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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 162 71 74
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 12.39% 10.63% 7.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.32% 32.87% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 45 58
10th Percentile £342 £318 £328
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £577
90th Percentile £640 £575 £633
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.44% -16.67%
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 374 216 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.59% 32.34% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 137 209
10th Percentile £313 £350 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £635 £575 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £19.85 £31.53 £33.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £35.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% -22.09% +99.44%
75th Percentile £25.25 £66.51 £50.63
90th Percentile £26.90 £85.74 £54.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.25 £33.11 £46.25
% change year-on-year -26.76% -28.41% +0.63%

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 July 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 July 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 +3 142 £500 - 50
Halifax - 14 £463 - 12
Bradford -13 5 £538 -2.27% 8
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 8 (4.94%) Confluence
2 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.47%) SAS
4 2 (1.23%) Apache
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.62%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 78 (48.15%) AWS
2 61 (37.65%) GitHub
3 43 (26.54%) GCP
4 37 (22.84%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (21.60%) Azure
6 20 (12.35%) Serverless
7 16 (9.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 13 (8.02%) Apigee
8 13 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (6.17%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.17%) IaaS
9 10 (6.17%) SaaS
10 8 (4.94%) Vertex AI
11 7 (4.32%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.70%) Cloud Run
12 6 (3.70%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (3.70%) OneDrive
12 6 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.11%) Firewall
2 13 (8.02%) BIG-IP
2 13 (8.02%) DNS
3 11 (6.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 10 (6.17%) WAN
4 10 (6.17%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (4.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 8 (4.94%) Network Security
6 7 (4.32%) LAN
6 7 (4.32%) VPN
7 6 (3.70%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.70%) Unified Communications
8 5 (3.09%) VLAN
9 4 (2.47%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.85%) BGP
10 3 (1.85%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (1.85%) OSPF
10 3 (1.85%) PSTN
10 3 (1.85%) SSL
10 3 (1.85%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.26%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.64%) BigQuery
3 13 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (6.17%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.32%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.09%) Metadata
8 4 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.47%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.47%) Power BI
9 3 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.85%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.23%) MySQL
10 2 (1.23%) Parquet
10 2 (1.23%) Power Query
11 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.62%) Redis
11 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (27.16%) Jenkins
2 19 (11.73%) JIRA
3 11 (6.79%) Git
3 11 (6.79%) GitLab
4 9 (5.56%) Gatling
5 6 (3.70%) Artifactory
5 6 (3.70%) Maven
6 3 (1.85%) ERwin
7 1 (0.62%) Flyway
7 1 (0.62%) Spinnaker
General
1 22 (13.58%) Public Sector
2 16 (9.88%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.79%) Banking
3 11 (6.79%) Finance
4 8 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.32%) Legal
6 4 (2.47%) Games
6 4 (2.47%) Marketing
6 4 (2.47%) Retail
7 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.62%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (27.78%) Developer
2 39 (24.07%) Senior
3 23 (14.20%) Python Developer
4 19 (11.73%) Senior Developer
5 16 (9.88%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (8.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (7.41%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (6.79%) Network Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Lead
10 9 (5.56%) GCP DevOps
11 8 (4.94%) Backend Developer
11 8 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.94%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (4.32%) Analyst
13 6 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.70%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (3.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.73%) React
2 14 (8.64%) Playwright
3 10 (6.17%) REST
4 8 (4.94%) JSON
4 8 (4.94%) Node.js
4 8 (4.94%) PySpark
4 8 (4.94%) RESTful
5 7 (4.32%) Kafka
5 7 (4.32%) Vue
6 6 (3.70%) Flask
6 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (3.70%) Redux
6 6 (3.70%) Zustand
7 5 (3.09%) CSS
7 5 (3.09%) HTML
7 5 (3.09%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.09%) Quarkus
7 5 (3.09%) Swagger
8 4 (2.47%) .NET
8 4 (2.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.49%) Data Centre
2 17 (10.49%) NHS
3 6 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.09%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.09%) Mainframe
4 5 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.47%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.47%) Sports Betting
6 3 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.85%) IoT
6 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Replication
8 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Life Science
8 1 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.88%) Linux
2 12 (7.41%) Windows
3 8 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.23%) AIX
4 2 (1.23%) Unix
5 1 (0.62%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (58.02%) CI/CD
2 64 (39.51%) DevOps
3 63 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (34.57%) Agile
5 31 (19.14%) Observability
6 22 (13.58%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (12.35%) Code Quality
8 20 (12.35%) Containerisation
8 20 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (12.35%) Microservices
9 18 (11.11%) Cloud Security
9 18 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 17 (10.49%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (9.26%) AI
12 14 (8.64%) Front End Development
12 14 (8.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (8.64%) Test Automation
13 12 (7.41%) High Availability
14 11 (6.79%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.14%) Bash
2 29 (17.90%) SQL
3 26 (16.05%) Java
4 24 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 17 (10.49%) JavaScript
6 16 (9.88%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.02%) Scala
8 9 (5.56%) ActionScript
9 5 (3.09%) Groovy
10 3 (1.85%) C#
11 2 (1.23%) PHP
11 2 (1.23%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.62%) Bicep
12 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.62%) Go
12 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.47%) Degree
4 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.32%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.70%) WCAG
3 4 (2.47%) HL7
4 3 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.85%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (22.22%) Docker
2 9 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.47%) Firmware
4 3 (1.85%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.62%) KVM
5 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (47.53%) Terraform
2 41 (25.31%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.56%) HAProxy
4 8 (4.94%) Ansible
5 6 (3.70%) Istio
5 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.47%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.23%) Grafana
8 2 (1.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.62%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (15.43%) Google
2 15 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.02%) F5
4 12 (7.41%) Databricks
5 10 (6.17%) Dynatrace
6 7 (4.32%) IBM
7 4 (2.47%) Cisco
7 4 (2.47%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.47%) Teradata
8 3 (1.85%) Arista
8 3 (1.85%) Aruba
8 3 (1.85%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.85%) VMware
9 2 (1.23%) Brocade
9 2 (1.23%) Foundry
9 2 (1.23%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.23%) New Relic
9 2 (1.23%) Palantir
9 2 (1.23%) Splunk