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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 18 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing Python 97 71 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.92% 8.35% 4.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.49% 24.65% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 54 49
10th Percentile £320 £315 £425
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £538 £587 £650
90th Percentile £550 £650 £703
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%

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 252 288 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.56% 33.88% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 222 250
10th Percentile £364 £355 £400
25th Percentile £413 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £647 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -3.12% -3.10% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £27.25 £17.12
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.81
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +52.51% -9.65%
75th Percentile - £45.00 £22.68
90th Percentile - £51.75 £25.14
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £40.00 £24.05
% change year-on-year - +66.35% -7.52%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +7 80 £500 - 64
Bradford +8 13 £435 +2.35% 22
Halifax - 3 - -
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 4 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.09%) Apache
2 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 61 (62.89%) AWS
2 30 (30.93%) Azure
3 25 (25.77%) GCP
4 16 (16.49%) Serverless
5 12 (12.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (12.37%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (10.31%) Amazon S3
7 9 (9.28%) Power Platform
8 7 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.19%) GitHub
9 6 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.12%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.09%) dbt
13 2 (2.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.37%) Firewall
2 5 (5.15%) SSL
2 5 (5.15%) VPN
3 4 (4.12%) DNS
3 4 (4.12%) Ethernet
3 4 (4.12%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.09%) Wireshark
5 2 (2.06%) Network Security
6 1 (1.03%) HTTP
6 1 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (9.28%) Power BI
2 8 (8.25%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.25%) Tableau
3 7 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.15%) DynamoDB
4 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.12%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.09%) MySQL
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.06%) Big Data
7 2 (2.06%) Bigtable
7 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.06%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.03%) Looker
Development Applications
1 19 (19.59%) Git
2 15 (15.46%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.22%) GitLab
4 6 (6.19%) JIRA
5 2 (2.06%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.03%) Maven
6 1 (1.03%) Selenium
6 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 21 (21.65%) Public Sector
2 13 (13.40%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.22%) Banking
5 3 (3.09%) Finance
6 2 (2.06%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.06%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.03%) Local Government
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Developer
1 22 (22.68%) Senior
2 15 (15.46%) Python Developer
3 13 (13.40%) Architect
3 13 (13.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (11.34%) Lead
5 10 (10.31%) Technical Architect
6 9 (9.28%) Analyst
6 9 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (9.28%) Python Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) AWS Developer
7 8 (8.25%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (7.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Data Analyst
8 7 (7.22%) NetBackup Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.19%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) React
2 8 (8.25%) Django
3 7 (7.22%) Flask
3 7 (7.22%) Kafka
3 7 (7.22%) RESTful
4 6 (6.19%) FastAPI
5 5 (5.15%) GraphQL
5 5 (5.15%) PySpark
6 4 (4.12%) Celery
6 4 (4.12%) gRPC
6 4 (4.12%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (4.12%) Node.js
6 4 (4.12%) pytest
6 4 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (4.12%) WebSockets
7 3 (3.09%) .NET
7 3 (3.09%) REST
8 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.06%) CSS
8 2 (2.06%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) NHS
2 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.12%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Replication
7 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.59%) Linux
2 6 (6.19%) Unix
3 4 (4.12%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.08%) CI/CD
2 30 (30.93%) DevOps
3 25 (25.77%) Agile
4 19 (19.59%) Containerisation
5 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (16.49%) Mentoring
7 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.37%) Visualisation
9 11 (11.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (11.34%) Security Monitoring
9 11 (11.34%) Test Automation
10 9 (9.28%) Data Protection
10 9 (9.28%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (8.25%) Business Strategy
11 8 (8.25%) Clean Code
11 8 (8.25%) RBAC
11 8 (8.25%) Software Engineering
12 7 (7.22%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (7.22%) Design Patterns
12 7 (7.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (34.02%) Bash
2 18 (18.56%) SQL
3 12 (12.37%) PowerShell
3 12 (12.37%) TypeScript
4 9 (9.28%) Java
5 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.09%) C++
6 3 (3.09%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (3.09%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.06%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (2.06%) C
7 2 (2.06%) Go
7 2 (2.06%) R
7 2 (2.06%) Scala
8 1 (1.03%) C#
8 1 (1.03%) Perl
8 1 (1.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Degree
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.03%) CCNA
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.03%) CISSP
6 1 (1.03%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) GCIH
6 1 (1.03%) OCP
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) Data Quality
1 5 (5.15%) QA
1 5 (5.15%) SOC 2
2 3 (3.09%) GDPR
2 3 (3.09%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.06%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (22.68%) Docker
2 7 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (45.36%) Terraform
2 20 (20.62%) Kubernetes
3 16 (16.49%) Ansible
4 7 (7.22%) NetBackup
4 7 (7.22%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (4.12%) Grafana
5 4 (4.12%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.06%) Control-M
6 2 (2.06%) Puppet
7 1 (1.03%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (12.37%) Google
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.22%) CyberArk
3 7 (7.22%) Oracle
3 7 (7.22%) Veritas
3 7 (7.22%) VMware
4 6 (6.19%) Splunk
5 4 (4.12%) Apple
5 4 (4.12%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.12%) Cisco
5 4 (4.12%) F5
5 4 (4.12%) Juniper
5 4 (4.12%) Nokia
5 4 (4.12%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.09%) Databricks
6 3 (3.09%) Meraki
7 2 (2.06%) Brio
7 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.06%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.03%) Darktrace