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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 12 26
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 168 46 25
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.24% 13.07% 6.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.37% 41.07% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 35 19
10th Percentile £369 £425 £385
25th Percentile £432 £500 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £609
90th Percentile £675 £700 £626
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -16.67%

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 261 112 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 37.66% 31.82% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 78 63
10th Percentile £345 £400 £413
25th Percentile £406 £470 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £538 £622 £598
90th Percentile £633 £658 £670
South Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -9.07% +2.38% -4.55%

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 7 December 2025.

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 (8.93%) Confluence
2 5 (2.98%) Apache
2 5 (2.98%) Apache Pig
3 4 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.19%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 51 (30.36%) GCP
2 50 (29.76%) AWS
3 31 (18.45%) Serverless
4 24 (14.29%) Azure
5 17 (10.12%) GitHub
5 17 (10.12%) Power Platform
6 12 (7.14%) OpenShift
7 10 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.36%) CloudBees
9 8 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.76%) AWS KMS
10 7 (4.17%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.38%) Cohesity
12 3 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.60%) Apigee
13 1 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.60%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.95%) Firewall
2 7 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.98%) DNS
4 3 (1.79%) Internet
4 3 (1.79%) NAS
4 3 (1.79%) SAN
5 2 (1.19%) HTTP
6 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (22.62%) NoSQL
3 17 (10.12%) Power BI
4 14 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 10 (5.95%) Power Query
5 10 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.36%) MySQL
7 8 (4.76%) Apache Hive
7 8 (4.76%) Hadoop
8 7 (4.17%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.57%) PowerPivot
9 6 (3.57%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.98%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.79%) HBase
11 3 (1.79%) Metadata
12 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.19%) OLTP
12 2 (1.19%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.60%) Redis
13 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (44.64%) Jenkins
2 56 (33.33%) GitLab
3 31 (18.45%) Liquibase
4 29 (17.26%) JIRA
5 20 (11.90%) Git
6 7 (4.17%) Postman
7 5 (2.98%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.60%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.60%) Selenium
8 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.60%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 73 (43.45%) Social Skills
2 67 (39.88%) Finance
3 55 (32.74%) Banking
4 30 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (14.29%) Financial Institution
6 9 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.79%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (1.19%) Police
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (16.07%) Developer
2 25 (14.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 21 (12.50%) Senior
5 18 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 17 (10.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (8.93%) GCP Engineer
8 14 (8.33%) Analyst
8 14 (8.33%) Data Engineer
9 13 (7.74%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (6.55%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (5.36%) Data Protection Engineer
12 8 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
13 7 (4.17%) Administrator
13 7 (4.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 7 (4.17%) Data Analyst
13 7 (4.17%) Python Engineer
14 6 (3.57%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
1 36 (21.43%) REST
2 34 (20.24%) RESTful
3 20 (11.90%) FastAPI
4 14 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (7.14%) TensorFlow
6 7 (4.17%) Hugging Face
6 7 (4.17%) OpenCV
6 7 (4.17%) PyTorch
6 7 (4.17%) Regular Expression
6 7 (4.17%) SpaCy
7 5 (2.98%) Middleware
7 5 (2.98%) NumPy
7 5 (2.98%) Pandas
8 4 (2.38%) Anaconda
9 3 (1.79%) .NET
9 3 (1.79%) CSS
9 3 (1.79%) HTML
9 3 (1.79%) Node.js
9 3 (1.79%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.64%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (18.45%) Cloud Native
2 31 (18.45%) Public Cloud
3 13 (7.74%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.74%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.38%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.79%) Clustering
7 3 (1.79%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.19%) PKI
8 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 56 (33.33%) Linux
2 8 (4.76%) Windows
3 4 (2.38%) Unix
3 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (63.10%) DevOps
2 83 (49.40%) CI/CD
3 79 (47.02%) Agile
4 58 (34.52%) Containerisation
5 50 (29.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (23.21%) Root Cause Analysis
8 38 (22.62%) Microservices
9 37 (22.02%) Computer Science
10 34 (20.24%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (20.24%) Data Security
11 31 (18.45%) Change Management
11 31 (18.45%) Software Engineering
12 30 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
13 28 (16.67%) Cryptography
13 28 (16.67%) High Availability
13 28 (16.67%) Test Automation
14 27 (16.07%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (15.48%) Continuous Delivery
15 26 (15.48%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (23.81%) Go
2 33 (19.64%) Bash
3 30 (17.86%) SQL
4 26 (15.48%) Shell Script
5 23 (13.69%) Java
6 10 (5.95%) VBA
7 9 (5.36%) Scala
8 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.38%) Perl
10 3 (1.79%) C#
10 3 (1.79%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.19%) Groovy
12 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 40 (23.81%) Degree
2 34 (20.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (18.45%) Master's Degree
4 12 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.57%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.19%) CISM
8 2 (1.19%) CISSP
8 2 (1.19%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.79%) PMO
1 3 (1.79%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (28.57%) Docker
2 10 (5.95%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.38%) vSphere
5 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.79%) HDFS
6 2 (1.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.60%) KVM
Systems Management
1 91 (54.17%) Ansible
2 71 (42.26%) Kubernetes
3 60 (35.71%) Terraform
4 49 (29.17%) Grafana
5 48 (28.57%) Prometheus
6 15 (8.93%) Puppet
7 13 (7.74%) NetBackup
8 10 (5.95%) Control-M
8 10 (5.95%) Data Guard
8 10 (5.95%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (5.95%) Nessus
8 10 (5.95%) yum
9 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (2.38%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.79%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (1.79%) SCCM
10 3 (1.79%) vRealize
11 2 (1.19%) Argo
12 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 41 (24.40%) Splunk
2 29 (17.26%) Microsoft
3 21 (12.50%) Google
4 15 (8.93%) Red Hat
4 15 (8.93%) VMware
5 14 (8.33%) Oracle
6 13 (7.74%) Commvault
7 10 (5.95%) Tenable
8 9 (5.36%) Veritas
9 6 (3.57%) MuleSoft
10 4 (2.38%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.79%) F5
12 2 (1.19%) Databricks
12 2 (1.19%) Delphix
13 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
13 1 (0.60%) EMC
13 1 (0.60%) Pure Storage
13 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.60%) Sybase