Python Contracts in Sheffield

Python
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Python 83 90 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.65% 20.83% 10.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.90% 58.44% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 46 31
10th Percentile £351 £425 £500
25th Percentile £385 £460 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -22.00% +18.18%
75th Percentile £568 £578 £700
90th Percentile £635 £638 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £507 £650
% change year-on-year -2.80% -22.00% +18.18%

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 154 154 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 34.61% 35.65% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 90 80
10th Percentile £353 £400 £410
25th Percentile £400 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -14.83% +19.52%
75th Percentile £581 £580 £700
90th Percentile £650 £638 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -2.91% -14.17% +20.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Sheffield

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Python in Sheffield

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Sheffield over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Sheffield

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Sheffield

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.43%) Apache
1 7 (8.43%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) Maple
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.48%) GCP
2 13 (15.66%) GitHub
3 12 (14.46%) AWS
3 12 (14.46%) Azure
4 7 (8.43%) OCI
5 6 (7.23%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.02%) CloudBees
7 4 (4.82%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.82%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.41%) Serverless
8 2 (2.41%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.20%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.69%) TCP/IP
2 17 (20.48%) Firewall
3 9 (10.84%) DNS
4 6 (7.23%) SAN
5 4 (4.82%) NAS
5 4 (4.82%) Network Security
6 3 (3.61%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.61%) DWDM
6 3 (3.61%) LAN
6 3 (3.61%) VPN
6 3 (3.61%) WAN
7 2 (2.41%) DHCP
7 2 (2.41%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.20%) BGP
8 1 (1.20%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.20%) OSPF
8 1 (1.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) Oracle Database
2 5 (6.02%) BigQuery
2 5 (6.02%) Flink
2 5 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.82%) MySQL
3 4 (4.82%) Power BI
4 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.61%) Tableau
5 2 (2.41%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.20%) Looker
6 1 (1.20%) Metadata
6 1 (1.20%) Power Query
6 1 (1.20%) QlikView
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (48.19%) Jenkins
2 25 (30.12%) Git
3 14 (16.87%) Postman
4 8 (9.64%) GitLab
4 8 (9.64%) JIRA
5 7 (8.43%) Cucumber
5 7 (8.43%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.61%) Vagrant
7 2 (2.41%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.41%) Selenium
7 2 (2.41%) TestNG
8 1 (1.20%) ScriptRunner
General
1 37 (44.58%) Finance
2 34 (40.96%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.46%) Banking
4 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.84%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (16.87%) Automation Engineer
2 11 (13.25%) Senior
3 10 (12.05%) Data Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) Developer
4 9 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Technical Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Windows Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Data Protection Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Windows Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Consultant
9 3 (3.61%) Lead
9 3 (3.61%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.43%) Gherkin
2 6 (7.23%) Middleware
2 6 (7.23%) REST
2 6 (7.23%) RESTful
3 4 (4.82%) PySpark
3 4 (4.82%) React
4 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.61%) CSS
4 3 (3.61%) HTML
5 2 (2.41%) .NET
5 2 (2.41%) Anaconda
5 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.41%) Kafka
5 2 (2.41%) OpenCV
5 2 (2.41%) Pandas
5 2 (2.41%) pytest
5 2 (2.41%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.41%) Regular Expression
5 2 (2.41%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.41%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.30%) Linux
2 13 (15.66%) Windows
3 9 (10.84%) Unix
4 8 (9.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.82%) AIX
6 4 (4.82%) Solaris
7 3 (3.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.20%) CentOS
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.20%) SUSE
8 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.99%) Agile
2 35 (42.17%) DevOps
3 34 (40.96%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (32.53%) CI/CD
5 17 (20.48%) Data Management
6 16 (19.28%) Configuration Management
7 14 (16.87%) Containerisation
7 14 (16.87%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (14.46%) Data Protection
9 11 (13.25%) Change Management
9 11 (13.25%) Computer Science
9 11 (13.25%) Migration
10 10 (12.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (10.84%) ETL
12 8 (9.64%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (9.64%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (9.64%) Problem Management
12 8 (9.64%) Scrum
12 8 (9.64%) Software Engineering
12 8 (9.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.10%) Shell Script
2 12 (14.46%) PowerShell
3 11 (13.25%) SQL
4 10 (12.05%) Java
4 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.23%) Kotlin
6 5 (6.02%) Bash
6 5 (6.02%) Ruby
7 4 (4.82%) Groovy
8 2 (2.41%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.41%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (2.41%) Go
8 2 (2.41%) PHP
9 1 (1.20%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.20%) Korn
9 1 (1.20%) Perl
9 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (13.25%) Degree
2 5 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.41%) CCNA
4 2 (2.41%) CCNP
4 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.41%) IBM Certification
4 2 (2.41%) JNCIA
4 2 (2.41%) JNCIS
4 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.41%) OCP
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.20%) CISM
5 1 (1.20%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.41%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) NIST
3 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (25.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (21.69%) Docker
3 8 (9.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 7 (8.43%) vSphere
5 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
6 4 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.82%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.61%) VirtualBox
8 2 (2.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 49 (59.04%) Ansible
2 24 (28.92%) Kubernetes
3 23 (27.71%) Puppet
4 13 (15.66%) Terraform
5 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (7.23%) vRealize
7 5 (6.02%) SCCM
8 4 (4.82%) Grafana
8 4 (4.82%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
8 4 (4.82%) vCenter Server
9 2 (2.41%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.20%) Nagios
10 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 23 (27.71%) VMware
2 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
3 14 (16.87%) MuleSoft
4 11 (13.25%) Oracle
5 10 (12.05%) Google
6 7 (8.43%) Commvault
6 7 (8.43%) Red Hat
7 6 (7.23%) Cisco
7 6 (7.23%) Databricks
7 6 (7.23%) Splunk
8 3 (3.61%) Arista
9 2 (2.41%) 3PAR
9 2 (2.41%) Brocade
9 2 (2.41%) EMC
9 2 (2.41%) HP
9 2 (2.41%) IBM
9 2 (2.41%) IBM Sterling
9 2 (2.41%) Infoblox
9 2 (2.41%) Veritas
10 1 (1.20%) MicroStrategy