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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 262 80 88
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.13% 19.61% 20.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 61.07% 52.98% 58.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 53 45
10th Percentile £375 £350 £425
25th Percentile £425 £385 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.35% -22.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £580
90th Percentile £613 £645 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -22.00%

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 429 151 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 39.50% 37.01% 35.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 99 89
10th Percentile £367 £352 £400
25th Percentile £425 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -14.17%
75th Percentile £556 £587 £588
90th Percentile £624 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -14.17%

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 25 June 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 19 (7.25%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.73%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) SAS
4 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 54 (20.61%) GCP
2 52 (19.85%) OpenShift
3 41 (15.65%) Azure
4 37 (14.12%) GitHub
5 32 (12.21%) AWS
6 16 (6.11%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.67%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.67%) OCI
10 6 (2.29%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.29%) Slack
11 5 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.91%) Azure Storage
12 4 (1.53%) Serverless
13 3 (1.15%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.15%) Cloud Run
13 3 (1.15%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.78%) DNS
2 13 (4.96%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.82%) BIG-IP
3 10 (3.82%) SAN
4 9 (3.44%) DHCP
5 7 (2.67%) NAS
6 6 (2.29%) Firewall
7 5 (1.91%) Network Security
8 4 (1.53%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.76%) DWDM
9 2 (0.76%) HTTP
9 2 (0.76%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.76%) LAN
9 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.76%) VPN
9 2 (0.76%) VSAN
9 2 (0.76%) WAN
10 1 (0.38%) BGP
10 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.11%) Power BI
3 14 (5.34%) Hadoop
4 11 (4.20%) Metadata
4 11 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.20%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.05%) Big Data
6 7 (2.67%) Neo4j
6 7 (2.67%) Tableau
7 4 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.15%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.76%) Parquet
9 2 (0.76%) Power Query
9 2 (0.76%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.38%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 75 (28.63%) Jenkins
2 52 (19.85%) JIRA
3 14 (5.34%) GitLab
4 12 (4.58%) Git
5 11 (4.20%) Postman
6 9 (3.44%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.05%) Maven
8 5 (1.91%) JMeter
9 4 (1.53%) Gatling
9 4 (1.53%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.53%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.15%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.15%) Selenium
10 3 (1.15%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.76%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.38%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.38%) TruffleHog
General
1 74 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 64 (24.43%) Finance
3 54 (20.61%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.60%) Banking
5 16 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.67%) Publishing
7 4 (1.53%) Advertising
7 4 (1.53%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.15%) Legal
8 3 (1.15%) Marketing
9 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.38%) Law
9 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (15.65%) Developer
1 41 (15.65%) Lead
2 36 (13.74%) Python Developer
3 31 (11.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (10.69%) Architect
5 20 (7.63%) Data Engineer
6 17 (6.49%) Analyst
7 14 (5.34%) Python Engineer
8 13 (4.96%) Senior
9 12 (4.58%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (3.05%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (3.05%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (2.67%) Consultant
11 7 (2.67%) GCP DevOps
11 7 (2.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (2.29%) Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (2.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.89%) OpenTelemetry
2 30 (11.45%) YAML
3 28 (10.69%) Node.js
4 24 (9.16%) JSON
4 24 (9.16%) REST
5 20 (7.63%) FastAPI
6 9 (3.44%) Apache Avro
6 9 (3.44%) Kafka
6 9 (3.44%) Playwright
6 9 (3.44%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (3.05%) OpenID
7 8 (3.05%) PySpark
7 8 (3.05%) SLSA
8 7 (2.67%) React
9 6 (2.29%) LDAP
10 5 (1.91%) pytest
10 5 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.91%) RESTful
11 4 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.53%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.65%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.54%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (6.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.58%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.29%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.29%) PKI
7 6 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.29%) Replication
8 5 (1.91%) Blog
8 5 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.15%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.76%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.76%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 45 (17.18%) Linux
2 20 (7.63%) Windows
3 16 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.67%) CentOS
4 7 (2.67%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.53%) Unix
5 4 (1.53%) VMS
6 3 (1.15%) zOS
7 2 (0.76%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.76%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (54.20%) CI/CD
2 116 (44.27%) DevOps
3 80 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (22.90%) Containerisation
5 56 (21.37%) Agile
6 53 (20.23%) RBAC
7 51 (19.47%) Observability
8 42 (16.03%) Analytics
8 42 (16.03%) Test Automation
9 40 (15.27%) Migration
10 37 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (12.21%) AI
12 31 (11.83%) Data Protection
13 30 (11.45%) API Development
14 29 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (11.07%) Validation
15 27 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.31%) Data Engineering
15 27 (10.31%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (9.92%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 43 (16.41%) Bash
2 38 (14.50%) Java
3 31 (11.83%) SQL
4 26 (9.92%) Go
5 21 (8.02%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.20%) VBA
8 10 (3.82%) Groovy
8 10 (3.82%) Scala
9 9 (3.44%) Perl
9 9 (3.44%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.05%) R
10 8 (3.05%) Ruby
11 7 (2.67%) Rust
12 6 (2.29%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.53%) Cypher
14 3 (1.15%) Bicep
14 3 (1.15%) C#
15 2 (0.76%) JCL
15 2 (0.76%) REXX
Qualifications
1 8 (3.05%) Degree
1 8 (3.05%) RHCE
2 7 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.29%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.91%) CISSP
5 4 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.15%) CISM
6 3 (1.15%) OCP
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.76%) CCNP
7 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.76%) GIAC
7 2 (0.76%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.76%) JNCIS
7 2 (0.76%) NCDA
7 2 (0.76%) NCIE
7 2 (0.76%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.29%) QA
2 5 (1.91%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.53%) NIST
4 3 (1.15%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.76%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (13.36%) Docker
2 24 (9.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.63%) vSphere
4 13 (4.96%) VMware NSX
5 12 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.29%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.91%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.91%) KVM
7 5 (1.91%) NFS
8 4 (1.53%) SRDF
9 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.76%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.38%) Ceph
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 99 (37.79%) Ansible
2 82 (31.30%) Kubernetes
3 61 (23.28%) Terraform
4 43 (16.41%) Grafana
5 40 (15.27%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.25%) Argo
6 19 (7.25%) vCenter Server
7 15 (5.73%) Control-M
7 15 (5.73%) Puppet
8 14 (5.34%) IBM Guardium
8 14 (5.34%) Nessus
9 8 (3.05%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.53%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.76%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.76%) Istio
12 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.76%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.76%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 43 (16.41%) Red Hat
2 39 (14.89%) Splunk
3 28 (10.69%) VMware
4 26 (9.92%) Microsoft
5 22 (8.40%) Google
6 19 (7.25%) Pure Storage
7 14 (5.34%) Tenable
8 12 (4.58%) F5
8 12 (4.58%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.82%) Cisco
9 10 (3.82%) Databricks
10 9 (3.44%) Infoblox
11 8 (3.05%) Dell
11 8 (3.05%) Sonatype
12 6 (2.29%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.29%) Brocade
12 6 (2.29%) Commvault
12 6 (2.29%) Veritas
13 5 (1.91%) EMC
13 5 (1.91%) NetApp