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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 117 59 54
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 13.25% 7.65% 4.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.24% 24.08% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 42 40
10th Percentile £363 £292 £423
25th Percentile £431 £410 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -6.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £638
90th Percentile £550 £600 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%

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 306 245 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.65% 31.78% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 179 206
10th Percentile £358 £354 £363
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £567 £625
90th Percentile £675 £648 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £17.38
25th Percentile - £26.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +40.78% -40.12%
75th Percentile - £39.38 £25.58
90th Percentile - £49.50 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £36.25 £21.31
% change year-on-year +36.55% +70.11% -57.38%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 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 +6 100 £500 - 97
Bradford +6 13 £435 +2.35% 31
Halifax - 4 - -
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 6 (5.13%) Confluence
2 5 (4.27%) Apache
2 5 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 72 (61.54%) AWS
2 41 (35.04%) Azure
3 26 (22.22%) GCP
4 21 (17.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (16.24%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (16.24%) Serverless
6 18 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 18 (15.38%) GitHub
7 15 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (9.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (8.55%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (7.69%) Power Platform
11 8 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.13%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (5.13%) Entra ID
14 5 (4.27%) Azure Storage
14 5 (4.27%) dbt
15 4 (3.42%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.38%) Firewall
2 8 (6.84%) DNS
3 7 (5.98%) VPN
4 6 (5.13%) SSL
4 6 (5.13%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.42%) Ethernet
5 4 (3.42%) Network Security
5 4 (3.42%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.56%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.69%) Power BI
3 8 (6.84%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.98%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.98%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.98%) Tableau
5 5 (4.27%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.56%) Big Data
7 3 (2.56%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.56%) MySQL
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.71%) Bigtable
8 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.71%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 31 (26.50%) Jenkins
2 23 (19.66%) Git
3 10 (8.55%) JIRA
4 9 (7.69%) GitLab
5 5 (4.27%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.71%) MSI
7 1 (0.85%) Maven
7 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (24.79%) Public Sector
2 14 (11.97%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (1.71%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.71%) Legal
6 1 (0.85%) Finance
6 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.85%) Local Government
6 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (21.37%) Senior
2 21 (17.95%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (17.09%) Developer
3 20 (17.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (11.97%) Python Developer
5 13 (11.11%) Architect
6 12 (10.26%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (9.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.55%) Technical Architect
9 9 (7.69%) Lead
9 9 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (6.84%) Analyst
10 8 (6.84%) Data Engineer
10 8 (6.84%) Python Engineer
10 8 (6.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) AWS Developer
11 7 (5.98%) NetBackup Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.82%) React
2 9 (7.69%) Django
3 7 (5.98%) FastAPI
3 7 (5.98%) Flask
3 7 (5.98%) RESTful
4 6 (5.13%) Kafka
4 6 (5.13%) PySpark
5 5 (4.27%) GraphQL
5 5 (4.27%) JWT
5 5 (4.27%) OAuth
5 5 (4.27%) SAML
6 4 (3.42%) Celery
6 4 (3.42%) gRPC
6 4 (3.42%) Node.js
6 4 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.42%) WebSockets
7 3 (2.56%) .NET
7 3 (2.56%) pytest
8 2 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.71%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.53%) NHS
2 10 (8.55%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.42%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.51%) Linux
2 6 (5.13%) Unix
3 4 (3.42%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.56%) Windows
5 2 (1.71%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (39.32%) CI/CD
1 46 (39.32%) DevOps
2 37 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (24.79%) Agile
4 21 (17.95%) Containerisation
5 16 (13.68%) Mentoring
6 15 (12.82%) Software Engineering
7 13 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (10.26%) Visualisation
9 11 (9.40%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (9.40%) Observability
9 11 (9.40%) Security Monitoring
9 11 (9.40%) Test Strategy
10 10 (8.55%) Cloud Security
10 10 (8.55%) Data Protection
10 10 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.55%) Test Automation
11 9 (7.69%) Clean Code
11 9 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.33%) Bash
2 17 (14.53%) PowerShell
3 15 (12.82%) SQL
4 12 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 10 (8.55%) Java
6 3 (2.56%) C
6 3 (2.56%) C++
6 3 (2.56%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.71%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (1.71%) C#
7 2 (1.71%) Go
7 2 (1.71%) Scala
8 1 (0.85%) Bicep
8 1 (0.85%) Perl
8 1 (0.85%) R
8 1 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.66%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.42%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) CCNA
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.85%) CISSP
5 1 (0.85%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.85%) Degree
5 1 (0.85%) GCIH
5 1 (0.85%) OCP
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.27%) SOC 2
2 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.56%) GDPR
3 3 (2.56%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.56%) NIST
3 3 (2.56%) QA
4 2 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 29 (24.79%) Docker
2 8 (6.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (52.99%) Terraform
2 29 (24.79%) Kubernetes
3 23 (19.66%) Ansible
4 9 (7.69%) Grafana
5 8 (6.84%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.98%) NetBackup
6 7 (5.98%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (3.42%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.71%) Control-M
8 2 (1.71%) Packer
8 2 (1.71%) Puppet
8 2 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.85%) Istio
9 1 (0.85%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.85%) SCCM
9 1 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (13.68%) Splunk
2 12 (10.26%) Google
2 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.69%) VMware
4 7 (5.98%) CyberArk
4 7 (5.98%) Oracle
4 7 (5.98%) Veritas
5 6 (5.13%) CheckPoint
5 6 (5.13%) F5
5 6 (5.13%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.42%) Apple
6 4 (3.42%) Cisco
6 4 (3.42%) Databricks
6 4 (3.42%) Juniper
6 4 (3.42%) Nokia
7 3 (2.56%) Meraki
8 2 (1.71%) Brio
8 2 (1.71%) CloudEndure
8 2 (1.71%) Cribl.io
8 2 (1.71%) Zscaler