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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Python 185 95 71
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 13.35% 12.87% 8.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.95% 38.62% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 56 54
10th Percentile £346 £319 £315
25th Percentile £424 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £587
90th Percentile £644 £550 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
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 394 246 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.43% 33.33% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 151 222
10th Percentile £349 £363 £351
25th Percentile £421 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £647
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £509
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.14% -3.10%
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 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +66.35%

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 September 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 September 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 -1 156 £525 +5.00% 169
Bradford -12 13 £375 -13.79% 18
Halifax 0 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 4 (2.16%) Confluence
1 4 (2.16%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.62%) SAS
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (54.05%) AWS
2 63 (34.05%) GitHub
3 41 (22.16%) GitHub Actions
4 40 (21.62%) Azure
5 33 (17.84%) GCP
6 28 (15.14%) Serverless
7 16 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (7.03%) Amazon S3
8 13 (7.03%) IaaS
9 12 (6.49%) Vertex AI
10 10 (5.41%) Apigee
10 10 (5.41%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (2.70%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.19%) Firewall
2 15 (8.11%) BIG-IP
3 14 (7.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 11 (5.95%) DNS
4 11 (5.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 7 (3.78%) Network Security
6 6 (3.24%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.24%) WAN
6 6 (3.24%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.70%) VLAN
8 4 (2.16%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.62%) BGP
9 3 (1.62%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (1.62%) LAN
9 3 (1.62%) OSPF
9 3 (1.62%) SSL
9 3 (1.62%) VXLAN
9 3 (1.62%) WLAN
10 2 (1.08%) PSTN
10 2 (1.08%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.11%) BigQuery
1 15 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.49%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.32%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.32%) Power BI
5 7 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.24%) Metadata
7 4 (2.16%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.62%) MySQL
8 3 (1.62%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (1.62%) Tableau
9 2 (1.08%) Big Data
9 2 (1.08%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.08%) Parquet
9 2 (1.08%) Power Query
9 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.27%) JIRA
3 12 (6.49%) Git
4 11 (5.95%) GitLab
5 10 (5.41%) Gatling
6 7 (3.78%) Maven
7 6 (3.24%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.70%) JMeter
8 5 (2.70%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.62%) ERwin
9 3 (1.62%) Postman
9 3 (1.62%) Pylint
9 3 (1.62%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.08%) Selenium
10 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.54%) eggPlant
11 1 (0.54%) Flyway
11 1 (0.54%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.54%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (18.38%) Public Sector
2 27 (14.59%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.57%) Banking
4 13 (7.03%) Finance
5 10 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.86%) Legal
7 5 (2.70%) Games
8 4 (2.16%) Retail
9 3 (1.62%) Marketing
10 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (29.73%) Developer
2 40 (21.62%) Senior
3 37 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 19 (10.27%) Lead
5 15 (8.11%) Data Engineer
6 14 (7.57%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.03%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (7.03%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 10 (5.41%) Network Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.78%) Backend Developer
12 6 (3.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (3.24%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (41.08%) Terraform
2 16 (8.65%) React
3 14 (7.57%) HTML
3 14 (7.57%) Playwright
4 13 (7.03%) CSS
4 13 (7.03%) Kafka
4 13 (7.03%) Vue
5 10 (5.41%) Flask
5 10 (5.41%) REST
6 9 (4.86%) JSON
6 9 (4.86%) PySpark
7 8 (4.32%) RESTful
8 7 (3.78%) pytest
9 6 (3.24%) Node.js
9 6 (3.24%) OAuth
10 5 (2.70%) FHIR
10 5 (2.70%) Quarkus
11 4 (2.16%) Hugging Face
11 4 (2.16%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.16%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.24%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.27%) NHS
3 18 (9.73%) Data Centre
3 18 (9.73%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.78%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.70%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.62%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.62%) PKI
7 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.62%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.08%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.08%) IoT
8 2 (1.08%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.49%) Linux
2 7 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.54%) AIX
3 1 (0.54%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (56.22%) CI/CD
2 64 (34.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (32.97%) DevOps
4 53 (28.65%) Agile
5 34 (18.38%) Observability
6 25 (13.51%) AI
7 24 (12.97%) Platform Engineering
8 23 (12.43%) Test Automation
9 22 (11.89%) Containerisation
9 22 (11.89%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (10.81%) Code Quality
10 20 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (10.27%) Machine Learning
11 19 (10.27%) Microservices
12 18 (9.73%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (9.73%) Software Engineering
13 16 (8.65%) Data Engineering
13 16 (8.65%) Performance Optimisation
14 14 (7.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.00%) SQL
2 29 (15.68%) Java
3 22 (11.89%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.35%) Bash
5 19 (10.27%) PowerShell
6 13 (7.03%) Scala
6 13 (7.03%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.95%) ActionScript
8 3 (1.62%) C#
8 3 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.62%) Groovy
9 2 (1.08%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) Bicep
10 1 (0.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 50 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 47 (25.41%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.08%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.70%) HL7
3 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.62%) GDPR
4 3 (1.62%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.62%) WCAG
5 2 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 46 (24.86%) Docker
2 7 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.62%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.86%) Ansible
2 9 (4.86%) HAProxy
3 7 (3.78%) Grafana
4 5 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.62%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.54%) Packer
7 1 (0.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.19%) Google
3 15 (8.11%) F5
4 14 (7.57%) Databricks
5 13 (7.03%) Dynatrace
6 12 (6.49%) IBM
7 5 (2.70%) Splunk
8 4 (2.16%) Brio
8 4 (2.16%) Foundry
8 4 (2.16%) New Relic
8 4 (2.16%) Palantir
8 4 (2.16%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.62%) Arista
9 3 (1.62%) Aruba
9 3 (1.62%) Cisco
9 3 (1.62%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.62%) SAP
9 3 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.62%) Teradata
10 1 (0.54%) SolarWinds