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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 168 84 60
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 12.44% 11.32% 7.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.41% 36.36% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 55 45
10th Percentile £346 £344 £293
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £584
90th Percentile £638 £550 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -9.57%
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 387 231 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.65% 31.13% 31.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 145 198
10th Percentile £341 £350 £309
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £577
90th Percentile £628 £575 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £501
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.10% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.85 £37.07 £33.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £45.03 £35.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +46.82% +99.44%
75th Percentile £25.25 £82.53 £50.63
90th Percentile £26.90 £92.15 £54.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £46.25
% change year-on-year -61.54% +34.92% +37.79%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +3 143 £500 - 74
Bradford -8 11 £375 -13.79% 5
Halifax - 9 £515 - 1
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 4 (2.38%) Confluence
2 2 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.19%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.19%) SAS
2 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 89 (52.98%) AWS
2 63 (37.50%) GitHub
3 41 (24.40%) GitHub Actions
4 39 (23.21%) GCP
5 35 (20.83%) Azure
6 27 (16.07%) Serverless
7 14 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (6.55%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.55%) Apigee
9 11 (6.55%) Vertex AI
10 10 (5.95%) IaaS
11 9 (5.36%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.98%) Cloud Run
13 5 (2.98%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.98%) SaaS
14 4 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
14 4 (2.38%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.93%) Firewall
2 12 (7.14%) BIG-IP
3 11 (6.55%) DNS
3 11 (6.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 8 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 6 (3.57%) Network Security
5 6 (3.57%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.57%) WAN
5 6 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.98%) VLAN
7 4 (2.38%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.38%) VPN
8 3 (1.79%) BGP
8 3 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.79%) LAN
8 3 (1.79%) OSPF
8 3 (1.79%) SSL
8 3 (1.79%) VXLAN
8 3 (1.79%) WLAN
9 2 (1.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.12%) BigQuery
2 16 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.36%) DynamoDB
5 8 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.17%) Power BI
7 5 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.38%) Metadata
8 4 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.79%) Tableau
10 2 (1.19%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.19%) MySQL
10 2 (1.19%) Parquet
10 2 (1.19%) Power Query
10 2 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 41 (24.40%) Jenkins
2 14 (8.33%) Git
2 14 (8.33%) JIRA
3 10 (5.95%) Gatling
3 10 (5.95%) GitLab
4 7 (4.17%) Maven
5 6 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.98%) JMeter
6 5 (2.98%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.79%) ERwin
7 3 (1.79%) Postman
7 3 (1.79%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.19%) Pylint
8 2 (1.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.60%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.60%) Flyway
9 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.60%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (17.26%) Public Sector
2 22 (13.10%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.93%) Finance
4 12 (7.14%) Banking
5 9 (5.36%) Legal
6 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.57%) Games
8 5 (2.98%) Retail
9 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (30.95%) Developer
2 35 (20.83%) Senior
3 32 (19.05%) Python Developer
4 17 (10.12%) Senior Developer
5 16 (9.52%) Lead
6 13 (7.74%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 10 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.76%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) GCP DevOps
11 6 (3.57%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.71%) React
2 14 (8.33%) HTML
2 14 (8.33%) Kafka
2 14 (8.33%) Playwright
3 13 (7.74%) CSS
3 13 (7.74%) Vue
4 10 (5.95%) Flask
4 10 (5.95%) JSON
4 10 (5.95%) REST
5 8 (4.76%) RESTful
6 7 (4.17%) Node.js
6 7 (4.17%) PySpark
7 6 (3.57%) OAuth
8 5 (2.98%) FHIR
8 5 (2.98%) Quarkus
9 4 (2.38%) Hugging Face
9 4 (2.38%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.38%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.38%) Redux
9 4 (2.38%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.12%) NHS
3 15 (8.93%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.98%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.98%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.38%) Sports Betting
9 3 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.19%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.19%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.19%) IoT
10 2 (1.19%) Replication
10 2 (1.19%) Robotics
10 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.14%) Linux
2 8 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.17%) Windows
4 2 (1.19%) AIX
4 2 (1.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.60%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (59.52%) CI/CD
2 64 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (36.31%) DevOps
4 55 (32.74%) Agile
5 34 (20.24%) Observability
6 22 (13.10%) Code Quality
6 22 (13.10%) Containerisation
6 22 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
6 22 (13.10%) Test Automation
7 21 (12.50%) AI
7 21 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (12.50%) Microservices
8 20 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (10.71%) Software Engineering
10 17 (10.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (8.93%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (8.33%) Front End Development
13 13 (7.74%) Data Engineering
13 13 (7.74%) Machine Learning
14 12 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.83%) SQL
2 29 (17.26%) Java
3 25 (14.88%) Bash
3 25 (14.88%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 14 (8.33%) Scala
5 14 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.76%) ActionScript
7 3 (1.79%) C#
7 3 (1.79%) Groovy
8 2 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.19%) PHP
8 2 (1.19%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.60%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 45 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.98%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.19%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.98%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.98%) HL7
3 4 (2.38%) WCAG
4 3 (1.79%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.19%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 45 (26.79%) Docker
2 7 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 78 (46.43%) Terraform
2 37 (22.02%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.36%) HAProxy
4 8 (4.76%) Ansible
4 8 (4.76%) Grafana
5 4 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.19%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (11.90%) Google
2 16 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.33%) Databricks
4 13 (7.74%) IBM
5 12 (7.14%) Dynatrace
5 12 (7.14%) F5
6 6 (3.57%) New Relic
6 6 (3.57%) Splunk
7 4 (2.38%) Cisco
7 4 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.79%) Arista
8 3 (1.79%) Aruba
8 3 (1.79%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.19%) Brio
9 2 (1.19%) Brocade
9 2 (1.19%) Foundry
9 2 (1.19%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.19%) Teradata
9 2 (1.19%) VMware