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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 32
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 91 65 53
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 10.11% 10.09% 4.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.46% 30.37% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 45 39
10th Percentile £378 £368 £450
25th Percentile £422 £413 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £532 £600 £625
90th Percentile £550 £733 £700
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 272 214 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 30.22% 33.23% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 148 187
10th Percentile £369 £356 £342
25th Percentile £422 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -2.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £567 £614
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £16.56
25th Percentile - £26.25 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £23.74
Median % change year-on-year - +280.81% -66.08%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £35.59
90th Percentile - - £51.43
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £26.78
% change year-on-year -45.25% +237.62% -59.58%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 82 £500 - 54
Bradford -4 5 £435 +2.29% 31
Halifax - 5 - -
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 5 (5.49%) Confluence
2 4 (4.40%) Apache
2 4 (4.40%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 61 (67.03%) AWS
2 37 (40.66%) Azure
3 21 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 21 (23.08%) GCP
3 21 (23.08%) GitHub
4 19 (20.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (20.88%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (20.88%) Serverless
5 17 (18.68%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (12.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.59%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.59%) Azure Storage
11 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
12 4 (4.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (3.30%) AWS Direct Connect
13 3 (3.30%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.78%) Firewall
2 9 (9.89%) DNS
3 6 (6.59%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.59%) VPN
4 5 (5.49%) Ethernet
4 5 (5.49%) SD-WAN
4 5 (5.49%) SSL
5 4 (4.40%) Network Security
5 4 (4.40%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.10%) FTP
6 1 (1.10%) IOS XR
6 1 (1.10%) SNMP
6 1 (1.10%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.10%) SSH
6 1 (1.10%) TACACS
6 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.59%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.49%) Power BI
4 4 (4.40%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.40%) Tableau
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.10%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.10%) MySQL
7 1 (1.10%) Parquet
7 1 (1.10%) Power Query
7 1 (1.10%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 29 (31.87%) Jenkins
2 14 (15.38%) Git
3 9 (9.89%) GitLab
4 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
4 6 (6.59%) JIRA
5 2 (2.20%) MSI
6 1 (1.10%) Maven
6 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.10%) Spinnaker
General
1 29 (31.87%) Public Sector
2 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (9.89%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.59%) Banking
4 2 (2.20%) Finance
4 2 (2.20%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.20%) Legal
5 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.10%) Law
5 1 (1.10%) Local Government
5 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (24.18%) Senior
2 19 (20.88%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (20.88%) Developer
3 18 (19.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (15.38%) Python Developer
5 10 (10.99%) AWS DevOps
5 10 (10.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Data Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (8.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Network Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) AWS Developer
9 6 (6.59%) Lead
9 6 (6.59%) NetBackup Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) React
2 7 (7.69%) Flask
3 6 (6.59%) Django
3 6 (6.59%) FastAPI
3 6 (6.59%) JWT
3 6 (6.59%) OAuth
4 5 (5.49%) Node.js
4 5 (5.49%) SAML
5 3 (3.30%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (3.30%) PySpark
5 3 (3.30%) Vue
6 2 (2.20%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.20%) FHIR
6 2 (2.20%) Kafka
6 2 (2.20%) RESTful
7 1 (1.10%) CSS3
7 1 (1.10%) HTML5
7 1 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.10%) REST
7 1 (1.10%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.08%) NHS
2 10 (10.99%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.27%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Unix
2 4 (4.40%) Windows
3 3 (3.30%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.96%) DevOps
2 39 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 39 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (24.18%) Agile
4 16 (17.58%) Containerisation
5 13 (14.29%) Observability
6 12 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (13.19%) Mentoring
6 12 (13.19%) Test Automation
7 11 (12.09%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (12.09%) Test Strategy
8 10 (10.99%) Cloud Security
9 9 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (9.89%) Security Monitoring
9 9 (9.89%) Software Engineering
9 9 (9.89%) Task Automation
9 9 (9.89%) Visualisation
10 8 (8.79%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 34 (37.36%) Bash
2 17 (18.68%) PowerShell
3 14 (15.38%) SQL
4 13 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.79%) Java
6 7 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.30%) C#
7 3 (3.30%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (2.20%) Bicep
8 2 (2.20%) C
8 2 (2.20%) C++
8 2 (2.20%) Go
9 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.10%) R
9 1 (1.10%) Rust
9 1 (1.10%) Scala
9 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.10%) CCNA
4 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.10%) OCP
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.30%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.30%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.20%) QA
5 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
5 1 (1.10%) SLA
5 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (35.16%) Docker
2 7 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (62.64%) Terraform
2 29 (31.87%) Kubernetes
3 21 (23.08%) Ansible
4 10 (10.99%) Grafana
5 6 (6.59%) NetBackup
5 6 (6.59%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.30%) Istio
6 3 (3.30%) Packer
7 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.10%) Puppet
8 1 (1.10%) SCCM
8 1 (1.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (17.58%) Splunk
2 10 (10.99%) Google
3 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.79%) VMware
5 7 (7.69%) Oracle
6 6 (6.59%) CheckPoint
6 6 (6.59%) CyberArk
6 6 (6.59%) Databricks
6 6 (6.59%) F5
6 6 (6.59%) Palo Alto
6 6 (6.59%) Veritas
7 5 (5.49%) Cisco
8 4 (4.40%) Juniper
8 4 (4.40%) Meraki
8 4 (4.40%) Nokia
9 2 (2.20%) Brio
9 2 (2.20%) CloudEndure
9 2 (2.20%) Cribl.io
9 2 (2.20%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace