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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 247 96 83
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 23.30% 20.13% 19.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.66% 58.54% 56.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 67 50
10th Percentile £367 £348 £425
25th Percentile £424 £385 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £507
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -8.09% -22.00%
75th Percentile £552 £547 £580
90th Percentile £616 £618 £646
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.31% -22.00%

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 414 164 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 39.06% 34.38% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 111 92
10th Percentile £366 £350 £401
25th Percentile £421 £395 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £507
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -4.34% -15.50%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £579
90th Percentile £625 £625 £644
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.15% -12.09%

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 16 July 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 20 (8.10%) Apache Spark
2 15 (6.07%) Confluence
3 5 (2.02%) SAS
4 2 (0.81%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 54 (21.86%) GCP
2 49 (19.84%) OpenShift
3 41 (16.60%) GitHub
4 38 (15.38%) Azure
5 29 (11.74%) AWS
6 14 (5.67%) Power Platform
7 11 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.83%) OCI
11 6 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (2.43%) CloudBees
11 6 (2.43%) Slack
12 5 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.62%) Azure Storage
14 3 (1.21%) Datadog
14 3 (1.21%) IaaS
14 3 (1.21%) Nutanix
14 3 (1.21%) Serverless
15 2 (0.81%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.12%) DNS
2 13 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.05%) BIG-IP
3 10 (4.05%) SAN
4 9 (3.64%) DHCP
4 9 (3.64%) Network Security
5 7 (2.83%) Firewall
5 7 (2.83%) NAS
6 4 (1.62%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.21%) HTTP
8 2 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.81%) DWDM
8 2 (0.81%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.81%) LAN
8 2 (0.81%) VPN
8 2 (0.81%) VSAN
8 2 (0.81%) WAN
9 1 (0.40%) BGP
9 1 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.67%) Power BI
3 13 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 12 (4.86%) Metadata
4 12 (4.86%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.86%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.24%) Big Data
6 7 (2.83%) Tableau
7 6 (2.43%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.02%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.02%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.21%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.81%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.81%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.81%) Parquet
12 1 (0.40%) Apache Arrow
12 1 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.40%) Trino
Development Applications
1 76 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 53 (21.46%) JIRA
3 16 (6.48%) Git
4 12 (4.86%) GitLab
5 9 (3.64%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.24%) Maven
7 6 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.02%) Postman
8 5 (2.02%) Zephyr
9 4 (1.62%) MSBuild
9 4 (1.62%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.21%) JMeter
10 3 (1.21%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.21%) Selenium
11 2 (0.81%) Gatling
11 2 (0.81%) NeoLoad
11 2 (0.81%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.40%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 67 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.91%) Finance
3 55 (22.27%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.96%) Banking
5 12 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.83%) Publishing
7 4 (1.62%) Advertising
7 4 (1.62%) Marketing
7 4 (1.62%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Legal
10 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.40%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Retail
10 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (16.60%) Developer
2 38 (15.38%) Python Developer
3 35 (14.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (13.77%) Lead
5 21 (8.50%) Architect
6 19 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 17 (6.88%) Analyst
8 14 (5.67%) Python Engineer
9 13 (5.26%) Data Analyst
10 12 (4.86%) Senior
11 9 (3.64%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (3.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (3.24%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.24%) GCP DevOps
12 8 (3.24%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.83%) Consultant
14 6 (2.43%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (2.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 6 (2.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.60%) OpenTelemetry
2 24 (9.72%) JSON
2 24 (9.72%) Node.js
3 23 (9.31%) REST
4 22 (8.91%) FastAPI
5 16 (6.48%) YAML
6 11 (4.45%) Kafka
7 9 (3.64%) Apache Avro
7 9 (3.64%) Protocol Buffers
8 8 (3.24%) SLSA
9 7 (2.83%) PySpark
9 7 (2.83%) pytest
9 7 (2.83%) React
10 5 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.62%) .NET
11 4 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.62%) LDAP
11 4 (1.62%) OpenID
12 3 (1.21%) Playwright
12 3 (1.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.93%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (7.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.64%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.43%) Blog
7 6 (2.43%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.43%) PKI
7 6 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.43%) Replication
7 6 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.62%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.21%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.81%) EMC VNX
11 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.19%) Linux
2 20 (8.10%) Windows
3 10 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.02%) VMS
6 4 (1.62%) Unix
7 3 (1.21%) zOS
8 2 (0.81%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.81%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.40%) CentOS
9 1 (0.40%) Solaris
9 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 106 (42.91%) DevOps
3 76 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (23.48%) Agile
5 56 (22.67%) Containerisation
5 56 (22.67%) Observability
6 42 (17.00%) Analytics
7 39 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (15.38%) Test Automation
9 36 (14.57%) RBAC
10 35 (14.17%) Migration
11 33 (13.36%) Data Protection
12 31 (12.55%) API Development
13 28 (11.34%) AI
13 28 (11.34%) Data Engineering
14 27 (10.93%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (10.93%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (10.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (10.53%) Validation
16 24 (9.72%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 42 (17.00%) Bash
2 33 (13.36%) SQL
3 27 (10.93%) Java
4 26 (10.53%) Go
5 25 (10.12%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.86%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.05%) Groovy
8 9 (3.64%) VBA
9 8 (3.24%) R
10 7 (2.83%) Rust
11 6 (2.43%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.62%) Bicep
13 3 (1.21%) C#
13 3 (1.21%) Perl
13 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.81%) Cypher
14 2 (0.81%) JCL
14 2 (0.81%) REXX
14 2 (0.81%) Ruby
14 2 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (2.83%) Degree
2 6 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (2.43%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.02%) CISSP
4 4 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.21%) CISM
5 3 (1.21%) OCP
5 3 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.81%) CCNA
6 2 (0.81%) CCNP
6 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.81%) GIAC
6 2 (0.81%) JNCIA
6 2 (0.81%) JNCIS
6 2 (0.81%) NCDA
6 2 (0.81%) NCIE
6 2 (0.81%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.02%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.02%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.62%) NIST
3 3 (1.21%) QA
4 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (15.38%) Docker
2 24 (9.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.10%) vSphere
4 13 (5.26%) VMware NSX
5 11 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.43%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.02%) KVM
7 5 (2.02%) NFS
8 4 (1.62%) SRDF
9 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.81%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.40%) Ceph
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 89 (36.03%) Ansible
2 87 (35.22%) Kubernetes
3 65 (26.32%) Terraform
4 50 (20.24%) Grafana
5 44 (17.81%) Prometheus
6 21 (8.50%) Argo
7 19 (7.69%) vCenter Server
8 16 (6.48%) Control-M
9 15 (6.07%) IBM Guardium
9 15 (6.07%) Nessus
10 9 (3.64%) Puppet
11 8 (3.24%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.62%) Kustomize
12 4 (1.62%) PowerCLI
13 3 (1.21%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.81%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.81%) SnapMirror
14 2 (0.81%) SnapVault
14 2 (0.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 38 (15.38%) Splunk
2 29 (11.74%) Red Hat
3 28 (11.34%) VMware
4 27 (10.93%) Microsoft
5 19 (7.69%) Google
5 19 (7.69%) Pure Storage
6 15 (6.07%) Tenable
7 12 (4.86%) Databricks
7 12 (4.86%) F5
8 10 (4.05%) Cisco
9 9 (3.64%) Infoblox
10 8 (3.24%) Dell
10 8 (3.24%) Sonatype
11 7 (2.83%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.43%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.43%) Brocade
12 6 (2.43%) Commvault
12 6 (2.43%) Veritas
13 5 (2.02%) EMC
13 5 (2.02%) NetApp