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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +11
Contract jobs citing Python 260 62 68
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 25.47% 19.08% 18.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.84% 56.36% 48.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 43 38
10th Percentile £372 £353 £421
25th Percentile £425 £387 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.38% -27.57%
75th Percentile £537 £588 £616
90th Percentile £600 £650 £640
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% -30.71%

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 401 110 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 39.28% 33.85% 37.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 77 92
10th Percentile £367 £358 £400
25th Percentile £424 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £559
90th Percentile £616 £650 £625
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £520 £460
% change year-on-year -6.25% +12.99% -23.33%

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 16 May 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 17 (6.54%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.38%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) SAS
3 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 62 (23.85%) OpenShift
2 51 (19.62%) GCP
3 41 (15.77%) AWS
3 41 (15.77%) Azure
4 39 (15.00%) GitHub
5 14 (5.38%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.31%) CloudBees
9 6 (2.31%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.92%) OCI
10 5 (1.92%) SaaS
11 4 (1.54%) Azure Storage
11 4 (1.54%) Serverless
11 4 (1.54%) Slack
12 3 (1.15%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.15%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.15%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.23%) DNS
2 14 (5.38%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.46%) SAN
4 8 (3.08%) BIG-IP
5 7 (2.69%) DHCP
5 7 (2.69%) Firewall
6 6 (2.31%) NAS
7 5 (1.92%) Network Security
8 4 (1.54%) iSCSI
9 3 (1.15%) VPN
10 2 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.77%) DWDM
10 2 (0.77%) HTTP
10 2 (0.77%) LAN
10 2 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.77%) WAN
11 1 (0.38%) BGP
11 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.38%) Power BI
3 13 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 13 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.23%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.46%) Metadata
6 8 (3.08%) Tableau
7 7 (2.69%) MySQL
7 7 (2.69%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.31%) Big Data
9 4 (1.54%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.15%) Power Query
10 3 (1.15%) PowerPivot
11 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.77%) Parquet
11 2 (0.77%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (29.62%) Jenkins
2 51 (19.62%) JIRA
3 26 (10.00%) GitLab
4 18 (6.92%) Postman
5 13 (5.00%) Git
6 9 (3.46%) Selenium
7 6 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.31%) Maven
7 6 (2.31%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.31%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.31%) TestRail
8 5 (1.92%) JMeter
9 4 (1.54%) Gatling
9 4 (1.54%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.54%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.54%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.15%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.77%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.38%) Travis CI
General
1 75 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 61 (23.46%) Finance
3 54 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.69%) Banking
5 17 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.31%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.92%) Publishing
8 4 (1.54%) Advertising
9 3 (1.15%) Law
9 3 (1.15%) Legal
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing
10 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (17.31%) Lead
2 41 (15.77%) Developer
3 34 (13.08%) Python Developer
4 30 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (10.38%) Architect
6 18 (6.92%) Analyst
6 18 (6.92%) Data Engineer
7 12 (4.62%) Python Engineer
8 11 (4.23%) Data Analyst
8 11 (4.23%) Senior
9 10 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (3.46%) Automation Test Lead
10 9 (3.46%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.08%) GCP DevOps
11 8 (3.08%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.08%) Test Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.08%) Test Engineer
12 7 (2.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 6 (2.31%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 6 (2.31%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
2 31 (11.92%) YAML
3 25 (9.62%) REST
4 21 (8.08%) JSON
4 21 (8.08%) Node.js
5 20 (7.69%) FastAPI
6 12 (4.62%) OpenID
7 11 (4.23%) Kafka
8 10 (3.85%) LDAP
9 9 (3.46%) Apache Avro
9 9 (3.46%) Playwright
9 9 (3.46%) Protocol Buffers
9 9 (3.46%) SailPoint
10 8 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (2.31%) .NET
11 6 (2.31%) SLSA
12 5 (1.92%) PySpark
12 5 (1.92%) RESTful
13 3 (1.15%) OAuth2
13 3 (1.15%) React
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.23%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.31%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.92%) EMC VMAX
6 5 (1.92%) PKI
6 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.54%) Replication
8 3 (1.15%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.77%) CMDB
9 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.85%) Linux
2 21 (8.08%) Windows
3 17 (6.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.08%) CentOS
4 8 (3.08%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.54%) Unix
7 2 (0.77%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.77%) VMS
7 2 (0.77%) zOS
8 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (56.15%) CI/CD
2 120 (46.15%) DevOps
3 88 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (25.77%) Containerisation
5 51 (19.62%) RBAC
6 50 (19.23%) Agile
7 49 (18.85%) Observability
8 45 (17.31%) Test Automation
9 44 (16.92%) Migration
10 43 (16.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (14.23%) Analytics
12 31 (11.92%) Data Protection
13 30 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
14 28 (10.77%) AI
14 28 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (10.77%) Validation
15 27 (10.38%) API Development
15 27 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (10.00%) ETL
16 26 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.62%) Bash
2 45 (17.31%) Java
3 38 (14.62%) SQL
4 21 (8.08%) Go
5 18 (6.92%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.15%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.23%) Scala
8 10 (3.85%) Groovy
8 10 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.85%) VBA
9 9 (3.46%) Perl
9 9 (3.46%) Ruby
10 8 (3.08%) R
11 7 (2.69%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.31%) PHP
13 4 (1.54%) Cypher
14 3 (1.15%) Bicep
14 3 (1.15%) Rust
15 1 (0.38%) JCL
15 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (3.46%) RHCE
2 7 (2.69%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.31%) Degree
4 5 (1.92%) CISM
4 5 (1.92%) CISSP
4 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.15%) OCP
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.77%) CCNA
7 2 (0.77%) CCNP
7 2 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.77%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.77%) JNCIS
7 2 (0.77%) RHCA
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.38%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.62%) QA
2 5 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.54%) NIST
4 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.15%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.15%) PMO
4 3 (1.15%) SLA
4 3 (1.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (15.77%) Docker
2 23 (8.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (7.31%) vSphere
4 13 (5.00%) VMware NSX
5 12 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.92%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.92%) KVM
6 5 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (1.15%) NFS
8 3 (1.15%) SRDF
9 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
9 1 (0.38%) Ceph
9 1 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.38%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 108 (41.54%) Ansible
2 94 (36.15%) Kubernetes
3 70 (26.92%) Terraform
4 48 (18.46%) Grafana
5 42 (16.15%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.92%) Puppet
6 18 (6.92%) vCenter Server
7 16 (6.15%) Argo
8 15 (5.77%) Control-M
9 14 (5.38%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (5.38%) Nessus
10 7 (2.69%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.54%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.77%) Istio
14 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
14 1 (0.38%) vRealize
14 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 45 (17.31%) Red Hat
2 39 (15.00%) Splunk
3 28 (10.77%) VMware
4 26 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 18 (6.92%) Pure Storage
6 17 (6.54%) ServiceNow
7 16 (6.15%) Google
8 14 (5.38%) Tenable
9 10 (3.85%) F5
10 9 (3.46%) Cisco
11 8 (3.08%) Databricks
12 7 (2.69%) Infoblox
13 6 (2.31%) Commvault
13 6 (2.31%) Dell
13 6 (2.31%) Sonatype
13 6 (2.31%) Veritas
14 5 (1.92%) Broadcom
15 4 (1.54%) Brocade
15 4 (1.54%) EMC
15 4 (1.54%) NetApp
24 Python jobs in Sheffield