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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 51 44 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 13.82% 10.09% 12.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.15% 36.07% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 34 40
10th Percentile £411 £529 £481
25th Percentile £425 £592 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £675 £505
Median % change year-on-year -27.04% +33.66% +12.22%
75th Percentile £628 £700 £578
90th Percentile £645 - £688
South Yorkshire median daily rate £445 £675 £510
% change year-on-year -34.07% +32.35% +13.33%

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 121 122 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 32.79% 27.98% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 88 97
10th Percentile £396 £413 £363
25th Percentile £413 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £581 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +16.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £538
90th Percentile £630 - £580
South Yorkshire median daily rate £445 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -19.09% +15.79% +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 24 April 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

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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 7 (13.73%) Confluence
2 4 (7.84%) nginx
3 3 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) GCP
2 16 (31.37%) AWS
2 16 (31.37%) Azure
3 14 (27.45%) GitHub
4 6 (11.76%) Apigee
4 6 (11.76%) CloudBees
4 6 (11.76%) Kong
5 4 (7.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.88%) Vertex AI
7 2 (3.92%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.96%) Anthos
8 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.96%) Datadog
8 1 (1.96%) PaaS
8 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) Firewall
2 7 (13.73%) DNS
3 6 (11.76%) HTTP
3 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 6 (11.76%) VPN
4 1 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.96%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) MongoDB
2 9 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 6 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.84%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.88%) Bigtable
5 3 (5.88%) ClickHouse
5 3 (5.88%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (3.92%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (39.22%) Jenkins
2 9 (17.65%) Git
3 8 (15.69%) GitLab
3 8 (15.69%) JIRA
4 6 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (11.76%) CircleCI
4 6 (11.76%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.96%) Postman
5 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Developer
2 11 (21.57%) Software Developer
3 8 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Storage Manager
5 4 (7.84%) Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Database Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) DBA
5 4 (7.84%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) GCP Architect
5 4 (7.84%) MongoDB DBA
6 3 (5.88%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Lead
7 2 (3.92%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow Developer
8 1 (1.96%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (1.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Senior
8 1 (1.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) HTML
2 13 (25.49%) YAML
3 8 (15.69%) JSON
4 6 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (11.76%) XML
5 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.88%) Apache Beam
5 3 (5.88%) CSS
5 3 (5.88%) Kafka
5 3 (5.88%) Keycloak
5 3 (5.88%) LDAP
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Replication
2 6 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.84%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.88%) CMDB
4 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (39.22%) Linux
2 9 (17.65%) Unix
3 6 (11.76%) zOS
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Agile
2 18 (35.29%) DevOps
3 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (27.45%) Artificial Intelligence
4 14 (27.45%) Software Engineering
5 13 (25.49%) Containerisation
5 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (25.49%) Task Automation
6 11 (21.57%) Code Quality
6 11 (21.57%) Conversational UI
7 10 (19.61%) Scrum
8 9 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (17.65%) Problem Management
8 9 (17.65%) Use Case
9 8 (15.69%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (15.69%) Project Management
9 8 (15.69%) Roadmaps
10 7 (13.73%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) JavaScript
2 17 (33.33%) Bash
3 15 (29.41%) SQL
4 11 (21.57%) C#
5 9 (17.65%) Java
5 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
6 6 (11.76%) Go
6 6 (11.76%) Groovy
6 6 (11.76%) JCL
6 6 (11.76%) REXX
7 4 (7.84%) Ruby
7 4 (7.84%) Scala
8 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.96%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Degree
2 3 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Docker
2 6 (11.76%) NFS
2 6 (11.76%) Time Sharing Option
3 3 (5.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) Ansible
2 14 (27.45%) Terraform
3 11 (21.57%) Kubernetes
4 9 (17.65%) Grafana
5 7 (13.73%) Prometheus
6 6 (11.76%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (11.76%) Kibana
6 6 (11.76%) logstash
6 6 (11.76%) Progress Chef
6 6 (11.76%) Puppet
6 6 (11.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.96%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.96%) Istio
8 1 (1.96%) Kiali
8 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) PayPal
2 9 (17.65%) Splunk
3 6 (11.76%) Broadcom
3 6 (11.76%) Brocade
3 6 (11.76%) CA
3 6 (11.76%) Dell
3 6 (11.76%) Google
3 6 (11.76%) IBM
4 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) F5
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) VMware