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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 9 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 187 34 26
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 25.30% 13.18% 6.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.91% 44.74% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 28 18
10th Percentile £379 £473 £378
25th Percentile £450 £509 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £579 £583
Median % change year-on-year -13.61% -0.64% -3.72%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £614
90th Percentile £633 £700 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £579 £490
% change year-on-year -13.61% +18.11% -19.01%

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 307 76 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 41.54% 29.46% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 56 80
10th Percentile £345 £378 £406
25th Percentile £406 £470 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £626 £588
90th Percentile £624 £688 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -8.84% +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 10 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 (8.02%) Confluence
2 6 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.67%) Apache
3 5 (2.67%) Apache Pig
4 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.07%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 54 (28.88%) AWS
1 54 (28.88%) GCP
2 29 (15.51%) Serverless
3 25 (13.37%) Azure
4 19 (10.16%) GitHub
5 17 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.56%) OpenShift
7 10 (5.35%) AWS KMS
8 9 (4.81%) CloudBees
9 8 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.67%) SaaS
11 4 (2.14%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.14%) Cohesity
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.53%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (0.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.53%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.67%) Firewall
1 5 (2.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.14%) DNS
3 3 (1.60%) Internet
4 2 (1.07%) HTTP
5 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.25%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 17 (9.09%) Power BI
4 16 (8.56%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.02%) MySQL
6 14 (7.49%) Oracle Database
7 10 (5.35%) Power Query
8 9 (4.81%) Hadoop
9 8 (4.28%) Apache Hive
9 8 (4.28%) PowerPivot
10 7 (3.74%) Data Mining
11 6 (3.21%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.67%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.60%) HBase
14 2 (1.07%) Metadata
14 2 (1.07%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.07%) OLTP
15 1 (0.53%) Data Hub
15 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 73 (39.04%) Jenkins
2 56 (29.95%) GitLab
3 36 (19.25%) JIRA
4 29 (15.51%) Liquibase
5 18 (9.63%) Git
6 11 (5.88%) Postman
7 7 (3.74%) Selenium
8 6 (3.21%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.21%) REST Assured
8 6 (3.21%) TestRail
9 5 (2.67%) PyCharm
10 3 (1.60%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.53%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 78 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 67 (35.83%) Finance
3 52 (27.81%) Banking
4 29 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.76%) Financial Institution
6 10 (5.35%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.60%) Law
8 3 (1.60%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (1.07%) Police
10 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (12.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (12.30%) Automation Engineer
3 22 (11.76%) Developer
4 18 (9.63%) Senior
4 18 (9.63%) Software Engineer
5 17 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (8.56%) Analyst
6 16 (8.56%) GCP Engineer
7 15 (8.02%) Data Engineer
8 14 (7.49%) Lead
9 13 (6.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (5.35%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.81%) Administrator
12 9 (4.81%) Data Protection Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) AWS Software Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Strategy Analyst
14 7 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (3.74%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 7 (3.74%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.79%) REST
2 35 (18.72%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (16.04%) RESTful
4 20 (10.70%) FastAPI
5 16 (8.56%) YAML
6 15 (8.02%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (4.81%) .NET
7 9 (4.81%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.67%) LDAP
8 5 (2.67%) NumPy
8 5 (2.67%) OpenID
8 5 (2.67%) Pandas
8 5 (2.67%) SailPoint
9 4 (2.14%) Anaconda
9 4 (2.14%) Hugging Face
9 4 (2.14%) OpenCV
9 4 (2.14%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.14%) Regular Expression
9 4 (2.14%) SpaCy
10 3 (1.60%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.58%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (16.04%) Public Cloud
3 29 (15.51%) Cloud Native
4 13 (6.95%) Algorithms
4 13 (6.95%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.74%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.14%) Credit Risk
7 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.60%) Clustering
8 3 (1.60%) Online Banking
9 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.07%) PKI
9 2 (1.07%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 60 (32.09%) Linux
2 6 (3.21%) CentOS
2 6 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (3.21%) Ubuntu
2 6 (3.21%) Windows
3 5 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (62.57%) DevOps
2 102 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 71 (37.97%) Agile
4 59 (31.55%) Containerisation
5 54 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (21.93%) Root Cause Analysis
8 37 (19.79%) Test Automation
9 34 (18.18%) Microservices
10 33 (17.65%) Computer Science
10 33 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (17.11%) Data Security
12 29 (15.51%) Change Management
13 28 (14.97%) Software Engineering
14 27 (14.44%) High Availability
14 27 (14.44%) Infrastructure Automation
15 26 (13.90%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (13.90%) Cryptography
16 25 (13.37%) Non-Functional Testing
16 25 (13.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (21.39%) Go
2 37 (19.79%) Java
3 36 (19.25%) Bash
4 35 (18.72%) SQL
5 26 (13.90%) Shell Script
6 11 (5.88%) Scala
7 10 (5.35%) Perl
7 10 (5.35%) VBA
8 9 (4.81%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.74%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.21%) PHP
10 6 (3.21%) Ruby
11 3 (1.60%) C#
11 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.07%) Groovy
13 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 36 (19.25%) Degree
2 30 (16.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (15.51%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.35%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.74%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.21%) RHCE
7 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.07%) CISM
8 2 (1.07%) CISSP
8 2 (1.07%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.21%) QA
2 4 (2.14%) PMO
3 3 (1.60%) SLA
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (25.13%) Docker
2 10 (5.35%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.60%) HDFS
5 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.53%) KVM
6 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (53.48%) Ansible
2 69 (36.90%) Kubernetes
3 61 (32.62%) Terraform
4 51 (27.27%) Grafana
5 48 (25.67%) Prometheus
6 17 (9.09%) Puppet
7 13 (6.95%) NetBackup
8 10 (5.35%) Control-M
8 10 (5.35%) Data Guard
8 10 (5.35%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (5.35%) Nessus
8 10 (5.35%) yum
9 3 (1.60%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (1.07%) Argo
10 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (1.07%) SCCM
11 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.53%) logstash
11 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (22.46%) Splunk
2 30 (16.04%) Red Hat
3 21 (11.23%) Microsoft
4 19 (10.16%) Google
5 16 (8.56%) Oracle
6 13 (6.95%) Commvault
7 11 (5.88%) ServiceNow
8 10 (5.35%) Tenable
9 9 (4.81%) Veritas
9 9 (4.81%) VMware
10 2 (1.07%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.07%) Delphix
10 2 (1.07%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.53%) Databricks
11 1 (0.53%) EMC
11 1 (0.53%) Pure Storage
11 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.53%) SAP
11 1 (0.53%) Sybase