) VMware
8 1 (0.82%) Aruba
8 1 (0.82%) Brocade
8 1 (0.82%) IBM
8 1 (0.82%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.82%) SAP