Python Contracts in Sheffield

Python
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Python 61 51 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 19.12% 13.46% 9.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.98% 42.15% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 24 32
10th Percentile £353 £411 £541
25th Percentile £387 £425 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -29.64% +36.59%
75th Percentile £588 £628 -
90th Percentile £650 £645 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £445 £700
% change year-on-year +12.36% -36.43% +36.59%

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 113 121 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.42% 31.93% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 78 90
10th Percentile £359 £397 £413
25th Percentile £409 £413 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £700
90th Percentile £650 £629 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £445 £594
% change year-on-year +16.54% -25.05% +25.00%

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

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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 1 May 2025.

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

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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 6 (9.84%) Apache
1 6 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (8.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) GCP
2 10 (16.39%) AWS
2 10 (16.39%) GitHub
3 6 (9.84%) Azure
3 6 (9.84%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (9.84%) OCI
4 5 (8.20%) CloudBees
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.28%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.64%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) DNS
2 6 (9.84%) SAN
3 5 (8.20%) Network Security
4 4 (6.56%) Firewall
4 4 (6.56%) NAS
4 4 (6.56%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.92%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (4.92%) DWDM
5 3 (4.92%) LAN
5 3 (4.92%) VPN
5 3 (4.92%) WAN
6 2 (3.28%) DHCP
6 2 (3.28%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.64%) BGP
7 1 (1.64%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.64%) OSPF
7 1 (1.64%) SMTP
7 1 (1.64%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Oracle Database
2 5 (8.20%) Flink
3 4 (6.56%) MySQL
4 3 (4.92%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.28%) Power BI
6 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (32.79%) Jenkins
2 16 (26.23%) Git
3 9 (14.75%) JIRA
4 7 (11.48%) Cucumber
4 7 (11.48%) Visual Studio
5 6 (9.84%) GitLab
6 3 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.92%) Vagrant
7 2 (3.28%) ERwin
7 2 (3.28%) Selenium
7 2 (3.28%) TestNG
8 1 (1.64%) ScriptRunner
General
1 31 (50.82%) Social Skills
2 25 (40.98%) Finance
3 11 (18.03%) Banking
4 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.84%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (14.75%) Automation Engineer
1 9 (14.75%) Data Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) Developer
3 6 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Data Protection Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Network Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Architect
5 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Consultant
6 3 (4.92%) Senior
7 2 (3.28%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.28%) Database Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Lead
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Gherkin
2 5 (8.20%) Middleware
2 5 (8.20%) REST
3 4 (6.56%) React
3 4 (6.56%) RESTful
4 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.92%) CSS
4 3 (4.92%) HTML
4 3 (4.92%) PySpark
5 2 (3.28%) .NET
5 2 (3.28%) Anaconda
5 2 (3.28%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.28%) FpML
5 2 (3.28%) JSON
5 2 (3.28%) Kafka
5 2 (3.28%) Pandas
5 2 (3.28%) pytest
5 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.28%) XML
6 1 (1.64%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.28%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.28%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Unix
2 5 (8.20%) Windows
3 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.64%) AIX
5 1 (1.64%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (55.74%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (37.70%) Agile
3 21 (34.43%) CI/CD
4 14 (22.95%) DevOps
5 12 (19.67%) Containerisation
5 12 (19.67%) Data Protection
6 10 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (14.75%) Change Management
7 9 (14.75%) Computer Science
8 8 (13.11%) Data Modelling
8 8 (13.11%) Migration
8 8 (13.11%) TDD
9 7 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (11.48%) ETL
9 7 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (11.48%) Scrum
10 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (9.84%) Software Delivery
10 6 (9.84%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.87%) Shell Script
2 13 (21.31%) PowerShell
3 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.39%) SQL
4 9 (14.75%) Java
5 6 (9.84%) Kotlin
6 5 (8.20%) Ruby
7 4 (6.56%) Bash
8 3 (4.92%) Groovy
9 2 (3.28%) ActionScript
9 2 (3.28%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (3.28%) PHP
10 1 (1.64%) Go
10 1 (1.64%) Korn
10 1 (1.64%) Perl
10 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (14.75%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) CCNP
3 3 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.28%) CCNA
4 2 (3.28%) IBM Certification
4 2 (3.28%) JNCIA
4 2 (3.28%) JNCIS
4 2 (3.28%) OCP
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CISM
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.28%) GDPR
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.28%) QA
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) NIST
3 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (22.95%) Docker
2 7 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.48%) vSphere
3 6 (9.84%) Active Directory
4 4 (6.56%) VMware NSX
5 3 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.92%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (3.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 30 (49.18%) Ansible
2 19 (31.15%) Kubernetes
3 9 (14.75%) Puppet
3 9 (14.75%) Terraform
4 6 (9.84%) vRealize
5 4 (6.56%) Progress Chef
5 4 (6.56%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.28%) Grafana
6 2 (3.28%) NetBackup
6 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.64%) Nagios
7 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Oracle
1 9 (14.75%) VMware
2 8 (13.11%) Google
3 7 (11.48%) Cisco
4 6 (9.84%) Commvault
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.56%) Splunk
6 3 (4.92%) Arista
6 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.28%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.28%) Brocade
7 2 (3.28%) Databricks
7 2 (3.28%) EMC
7 2 (3.28%) HP
7 2 (3.28%) IBM
7 2 (3.28%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (3.28%) Infoblox
7 2 (3.28%) Sparx
7 2 (3.28%) Veritas
8 1 (1.64%) F5
102 Python jobs in South Yorkshire