Python Contracts in West Yorkshire

Python
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 53 72 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.41% 6.96% 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.61% 28.24% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 52 74
10th Percentile £329 £400 £412
25th Percentile £383 £438 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +12.20%

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 179 255 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 35.17% 24.64% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 189 351
10th Percentile £320 £300 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.53%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £31.62 - £57.55
25th Percentile £44.87 £19.44 £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.05 £20.71 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +339.76% -70.42% +154.22%
75th Percentile £101.14 £21.97 -
90th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 £41.60 £62.50
% change year-on-year +118.86% -33.44% +83.63%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in West Yorkshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in West Yorkshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in West Yorkshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in West Yorkshire

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 9 April 2025. 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 0 51 £475 -3.06% 67
Python
Yorkshire

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.43%) nginx
1 5 (9.43%) Traefik
2 3 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (64.15%) AWS
2 12 (22.64%) AWS CloudFormation
2 12 (22.64%) Azure
3 11 (20.75%) GCP
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (13.21%) AWS Fargate
5 6 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (11.32%) Entra ID
5 6 (11.32%) Power Platform
5 6 (11.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (9.43%) Serverless
7 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (5.66%) npm
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.89%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) DNS
1 7 (13.21%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.77%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) HTTP
3 1 (1.89%) DHCP
3 1 (1.89%) LAN
3 1 (1.89%) Network Security
3 1 (1.89%) SSL
3 1 (1.89%) VLAN
3 1 (1.89%) VPN
3 1 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) MongoDB
2 6 (11.32%) Power BI
3 5 (9.43%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.77%) Tableau
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.89%) Big Data
5 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.89%) Looker
5 1 (1.89%) MySQL
5 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (26.42%) GitLab
2 13 (24.53%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.43%) Git
3 5 (9.43%) JIRA
4 4 (7.55%) Selenium
5 3 (5.66%) webpack
6 2 (3.77%) Postman
6 2 (3.77%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.89%) Babel
7 1 (1.89%) ERwin
General
1 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
2 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Finance
5 5 (9.43%) Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.77%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) Senior
3 9 (16.98%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (13.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Analyst
6 5 (9.43%) Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Architect
7 4 (7.55%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (7.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Data Analyst
7 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Lead
8 3 (5.66%) SQL Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) SQL Data Analyst
9 2 (3.77%) Angular Developer
9 2 (3.77%) GCP Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) cloud-init
2 8 (15.09%) Kafka
3 6 (11.32%) Keycloak
4 4 (7.55%) Node.js
4 4 (7.55%) React
5 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.66%) CSS
5 3 (5.66%) HTML
6 2 (3.77%) Flask
6 2 (3.77%) JSON
6 2 (3.77%) Pandas
6 2 (3.77%) Playwright
6 2 (3.77%) pytest
6 2 (3.77%) REST
6 2 (3.77%) RESTful
6 2 (3.77%) Web Services
7 1 (1.89%) JWT
7 1 (1.89%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.89%) React Native
7 1 (1.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) PKI
2 4 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.66%) NHS
4 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Linux
2 13 (24.53%) CentOS
2 13 (24.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (22.64%) Unix
4 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.77%) Windows
5 1 (1.89%) Android
5 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (54.72%) CI/CD
2 26 (49.06%) DevOps
3 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (30.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (18.87%) Agile
5 10 (18.87%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (18.87%) ETL
6 8 (15.09%) Cloud Security
7 7 (13.21%) Analytics
7 7 (13.21%) Data Engineering
7 7 (13.21%) Secrets Management
7 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
8 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (11.32%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (11.32%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 6 (11.32%) Identity Management
8 6 (11.32%) Migration
8 6 (11.32%) Observability
8 6 (11.32%) Static Application Security Testing
9 5 (9.43%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.08%) Bash
1 17 (32.08%) SQL
2 12 (22.64%) Go
3 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.55%) Scala
4 2 (3.77%) Java
4 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.89%) AppleScript
5 1 (1.89%) C#
5 1 (1.89%) R
5 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.96%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.89%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) NCSC
2 4 (7.55%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (50.94%) Terraform
2 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
3 12 (22.64%) Packer
4 7 (13.21%) Grafana
4 7 (13.21%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (13.21%) Prometheus
5 6 (11.32%) Consul
5 6 (11.32%) Istio
5 6 (11.32%) linkerd
5 6 (11.32%) Rancher
5 6 (11.32%) ZABBIX
6 5 (9.43%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.77%) Ansible
8 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Apple
1 6 (11.32%) Google
1 6 (11.32%) Okta
1 6 (11.32%) Splunk
2 5 (9.43%) Databricks
2 5 (9.43%) ESET
3 3 (5.66%) Brio
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco
4 2 (3.77%) Workday
5 1 (1.89%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.89%) F5
5 1 (1.89%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) Sparx