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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 250 60 45
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 26.57% 19.80% 12.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 67.93% 56.60% 39.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 42 20
10th Percentile £366 £352 £411
25th Percentile £425 £391 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £448
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +16.76% -31.15%
75th Percentile £529 £623 £535
90th Percentile £571 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £548 £430
% change year-on-year -13.24% +27.33% -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 368 106 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 39.11% 34.98% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 75 69
10th Percentile £366 £359 £405
25th Percentile £425 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £510 £445
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +14.60% -25.05%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £544
90th Percentile £613 £650 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £525 £439
% change year-on-year -6.19% +19.66% -23.70%

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 1 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 19 (7.60%) Confluence
2 12 (4.80%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.20%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.60%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.40%) OpenShift
2 57 (22.80%) GCP
3 48 (19.20%) AWS
3 48 (19.20%) GitHub
4 30 (12.00%) Azure
5 18 (7.20%) Serverless
6 12 (4.80%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.00%) AWS KMS
8 9 (3.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (3.20%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.00%) OCI
11 5 (2.00%) SaaS
12 4 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.60%) Cohesity
13 3 (1.20%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.20%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.20%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.80%) DNS
2 11 (4.40%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.20%) SAN
4 6 (2.40%) Firewall
5 5 (2.00%) BIG-IP
5 5 (2.00%) NAS
6 4 (1.60%) DHCP
6 4 (1.60%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.60%) Network Security
7 3 (1.20%) Internet
7 3 (1.20%) VPN
8 2 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.80%) DWDM
8 2 (0.80%) LAN
8 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.80%) WAN
9 1 (0.40%) BGP
9 1 (0.40%) HTTP
9 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.40%) MySQL
4 12 (4.80%) Power BI
5 11 (4.40%) Hadoop
5 11 (4.40%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.60%) Metadata
7 8 (3.20%) Power Query
7 8 (3.20%) PowerPivot
8 7 (2.80%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.00%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.00%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.00%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.60%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.80%) Big Data
11 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.80%) Tableau
12 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.40%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 95 (38.00%) Jenkins
2 49 (19.60%) JIRA
3 44 (17.60%) GitLab
4 17 (6.80%) Postman
5 13 (5.20%) Liquibase
6 12 (4.80%) Git
7 9 (3.60%) Selenium
8 6 (2.40%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.40%) Maven
8 6 (2.40%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.40%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.40%) TestRail
9 5 (2.00%) JMeter
9 5 (2.00%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.60%) Gatling
10 4 (1.60%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.60%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.20%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.80%) Robot Framework
General
1 82 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.60%) Finance
3 50 (20.00%) Banking
4 43 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.00%) Publishing
8 3 (1.20%) Advertising
8 3 (1.20%) Legal
8 3 (1.20%) Marketing
9 2 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.40%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (16.00%) Lead
2 37 (14.80%) Developer
3 28 (11.20%) Python Developer
4 27 (10.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (8.80%) Architect
6 19 (7.60%) Data Engineer
6 19 (7.60%) GCP Engineer
7 17 (6.80%) Analyst
8 15 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (5.60%) Senior
10 13 (5.20%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.00%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) Automation Test Lead
13 8 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (3.20%) Data Analyst
13 8 (3.20%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.20%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.20%) Strategy Analyst
13 8 (3.20%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.20%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.80%) OpenTelemetry
2 35 (14.00%) REST
3 29 (11.60%) YAML
4 23 (9.20%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (8.00%) RESTful
6 18 (7.20%) JSON
7 16 (6.40%) FastAPI
8 13 (5.20%) Node.js
9 12 (4.80%) OpenID
10 10 (4.00%) LDAP
11 9 (3.60%) Kafka
11 9 (3.60%) Playwright
11 9 (3.60%) SailPoint
12 8 (3.20%) Apache Avro
12 8 (3.20%) Protocol Buffers
13 6 (2.40%) .NET
13 6 (2.40%) SLSA
13 6 (2.40%) TensorFlow
14 5 (2.00%) NumPy
14 5 (2.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.40%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.60%) Public Cloud
5 17 (6.80%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (4.00%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.60%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.60%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.60%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (1.20%) Clustering
10 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.20%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.20%) PKI
10 3 (1.20%) Replication
10 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.80%) Linux
2 15 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (6.00%) Windows
3 8 (3.20%) CentOS
3 8 (3.20%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.80%) Unix
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 136 (54.40%) DevOps
3 77 (30.80%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 58 (23.20%) Agile
6 56 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 52 (20.80%) Test Automation
8 47 (18.80%) RBAC
9 41 (16.40%) Migration
10 35 (14.00%) Observability
11 34 (13.60%) Analytics
12 33 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (12.40%) Root Cause Analysis
14 30 (12.00%) Data Protection
14 30 (12.00%) High Availability
15 29 (11.60%) Cybersecurity
16 27 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
18 24 (9.60%) Data Modelling
18 24 (9.60%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 52 (20.80%) Bash
2 38 (15.20%) SQL
3 34 (13.60%) Java
4 29 (11.60%) Go
5 13 (5.20%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.20%) VBA
6 12 (4.80%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.00%) Groovy
7 10 (4.00%) Scala
7 10 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.60%) Ruby
9 8 (3.20%) Perl
10 6 (2.40%) PHP
11 4 (1.60%) Cypher
12 3 (1.20%) Bicep
13 2 (0.80%) R
14 1 (0.40%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.40%) C
14 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (9.60%) Degree
2 19 (7.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.00%) Master's Degree
4 10 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.20%) RHCE
6 5 (2.00%) CISM
6 5 (2.00%) CISSP
7 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.20%) OCP
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.80%) CCNA
9 2 (0.80%) CCNP
9 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.80%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.80%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.80%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.80%) QA
2 4 (1.60%) PMO
3 3 (1.20%) SLA
4 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (16.80%) Docker
2 19 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (7.60%) vSphere
3 14 (5.60%) VMware NSX
4 10 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.40%) KVM
6 4 (1.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.80%) SRDF
8 1 (0.40%) NFS
Systems Management
1 117 (46.80%) Ansible
2 96 (38.40%) Kubernetes
3 80 (32.00%) Terraform
4 57 (22.80%) Grafana
5 50 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 22 (8.80%) Puppet
7 18 (7.20%) vCenter Server
8 15 (6.00%) Argo
9 12 (4.80%) NetBackup
10 11 (4.40%) Control-M
10 11 (4.40%) IBM Guardium
10 11 (4.40%) Nessus
11 4 (1.60%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.80%) Istio
14 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.40%) Kibana
14 1 (0.40%) logstash
14 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 52 (20.80%) Splunk
2 50 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 25 (10.00%) VMware
4 23 (9.20%) Microsoft
5 19 (7.60%) Google
6 18 (7.20%) Pure Storage
7 13 (5.20%) ServiceNow
8 11 (4.40%) Commvault
8 11 (4.40%) Tenable
9 8 (3.20%) Cisco
9 8 (3.20%) Veritas
10 7 (2.80%) F5
10 7 (2.80%) Oracle
11 6 (2.40%) Sonatype
12 4 (1.60%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.60%) Databricks
12 4 (1.60%) Dell
12 4 (1.60%) HP
12 4 (1.60%) Infoblox
12 4 (1.60%) Okta