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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Python 267 70 79
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.88% 20.17% 20.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.68% 54.26% 52.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 48 43
10th Percentile £375 £351 £425
25th Percentile £425 £387 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £496 £507
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -2.09% -27.57%
75th Percentile £537 £581 £594
90th Percentile £600 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -3.80% -0.50% -28.21%

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 426 129 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 39.70% 37.18% 39.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 90 96
10th Percentile £367 £352 £400
25th Percentile £425 £400 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £575
90th Percentile £615 £650 £624
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +7.63% -20.83%

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 28 May 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 (6.74%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.24%) Confluence
3 3 (1.12%) SAS
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.37%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.60%) OpenShift
2 51 (19.10%) GCP
3 43 (16.10%) Azure
4 40 (14.98%) GitHub
5 39 (14.61%) AWS
6 14 (5.24%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.25%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.25%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.25%) Slack
11 5 (1.87%) Azure Storage
11 5 (1.87%) OCI
11 5 (1.87%) SaaS
12 4 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.50%) Serverless
13 3 (1.12%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.74%) DNS
2 16 (5.99%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.75%) BIG-IP
3 10 (3.75%) SAN
4 9 (3.37%) DHCP
5 7 (2.62%) Firewall
5 7 (2.62%) NAS
6 5 (1.87%) Network Security
7 4 (1.50%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.12%) HTTP
8 3 (1.12%) VPN
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.75%) DWDM
9 2 (0.75%) LAN
9 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.75%) VSAN
9 2 (0.75%) WAN
10 1 (0.37%) BGP
10 1 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.24%) Power BI
3 13 (4.87%) Hadoop
3 13 (4.87%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.37%) Metadata
6 7 (2.62%) Big Data
6 7 (2.62%) MySQL
6 7 (2.62%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.62%) Tableau
7 4 (1.50%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.50%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.12%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.75%) Parquet
9 2 (0.75%) Power Query
9 2 (0.75%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 79 (29.59%) Jenkins
2 55 (20.60%) JIRA
3 25 (9.36%) GitLab
4 17 (6.37%) Postman
5 13 (4.87%) Git
6 9 (3.37%) Selenium
7 6 (2.25%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.25%) Maven
7 6 (2.25%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.25%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.25%) TestRail
8 5 (1.87%) JMeter
9 4 (1.50%) Gatling
9 4 (1.50%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.50%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.12%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.12%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.75%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.37%) Travis CI
General
1 78 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 62 (23.22%) Finance
3 55 (20.60%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.99%) Banking
5 17 (6.37%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.87%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.87%) Publishing
7 4 (1.50%) Advertising
8 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.12%) Law
8 3 (1.12%) Legal
8 3 (1.12%) Marketing
9 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (16.85%) Lead
2 40 (14.98%) Developer
3 33 (12.36%) Python Developer
4 30 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (10.86%) Architect
6 18 (6.74%) Data Engineer
7 17 (6.37%) Analyst
8 12 (4.49%) Data Analyst
8 12 (4.49%) Python Engineer
8 12 (4.49%) Senior
9 11 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Automation Test Lead
10 9 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (3.00%) GCP DevOps
11 8 (3.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.00%) Test Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.00%) Test Engineer
12 7 (2.62%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.98%) OpenTelemetry
2 32 (11.99%) YAML
3 27 (10.11%) REST
4 24 (8.99%) Node.js
5 23 (8.61%) JSON
6 20 (7.49%) FastAPI
7 12 (4.49%) OpenID
8 11 (4.12%) Kafka
9 10 (3.75%) LDAP
10 9 (3.37%) Apache Avro
10 9 (3.37%) Playwright
10 9 (3.37%) Protocol Buffers
10 9 (3.37%) SailPoint
11 8 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (2.25%) .NET
12 6 (2.25%) PySpark
12 6 (2.25%) SLSA
13 5 (1.87%) RESTful
14 4 (1.50%) React
15 3 (1.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.99%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.49%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.25%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (1.87%) PKI
8 5 (1.87%) Replication
9 4 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.12%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.75%) CMDB
11 2 (0.75%) EMC VNX
11 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 50 (18.73%) Linux
2 21 (7.87%) Windows
3 17 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.00%) CentOS
4 8 (3.00%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.50%) Unix
7 3 (1.12%) zOS
8 2 (0.75%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (55.43%) CI/CD
2 122 (45.69%) DevOps
3 88 (32.96%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (25.09%) Containerisation
5 55 (20.60%) Agile
6 54 (20.22%) RBAC
7 51 (19.10%) Observability
8 46 (17.23%) Test Automation
9 45 (16.85%) Migration
10 42 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (14.23%) Analytics
12 31 (11.61%) Data Protection
12 31 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (11.24%) AI
13 30 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (10.49%) API Development
14 28 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (10.49%) Validation
15 27 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 26 (9.74%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 53 (19.85%) Bash
2 48 (17.98%) Java
3 37 (13.86%) SQL
4 22 (8.24%) Go
5 19 (7.12%) PowerShell
6 18 (6.74%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.12%) VBA
8 10 (3.75%) Groovy
8 10 (3.75%) Scala
9 9 (3.37%) Perl
9 9 (3.37%) Ruby
9 9 (3.37%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.00%) R
11 7 (2.62%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.25%) PHP
13 4 (1.50%) Cypher
13 4 (1.50%) Rust
14 3 (1.12%) Bicep
15 2 (0.75%) JCL
15 2 (0.75%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (3.37%) RHCE
2 6 (2.25%) Degree
2 6 (2.25%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.87%) CISM
3 5 (1.87%) CISSP
3 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.12%) OCP
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.75%) CCNA
6 2 (0.75%) CCNP
6 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.75%) JNCIA
6 2 (0.75%) JNCIS
6 2 (0.75%) NCDA
6 2 (0.75%) NCIE
6 2 (0.75%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.49%) QA
2 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.50%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.50%) NIST
4 3 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.12%) SLA
4 3 (1.12%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (14.61%) Docker
2 24 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.49%) vSphere
4 13 (4.87%) VMware NSX
5 12 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.25%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.87%) KVM
7 5 (1.87%) NFS
8 4 (1.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (1.50%) SRDF
9 2 (0.75%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.75%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
10 1 (0.37%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 112 (41.95%) Ansible
2 93 (34.83%) Kubernetes
3 68 (25.47%) Terraform
4 49 (18.35%) Grafana
5 43 (16.10%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.12%) vCenter Server
7 18 (6.74%) Puppet
8 17 (6.37%) Argo
9 15 (5.62%) Control-M
10 14 (5.24%) IBM Guardium
10 14 (5.24%) Nessus
11 8 (3.00%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.50%) PowerCLI
13 3 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
13 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.75%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (0.75%) Istio
14 2 (0.75%) SnapMirror
14 2 (0.75%) SnapVault
14 2 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 46 (17.23%) Red Hat
2 39 (14.61%) Splunk
3 29 (10.86%) VMware
4 28 (10.49%) Microsoft
5 19 (7.12%) Pure Storage
5 19 (7.12%) ServiceNow
6 17 (6.37%) Google
7 14 (5.24%) Tenable
8 12 (4.49%) F5
9 10 (3.75%) Cisco
10 9 (3.37%) Databricks
10 9 (3.37%) Infoblox
11 8 (3.00%) Dell
12 6 (2.25%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.25%) Brocade
12 6 (2.25%) Commvault
12 6 (2.25%) Sonatype
12 6 (2.25%) Veritas
13 5 (1.87%) EMC
13 5 (1.87%) NetApp