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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +19
Contract jobs citing Python 199 138 72
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 18.60% 24.56% 17.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.64% 56.10% 51.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 99 49
10th Percentile £400 £384 £453
25th Percentile £436 £443 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -9.36%
75th Percentile £577 £558 £622
90th Percentile £669 £655 £660
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 393 246 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.73% 43.77% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 175 95
10th Percentile £382 £325 £385
25th Percentile £438 £400 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -8.00% -10.63%
75th Percentile £570 £547 £592
90th Percentile £669 £650 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £534
% change year-on-year +4.17% -10.11% -9.10%

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 30 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 12 (6.03%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.02%) Confluence
3 5 (2.51%) Apache
4 4 (2.01%) SAS
5 3 (1.51%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.01%) nginx
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.50%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 78 (39.20%) GCP
2 60 (30.15%) Azure
3 43 (21.61%) AWS
4 22 (11.06%) GitHub
5 18 (9.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 14 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.53%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.03%) Cloud Run
8 10 (5.03%) Entra ID
9 9 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.52%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.52%) Datadog
11 6 (3.02%) Serverless
11 6 (3.02%) Slack
12 5 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.01%) Azure Databricks
13 4 (2.01%) Azure Storage
13 4 (2.01%) Kong
13 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.54%) Network Security
2 15 (7.54%) DNS
3 9 (4.52%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.52%) BIG-IP
4 7 (3.52%) DHCP
4 7 (3.52%) Firewall
5 5 (2.51%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.51%) HTTP
6 3 (1.51%) NAS
6 3 (1.51%) SAN
6 3 (1.51%) VPN
7 2 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.01%) Internet
7 2 (1.01%) VSAN
7 2 (1.01%) WAN
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.50%) Modbus
8 1 (0.50%) NaaS
8 1 (0.50%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.04%) Metadata
2 13 (6.53%) Power BI
3 12 (6.03%) Big Data
4 11 (5.53%) BigQuery
5 9 (4.52%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.52%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.52%) Neo4j
7 7 (3.52%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.02%) Tableau
9 5 (2.51%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.51%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.01%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.50%) Parquet
12 1 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 39 (19.60%) Jenkins
2 35 (17.59%) JIRA
3 18 (9.05%) Git
4 9 (4.52%) Maven
5 8 (4.02%) GitLab
5 8 (4.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.52%) Claude Code
6 7 (3.52%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.52%) Zephyr
7 6 (3.02%) Gatling
7 6 (3.02%) JMeter
7 6 (3.02%) NeoLoad
8 4 (2.01%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.01%) MSBuild
8 4 (2.01%) Postman
8 4 (2.01%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.01%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.50%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 66 (33.17%) Finance
2 52 (26.13%) Social Skills
3 38 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.08%) Banking
5 7 (3.52%) Publishing
6 5 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.01%) Law
8 3 (1.51%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.51%) Marketing
9 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Advertising
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (12.56%) Developer
1 25 (12.56%) DevOps Engineer
1 25 (12.56%) Lead
2 19 (9.55%) Python Developer
3 18 (9.05%) Senior
4 15 (7.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 14 (7.04%) Analyst
6 11 (5.53%) Data Analyst
6 11 (5.53%) Python Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) Architect
8 9 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (4.52%) Data Engineer
8 9 (4.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 9 (4.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) GCP Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (31.66%) Terraform
2 24 (12.06%) Node.js
3 23 (11.56%) REST
4 16 (8.04%) React
5 14 (7.04%) OpenID
6 13 (6.53%) JSON
7 12 (6.03%) OAuth
7 12 (6.03%) OAuth2
8 10 (5.03%) FastAPI
8 10 (5.03%) Kafka
9 9 (4.52%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (4.52%) pytest
9 9 (4.52%) SAML
10 7 (3.52%) .NET
10 7 (3.52%) JWT
10 7 (3.52%) YAML
11 6 (3.02%) LDAP
11 6 (3.02%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.51%) PySpark
12 5 (2.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.62%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.05%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.03%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.02%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.02%) PKI
6 6 (3.02%) Blog
6 6 (3.02%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.02%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.51%) Replication
8 4 (2.01%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.51%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.58%) Linux
2 10 (5.03%) Unix
2 10 (5.03%) Windows
3 6 (3.02%) VMS
3 6 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.51%) zOS
5 2 (1.01%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.01%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (55.28%) CI/CD
2 89 (44.72%) DevOps
3 67 (33.67%) Observability
4 53 (26.63%) Agile
5 47 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (22.11%) AI
6 44 (22.11%) Software Engineering
7 39 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (17.09%) Analytics
8 34 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (16.58%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (16.58%) DevSecOps
9 33 (16.58%) Platform Engineering
10 31 (15.58%) Data Engineering
11 30 (15.08%) Containerisation
12 29 (14.57%) Identity Access Management
13 27 (13.57%) LLM
14 26 (13.07%) Cloud Security
14 26 (13.07%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (13.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.62%) Java
2 40 (20.10%) SQL
3 33 (16.58%) Bash
4 32 (16.08%) PowerShell
5 30 (15.08%) Go
6 12 (6.03%) C#
7 11 (5.53%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.52%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.52%) Rust
10 6 (3.02%) Groovy
10 6 (3.02%) R
10 6 (3.02%) VBA
11 5 (2.51%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.01%) Bicep
12 4 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.01%) Scala
13 3 (1.51%) Cypher
14 2 (1.01%) JCL
14 2 (1.01%) Perl
14 2 (1.01%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (4.52%) Degree
2 5 (2.51%) CISSP
3 4 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.01%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.51%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.51%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.01%) CCNP
5 2 (1.01%) CCSP
5 2 (1.01%) CISM
5 2 (1.01%) GIAC
5 2 (1.01%) NCDA
5 2 (1.01%) NCIE
5 2 (1.01%) RHCA
5 2 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.50%) CCIE
6 1 (0.50%) CCNA
6 1 (0.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.52%) NIST
3 6 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.02%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.51%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.51%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.51%) QA
6 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (13.07%) Docker
2 9 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.01%) NFS
6 2 (1.01%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.01%) SRDF
6 2 (1.01%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.01%) vSphere
7 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.50%) Ceph
7 1 (0.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 67 (33.67%) Kubernetes
2 43 (21.61%) Ansible
3 26 (13.07%) Grafana
4 24 (12.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.02%) Argo
5 8 (4.02%) Control-M
6 7 (3.52%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (3.52%) Nessus
7 5 (2.51%) Kustomize
8 4 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.51%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.01%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.01%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.01%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.01%) SnapVault
10 2 (1.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 39 (19.60%) Google
2 33 (16.58%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.04%) Databricks
4 12 (6.03%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.03%) Splunk
5 7 (3.52%) AppDynamics
5 7 (3.52%) Cisco
5 7 (3.52%) F5
5 7 (3.52%) Infoblox
5 7 (3.52%) Okta
5 7 (3.52%) Tenable
5 7 (3.52%) VMware
6 6 (3.02%) Oracle
6 6 (3.02%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.51%) Brocade
7 5 (2.51%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.01%) Dell
8 4 (2.01%) Ping Identity
8 4 (2.01%) Sonatype
9 3 (1.51%) EMC