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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 242 56 44
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 26.25% 19.79% 12.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 66.85% 54.37% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 43 19
10th Percentile £367 £353 £410
25th Percentile £428 £406 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +12.36% -31.54%
75th Percentile £530 £623 £525
90th Percentile £594 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £534 £430
% change year-on-year -10.11% +24.19% -33.85%

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 362 103 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 39.26% 36.40% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 77 68
10th Percentile £367 £368 £404
25th Percentile £426 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £445
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +16.29% -25.83%
75th Percentile £538 £610 £545
90th Percentile £625 £650 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £431
% change year-on-year -4.76% +21.74% -25.81%

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 20 March 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 18 (7.44%) Confluence
2 10 (4.13%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.65%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 59 (24.38%) OpenShift
2 56 (23.14%) GCP
3 47 (19.42%) AWS
3 47 (19.42%) GitHub
4 29 (11.98%) Azure
5 19 (7.85%) Serverless
6 10 (4.13%) AWS KMS
6 10 (4.13%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (3.31%) CloudBees
9 6 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.48%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.07%) SaaS
11 4 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.65%) Cohesity
12 3 (1.24%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.24%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.24%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.26%) DNS
2 9 (3.72%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.89%) SAN
4 6 (2.48%) Firewall
5 4 (1.65%) iSCSI
5 4 (1.65%) NAS
5 4 (1.65%) Network Security
6 3 (1.24%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.24%) Internet
6 3 (1.24%) VPN
7 2 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.83%) DHCP
7 2 (0.83%) DWDM
7 2 (0.83%) LAN
7 2 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.83%) WAN
8 1 (0.41%) BGP
8 1 (0.41%) HTTP
8 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.94%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.81%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.61%) MySQL
4 11 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 11 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.13%) Power BI
6 8 (3.31%) Power Query
6 8 (3.31%) PowerPivot
7 7 (2.89%) Metadata
7 7 (2.89%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.07%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.07%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.65%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.41%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (38.43%) Jenkins
2 50 (20.66%) JIRA
3 45 (18.60%) GitLab
4 17 (7.02%) Postman
5 14 (5.79%) Liquibase
6 12 (4.96%) Git
7 8 (3.31%) Selenium
8 6 (2.48%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.48%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.48%) TestRail
9 5 (2.07%) JMeter
9 5 (2.07%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.65%) Gatling
10 4 (1.65%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.65%) Maven
10 4 (1.65%) NeoLoad
10 4 (1.65%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.24%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.41%) Travis CI
General
1 81 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 66 (27.27%) Finance
3 49 (20.25%) Banking
4 42 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.13%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.24%) Advertising
8 3 (1.24%) Legal
8 3 (1.24%) Marketing
8 3 (1.24%) Publishing
9 2 (0.83%) Law
9 2 (0.83%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (16.53%) Lead
2 34 (14.05%) Developer
3 26 (10.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (10.33%) Python Developer
5 20 (8.26%) Architect
5 20 (8.26%) GCP Engineer
6 19 (7.85%) Data Engineer
7 16 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (6.20%) Senior
9 14 (5.79%) Analyst
10 12 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.72%) Automation Test Lead
11 9 (3.72%) GCP DevOps
11 9 (3.72%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.72%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.31%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.31%) Strategy Analyst
12 8 (3.31%) Test Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.31%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (16.53%) OpenTelemetry
2 36 (14.88%) REST
3 27 (11.16%) YAML
4 24 (9.92%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (8.68%) RESTful
6 18 (7.44%) FastAPI
7 14 (5.79%) JSON
8 12 (4.96%) OpenID
9 11 (4.55%) Node.js
10 10 (4.13%) LDAP
11 9 (3.72%) Kafka
11 9 (3.72%) Playwright
11 9 (3.72%) SailPoint
12 8 (3.31%) Apache Avro
12 8 (3.31%) Protocol Buffers
13 6 (2.48%) .NET
13 6 (2.48%) TensorFlow
14 5 (2.07%) NumPy
14 5 (2.07%) Pandas
15 4 (1.65%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.29%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.74%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (8.26%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.37%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (4.13%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.72%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.07%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.07%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.65%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (1.24%) Clustering
11 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.24%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.24%) PKI
12 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.83%) Replication
12 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (23.97%) Linux
2 15 (6.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (6.20%) Windows
3 8 (3.31%) CentOS
3 8 (3.31%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.89%) Unix
5 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (62.40%) CI/CD
2 135 (55.79%) DevOps
3 78 (32.23%) Containerisation
4 76 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (25.21%) Agile
6 57 (23.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (20.66%) Test Automation
8 46 (19.01%) RBAC
9 40 (16.53%) Migration
10 37 (15.29%) Observability
11 31 (12.81%) Analytics
11 31 (12.81%) High Availability
11 31 (12.81%) Root Cause Analysis
12 30 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (10.74%) Data Protection
14 26 (10.74%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (9.92%) Computer Science
15 24 (9.92%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.49%) Bash
2 37 (15.29%) SQL
3 32 (13.22%) Java
4 30 (12.40%) Go
5 12 (4.96%) PowerShell
6 11 (4.55%) VBA
7 10 (4.13%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.13%) Scala
7 10 (4.13%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.13%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.72%) Ruby
9 8 (3.31%) Groovy
9 8 (3.31%) Perl
10 6 (2.48%) PHP
11 4 (1.65%) Cypher
12 3 (1.24%) Bicep
13 1 (0.41%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.41%) C
13 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (10.74%) Degree
2 20 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (6.61%) Master's Degree
4 10 (4.13%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.31%) RHCE
6 5 (2.07%) CISM
6 5 (2.07%) CISSP
7 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.24%) OCP
8 3 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.83%) CCNA
9 2 (0.83%) CCNP
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.83%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.83%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.83%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.55%) QA
2 4 (1.65%) PMO
3 3 (1.24%) SLA
4 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (18.60%) Docker
2 19 (7.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (7.85%) vSphere
3 14 (5.79%) VMware NSX
4 10 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.48%) KVM
6 4 (1.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.83%) SRDF
8 1 (0.41%) NFS
Systems Management
1 115 (47.52%) Ansible
2 97 (40.08%) Kubernetes
3 78 (32.23%) Terraform
4 61 (25.21%) Grafana
5 54 (22.31%) Prometheus
6 22 (9.09%) Puppet
7 18 (7.44%) vCenter Server
8 15 (6.20%) Argo
9 14 (5.79%) Control-M
9 14 (5.79%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (5.79%) Nessus
10 12 (4.96%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.65%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.83%) Istio
14 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.41%) logstash
14 1 (0.41%) vRealize
14 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 52 (21.49%) Splunk
2 49 (20.25%) Red Hat
3 25 (10.33%) VMware
4 20 (8.26%) Google
4 20 (8.26%) Microsoft
5 18 (7.44%) Pure Storage
6 14 (5.79%) Tenable
7 13 (5.37%) ServiceNow
8 11 (4.55%) Commvault
9 8 (3.31%) Veritas
10 7 (2.89%) Cisco
10 7 (2.89%) Oracle
11 5 (2.07%) F5
12 4 (1.65%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.65%) Dell
12 4 (1.65%) HP
12 4 (1.65%) Okta
12 4 (1.65%) Sonatype
13 3 (1.24%) Alibaba