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

 6 months to
7 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 5 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 251 48 40
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 27.11% 19.12% 11.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 67.29% 51.06% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 35 17
10th Percentile £372 £404 £409
25th Percentile £438 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £550 £445
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +23.60% -31.54%
75th Percentile £537 £650 £550
90th Percentile £638 - £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £575 £430
% change year-on-year -15.00% +33.72% -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 373 94 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.28% 37.45% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 69 70
10th Percentile £367 £400 £400
25th Percentile £432 £470 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £569
90th Percentile £646 £650 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £439
% change year-on-year -4.76% +19.66% -25.32%

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 March 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 18 (7.17%) Confluence
2 9 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.20%) SAS
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.59%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.30%) GCP
2 53 (21.12%) OpenShift
3 52 (20.72%) AWS
4 41 (16.33%) GitHub
5 31 (12.35%) Azure
6 23 (9.16%) Serverless
7 11 (4.38%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.98%) AWS KMS
9 9 (3.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (3.19%) CloudBees
11 7 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.39%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.99%) SaaS
14 4 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.59%) Cohesity
15 3 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.20%) Azure Storage
15 3 (1.20%) Cloud Run
15 3 (1.20%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.37%) DNS
2 9 (3.59%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.39%) Firewall
3 6 (2.39%) SAN
4 4 (1.59%) NAS
4 4 (1.59%) Network Security
5 3 (1.20%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.20%) Internet
5 3 (1.20%) iSCSI
5 3 (1.20%) VPN
6 2 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.80%) DHCP
6 2 (0.80%) DWDM
6 2 (0.80%) LAN
6 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.80%) WAN
7 1 (0.40%) BGP
7 1 (0.40%) HTTP
7 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (19.12%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (13.94%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.98%) MySQL
4 12 (4.78%) Hadoop
5 11 (4.38%) Power BI
6 10 (3.98%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.59%) Metadata
8 8 (3.19%) Power Query
8 8 (3.19%) PowerPivot
9 6 (2.39%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.99%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.99%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.59%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.59%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.80%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.80%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 94 (37.45%) Jenkins
2 57 (22.71%) JIRA
3 51 (20.32%) GitLab
4 19 (7.57%) Liquibase
5 17 (6.77%) Postman
6 11 (4.38%) Git
7 8 (3.19%) Selenium
8 6 (2.39%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.39%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.39%) TestRail
9 5 (1.99%) JMeter
9 5 (1.99%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.59%) Gatling
10 4 (1.59%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.59%) Maven
10 4 (1.59%) NeoLoad
10 4 (1.59%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.20%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 84 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 76 (30.28%) Finance
3 58 (23.11%) Banking
4 49 (19.52%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.98%) Financial Institution
6 14 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.59%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.20%) Advertising
8 3 (1.20%) Legal
8 3 (1.20%) Marketing
8 3 (1.20%) Publishing
8 3 (1.20%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (15.94%) Developer
2 35 (13.94%) Lead
3 28 (11.16%) Python Developer
4 27 (10.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (8.37%) GCP Engineer
6 19 (7.57%) Data Engineer
6 19 (7.57%) Senior
7 18 (7.17%) Architect
7 18 (7.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (6.37%) Analyst
9 14 (5.58%) Software Engineer
10 13 (5.18%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.98%) GCP DevOps
12 10 (3.98%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.59%) Automation Test Lead
13 9 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.73%) OpenTelemetry
2 41 (16.33%) REST
3 28 (11.16%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (10.76%) YAML
5 25 (9.96%) RESTful
6 24 (9.56%) FastAPI
7 13 (5.18%) JSON
8 12 (4.78%) OpenID
9 11 (4.38%) Node.js
10 10 (3.98%) LDAP
11 9 (3.59%) Kafka
11 9 (3.59%) Playwright
11 9 (3.59%) SailPoint
12 8 (3.19%) Apache Avro
12 8 (3.19%) Protocol Buffers
12 8 (3.19%) TensorFlow
13 6 (2.39%) .NET
14 5 (1.99%) NumPy
14 5 (1.99%) Pandas
15 4 (1.59%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 31 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (9.56%) Public Cloud
4 17 (6.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (5.18%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (3.98%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.98%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.19%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.79%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.20%) Clustering
11 3 (1.20%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.20%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.20%) PKI
12 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.80%) Replication
12 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (23.11%) Linux
2 14 (5.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 14 (5.58%) Windows
3 8 (3.19%) CentOS
3 8 (3.19%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.79%) Unix
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (61.75%) CI/CD
2 131 (52.19%) DevOps
3 85 (33.86%) Containerisation
4 78 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (29.48%) Agile
6 61 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (19.92%) Test Automation
8 46 (18.33%) Observability
9 42 (16.73%) RBAC
10 39 (15.54%) Root Cause Analysis
11 34 (13.55%) Migration
12 32 (12.75%) Analytics
12 32 (12.75%) Cybersecurity
13 31 (12.35%) High Availability
14 29 (11.55%) Change Management
14 29 (11.55%) Computer Science
14 29 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (11.16%) API Development
15 28 (11.16%) Continuous Integration
15 28 (11.16%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 48 (19.12%) Bash
2 41 (16.33%) SQL
3 37 (14.74%) Java
4 35 (13.94%) Go
5 13 (5.18%) Scala
5 13 (5.18%) Shell Script
6 12 (4.78%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.38%) Perl
7 11 (4.38%) VBA
8 10 (3.98%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.98%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.59%) Ruby
10 8 (3.19%) Groovy
11 6 (2.39%) PHP
12 4 (1.59%) Cypher
13 3 (1.20%) Bicep
14 1 (0.40%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.40%) C
14 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 32 (12.75%) Degree
2 25 (9.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (8.37%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.59%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.19%) RHCE
6 5 (1.99%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.99%) CISM
6 5 (1.99%) CISSP
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.80%) CCNA
8 2 (0.80%) CCNP
8 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.80%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.80%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.80%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.40%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.38%) QA
2 4 (1.59%) 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 56 (22.31%) Docker
2 15 (5.98%) vSphere
3 14 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.98%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.39%) KVM
6 4 (1.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.80%) SRDF
8 1 (0.40%) NFS
Systems Management
1 111 (44.22%) Ansible
2 104 (41.43%) Kubernetes
3 79 (31.47%) Terraform
4 67 (26.69%) Grafana
5 64 (25.50%) Prometheus
6 21 (8.37%) Puppet
7 20 (7.97%) Control-M
7 20 (7.97%) IBM Guardium
7 20 (7.97%) Nessus
8 14 (5.58%) vCenter Server
9 12 (4.78%) NetBackup
10 11 (4.38%) Argo
11 4 (1.59%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
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
14 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 56 (22.31%) Splunk
2 45 (17.93%) Red Hat
3 23 (9.16%) Google
4 21 (8.37%) Microsoft
5 20 (7.97%) Tenable
5 20 (7.97%) VMware
6 16 (6.37%) ServiceNow
7 13 (5.18%) Pure Storage
8 11 (4.38%) Commvault
9 8 (3.19%) Veritas
10 6 (2.39%) Cisco
10 6 (2.39%) Oracle
11 5 (1.99%) F5
12 4 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.59%) Okta
12 4 (1.59%) Sonatype
13 3 (1.20%) Alibaba
13 3 (1.20%) Broadcom
13 3 (1.20%) HP
13 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
64 Python jobs in Sheffield