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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 118 53 72
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 11.10% 10.47% 6.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.56% 29.28% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 38 52
10th Percentile £323 £329 £400
25th Percentile £400 £383 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -4.04% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £625
90th Percentile £588 £738 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.40% +5.26% -20.83%

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 306 181 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.79% 35.77% 24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 117 188
10th Percentile £313 £320 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £725 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - £29.38 -
25th Percentile - £31.62 £19.44
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +336.68% -70.42%
75th Percentile - £100.28 £21.97
90th Percentile - £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £90.42 £41.60
% change year-on-year - +117.33% -33.44%

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 April 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 April 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 +3 105 £500 +5.26% 70
Halifax - 7 £400 -
Bradford - 2 £394 - 10
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 11 (9.32%) Confluence
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.54%) SAS
4 2 (1.69%) Apache
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 65 (55.08%) AWS
2 44 (37.29%) GitHub
3 32 (27.12%) Azure
4 29 (24.58%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (22.88%) GCP
6 24 (20.34%) Serverless
7 22 (18.64%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (13.56%) Amazon S3
9 15 (12.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (10.17%) Apigee
11 11 (9.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (6.78%) Entra ID
14 7 (5.93%) SaaS
15 6 (5.08%) Azure Storage
15 6 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (5.08%) OneDrive
15 6 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.32%) Firewall
2 9 (7.63%) DNS
3 6 (5.08%) LAN
3 6 (5.08%) Unified Communications
3 6 (5.08%) VPN
3 6 (5.08%) WAN
3 6 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.54%) Network Security
4 3 (2.54%) PSTN
5 1 (0.85%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.85%) FTP
5 1 (0.85%) NAS
5 1 (0.85%) SAN
5 1 (0.85%) SNMP
5 1 (0.85%) SSH
5 1 (0.85%) TACACS
5 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.63%) DynamoDB
1 9 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
2 7 (5.93%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.08%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.24%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.39%) Metadata
6 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.69%) Power BI
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.85%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (29.66%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.02%) JIRA
3 10 (8.47%) Git
4 6 (5.08%) GitLab
5 4 (3.39%) Gatling
6 3 (2.54%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.54%) ERwin
6 3 (2.54%) Maven
7 2 (1.69%) MSI
7 2 (1.69%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (18.64%) Public Sector
2 12 (10.17%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.08%) Banking
5 5 (4.24%) Finance
6 3 (2.54%) Marketing
7 2 (1.69%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.85%) Law
8 1 (0.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (25.42%) Developer
2 25 (21.19%) Senior
3 17 (14.41%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (13.56%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (11.02%) Python Developer
6 12 (10.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (10.17%) GCP Engineer
6 12 (10.17%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Tester
9 6 (5.08%) Architect
9 6 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.08%) Python Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.24%) GCP DevOps
10 5 (4.24%) Lead
10 5 (4.24%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.41%) React
2 10 (8.47%) Node.js
3 9 (7.63%) Playwright
4 8 (6.78%) Flask
4 8 (6.78%) REST
5 7 (5.93%) JSON
5 7 (5.93%) JWT
5 7 (5.93%) OAuth
6 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (5.08%) OpenAPI
6 6 (5.08%) Redux
6 6 (5.08%) Swagger
6 6 (5.08%) Zustand
7 5 (4.24%) Django
7 5 (4.24%) SAML
7 5 (4.24%) Vue
8 4 (3.39%) FastAPI
8 4 (3.39%) Kafka
8 4 (3.39%) pytest
9 3 (2.54%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.10%) NHS
2 17 (14.41%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.39%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.54%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.54%) IoT
4 3 (2.54%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.54%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.69%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.02%) Linux
2 12 (10.17%) Windows
3 3 (2.54%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.69%) Unix
5 1 (0.85%) AIX
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (55.08%) CI/CD
2 51 (43.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (40.68%) DevOps
4 42 (35.59%) Agile
5 24 (20.34%) Platform Engineering
6 21 (17.80%) Observability
7 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
8 17 (14.41%) Test Automation
9 14 (11.86%) Containerisation
10 13 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (10.17%) Analytics
11 12 (10.17%) Cloud Security
11 12 (10.17%) Code Quality
11 12 (10.17%) Test Strategy
12 11 (9.32%) Front End Development
13 10 (8.47%) Performance Optimisation
13 10 (8.47%) Validation
14 9 (7.63%) Data Pipeline
14 9 (7.63%) Full-Stack Development
14 9 (7.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.64%) Bash
1 22 (18.64%) JavaScript
2 20 (16.95%) PowerShell
3 19 (16.10%) SQL
4 15 (12.71%) Java
4 15 (12.71%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.08%) Scala
6 5 (4.24%) C#
7 3 (2.54%) Groovy
8 2 (1.69%) Go
8 2 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.85%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.85%) Bicep
9 1 (0.85%) C
9 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.54%) Degree
3 3 (2.54%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.63%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.08%) WCAG
3 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.69%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.85%) NIST
6 1 (0.85%) QA
6 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (27.97%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.69%) Firmware
3 2 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.69%) vSphere
4 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) KVM
4 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (56.78%) Terraform
2 40 (33.90%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.78%) Istio
4 6 (5.08%) Ansible
4 6 (5.08%) Grafana
4 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.39%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.54%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (2.54%) Packer
7 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.85%) SCCM
8 1 (0.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (12.71%) Google
2 14 (11.86%) Splunk
3 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.47%) Databricks
5 5 (4.24%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.54%) Cribl.io
6 3 (2.54%) Teradata
6 3 (2.54%) VMware
7 2 (1.69%) Brio
7 2 (1.69%) Cisco
7 2 (1.69%) CloudEndure
7 2 (1.69%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.69%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.69%) New Relic
7 2 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.85%) Centrify
8 1 (0.85%) Ciena
8 1 (0.85%) F5
8 1 (0.85%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.85%) Meraki