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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Python 171 103 62
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 12.62% 12.56% 7.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.37% 37.05% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 56 46
10th Percentile £353 £378 £319
25th Percentile £424 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £643 £550 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.76% -6.74%
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 361 278 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.64% 33.90% 32.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 162 205
10th Percentile £348 £363 £352
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £575
90th Percentile £617 £675 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £19.85 - £27.25
25th Percentile £23.00 - £28.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.51%
75th Percentile £25.25 - £45.00
90th Percentile £26.90 - £51.75
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 4 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 4 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 -1 150 £500 - 152
Bradford -8 13 £375 -13.79% 23
Halifax -1 8 £520 - 3
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 (3.51%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.75%) SAS
3 2 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.17%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (52.63%) AWS
2 60 (35.09%) GitHub
3 43 (25.15%) Azure
4 40 (23.39%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (18.71%) GCP
6 26 (15.20%) Serverless
7 15 (8.77%) Amazon S3
8 14 (8.19%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (7.60%) IaaS
10 10 (5.85%) Vertex AI
11 7 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.09%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (2.92%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.34%) Apigee
14 4 (2.34%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (2.34%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.11%) Firewall
2 15 (8.77%) BIG-IP
3 14 (8.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 12 (7.02%) DNS
5 11 (6.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 8 (4.68%) Network Security
7 6 (3.51%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.92%) VLAN
9 4 (2.34%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.34%) WAN
9 4 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.75%) BGP
10 3 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (1.75%) OSPF
10 3 (1.75%) SSL
10 3 (1.75%) VXLAN
10 3 (1.75%) WLAN
11 1 (0.58%) Internet
11 1 (0.58%) SAN
11 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.02%) BigQuery
2 11 (6.43%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.26%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.09%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.09%) Power BI
6 6 (3.51%) Metadata
7 4 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.34%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.34%) Tableau
8 3 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.75%) Big Data
8 3 (1.75%) MySQL
8 3 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.17%) Parquet
9 2 (1.17%) Power Query
9 2 (1.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (22.81%) Jenkins
2 18 (10.53%) Git
2 18 (10.53%) JIRA
3 9 (5.26%) GitLab
4 7 (4.09%) Gatling
5 6 (3.51%) JMeter
5 6 (3.51%) LoadRunner
5 6 (3.51%) Postman
5 6 (3.51%) SoapUI
6 5 (2.92%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.92%) Selenium
7 4 (2.34%) Maven
8 3 (1.75%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.75%) Pylint
9 2 (1.17%) eggPlant
9 2 (1.17%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.58%) Flyway
10 1 (0.58%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (16.96%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.37%) Public Sector
3 14 (8.19%) Banking
4 13 (7.60%) Finance
5 11 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.26%) Legal
7 5 (2.92%) Games
8 4 (2.34%) Retail
9 3 (1.75%) Marketing
10 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (28.07%) Developer
2 39 (22.81%) Senior
3 38 (22.22%) Python Developer
4 19 (11.11%) Lead
5 18 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (7.02%) Senior Developer
8 10 (5.85%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 10 (5.85%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (38.01%) Terraform
2 15 (8.77%) HTML
3 13 (7.60%) CSS
3 13 (7.60%) Kafka
4 12 (7.02%) Vue
5 11 (6.43%) Flask
6 10 (5.85%) PySpark
7 9 (5.26%) pytest
7 9 (5.26%) React
7 9 (5.26%) REST
8 6 (3.51%) RESTful
9 5 (2.92%) FHIR
9 5 (2.92%) Hugging Face
9 5 (2.92%) OAuth
9 5 (2.92%) Playwright
9 5 (2.92%) PyTorch
9 5 (2.92%) TensorFlow
10 4 (2.34%) JSON
10 4 (2.34%) YAML
11 3 (1.75%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 19 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 15 (8.77%) NHS
4 7 (4.09%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.92%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.92%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.75%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.75%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.75%) PKI
8 3 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.75%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.17%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.17%) Robotics
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.43%) Linux
2 7 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.58%) AIX
4 1 (0.58%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (60.82%) CI/CD
2 63 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (32.75%) DevOps
4 47 (27.49%) Agile
5 36 (21.05%) Observability
6 26 (15.20%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (14.04%) AI
7 24 (14.04%) Test Automation
8 22 (12.87%) Containerisation
9 20 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (11.11%) Machine Learning
10 19 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (9.36%) Code Quality
13 15 (8.77%) Data Engineering
13 15 (8.77%) Microservices
13 15 (8.77%) Performance Optimisation
14 14 (8.19%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.81%) SQL
2 21 (12.28%) Java
3 20 (11.70%) Bash
4 19 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 18 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.43%) ActionScript
7 9 (5.26%) Scala
8 8 (4.68%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.75%) Groovy
10 2 (1.17%) PHP
11 1 (0.58%) Bicep
11 1 (0.58%) Go
Qualifications
1 45 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 42 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.17%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.17%) Degree
6 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.92%) HL7
3 3 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.75%) GDPR
3 3 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.75%) QA
3 3 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.17%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.58%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (25.15%) Docker
2 7 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (23.39%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.85%) Ansible
3 9 (5.26%) Grafana
4 6 (3.51%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.92%) HAProxy
6 3 (1.75%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.58%) Packer
7 1 (0.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 17 (9.94%) Google
2 15 (8.77%) Dynatrace
2 15 (8.77%) F5
3 14 (8.19%) IBM
3 14 (8.19%) Microsoft
4 12 (7.02%) Databricks
5 7 (4.09%) Splunk
6 6 (3.51%) Foundry
6 6 (3.51%) Palantir
7 5 (2.92%) Brio
7 5 (2.92%) New Relic
8 4 (2.34%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.34%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.75%) Arista
9 3 (1.75%) Aruba
9 3 (1.75%) Cisco
9 3 (1.75%) SAP
9 3 (1.75%) Teradata
10 2 (1.17%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.58%) Sonatype