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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 219 121 84
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 20.92% 22.08% 19.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.44% 57.62% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 83 54
10th Percentile £375 £353 £425
25th Percentile £425 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -6.73% -20.00%
75th Percentile £553 £566 £616
90th Percentile £616 £623 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £520
% change year-on-year +3.09% -6.73% -20.00%

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 395 210 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 37.73% 38.32% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 144 96
10th Percentile £363 £340 £400
25th Percentile £413 £382 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% -10.67% -13.33%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £591
90th Percentile £625 £613 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -9.57%

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 31 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 19 (8.68%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.39%) Confluence
3 3 (1.37%) SAS
4 2 (0.91%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.46%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.29%) GCP
2 41 (18.72%) Azure
3 39 (17.81%) OpenShift
4 36 (16.44%) GitHub
5 31 (14.16%) AWS
6 15 (6.85%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.20%) OCI
9 6 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.74%) CloudBees
9 6 (2.74%) Slack
10 5 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.83%) Datadog
11 4 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.37%) Azure Storage
13 2 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.91%) IaaS
13 2 (0.91%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.05%) DNS
2 11 (5.02%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.57%) BIG-IP
4 9 (4.11%) DHCP
5 8 (3.65%) Network Security
5 8 (3.65%) SAN
6 6 (2.74%) Firewall
7 4 (1.83%) iSCSI
7 4 (1.83%) NAS
8 3 (1.37%) HTTP
9 2 (0.91%) VSAN
10 1 (0.46%) BGP
10 1 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.46%) DWDM
10 1 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.46%) Internet
10 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.46%) LAN
10 1 (0.46%) VPN
10 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
1 15 (6.85%) Power BI
2 12 (5.48%) Hadoop
3 11 (5.02%) Metadata
3 11 (5.02%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.02%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.65%) Big Data
5 7 (3.20%) Tableau
6 6 (2.74%) Neo4j
6 6 (2.74%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.37%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.91%) Parquet
10 1 (0.46%) Apache Arrow
10 1 (0.46%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.46%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.46%) Trino
Development Applications
1 65 (29.68%) Jenkins
2 48 (21.92%) JIRA
3 14 (6.39%) Git
4 11 (5.02%) GitLab
5 8 (3.65%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.20%) Maven
7 5 (2.28%) JMeter
7 5 (2.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.28%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.83%) Gatling
8 4 (1.83%) MSBuild
8 4 (1.83%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.83%) Postman
8 4 (1.83%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.37%) Selenium
10 2 (0.91%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.91%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.91%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 61 (27.85%) Finance
2 59 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 49 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (14.16%) Banking
5 10 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.20%) Publishing
7 4 (1.83%) Advertising
7 4 (1.83%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Law
9 2 (0.91%) Marketing
10 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Retail
10 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (15.98%) Developer
2 34 (15.53%) Python Developer
3 33 (15.07%) Lead
4 27 (12.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (8.22%) Architect
6 16 (7.31%) Data Engineer
7 15 (6.85%) Analyst
7 15 (6.85%) Python Engineer
8 12 (5.48%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.02%) Senior
10 9 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) Consultant
12 7 (3.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (2.74%) DevOps Developer
13 6 (2.74%) Lead DevOps
13 6 (2.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.16%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (10.50%) REST
3 22 (10.05%) JSON
4 20 (9.13%) Node.js
5 18 (8.22%) FastAPI
6 11 (5.02%) Kafka
6 11 (5.02%) YAML
7 8 (3.65%) Apache Avro
7 8 (3.65%) Protocol Buffers
8 7 (3.20%) pytest
8 7 (3.20%) React
8 7 (3.20%) SLSA
9 6 (2.74%) PySpark
9 6 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.83%) .NET
11 3 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.37%) LDAP
11 3 (1.37%) OpenID
12 2 (0.91%) Playwright
12 2 (0.91%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.26%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.05%) Data Protection Act
3 16 (7.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.20%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.74%) Blog
6 6 (2.74%) EMC VMAX
6 6 (2.74%) PKI
6 6 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.28%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.83%) Replication
9 3 (1.37%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.91%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 35 (15.98%) Linux
2 17 (7.76%) Windows
3 7 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.83%) Unix
5 4 (1.83%) VMS
6 3 (1.37%) zOS
7 2 (0.91%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.91%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (51.14%) CI/CD
2 94 (42.92%) DevOps
3 69 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (23.29%) Agile
5 50 (22.83%) Observability
6 45 (20.55%) Containerisation
7 39 (17.81%) Analytics
8 35 (15.98%) Test Automation
9 32 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (14.16%) AI
11 30 (13.70%) Data Engineering
12 28 (12.79%) Data Protection
12 28 (12.79%) Migration
13 26 (11.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 25 (11.42%) API Development
14 25 (11.42%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (11.42%) RBAC
15 24 (10.96%) Cybersecurity
15 24 (10.96%) Platform Engineering
15 24 (10.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.35%) Bash
2 32 (14.61%) SQL
3 27 (12.33%) Java
4 22 (10.05%) Go
4 22 (10.05%) PowerShell
5 12 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.11%) Groovy
7 8 (3.65%) R
7 8 (3.65%) VBA
8 7 (3.20%) Rust
9 6 (2.74%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.83%) C#
11 3 (1.37%) Bicep
11 3 (1.37%) Cypher
12 2 (0.91%) JCL
12 2 (0.91%) Perl
12 2 (0.91%) REXX
12 2 (0.91%) Scala
12 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (2.74%) Degree
1 6 (2.74%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.83%) CISSP
3 4 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (1.37%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.37%) OCP
4 3 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.91%) CISM
5 2 (0.91%) GIAC
5 2 (0.91%) NCDA
5 2 (0.91%) NCIE
5 2 (0.91%) RHCA
6 1 (0.46%) CCNP
6 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.46%) GSEC
6 1 (0.46%) RHCE
6 1 (0.46%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.28%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.28%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.83%) NIST
3 3 (1.37%) QA
4 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (14.61%) Docker
2 22 (10.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (7.76%) vSphere
4 11 (5.02%) VMware NSX
5 8 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.28%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.83%) KVM
7 4 (1.83%) NFS
7 4 (1.83%) SRDF
8 3 (1.37%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.91%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.91%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.46%) Ceph
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 77 (35.16%) Kubernetes
2 75 (34.25%) Ansible
3 52 (23.74%) Terraform
4 40 (18.26%) Grafana
5 34 (15.53%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.68%) Argo
7 16 (7.31%) vCenter Server
8 12 (5.48%) Control-M
9 11 (5.02%) IBM Guardium
9 11 (5.02%) Nessus
10 8 (3.65%) NetBackup
10 8 (3.65%) Puppet
11 4 (1.83%) Kustomize
12 3 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (1.37%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.91%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.91%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.91%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 33 (15.07%) Splunk
2 25 (11.42%) VMware
3 24 (10.96%) Microsoft
4 22 (10.05%) Red Hat
5 18 (8.22%) Google
6 16 (7.31%) Pure Storage
7 12 (5.48%) Databricks
7 12 (5.48%) F5
8 11 (5.02%) Tenable
9 9 (4.11%) Infoblox
10 8 (3.65%) Cisco
10 8 (3.65%) Dell
11 7 (3.20%) ServiceNow
11 7 (3.20%) Sonatype
12 6 (2.74%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.74%) Commvault
12 6 (2.74%) Veritas
13 5 (2.28%) Brocade
14 4 (1.83%) EMC
14 4 (1.83%) HP