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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 186 141 70
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 18.18% 24.14% 17.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.13% 57.55% 51.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 98 48
10th Percentile £400 £384 £450
25th Percentile £425 £428 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -9.36%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £622
90th Percentile £669 £625 £665
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -9.36%

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 371 245 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.27% 41.95% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 170 94
10th Percentile £365 £325 £383
25th Percentile £425 £400 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.84% -8.29% -11.02%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £598
90th Percentile £669 £628 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £478 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -8.95% -10.63%

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 18 September 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 13 (6.99%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.30%) Confluence
3 4 (2.15%) Apache
3 4 (2.15%) SAS
4 3 (1.61%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.08%) nginx
6 1 (0.54%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.54%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 71 (38.17%) GCP
2 55 (29.57%) Azure
3 37 (19.89%) AWS
4 19 (10.22%) GitHub
5 15 (8.06%) Power Platform
6 14 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (7.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.30%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.76%) Cloud Run
9 7 (3.76%) Datadog
9 7 (3.76%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.23%) OCI
10 6 (3.23%) Slack
11 5 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.69%) Serverless
12 4 (2.15%) Azure Databricks
12 4 (2.15%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.61%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.06%) DNS
2 14 (7.53%) Network Security
3 9 (4.84%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.76%) BIG-IP
4 7 (3.76%) DHCP
4 7 (3.76%) Firewall
5 3 (1.61%) HTTP
5 3 (1.61%) NAS
5 3 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.61%) SAN
5 3 (1.61%) VPN
6 2 (1.08%) Internet
6 2 (1.08%) VSAN
6 2 (1.08%) WAN
7 1 (0.54%) Calico
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.54%) Modbus
7 1 (0.54%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.14%) Metadata
2 15 (8.06%) Power BI
3 13 (6.99%) Big Data
4 10 (5.38%) BigQuery
5 9 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.76%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.76%) Neo4j
6 7 (3.76%) Tableau
7 6 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.61%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.08%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.54%) Parquet
11 1 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (20.43%) Jenkins
2 34 (18.28%) JIRA
3 17 (9.14%) Git
4 9 (4.84%) Maven
4 9 (4.84%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.76%) GitLab
6 7 (3.76%) Zephyr
7 6 (3.23%) Gatling
7 6 (3.23%) JMeter
7 6 (3.23%) NeoLoad
8 4 (2.15%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.15%) MSBuild
8 4 (2.15%) Postman
8 4 (2.15%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.61%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.08%) Selenium
11 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.54%) TruffleHog
General
1 61 (32.80%) Finance
2 48 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 40 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.59%) Banking
5 9 (4.84%) Publishing
6 5 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.15%) Law
8 3 (1.61%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.61%) Marketing
9 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
10 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (12.90%) Lead
2 23 (12.37%) Developer
2 23 (12.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (10.22%) Python Developer
4 17 (9.14%) Analyst
5 14 (7.53%) Python Engineer
6 13 (6.99%) Data Analyst
7 12 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Senior
8 9 (4.84%) Architect
8 9 (4.84%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) GCP Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 7 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.76%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (3.23%) Test Leader
12 5 (2.69%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.57%) Terraform
2 24 (12.90%) Node.js
3 22 (11.83%) REST
4 15 (8.06%) JSON
5 11 (5.91%) OpenID
5 11 (5.91%) React
6 10 (5.38%) FastAPI
6 10 (5.38%) Kafka
7 9 (4.84%) YAML
8 8 (4.30%) OAuth
8 8 (4.30%) OAuth2
8 8 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (4.30%) pytest
9 6 (3.23%) .NET
9 6 (3.23%) LDAP
9 6 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.23%) SAML
9 6 (3.23%) SLSA
10 5 (2.69%) PySpark
11 4 (2.15%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.51%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.29%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.30%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.76%) PKI
7 6 (3.23%) Blog
7 6 (3.23%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.69%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.15%) Replication
9 4 (2.15%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.61%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.61%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.05%) Linux
2 10 (5.38%) Windows
3 8 (4.30%) Unix
4 6 (3.23%) VMS
4 6 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.61%) zOS
6 2 (1.08%) CoreOS
6 2 (1.08%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (51.08%) CI/CD
2 79 (42.47%) DevOps
3 59 (31.72%) Observability
4 47 (25.27%) Agile
5 41 (22.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (21.51%) AI
7 39 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (19.35%) Analytics
9 35 (18.82%) Software Engineering
10 32 (17.20%) DevSecOps
11 31 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
12 30 (16.13%) Data Engineering
13 28 (15.05%) Identity Access Management
13 28 (15.05%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (14.52%) Containerisation
15 25 (13.44%) LLM
16 24 (12.90%) Validation
17 23 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 46 (24.73%) Java
2 40 (21.51%) SQL
3 33 (17.74%) Bash
4 29 (15.59%) PowerShell
5 26 (13.98%) Go
6 9 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.30%) C#
7 8 (4.30%) Groovy
7 8 (4.30%) R
8 7 (3.76%) Rust
9 6 (3.23%) VBA
10 5 (2.69%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.69%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.15%) Bicep
11 4 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.15%) Scala
12 3 (1.61%) Cypher
13 2 (1.08%) JCL
13 2 (1.08%) Perl
13 2 (1.08%) REXX
Qualifications
1 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (3.76%) Degree
2 4 (2.15%) CISSP
3 3 (1.61%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (1.61%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.08%) CCSP
4 2 (1.08%) CISM
4 2 (1.08%) GIAC
4 2 (1.08%) NCDA
4 2 (1.08%) NCIE
4 2 (1.08%) RHCA
4 2 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.54%) CCNA
5 1 (0.54%) CCNP
5 1 (0.54%) RHCE
5 1 (0.54%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.76%) NIST
3 6 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.61%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.61%) QA
5 3 (1.61%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (12.90%) Docker
2 8 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.15%) NFS
5 2 (1.08%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (1.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.08%) SRDF
5 2 (1.08%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.08%) vSphere
6 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.54%) Ceph
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.54%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 62 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 42 (22.58%) Ansible
3 24 (12.90%) Grafana
4 21 (11.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.30%) Argo
6 7 (3.76%) Control-M
7 6 (3.23%) IBM Guardium
7 6 (3.23%) Nessus
8 5 (2.69%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.08%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.08%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.08%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.08%) SnapVault
10 2 (1.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 34 (18.28%) Google
2 30 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.99%) Databricks
4 11 (5.91%) Splunk
5 10 (5.38%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.76%) AppDynamics
6 7 (3.76%) F5
6 7 (3.76%) Infoblox
7 6 (3.23%) Cisco
7 6 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.23%) Sonatype
7 6 (3.23%) Tenable
7 6 (3.23%) VMware
8 5 (2.69%) Brocade
8 5 (2.69%) Okta
8 5 (2.69%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.69%) Oracle
9 4 (2.15%) Dell
10 3 (1.61%) EMC
10 3 (1.61%) IBM