Python Contracts in West Yorkshire

Python
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 69 80 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.50% 8.36% 7.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.24% 27.78% 25.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 59 64
10th Percentile £315 £332 £425
25th Percentile £408 £425 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -19.15% +6.82%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £700
90th Percentile £571 £630 £730
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -1.42% -16.67% +9.09%

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 214 288 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 32.57% 30.09% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 208 303
10th Percentile £338 £300 £402
25th Percentile £412 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £575 £632 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £31.53 £33.00 -
25th Percentile £31.62 £35.63 £21.31
Median hourly rate £33.11 £42.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% -21.30% +107.69%
75th Percentile £66.51 £50.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.74 £54.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 £52.50 £49.12
% change year-on-year -36.93% +6.89% +88.91%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in West Yorkshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in West Yorkshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in West Yorkshire

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 5 July 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 +1 61 £495 +4.21% 267
Bradford - 8 £550 - 54
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 3 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.45%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 36 (52.17%) AWS
2 16 (23.19%) GCP
3 15 (21.74%) Azure
4 14 (20.29%) Serverless
5 10 (14.49%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.14%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (7.25%) GitHub
9 4 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.80%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (5.80%) npm
10 3 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (2.90%) AWS KMS
11 2 (2.90%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (2.90%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) HTTP
3 2 (2.90%) DNS
3 2 (2.90%) Network Security
3 2 (2.90%) SSL
3 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.90%) VPN
4 1 (1.45%) DHCP
4 1 (1.45%) LAN
4 1 (1.45%) VLAN
4 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.14%) MongoDB
2 7 (10.14%) Power BI
3 5 (7.25%) BigQuery
3 5 (7.25%) Tableau
4 4 (5.80%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.35%) MySQL
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.90%) Big Data
6 2 (2.90%) Bigtable
6 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.45%) Looker
7 1 (1.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (23.19%) Git
2 7 (10.14%) JIRA
3 6 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.25%) GitLab
5 4 (5.80%) webpack
6 3 (4.35%) Selenium
7 1 (1.45%) Babel
General
1 14 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.80%) Health Technology
5 3 (4.35%) Banking
5 3 (4.35%) Finance
6 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) Architect
1 13 (18.84%) Developer
2 8 (11.59%) Lead
2 8 (11.59%) Technical Architect
3 7 (10.14%) Analyst
3 7 (10.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Python Developer
3 7 (10.14%) Senior
4 6 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Python Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (7.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Data Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) Mac Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Senior Mac Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) React
2 8 (11.59%) Flask
2 8 (11.59%) RESTful
3 6 (8.70%) Kafka
3 6 (8.70%) pytest
4 5 (7.25%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.25%) CSS
4 5 (7.25%) Django
4 5 (7.25%) FastAPI
4 5 (7.25%) HTML
4 5 (7.25%) Node.js
4 5 (7.25%) REST
5 4 (5.80%) GraphQL
5 4 (5.80%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (4.35%) Celery
6 3 (4.35%) gRPC
6 3 (4.35%) PySpark
6 3 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.35%) Web Services
6 3 (4.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) NHS
2 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Replication
5 1 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Linux
2 5 (7.25%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.35%) Unix
4 1 (1.45%) CentOS
4 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 19 (27.54%) DevOps
2 19 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (24.64%) Agile
4 11 (15.94%) Containerisation
5 10 (14.49%) Test Automation
6 9 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (11.59%) ETL
8 7 (10.14%) Clean Code
8 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (10.14%) Mentoring
8 7 (10.14%) Microservices
9 6 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (8.70%) Design Patterns
9 6 (8.70%) Incident Management
9 6 (8.70%) Software Engineering
10 5 (7.25%) Analytics
10 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (7.25%) TDD
10 5 (7.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (24.64%) SQL
2 15 (21.74%) Bash
3 10 (14.49%) TypeScript
4 8 (11.59%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.25%) Java
6 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.80%) Scala
7 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.90%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.45%) AppleScript
9 1 (1.45%) C
9 1 (1.45%) C++
9 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.90%) Degree
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) CISSP
6 1 (1.45%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) QA
2 3 (4.35%) GDPR
3 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.90%) NIST
3 2 (2.90%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (37.68%) Terraform
2 13 (18.84%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.25%) Ansible
3 5 (7.25%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.90%) Control-M
5 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.45%) Grafana
6 1 (1.45%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.45%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (8.70%) Google
2 5 (7.25%) Apple
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.80%) Brio
4 3 (4.35%) Databricks
5 2 (2.90%) Cisco
5 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.90%) Splunk
6 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.45%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.45%) F5
6 1 (1.45%) IBM
6 1 (1.45%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) Veritas
6 1 (1.45%) VMware