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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 159 86 59
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 11.90% 11.64% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.95% 36.75% 22.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 56 45
10th Percentile £363 £349 £293
25th Percentile £413 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -8.84%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £578
90th Percentile £641 £553 £640
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £497 £507
% change year-on-year +0.70% -2.07% -9.87%
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 379 234 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.37% 31.66% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 148 198
10th Percentile £350 £350 £309
25th Percentile £413 £424 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.31%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £633 £575 £639
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £501
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.60% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.85 £37.07 £33.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £45.03 £35.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +46.82% +99.44%
75th Percentile £25.25 £82.53 £50.63
90th Percentile £26.90 £92.15 £54.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £46.25
% change year-on-year -61.54% +34.92% +37.79%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -1 135 £515 +3.00% 75
Halifax - 11 £425 - 2
Bradford -9 10 £375 -13.79% 6
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 (2.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.26%) SAS
2 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 83 (52.20%) AWS
2 59 (37.11%) GitHub
3 37 (23.27%) GCP
3 37 (23.27%) GitHub Actions
4 28 (17.61%) Azure
5 26 (16.35%) Serverless
6 14 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (8.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 13 (8.18%) Apigee
8 11 (6.92%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.92%) Vertex AI
9 10 (6.29%) IaaS
10 7 (4.40%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.14%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.14%) SaaS
13 4 (2.52%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.52%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (2.52%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.43%) Firewall
2 12 (7.55%) BIG-IP
3 11 (6.92%) DNS
3 11 (6.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 8 (5.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 6 (3.77%) Network Security
5 6 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.77%) WAN
5 6 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (3.14%) VLAN
7 4 (2.52%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.52%) VPN
8 3 (1.89%) BGP
8 3 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.89%) LAN
8 3 (1.89%) OSPF
8 3 (1.89%) SSL
8 3 (1.89%) VXLAN
8 3 (1.89%) WLAN
9 2 (1.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.06%) BigQuery
1 16 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.66%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.03%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.14%) Power BI
6 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.52%) Metadata
6 4 (2.52%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.26%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.26%) MySQL
8 2 (1.26%) Parquet
8 2 (1.26%) Power Query
9 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.63%) QlikView
9 1 (0.63%) Redis
9 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (23.27%) Jenkins
2 14 (8.81%) JIRA
3 11 (6.92%) Git
4 10 (6.29%) GitLab
5 9 (5.66%) Gatling
6 7 (4.40%) Maven
7 6 (3.77%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.89%) ERwin
9 2 (1.26%) Pylint
10 1 (0.63%) Flyway
10 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.63%) Spinnaker
General
1 27 (16.98%) Public Sector
2 20 (12.58%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.29%) Finance
4 9 (5.66%) Legal
5 7 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.40%) Banking
6 6 (3.77%) Games
7 5 (3.14%) Retail
8 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.26%) Marketing
8 2 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (31.45%) Developer
2 32 (20.13%) Senior
3 30 (18.87%) Python Developer
4 17 (10.69%) Senior Developer
5 15 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (8.18%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (7.55%) Lead
8 11 (6.92%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 10 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (6.29%) Network Engineer
9 10 (6.29%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) Backend Developer
11 8 (5.03%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) Senior Backend Developer
12 7 (4.40%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (3.77%) GCP DevOps
13 6 (3.77%) Software Engineer
14 5 (3.14%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.32%) React
2 14 (8.81%) Playwright
3 12 (7.55%) CSS
3 12 (7.55%) HTML
3 12 (7.55%) Vue
4 11 (6.92%) REST
5 9 (5.66%) Flask
5 9 (5.66%) JSON
6 8 (5.03%) RESTful
7 7 (4.40%) Kafka
7 7 (4.40%) Node.js
7 7 (4.40%) PySpark
8 6 (3.77%) OAuth
9 5 (3.14%) FHIR
9 5 (3.14%) Quarkus
10 4 (2.52%) Hugging Face
10 4 (2.52%) OpenAPI
10 4 (2.52%) PyTorch
10 4 (2.52%) Redux
10 4 (2.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.38%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.69%) NHS
3 15 (9.43%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.14%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.14%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.52%) Sports Betting
8 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.26%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.26%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.26%) IoT
9 2 (1.26%) Replication
9 2 (1.26%) Robotics
9 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.55%) Linux
2 8 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.40%) Windows
4 2 (1.26%) AIX
4 2 (1.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (59.12%) CI/CD
2 65 (40.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 60 (37.74%) DevOps
4 51 (32.08%) Agile
5 33 (20.75%) Observability
6 24 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (13.84%) Code Quality
8 21 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (12.58%) AI
9 20 (12.58%) Containerisation
9 20 (12.58%) Microservices
10 19 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (11.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (11.32%) Software Engineering
12 17 (10.69%) Test Automation
13 16 (10.06%) Performance Optimisation
14 14 (8.81%) Cloud Security
14 14 (8.81%) Front End Development
15 12 (7.55%) Machine Learning
15 12 (7.55%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.13%) SQL
2 27 (16.98%) Bash
2 27 (16.98%) Java
3 20 (12.58%) JavaScript
4 18 (11.32%) PowerShell
5 14 (8.81%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.18%) Scala
7 8 (5.03%) ActionScript
8 5 (3.14%) Groovy
9 3 (1.89%) C#
10 2 (1.26%) PHP
10 2 (1.26%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.63%) Bicep
11 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 37 (23.27%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.14%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.26%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.14%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.14%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.14%) HL7
2 4 (2.52%) WCAG
3 3 (1.89%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 38 (23.90%) Docker
2 7 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 79 (49.69%) Terraform
2 33 (20.75%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.66%) HAProxy
4 8 (5.03%) Ansible
5 4 (2.52%) Grafana
5 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.26%) Istio
6 2 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.26%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (13.21%) Google
2 14 (8.81%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.55%) Databricks
3 12 (7.55%) F5
4 10 (6.29%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.40%) IBM
6 4 (2.52%) Cisco
6 4 (2.52%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.89%) Arista
7 3 (1.89%) Aruba
7 3 (1.89%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.26%) Brio
8 2 (1.26%) Brocade
8 2 (1.26%) Foundry
8 2 (1.26%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.26%) Palantir
8 2 (1.26%) Splunk
8 2 (1.26%) Teradata
8 2 (1.26%) VMware