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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 167 75 28
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 26.51% 17.40% 7.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.64% 50.68% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 52 21
10th Percentile £378 £460 £400
25th Percentile £450 £498 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £628 £619
90th Percentile £650 £695 £630
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -12.50%

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 280 148 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 44.44% 34.34% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 102 69
10th Percentile £325 £400 £400
25th Percentile £400 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £534 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -9.19% +6.81%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £684
South Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £534 £561
% change year-on-year -7.63% -4.90% +2.00%

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 17 October 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 14 (8.38%) Confluence
2 6 (3.59%) Apache
3 5 (2.99%) Apache Pig
4 4 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.20%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.60%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 49 (29.34%) GCP
2 44 (26.35%) AWS
3 30 (17.96%) Serverless
4 23 (13.77%) Azure
5 19 (11.38%) GitHub
6 13 (7.78%) Power Platform
7 12 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.19%) CloudBees
8 9 (5.39%) Azure AKS
9 8 (4.79%) AWS KMS
10 7 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.40%) Cohesity
11 4 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.80%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.20%) Snowflake
14 1 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
14 1 (0.60%) AWS CodePipeline
14 1 (0.60%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.38%) Firewall
2 16 (9.58%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.40%) DNS
4 3 (1.80%) NAS
4 3 (1.80%) SAN
5 2 (1.20%) Internet
6 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (22.75%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (21.56%) NoSQL
3 15 (8.98%) Oracle Database
4 13 (7.78%) Power BI
5 10 (5.99%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.79%) Apache Hive
6 8 (4.79%) Hadoop
6 8 (4.79%) MySQL
7 7 (4.19%) Data Mining
8 5 (2.99%) Power Query
8 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.40%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.40%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.80%) HBase
10 3 (1.80%) Metadata
10 3 (1.80%) Tableau
11 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.20%) OLTP
11 2 (1.20%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 84 (50.30%) Jenkins
2 49 (29.34%) GitLab
3 29 (17.37%) Git
3 29 (17.37%) Liquibase
4 27 (16.17%) JIRA
5 16 (9.58%) Postman
6 4 (2.40%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.60%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.60%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 69 (41.32%) Finance
2 62 (37.13%) Social Skills
3 47 (28.14%) Banking
4 28 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (14.37%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.20%) Police
7 2 (1.20%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (15.57%) Senior
2 25 (14.97%) Automation Engineer
2 25 (14.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (13.77%) Developer
4 17 (10.18%) Software Engineer
5 16 (9.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (8.98%) Data Engineer
6 15 (8.98%) GCP Engineer
7 12 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (6.59%) Technical Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) Senior Technical Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Data Protection Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Windows Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.79%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Analyst
12 7 (4.19%) AWS Software Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (19.76%) REST
1 33 (19.76%) RESTful
2 32 (19.16%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (11.98%) FastAPI
4 14 (8.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (6.59%) TensorFlow
6 7 (4.19%) Hugging Face
6 7 (4.19%) OpenCV
6 7 (4.19%) PyTorch
6 7 (4.19%) Regular Expression
6 7 (4.19%) SpaCy
7 6 (3.59%) Middleware
8 4 (2.40%) NumPy
8 4 (2.40%) Pandas
9 3 (1.80%) .NET
9 3 (1.80%) Anaconda
9 3 (1.80%) CSS
9 3 (1.80%) HTML
9 3 (1.80%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (1.20%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.56%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (17.37%) Cloud Native
2 29 (17.37%) Public Cloud
3 13 (7.78%) Product Ownership
4 12 (7.19%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.80%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.20%) Clustering
8 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.20%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 58 (34.73%) Linux
2 14 (8.38%) Windows
3 7 (4.19%) Unix
4 6 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.40%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.80%) AIX
6 3 (1.80%) Solaris
6 3 (1.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (1.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.60%) CentOS
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.60%) SUSE
8 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (66.47%) DevOps
2 87 (52.10%) Agile
3 76 (45.51%) CI/CD
4 53 (31.74%) Containerisation
5 42 (25.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (21.56%) Microservices
8 35 (20.96%) Computer Science
9 34 (20.36%) Cybersecurity
10 33 (19.76%) Root Cause Analysis
11 32 (19.16%) Software Engineering
12 31 (18.56%) Configuration Management
12 31 (18.56%) Data Security
13 30 (17.96%) Infrastructure Automation
14 27 (16.17%) Change Management
14 27 (16.17%) Cryptography
15 26 (15.57%) Test Automation
16 25 (14.97%) Continuous Delivery
16 25 (14.97%) Continuous Integration
16 25 (14.97%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.75%) Go
2 32 (19.16%) Shell Script
3 25 (14.97%) Java
3 25 (14.97%) SQL
4 24 (14.37%) Bash
5 8 (4.79%) Scala
6 7 (4.19%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.59%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.40%) Perl
8 4 (2.40%) VBA
9 3 (1.80%) C#
9 3 (1.80%) Groovy
9 3 (1.80%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (22.16%) Degree
2 33 (19.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (17.96%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.59%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.99%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.20%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.60%) PMO
2 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (26.35%) Docker
2 19 (11.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.99%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (5.39%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (2.40%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.40%) vSphere
7 3 (1.80%) Active Directory
7 3 (1.80%) HDFS
8 1 (0.60%) KVM
Systems Management
1 94 (56.29%) Ansible
2 62 (37.13%) Kubernetes
3 48 (28.74%) Terraform
4 45 (26.95%) Grafana
5 44 (26.35%) Prometheus
6 23 (13.77%) Puppet
7 13 (7.78%) NetBackup
8 10 (5.99%) Control-M
8 10 (5.99%) Data Guard
8 10 (5.99%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (5.99%) Nessus
8 10 (5.99%) yum
9 7 (4.19%) SCCM
10 4 (2.40%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.80%) Hadoop YARN
11 3 (1.80%) vRealize
12 2 (1.20%) Argo
13 1 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 39 (23.35%) Splunk
2 31 (18.56%) Microsoft
3 25 (14.97%) VMware
4 23 (13.77%) Google
5 19 (11.38%) Red Hat
6 16 (9.58%) MuleSoft
6 16 (9.58%) Oracle
7 14 (8.38%) Commvault
8 10 (5.99%) Tenable
9 9 (5.39%) Veritas
10 6 (3.59%) Databricks
11 4 (2.40%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.80%) F5
13 2 (1.20%) Delphix
13 2 (1.20%) SAP
14 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
14 1 (0.60%) Cognos
14 1 (0.60%) EMC
14 1 (0.60%) Pure Storage
14 1 (0.60%) Sybase