Python Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Python Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Python Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.76% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £487 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £561 - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 822 223 311
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.54% 87.45% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 154 189
10th Percentile £350 £220 £335
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £545 £594 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -8.14% -29.50%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +55.34% +22.37% -33.85%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Python Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Python Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in Sheffield over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in Sheffield

Python Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 11 March 2026, Python Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Ansible
4 4 (57.14%) AWS
4 4 (57.14%) Bash
4 4 (57.14%) GCP
4 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
4 4 (57.14%) REST
4 4 (57.14%) Splunk
4 4 (57.14%) Terraform
5 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
5 3 (42.86%) Serverless
6 2 (28.57%) Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) API Development
6 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (28.57%) Confluence
6 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 2 (28.57%) Cryptography
6 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
6 2 (28.57%) Degree
6 2 (28.57%) Docker
6 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (28.57%) GitHub
6 2 (28.57%) GitLab

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
4 1 (14.29%) CloudBees
4 1 (14.29%) Cohesity
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Liquibase
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Publishing
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) SLSA
3 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Cryptography
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Alibaba
3 1 (14.29%) Commvault
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Sonatype
3 1 (14.29%) Veritas