Python Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Python
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 10 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing Python 198 30 31
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.94% 12.10% 8.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.28% 39.47% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 24 17
10th Percentile £398 £487 £370
25th Percentile £450 £509 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £590
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -5.72% -2.88%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £619
90th Percentile £621 £668 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £490
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.35% -19.34%

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 334 76 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.07% 30.65% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 56 83
10th Percentile £350 £400 £407
25th Percentile £419 £478 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £588
90th Percentile £632 £650 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -9.09%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Python job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Sheffield over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Sheffield

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Python

Python
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 15 (7.58%) Confluence
2 5 (2.53%) Apache
2 5 (2.53%) Apache Pig
2 5 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.02%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 60 (30.30%) GCP
2 56 (28.28%) AWS
3 30 (15.15%) Azure
4 27 (13.64%) Serverless
5 20 (10.10%) GitHub
6 17 (8.59%) OpenShift
7 16 (8.08%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.05%) AWS KMS
9 9 (4.55%) CloudBees
10 8 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.53%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (2.53%) SaaS
12 4 (2.02%) Cohesity
13 3 (1.52%) Azure AKS
14 2 (1.01%) Cloud Run
15 1 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
15 1 (0.51%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.03%) Firewall
1 6 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.53%) DNS
3 3 (1.52%) Internet
4 2 (1.01%) HTTP
4 2 (1.01%) VPN
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.51%) DWDM
5 1 (0.51%) LAN
5 1 (0.51%) Network Security
5 1 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.68%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (15.66%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.08%) Power BI
3 16 (8.08%) SQL Server
4 15 (7.58%) MySQL
5 14 (7.07%) Oracle Database
6 9 (4.55%) Hadoop
6 9 (4.55%) Power Query
7 8 (4.04%) Apache Hive
7 8 (4.04%) PowerPivot
8 7 (3.54%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.03%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.53%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.02%) Neo4j
12 3 (1.52%) HBase
13 2 (1.01%) Metadata
13 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.01%) OLTP
14 1 (0.51%) Data Hub
14 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 76 (38.38%) Jenkins
2 57 (28.79%) GitLab
3 40 (20.20%) JIRA
4 26 (13.13%) Liquibase
5 18 (9.09%) Git
5 18 (9.09%) Postman
6 7 (3.54%) Selenium
7 6 (3.03%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.03%) REST Assured
7 6 (3.03%) TestRail
8 5 (2.53%) PyCharm
9 4 (2.02%) Gatling
9 4 (2.02%) JMeter
9 4 (2.02%) LoadRunner
9 4 (2.02%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.52%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.51%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.51%) Travis CI
General
1 77 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 64 (32.32%) Finance
3 50 (25.25%) Banking
4 29 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.10%) Financial Institution
6 10 (5.05%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Law
8 3 (1.52%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (1.01%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (12.12%) Developer
2 23 (11.62%) Automation Engineer
3 22 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (10.10%) Senior
5 19 (9.60%) Lead
6 18 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (8.59%) Software Engineer
8 16 (8.08%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (7.58%) Analyst
9 15 (7.58%) Data Engineer
10 13 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (5.05%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.55%) Architect
12 9 (4.55%) Automation Test Lead
12 9 (4.55%) Data Protection Engineer
13 8 (4.04%) Administrator
13 8 (4.04%) Strategy Analyst
13 8 (4.04%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (4.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.19%) REST
2 32 (16.16%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (14.65%) RESTful
4 20 (10.10%) FastAPI
5 18 (9.09%) YAML
6 15 (7.58%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (5.56%) OpenID
8 9 (4.55%) .NET
8 9 (4.55%) LDAP
8 9 (4.55%) Playwright
8 9 (4.55%) SailPoint
9 8 (4.04%) TensorFlow
10 7 (3.54%) Node.js
11 5 (2.53%) NumPy
11 5 (2.53%) Pandas
12 4 (2.02%) Anaconda
13 3 (1.52%) OpenCV
13 3 (1.52%) PyTorch
13 3 (1.52%) SpaCy
13 3 (1.52%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 29 (14.65%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (14.65%) Public Cloud
3 13 (6.57%) Algorithms
3 13 (6.57%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.04%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.02%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.52%) Clustering
7 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.52%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.01%) PKI
8 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 58 (29.29%) Linux
2 7 (3.54%) CentOS
2 7 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.54%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.03%) Windows
4 5 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (61.62%) DevOps
2 111 (56.06%) CI/CD
3 71 (35.86%) Agile
4 62 (31.31%) Containerisation
5 56 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (26.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 40 (20.20%) Root Cause Analysis
9 33 (16.67%) Microservices
10 32 (16.16%) Computer Science
11 31 (15.66%) Cybersecurity
12 30 (15.15%) Data Security
13 26 (13.13%) Change Management
14 25 (12.63%) High Availability
14 25 (12.63%) Software Engineering
14 25 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
16 23 (11.62%) Continuous Delivery
16 23 (11.62%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 47 (23.74%) Java
2 40 (20.20%) Go
3 36 (18.18%) Bash
4 34 (17.17%) SQL
5 26 (13.13%) Shell Script
6 18 (9.09%) Scala
7 11 (5.56%) Perl
8 10 (5.05%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.55%) JavaScript
9 9 (4.55%) VBA
10 7 (3.54%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.54%) Ruby
11 6 (3.03%) PHP
12 4 (2.02%) Cypher
13 3 (1.52%) C#
14 2 (1.01%) Groovy
15 1 (0.51%) Bicep
15 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 35 (17.68%) Degree
2 29 (14.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (13.13%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.54%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.54%) RHCE
4 7 (3.54%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.01%) CISM
7 2 (1.01%) CISSP
7 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CCNA
8 1 (0.51%) CCNP
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.51%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.51%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.55%) QA
2 4 (2.02%) PMO
3 3 (1.52%) SLA
4 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (22.73%) Docker
2 10 (5.05%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.02%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.52%) HDFS
5 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.51%) KVM
6 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (50.00%) Ansible
2 68 (34.34%) Kubernetes
3 63 (31.82%) Terraform
4 48 (24.24%) Grafana
5 45 (22.73%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.09%) Puppet
7 13 (6.57%) NetBackup
8 10 (5.05%) Control-M
8 10 (5.05%) Data Guard
8 10 (5.05%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (5.05%) Nessus
8 10 (5.05%) yum
9 3 (1.52%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (1.01%) Argo
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (1.01%) SCCM
11 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.51%) Istio
11 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (19.70%) Splunk
2 32 (16.16%) Red Hat
3 23 (11.62%) Google
4 21 (10.61%) Microsoft
5 16 (8.08%) Oracle
5 16 (8.08%) ServiceNow
6 13 (6.57%) Commvault
7 10 (5.05%) Tenable
8 9 (4.55%) Veritas
9 8 (4.04%) VMware
10 3 (1.52%) Okta
11 2 (1.01%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.01%) Delphix
11 2 (1.01%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.51%) Alibaba
12 1 (0.51%) Arista
12 1 (0.51%) Databricks
12 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.51%) Ping Identity