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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 166 105 63
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 12.54% 12.57% 7.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.24% 37.10% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 57 46
10th Percentile £359 £372 £319
25th Percentile £421 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £639 £550 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
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 359 283 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.11% 33.89% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 165 201
10th Percentile £349 £365 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £575
90th Percentile £604 £675 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £19.85 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.78%
75th Percentile £25.25 - £39.38
90th Percentile £26.90 - £49.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £49.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -51.52% +23.75% +87.71%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -1 146 £500 - 120
Bradford -9 12 £372 -14.54% 12
Halifax -1 8 £520 - 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 6 (3.61%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.81%) Apache
3 3 (1.81%) SAS
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (51.81%) AWS
2 61 (36.75%) GitHub
3 40 (24.10%) Azure
3 40 (24.10%) GitHub Actions
4 27 (16.27%) GCP
5 25 (15.06%) Serverless
6 15 (9.04%) Amazon S3
7 13 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (7.83%) IaaS
8 8 (4.82%) Vertex AI
9 7 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (4.22%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (3.01%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.41%) Apigee
12 4 (2.41%) Cloud Run
12 4 (2.41%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.45%) Firewall
2 15 (9.04%) BIG-IP
3 14 (8.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 12 (7.23%) DNS
5 11 (6.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 8 (4.82%) Network Security
7 6 (3.61%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.01%) VLAN
9 4 (2.41%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.41%) WAN
9 4 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.81%) BGP
10 3 (1.81%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (1.81%) OSPF
10 3 (1.81%) SSL
10 3 (1.81%) VXLAN
10 3 (1.81%) WLAN
11 1 (0.60%) Broadband
11 1 (0.60%) LAN
11 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.82%) BigQuery
2 8 (4.82%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.22%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.22%) Power BI
4 6 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.61%) Delta Lake
4 6 (3.61%) Metadata
5 4 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.41%) Tableau
6 3 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.81%) Big Data
6 3 (1.81%) MySQL
6 3 (1.81%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.20%) Parquet
7 2 (1.20%) Power Query
7 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (24.10%) Jenkins
2 18 (10.84%) Git
2 18 (10.84%) JIRA
3 9 (5.42%) GitLab
4 7 (4.22%) Gatling
5 6 (3.61%) JMeter
5 6 (3.61%) LoadRunner
5 6 (3.61%) Postman
5 6 (3.61%) SoapUI
6 5 (3.01%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.01%) Selenium
7 4 (2.41%) Maven
7 4 (2.41%) Pylint
8 3 (1.81%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.20%) eggPlant
9 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.60%) Flyway
10 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.60%) WinAutomation
General
1 30 (18.07%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.27%) Public Sector
3 14 (8.43%) Banking
4 13 (7.83%) Finance
5 11 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.42%) Legal
7 5 (3.01%) Games
7 5 (3.01%) Retail
8 3 (1.81%) Marketing
9 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (27.11%) Developer
2 38 (22.89%) Senior
3 36 (21.69%) Python Developer
4 20 (12.05%) Data Engineer
4 20 (12.05%) Lead
5 13 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (7.83%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (6.63%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.02%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 10 (6.02%) Network Engineer
8 9 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.42%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Backend Developer
9 7 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (39.76%) Terraform
2 15 (9.04%) HTML
3 13 (7.83%) CSS
3 13 (7.83%) Kafka
4 12 (7.23%) Vue
5 11 (6.63%) Flask
5 11 (6.63%) PySpark
6 10 (6.02%) REST
7 9 (5.42%) pytest
8 8 (4.82%) React
9 6 (3.61%) RESTful
10 5 (3.01%) FHIR
10 5 (3.01%) Playwright
11 4 (2.41%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.41%) JSON
11 4 (2.41%) OAuth
11 4 (2.41%) TFX
11 4 (2.41%) YAML
12 3 (1.81%) Hugging Face
12 3 (1.81%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 39 (23.49%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.05%) Public Cloud
3 19 (11.45%) Data Centre
4 13 (7.83%) NHS
5 8 (4.82%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.61%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.01%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.41%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.81%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.81%) PKI
9 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.81%) Sports Betting
10 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.20%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.20%) Robotics
11 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.42%) Linux
2 7 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.60%) AIX
4 1 (0.60%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (62.65%) CI/CD
2 64 (38.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (34.94%) DevOps
4 47 (28.31%) Agile
5 35 (21.08%) Observability
6 26 (15.66%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (15.06%) Test Automation
8 21 (12.65%) AI
9 20 (12.05%) Containerisation
9 20 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (10.24%) Code Quality
12 17 (10.24%) Machine Learning
13 16 (9.64%) Validation
14 15 (9.04%) Data Engineering
14 15 (9.04%) ETL
15 13 (7.83%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (24.10%) SQL
2 19 (11.45%) Bash
2 19 (11.45%) Java
3 18 (10.84%) JavaScript
3 18 (10.84%) PowerShell
4 11 (6.63%) ActionScript
5 9 (5.42%) Scala
6 8 (4.82%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.81%) Groovy
8 2 (1.20%) PHP
9 1 (0.60%) Bicep
9 1 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 46 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 43 (25.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.20%) Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.01%) HL7
3 3 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.81%) GDPR
3 3 (1.81%) QA
4 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (24.70%) Docker
2 7 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (23.49%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.02%) Ansible
2 10 (6.02%) Grafana
3 5 (3.01%) HAProxy
3 5 (3.01%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.41%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.60%) Packer
5 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (10.84%) Google
2 15 (9.04%) F5
2 15 (9.04%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.43%) IBM
4 13 (7.83%) Dynatrace
5 12 (7.23%) Databricks
6 7 (4.22%) Splunk
7 6 (3.61%) Foundry
7 6 (3.61%) Palantir
8 5 (3.01%) Brio
8 5 (3.01%) New Relic
8 5 (3.01%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.41%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.81%) Arista
10 3 (1.81%) Aruba
10 3 (1.81%) Cisco
10 3 (1.81%) SAP
10 3 (1.81%) Teradata
11 1 (0.60%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.60%) Trend Micro