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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 200 128 79
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 19.31% 22.65% 19.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.77% 56.39% 55.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 87 55
10th Percentile £375 £354 £425
25th Percentile £425 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.13% -12.50%
75th Percentile £567 £550 £594
90th Percentile £669 £618 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £530
% change year-on-year +1.46% -7.02% -11.67%

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 379 227 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.58% 40.18% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 154 96
10th Percentile £362 £319 £400
25th Percentile £420 £377 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £537 £591
90th Percentile £615 £610 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £478 £525
% change year-on-year +4.71% -9.05% -8.70%

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 18 August 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 (9.50%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.00%) Confluence
3 4 (2.00%) SAS
4 3 (1.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.50%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 55 (27.50%) GCP
2 44 (22.00%) Azure
3 31 (15.50%) AWS
4 27 (13.50%) GitHub
5 20 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 15 (7.50%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.50%) OCI
10 6 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.00%) Slack
11 5 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.50%) Datadog
12 4 (2.00%) CloudBees
13 3 (1.50%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.50%) Cloud Run
13 3 (1.50%) Entra ID
14 2 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (1.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.00%) DNS
2 9 (4.50%) Network Security
2 9 (4.50%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.50%) BIG-IP
3 7 (3.50%) DHCP
3 7 (3.50%) SAN
4 5 (2.50%) Firewall
5 4 (2.00%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.50%) HTTP
6 3 (1.50%) NAS
7 2 (1.00%) BGP
7 2 (1.00%) Internet
7 2 (1.00%) VPN
7 2 (1.00%) VSAN
7 2 (1.00%) WAN
8 1 (0.50%) Calico
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.50%) Modbus
8 1 (0.50%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.50%) Power BI
2 13 (6.50%) Metadata
2 13 (6.50%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.00%) Hadoop
4 10 (5.00%) Big Data
4 10 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.50%) Neo4j
6 7 (3.50%) Tableau
7 6 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.50%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.00%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.50%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.00%) Parquet
12 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (24.50%) Jenkins
2 38 (19.00%) JIRA
3 15 (7.50%) Git
4 9 (4.50%) GitLab
5 8 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.50%) Maven
7 6 (3.00%) Gatling
7 6 (3.00%) JMeter
7 6 (3.00%) NeoLoad
7 6 (3.00%) Zephyr
8 5 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.00%) LoadRunner
9 4 (2.00%) MSBuild
9 4 (2.00%) Postman
9 4 (2.00%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.50%) Selenium
11 2 (1.00%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.50%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 53 (26.50%) Finance
2 48 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.00%) Banking
4 7 (3.50%) Publishing
5 6 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.00%) Law
7 3 (1.50%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.50%) Marketing
8 2 (1.00%) Advertising
8 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.50%) Legal
9 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Retail
9 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (17.50%) Lead
2 28 (14.00%) Developer
3 27 (13.50%) Python Developer
4 24 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (8.50%) Analyst
6 15 (7.50%) Python Engineer
7 13 (6.50%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.00%) Architect
9 11 (5.50%) Data Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) Senior
11 8 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.50%) Consultant
12 7 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (3.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 6 (3.00%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
13 6 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.00%) REST
2 21 (10.50%) Node.js
3 16 (8.00%) JSON
4 15 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
5 13 (6.50%) FastAPI
6 10 (5.00%) YAML
7 8 (4.00%) pytest
8 7 (3.50%) Kafka
8 7 (3.50%) React
8 7 (3.50%) SLSA
9 6 (3.00%) PySpark
9 6 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.50%) LDAP
11 4 (2.00%) .NET
11 4 (2.00%) OpenID
12 2 (1.00%) Apache Avro
12 2 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.00%) LangChain
12 2 (1.00%) Playwright
12 2 (1.00%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.50%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.00%) Blog
4 6 (3.00%) EMC VMAX
4 6 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.00%) PKI
4 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.00%) Replication
7 3 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.50%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.00%) Linux
2 15 (7.50%) Windows
3 7 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.50%) Unix
4 5 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.00%) VMS
6 3 (1.50%) zOS
7 2 (1.00%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.00%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (51.00%) CI/CD
2 89 (44.50%) DevOps
3 55 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (25.50%) Observability
5 48 (24.00%) Agile
6 37 (18.50%) Analytics
7 35 (17.50%) Containerisation
7 35 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (16.00%) Test Automation
9 31 (15.50%) AI
9 31 (15.50%) Data Engineering
10 26 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (12.50%) Data Protection
12 24 (12.00%) DevSecOps
12 24 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (11.50%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (11.50%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (11.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (11.00%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 41 (20.50%) SQL
2 39 (19.50%) Bash
3 34 (17.00%) Java
4 24 (12.00%) Go
5 23 (11.50%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.50%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.00%) Groovy
7 8 (4.00%) R
8 7 (3.50%) Rust
9 6 (3.00%) C#
9 6 (3.00%) VBA
10 4 (2.00%) Scala
10 4 (2.00%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.50%) Cypher
11 3 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
12 2 (1.00%) JCL
12 2 (1.00%) Perl
12 2 (1.00%) REXX
12 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (2.50%) Degree
2 4 (2.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.00%) CISSP
4 2 (1.00%) GIAC
4 2 (1.00%) NCDA
4 2 (1.00%) NCIE
4 2 (1.00%) OCP
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (1.00%) RHCA
4 2 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.50%) CCNA
5 1 (0.50%) CCNP
5 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.50%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.50%) RHCE
5 1 (0.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.00%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.00%) NIST
2 5 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.50%) QA
4 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (13.50%) Docker
2 16 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.50%) vSphere
4 5 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.50%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.00%) NFS
5 4 (2.00%) SRDF
6 3 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.00%) KVM
7 2 (1.00%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.50%) Ceph
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 62 (31.00%) Kubernetes
2 60 (30.00%) Ansible
3 51 (25.50%) Terraform
4 30 (15.00%) Grafana
5 24 (12.00%) Prometheus
6 13 (6.50%) Argo
7 9 (4.50%) Control-M
8 8 (4.00%) IBM Guardium
8 8 (4.00%) Nessus
8 8 (4.00%) vCenter Server
9 6 (3.00%) NetBackup
9 6 (3.00%) Puppet
10 4 (2.00%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.50%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.00%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.00%) SnapMirror
12 2 (1.00%) SnapVault
12 2 (1.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 1 (0.50%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 24 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.00%) Google
2 22 (11.00%) Splunk
3 17 (8.50%) VMware
4 14 (7.00%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.00%) Databricks
6 10 (5.00%) Cisco
7 9 (4.50%) F5
7 9 (4.50%) Pure Storage
8 8 (4.00%) Dell
8 8 (4.00%) Tenable
9 7 (3.50%) Infoblox
9 7 (3.50%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.50%) Sonatype
10 6 (3.00%) Broadcom
11 5 (2.50%) Brocade
12 4 (2.00%) Commvault
12 4 (2.00%) EMC
12 4 (2.00%) HP
12 4 (2.00%) Oracle