Python Contracts in Sheffield

Python
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 17 7
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 77 41 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 20.10% 9.19% 15.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.68% 32.28% 41.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 50
10th Percentile £425 £505 £474
25th Percentile £461 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.57% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £597 - £650
90th Percentile £638 - £689
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 149 127 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.90% 28.48% 37.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 84 122
10th Percentile £400 £395 £325
25th Percentile £429 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £572
90th Percentile £624 - £673
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -20.83% +26.32% +18.75%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Sheffield

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Python in Sheffield

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Sheffield over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Sheffield

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Sheffield

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.99%) Confluence
2 8 (10.39%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.19%) nginx
4 3 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.90%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (51.95%) GCP
2 32 (41.56%) AWS
3 31 (40.26%) Azure
4 17 (22.08%) GitHub
5 10 (12.99%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (11.69%) Kong
7 8 (10.39%) Serverless
8 7 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 7 (9.09%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 6 (7.79%) Apigee
9 6 (7.79%) CloudBees
10 4 (5.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (3.90%) Vertex AI
12 2 (2.60%) Google Compute Engine
13 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (1.30%) Datadog
13 1 (1.30%) PaaS
13 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) Firewall
2 10 (12.99%) DNS
3 9 (11.69%) HTTP
3 9 (11.69%) TCP/IP
3 9 (11.69%) VPN
4 4 (5.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 4 (5.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (3.90%) BIG-IP
5 3 (3.90%) SSL
6 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.99%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (11.69%) BigQuery
3 9 (11.69%) NoSQL
4 8 (10.39%) Big Data
4 8 (10.39%) Hadoop
5 7 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (5.19%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.90%) Bigtable
7 3 (3.90%) ClickHouse
7 3 (3.90%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 35 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 28 (36.36%) Git
3 11 (14.29%) GitLab
3 11 (14.29%) JIRA
4 9 (11.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (11.69%) CircleCI
4 9 (11.69%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.30%) Postman
5 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.19%) Banking
4 3 (3.90%) Finance
4 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Developer
2 12 (15.58%) Architect
2 12 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 9 (11.69%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) Python Developer
5 7 (9.09%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.49%) GCP Architect
6 5 (6.49%) Storage Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Database Specialist
7 4 (5.19%) DBA
7 4 (5.19%) MongoDB DBA
8 3 (3.90%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Lead
9 2 (2.60%) Lead DevOps
9 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow Developer
10 1 (1.30%) AWS Data Architect
10 1 (1.30%) GCP Data Architect
10 1 (1.30%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.78%) YAML
2 14 (18.18%) HTML
3 11 (14.29%) JSON
3 11 (14.29%) Kafka
4 9 (11.69%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (11.69%) XML
5 4 (5.19%) FastAPI
5 4 (5.19%) GraphQL
5 4 (5.19%) gRPC
5 4 (5.19%) JWT
5 4 (5.19%) OAuth
5 4 (5.19%) OpenAPI
5 4 (5.19%) RESTful
5 4 (5.19%) Swagger
6 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.90%) Apache Beam
6 3 (3.90%) CSS
6 3 (3.90%) Keycloak
6 3 (3.90%) LDAP
7 1 (1.30%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Data Structures
2 7 (9.09%) Replication
3 6 (7.79%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.19%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.90%) CMDB
5 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.97%) Linux
2 9 (11.69%) Unix
3 6 (7.79%) zOS
4 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.16%) DevOps
2 31 (40.26%) Containerisation
3 26 (33.77%) CI/CD
3 26 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (32.47%) Agile
5 23 (29.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (20.78%) Task Automation
7 15 (19.48%) Data Modelling
8 14 (18.18%) API Development
8 14 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 14 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 13 (16.88%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (16.88%) Scrum
10 12 (15.58%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (15.58%) Data Integration
10 12 (15.58%) Use Case
11 11 (14.29%) Code Quality
11 11 (14.29%) Conversational UI
11 11 (14.29%) Project Management
12 10 (12.99%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.27%) Bash
1 21 (27.27%) Java
1 21 (27.27%) SQL
2 19 (24.68%) JavaScript
3 17 (22.08%) PowerShell
4 11 (14.29%) C#
5 6 (7.79%) Go
5 6 (7.79%) Groovy
5 6 (7.79%) JCL
5 6 (7.79%) REXX
5 6 (7.79%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.19%) ActionScript
6 4 (5.19%) Ruby
6 4 (5.19%) Scala
7 1 (1.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) Degree
2 3 (3.90%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) GDPR
2 4 (5.19%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.30%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (31.17%) Docker
2 6 (7.79%) NFS
2 6 (7.79%) Time Sharing Option
3 3 (3.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (35.06%) Ansible
2 26 (33.77%) Terraform
3 22 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 13 (16.88%) Puppet
5 12 (15.58%) Grafana
6 10 (12.99%) Prometheus
7 9 (11.69%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (11.69%) Kibana
7 9 (11.69%) logstash
7 9 (11.69%) Progress Chef
8 6 (7.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 3 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.30%) Data Guard
10 1 (1.30%) Istio
10 1 (1.30%) Kiali
10 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (25.97%) Splunk
2 17 (22.08%) Google
3 11 (14.29%) PayPal
4 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 6 (7.79%) Broadcom
5 6 (7.79%) Brocade
5 6 (7.79%) CA
5 6 (7.79%) Dell
5 6 (7.79%) IBM
6 4 (5.19%) F5
7 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle
8 1 (1.30%) VMware