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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 137 51 80
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 11.42% 8.93% 8.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.90% 27.72% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 40 60
10th Percentile £324 £324 £398
25th Percentile £413 £409 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -17.53%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £615
90th Percentile £589 £578 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.38% -17.22%

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 327 184 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.25% 32.22% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 127 203
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £575 £643
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £31.53 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.13 £66.51 -
90th Percentile £25.20 £85.74 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £62.50
% change year-on-year -27.51% -47.02% +7.30%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +4 121 £500 - 42
Halifax - 12 £463 -
Bradford - 2 £538 - 2
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 7 (5.11%) Confluence
2 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.19%) SAS
4 2 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.73%) Apache
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 69 (50.36%) AWS
2 53 (38.69%) GitHub
3 38 (27.74%) GCP
4 34 (24.82%) Azure
4 34 (24.82%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (12.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 14 (10.22%) Serverless
7 11 (8.03%) Apigee
8 10 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.57%) SaaS
10 8 (5.84%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.11%) IaaS
11 7 (5.11%) Vertex AI
12 6 (4.38%) Entra ID
12 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (4.38%) OneDrive
12 6 (4.38%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.92%) Google Compute Engine
14 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.49%) Firewall
2 11 (8.03%) DNS
3 8 (5.84%) BIG-IP
3 8 (5.84%) WAN
3 8 (5.84%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (5.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 6 (4.38%) LAN
5 6 (4.38%) Unified Communications
5 6 (4.38%) VPN
6 5 (3.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 5 (3.65%) Network Security
7 3 (2.19%) PSTN
7 3 (2.19%) SSL
7 3 (2.19%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.46%) BGP
8 2 (1.46%) NAS
8 2 (1.46%) OSPF
8 2 (1.46%) SAN
8 2 (1.46%) VLAN
8 2 (1.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.22%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.49%) BigQuery
3 11 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.65%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.65%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.92%) Metadata
7 3 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.19%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.19%) Power BI
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.46%) Parquet
8 2 (1.46%) Power Query
9 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.73%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.73%) QlikView
9 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (29.20%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.68%) JIRA
3 10 (7.30%) GitLab
4 9 (6.57%) Gatling
4 9 (6.57%) Git
5 6 (4.38%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.38%) Maven
6 3 (2.19%) ERwin
7 1 (0.73%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.73%) Flyway
7 1 (0.73%) Spinnaker
General
1 18 (13.14%) Public Sector
2 13 (9.49%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.84%) Banking
3 8 (5.84%) Finance
4 7 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.92%) Legal
6 3 (2.19%) Marketing
7 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Games
7 2 (1.46%) Retail
8 1 (0.73%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (27.74%) Developer
2 31 (22.63%) Senior
3 17 (12.41%) Python Developer
4 16 (11.68%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (10.95%) Senior Developer
6 12 (8.76%) GCP Engineer
7 10 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.57%) Lead
9 8 (5.84%) GCP DevOps
10 7 (5.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.11%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 6 (4.38%) Architect
11 6 (4.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Analyst
12 5 (3.65%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 5 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.87%) React
2 14 (10.22%) Playwright
3 9 (6.57%) JSON
3 9 (6.57%) Node.js
4 8 (5.84%) Vue
5 7 (5.11%) PySpark
5 7 (5.11%) Redux
5 7 (5.11%) REST
5 7 (5.11%) Zustand
6 6 (4.38%) Flask
6 6 (4.38%) Kafka
6 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (3.65%) CSS
7 5 (3.65%) HTML
7 5 (3.65%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.65%) Quarkus
7 5 (3.65%) Swagger
8 4 (2.92%) .NET
8 4 (2.92%) Django
8 4 (2.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.60%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.49%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.76%) NHS
4 5 (3.65%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.19%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.19%) IoT
6 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.46%) Replication
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.46%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.73%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.49%) Linux
1 13 (9.49%) Windows
2 5 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.46%) AIX
3 2 (1.46%) Unix
4 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (58.39%) CI/CD
2 54 (39.42%) DevOps
2 54 (39.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (33.58%) Agile
4 26 (18.98%) Observability
5 21 (15.33%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (12.41%) Software Engineering
7 16 (11.68%) Code Quality
7 16 (11.68%) Containerisation
7 16 (11.68%) Performance Optimisation
8 15 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (10.95%) Front End Development
8 15 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (10.22%) AI
10 13 (9.49%) Cloud Security
10 13 (9.49%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (9.49%) Microservices
10 13 (9.49%) Test Automation
11 11 (8.03%) Analytics
11 11 (8.03%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.25%) Java
2 24 (17.52%) Bash
2 24 (17.52%) SQL
3 21 (15.33%) PowerShell
4 18 (13.14%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.22%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.03%) Scala
7 6 (4.38%) ActionScript
8 3 (2.19%) C#
8 3 (2.19%) Groovy
9 2 (1.46%) Go
9 2 (1.46%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.73%) Bicep
10 1 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.92%) Degree
5 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.57%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.11%) WCAG
3 3 (2.19%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.73%) HL7
5 1 (0.73%) QA
5 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (23.36%) Docker
2 6 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.73%) KVM
4 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (48.91%) Terraform
2 39 (28.47%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.57%) HAProxy
4 7 (5.11%) Istio
5 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.65%) Ansible
7 3 (2.19%) Grafana
7 3 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (2.19%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.73%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (16.79%) Google
2 16 (11.68%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.49%) Databricks
4 8 (5.84%) F5
5 7 (5.11%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.92%) IBM
7 3 (2.19%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.19%) Splunk
7 3 (2.19%) Teradata
7 3 (2.19%) VMware
8 2 (1.46%) Arista
8 2 (1.46%) Aruba
8 2 (1.46%) Brocade
8 2 (1.46%) Cisco
8 2 (1.46%) Foundry
8 2 (1.46%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.46%) New Relic
8 2 (1.46%) Oracle
8 2 (1.46%) Palantir