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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 165 85 59
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 12.22% 11.15% 7.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.08% 34.98% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 56 44
10th Percentile £345 £349 £291
25th Percentile £413 £435 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £596
90th Percentile £638 £550 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.76% -2.50%
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 383 243 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.37% 31.89% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 155 199
10th Percentile £340 £350 £315
25th Percentile £413 £416 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £585
90th Percentile £634 £590 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -1.07%
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% +117.03%

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 17 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 17 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 0 142 £500 - 79
Bradford -12 11 £375 -13.79% 6
Halifax - 8 £520 -
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 (2.42%) Confluence
2 2 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.21%) SAS
2 2 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) Apache
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.61%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 89 (53.94%) AWS
2 62 (37.58%) GitHub
3 41 (24.85%) GitHub Actions
4 36 (21.82%) GCP
5 35 (21.21%) Azure
6 27 (16.36%) Serverless
7 14 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (6.67%) Vertex AI
9 10 (6.06%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.06%) Apigee
9 10 (6.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (6.06%) IaaS
10 9 (5.45%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.03%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.03%) SaaS
13 4 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.42%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (2.42%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.09%) Firewall
2 12 (7.27%) BIG-IP
3 11 (6.67%) DNS
3 11 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 8 (4.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 6 (3.64%) Network Security
5 6 (3.64%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.64%) WAN
5 6 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (3.03%) VLAN
7 4 (2.42%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.42%) VPN
8 3 (1.82%) BGP
8 3 (1.82%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.82%) LAN
8 3 (1.82%) OSPF
8 3 (1.82%) SSL
8 3 (1.82%) VXLAN
8 3 (1.82%) WLAN
9 2 (1.21%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.70%) BigQuery
1 16 (9.70%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.45%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.24%) Power BI
6 5 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.82%) Metadata
8 3 (1.82%) Tableau
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.21%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.21%) MySQL
9 2 (1.21%) Parquet
9 2 (1.21%) Power Query
9 2 (1.21%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.61%) QlikView
10 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 14 (8.48%) JIRA
3 13 (7.88%) Git
4 10 (6.06%) Gatling
4 10 (6.06%) GitLab
5 7 (4.24%) Maven
6 6 (3.64%) Artifactory
7 5 (3.03%) JMeter
7 5 (3.03%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.82%) ERwin
8 3 (1.82%) Postman
8 3 (1.82%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.21%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.21%) Pylint
9 2 (1.21%) Selenium
10 1 (0.61%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.61%) Flyway
10 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.61%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.61%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 21 (12.73%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.09%) Finance
4 12 (7.27%) Banking
5 9 (5.45%) Legal
6 8 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.64%) Games
8 5 (3.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.21%) Marketing
9 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (31.52%) Developer
2 34 (20.61%) Senior
3 32 (19.39%) Python Developer
4 17 (10.30%) Lead
5 16 (9.70%) Senior Developer
6 13 (7.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (7.88%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 10 (6.06%) Network Engineer
8 10 (6.06%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.24%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) GCP DevOps
11 6 (3.64%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.91%) React
2 15 (9.09%) HTML
3 14 (8.48%) CSS
3 14 (8.48%) Kafka
3 14 (8.48%) Playwright
3 14 (8.48%) Vue
4 11 (6.67%) Flask
5 10 (6.06%) JSON
6 9 (5.45%) REST
7 7 (4.24%) Node.js
7 7 (4.24%) PySpark
7 7 (4.24%) RESTful
8 6 (3.64%) OAuth
9 5 (3.03%) FHIR
9 5 (3.03%) Quarkus
10 4 (2.42%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.42%) Hugging Face
10 4 (2.42%) PyTorch
10 4 (2.42%) TensorFlow
10 4 (2.42%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 35 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.30%) NHS
3 15 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.85%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.24%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.64%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.03%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.03%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.42%) Sports Betting
9 3 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.21%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.21%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.21%) IoT
10 2 (1.21%) Replication
10 2 (1.21%) Robotics
10 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.27%) Linux
2 8 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.24%) Windows
4 2 (1.21%) AIX
4 2 (1.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.61%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (59.39%) CI/CD
2 64 (38.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (35.76%) DevOps
4 55 (33.33%) Agile
5 34 (20.61%) Observability
6 22 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
6 22 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 21 (12.73%) AI
7 21 (12.73%) Code Quality
7 21 (12.73%) Containerisation
7 21 (12.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (12.12%) Microservices
9 17 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (10.30%) Software Engineering
10 15 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (8.48%) Front End Development
12 13 (7.88%) Data Engineering
12 13 (7.88%) Machine Learning
13 12 (7.27%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.61%) SQL
2 29 (17.58%) Java
3 25 (15.15%) Bash
3 25 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.70%) PowerShell
5 14 (8.48%) Scala
5 14 (8.48%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.85%) ActionScript
7 3 (1.82%) C#
7 3 (1.82%) Groovy
8 2 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.21%) PHP
8 2 (1.21%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 45 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 40 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.21%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.21%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.03%) HL7
3 4 (2.42%) WCAG
4 3 (1.82%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.21%) GDPR
6 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 45 (27.27%) Docker
2 7 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 77 (46.67%) Terraform
2 35 (21.21%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.45%) HAProxy
4 8 (4.85%) Ansible
4 8 (4.85%) Grafana
5 4 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.21%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (11.52%) Google
2 16 (9.70%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.48%) Databricks
4 13 (7.88%) IBM
5 12 (7.27%) Dynatrace
5 12 (7.27%) F5
6 6 (3.64%) New Relic
6 6 (3.64%) Splunk
7 4 (2.42%) Cisco
7 4 (2.42%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.82%) Arista
8 3 (1.82%) Aruba
8 3 (1.82%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.21%) Brio
9 2 (1.21%) Brocade
9 2 (1.21%) Foundry
9 2 (1.21%) Palantir
9 2 (1.21%) Teradata
9 2 (1.21%) VMware