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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 6 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 238 62 45
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 25.19% 19.56% 12.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 65.93% 57.94% 39.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 44 19
10th Percentile £366 £353 £411
25th Percentile £420 £387 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £529 £602 £540
90th Percentile £594 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £513 £430
% change year-on-year -7.32% +19.19% -38.57%

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 361 107 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.20% 33.75% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 77 68
10th Percentile £366 £359 £400
25th Percentile £420 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +11.73% -23.83%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £546
90th Percentile £619 £650 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £520 £433
% change year-on-year -7.26% +20.17% -24.78%

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 19 April 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 14 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 14 (5.88%) Confluence
2 4 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.26%) SAS
4 1 (0.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 61 (25.63%) OpenShift
2 44 (18.49%) GCP
3 39 (16.39%) GitHub
4 37 (15.55%) AWS
5 35 (14.71%) Azure
6 16 (6.72%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.52%) CloudBees
9 6 (2.52%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.10%) OCI
10 5 (2.10%) SaaS
10 5 (2.10%) Serverless
11 4 (1.68%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.26%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.26%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.82%) DNS
2 12 (5.04%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.78%) SAN
4 7 (2.94%) Firewall
5 6 (2.52%) NAS
6 5 (2.10%) BIG-IP
6 5 (2.10%) Network Security
7 4 (1.68%) DHCP
7 4 (1.68%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.26%) VPN
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.84%) DWDM
9 2 (0.84%) LAN
9 2 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.84%) WAN
10 1 (0.42%) BGP
10 1 (0.42%) HTTP
10 1 (0.42%) Internet
10 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.42%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.72%) Power BI
3 13 (5.46%) Hadoop
3 13 (5.46%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.46%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.78%) Metadata
5 8 (3.36%) MySQL
5 8 (3.36%) Power Query
5 8 (3.36%) PowerPivot
6 7 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.52%) Tableau
8 4 (1.68%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.26%) Big Data
10 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.84%) Parquet
11 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.42%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 76 (31.93%) Jenkins
2 46 (19.33%) JIRA
3 27 (11.34%) GitLab
4 18 (7.56%) Postman
5 13 (5.46%) Git
6 9 (3.78%) Selenium
7 6 (2.52%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.52%) Maven
7 6 (2.52%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.52%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.52%) TestRail
8 5 (2.10%) JMeter
8 5 (2.10%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.68%) Gatling
9 4 (1.68%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.68%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.26%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.84%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
General
1 72 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 56 (23.53%) Finance
3 54 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (16.39%) Banking
5 15 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.36%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.10%) Publishing
8 4 (1.68%) Advertising
9 3 (1.26%) Legal
9 3 (1.26%) Marketing
10 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.84%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (17.23%) Lead
2 39 (16.39%) Developer
3 32 (13.45%) Python Developer
4 27 (11.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (10.08%) Architect
6 21 (8.82%) Analyst
7 18 (7.56%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.04%) Data Analyst
9 11 (4.62%) Senior
10 10 (4.20%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.78%) Automation Test Lead
11 9 (3.78%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (3.36%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.36%) GCP DevOps
12 8 (3.36%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.36%) Strategy Analyst
12 8 (3.36%) Test Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.36%) Test Engineer
13 6 (2.52%) Administrator
13 6 (2.52%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (16.81%) OpenTelemetry
2 29 (12.18%) YAML
3 21 (8.82%) REST
4 20 (8.40%) FastAPI
5 19 (7.98%) JSON
6 13 (5.46%) Node.js
7 12 (5.04%) OpenID
8 11 (4.62%) Kafka
9 10 (4.20%) LDAP
10 9 (3.78%) Apache Avro
10 9 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (3.78%) Playwright
10 9 (3.78%) Protocol Buffers
10 9 (3.78%) SailPoint
11 6 (2.52%) .NET
11 6 (2.52%) RESTful
11 6 (2.52%) SLSA
12 4 (1.68%) PySpark
13 3 (1.26%) OAuth
13 3 (1.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.98%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (7.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.62%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.52%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.10%) EMC VMAX
7 4 (1.68%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.68%) Replication
8 3 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.26%) PKI
8 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.84%) CMDB
9 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.84%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.49%) Linux
2 17 (7.14%) Windows
3 16 (6.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.36%) CentOS
4 8 (3.36%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.68%) Unix
6 3 (1.26%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.84%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (58.40%) CI/CD
2 113 (47.48%) DevOps
3 89 (37.39%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (27.31%) Containerisation
5 48 (20.17%) RBAC
6 44 (18.49%) Agile
6 44 (18.49%) Observability
7 43 (18.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (17.65%) Migration
8 42 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 38 (15.97%) Analytics
10 29 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (10.92%) Data Protection
11 26 (10.92%) Technical Leadership
11 26 (10.92%) Validation
12 25 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.08%) API Development
13 24 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (10.08%) ETL
14 22 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.17%) Bash
2 40 (16.81%) SQL
3 38 (15.97%) Java
4 17 (7.14%) Go
5 15 (6.30%) PowerShell
6 13 (5.46%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.46%) VBA
7 11 (4.62%) Scala
8 10 (4.20%) Groovy
8 10 (4.20%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.78%) Ruby
10 8 (3.36%) Perl
11 7 (2.94%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.52%) PHP
12 6 (2.52%) R
13 4 (1.68%) Cypher
14 3 (1.26%) Bicep
15 1 (0.42%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.42%) C
15 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (3.78%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.36%) Degree
2 8 (3.36%) RHCE
3 5 (2.10%) CISM
3 5 (2.10%) CISSP
3 5 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.26%) OCP
5 3 (1.26%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.84%) CCNA
6 2 (0.84%) CCNP
6 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.84%) JNCIA
6 2 (0.84%) JNCIS
6 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.84%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.04%) QA
2 4 (1.68%) PMO
3 3 (1.26%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.26%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.26%) SLA
3 3 (1.26%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.84%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (16.39%) Docker
2 22 (9.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (7.98%) vSphere
4 13 (5.46%) VMware NSX
5 11 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.10%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.10%) KVM
6 5 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.68%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (1.26%) SRDF
9 2 (0.84%) NFS
10 1 (0.42%) Ceph
10 1 (0.42%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 101 (42.44%) Ansible
2 90 (37.82%) Kubernetes
3 68 (28.57%) Terraform
4 48 (20.17%) Grafana
5 42 (17.65%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.56%) Puppet
6 18 (7.56%) vCenter Server
7 15 (6.30%) Argo
7 15 (6.30%) Control-M
8 14 (5.88%) IBM Guardium
8 14 (5.88%) Nessus
9 7 (2.94%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.68%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.84%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.84%) Istio
13 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.42%) Kibana
13 1 (0.42%) logstash
13 1 (0.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 44 (18.49%) Red Hat
2 40 (16.81%) Splunk
3 27 (11.34%) VMware
4 21 (8.82%) Microsoft
5 18 (7.56%) Pure Storage
6 14 (5.88%) Tenable
7 13 (5.46%) Google
7 13 (5.46%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.78%) Cisco
9 7 (2.94%) F5
10 6 (2.52%) Commvault
10 6 (2.52%) Sonatype
10 6 (2.52%) Veritas
11 5 (2.10%) Databricks
11 5 (2.10%) Dell
12 4 (1.68%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.68%) EMC
12 4 (1.68%) HP
12 4 (1.68%) Infoblox
12 4 (1.68%) NetApp