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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Python 181 95 66
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 13.05% 12.52% 7.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.14% 37.25% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 54 49
10th Percentile £347 £378 £298
25th Percentile £415 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £644 £550 £610
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.76% -4.67%
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 384 255 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.69% 33.60% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 152 211
10th Percentile £348 £363 £355
25th Percentile £413 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £634 £675 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £497 £507
% change year-on-year +0.70% -2.12% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £19.85 - £27.25
25th Percentile £23.00 - £28.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.51%
75th Percentile £25.25 - £45.00
90th Percentile £26.90 - £51.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +66.35%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 0 155 £525 +5.00% 161
Bradford -11 13 £375 -13.79% 17
Halifax 0 8 £520 - 1
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 (3.31%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.66%) Confluence
2 3 (1.66%) SAS
3 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (54.70%) AWS
2 63 (34.81%) GitHub
3 42 (23.20%) GitHub Actions
4 38 (20.99%) Azure
5 34 (18.78%) GCP
6 29 (16.02%) Serverless
7 17 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (7.73%) Amazon S3
9 13 (7.18%) IaaS
10 12 (6.63%) Vertex AI
11 10 (5.52%) Apigee
12 9 (4.97%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (3.31%) Amazon EventBridge
15 5 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (2.76%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (2.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.39%) Firewall
2 15 (8.29%) BIG-IP
3 14 (7.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 11 (6.08%) DNS
4 11 (6.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 7 (3.87%) Network Security
6 6 (3.31%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.76%) VLAN
7 5 (2.76%) WAN
7 5 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (2.21%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.66%) BGP
9 3 (1.66%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (1.66%) OSPF
9 3 (1.66%) SSL
9 3 (1.66%) VXLAN
9 3 (1.66%) WLAN
10 2 (1.10%) LAN
11 1 (0.55%) PSTN
11 1 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.29%) BigQuery
2 12 (6.63%) DynamoDB
3 11 (6.08%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.42%) Power BI
6 7 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.87%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.31%) Metadata
8 4 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.21%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.21%) Tableau
9 3 (1.66%) Big Data
9 3 (1.66%) MySQL
9 3 (1.66%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.10%) Power Query
10 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (20.99%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.50%) JIRA
3 16 (8.84%) Git
4 11 (6.08%) GitLab
5 7 (3.87%) Gatling
6 6 (3.31%) JMeter
6 6 (3.31%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.21%) Maven
8 3 (1.66%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.66%) Postman
8 3 (1.66%) Pylint
8 3 (1.66%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.10%) eggPlant
9 2 (1.10%) Selenium
9 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.55%) ERwin
10 1 (0.55%) Flyway
10 1 (0.55%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.55%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (18.23%) Public Sector
2 28 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.73%) Banking
4 12 (6.63%) Finance
5 10 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.97%) Legal
7 5 (2.76%) Games
8 4 (2.21%) Retail
9 3 (1.66%) Marketing
10 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (29.28%) Developer
2 42 (23.20%) Senior
3 37 (20.44%) Python Developer
4 19 (10.50%) Lead
5 18 (9.94%) Data Engineer
6 14 (7.73%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.18%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.52%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 10 (5.52%) Network Engineer
9 10 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.31%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 6 (3.31%) Palantir Engineer
13 6 (3.31%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (40.88%) Terraform
2 15 (8.29%) React
3 14 (7.73%) HTML
3 14 (7.73%) Kafka
4 13 (7.18%) CSS
4 13 (7.18%) Vue
5 11 (6.08%) PySpark
6 10 (5.52%) Flask
6 10 (5.52%) Playwright
6 10 (5.52%) pytest
6 10 (5.52%) REST
7 7 (3.87%) JSON
7 7 (3.87%) RESTful
8 6 (3.31%) OAuth
9 5 (2.76%) FHIR
9 5 (2.76%) Node.js
9 5 (2.76%) Quarkus
10 4 (2.21%) Hugging Face
10 4 (2.21%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.21%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 42 (23.20%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.94%) Data Centre
2 18 (9.94%) NHS
2 18 (9.94%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.76%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.76%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.66%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.66%) PKI
7 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.66%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.10%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.10%) Robotics
9 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.63%) Linux
2 7 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.31%) Windows
4 1 (0.55%) AIX
4 1 (0.55%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (58.56%) CI/CD
2 65 (35.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (31.49%) DevOps
4 50 (27.62%) Agile
5 37 (20.44%) Observability
6 27 (14.92%) AI
7 25 (13.81%) Test Automation
8 23 (12.71%) Data Pipeline
9 22 (12.15%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (11.60%) Containerisation
10 21 (11.60%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (11.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (10.50%) Machine Learning
13 18 (9.94%) Code Quality
14 17 (9.39%) Data Engineering
15 16 (8.84%) Microservices
16 15 (8.29%) Performance Optimisation
16 15 (8.29%) Software Engineering
17 14 (7.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 38 (20.99%) SQL
2 24 (13.26%) Java
3 21 (11.60%) Bash
3 21 (11.60%) JavaScript
4 19 (10.50%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.63%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.08%) ActionScript
7 9 (4.97%) Scala
8 3 (1.66%) C#
8 3 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.66%) Groovy
9 2 (1.10%) PHP
10 1 (0.55%) Bicep
10 1 (0.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 46 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 43 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.10%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.76%) HL7
3 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.66%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.66%) QA
5 2 (1.10%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) GRC
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (23.20%) Docker
2 7 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.97%) Ansible
3 8 (4.42%) Grafana
4 5 (2.76%) HAProxy
4 5 (2.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.66%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.55%) Packer
6 1 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 17 (9.39%) Google
2 15 (8.29%) Databricks
2 15 (8.29%) F5
3 14 (7.73%) Dynatrace
4 13 (7.18%) IBM
4 13 (7.18%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.87%) Splunk
6 6 (3.31%) Foundry
6 6 (3.31%) Palantir
7 5 (2.76%) New Relic
8 4 (2.21%) Brio
8 4 (2.21%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.66%) Arista
9 3 (1.66%) Aruba
9 3 (1.66%) Cisco
9 3 (1.66%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.66%) SAP
9 3 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.66%) Teradata
10 1 (0.55%) Centrify