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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 207 128 78
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 20.12% 22.82% 18.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.33% 57.14% 55.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 88 51
10th Percentile £375 £351 £425
25th Percentile £425 £400 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.25% -13.33%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £611
90th Percentile £618 £616 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £520
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.25% -13.33%

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 381 224 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 37.03% 39.93% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 153 91
10th Percentile £363 £321 £400
25th Percentile £418 £374 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -12.82%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £592
90th Percentile £615 £612 £645
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 12 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 (9.18%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.80%) Confluence
3 3 (1.45%) Apache
3 3 (1.45%) SAS
4 1 (0.48%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
4 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.48%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 54 (26.09%) GCP
2 44 (21.26%) Azure
3 32 (15.46%) GitHub
4 29 (14.01%) AWS
5 27 (13.04%) OpenShift
6 15 (7.25%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.38%) OCI
10 6 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.90%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.90%) Slack
11 5 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.42%) Datadog
12 3 (1.45%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.45%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.45%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.70%) DNS
2 9 (4.35%) Network Security
2 9 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.38%) BIG-IP
3 7 (3.38%) DHCP
3 7 (3.38%) SAN
4 5 (2.42%) Firewall
5 4 (1.93%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.45%) HTTP
6 3 (1.45%) NAS
7 2 (0.97%) Internet
7 2 (0.97%) VPN
7 2 (0.97%) VSAN
7 2 (0.97%) WAN
8 1 (0.48%) BGP
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.48%) DMZ
8 1 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.48%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.25%) Power BI
2 12 (5.80%) Hadoop
2 12 (5.80%) Metadata
2 12 (5.80%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.83%) Big Data
5 9 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.38%) Neo4j
6 7 (3.38%) Tableau
7 6 (2.90%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.42%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.93%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.45%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.97%) Parquet
12 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 41 (19.81%) JIRA
3 13 (6.28%) Git
4 9 (4.35%) GitLab
5 8 (3.86%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.38%) Maven
7 6 (2.90%) Gatling
7 6 (2.90%) JMeter
7 6 (2.90%) NeoLoad
7 6 (2.90%) Zephyr
8 5 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.93%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.93%) MSBuild
9 4 (1.93%) Postman
9 4 (1.93%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.45%) Selenium
11 2 (0.97%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.48%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 55 (26.57%) Finance
2 52 (25.12%) Social Skills
3 48 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (14.49%) Banking
5 7 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.38%) Publishing
6 3 (1.45%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.45%) Law
7 2 (0.97%) Advertising
7 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.97%) Marketing
7 2 (0.97%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.48%) Legal
8 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Retail
8 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (17.87%) Lead
2 32 (15.46%) Developer
3 31 (14.98%) Python Developer
4 24 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (7.73%) Analyst
6 15 (7.25%) Python Engineer
7 12 (5.80%) Architect
7 12 (5.80%) Data Analyst
7 12 (5.80%) Data Engineer
8 10 (4.83%) Senior
9 8 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Consultant
10 7 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.11%) REST
2 21 (10.14%) Node.js
3 19 (9.18%) OpenTelemetry
4 17 (8.21%) JSON
5 14 (6.76%) FastAPI
6 10 (4.83%) YAML
7 8 (3.86%) Kafka
7 8 (3.86%) pytest
8 7 (3.38%) React
8 7 (3.38%) SLSA
9 6 (2.90%) PySpark
9 6 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.42%) LDAP
11 4 (1.93%) .NET
11 4 (1.93%) OpenID
12 3 (1.45%) Apache Avro
12 3 (1.45%) Protocol Buffers
13 2 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
13 2 (0.97%) LangChain
13 2 (0.97%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.87%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.14%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.90%) Blog
5 6 (2.90%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (2.90%) PKI
6 5 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.42%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.93%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.93%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.93%) Replication
8 3 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.45%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.94%) Linux
2 15 (7.25%) Windows
3 7 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.42%) Unix
4 5 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.93%) VMS
6 3 (1.45%) zOS
7 2 (0.97%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 94 (45.41%) DevOps
3 61 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (23.67%) Agile
4 49 (23.67%) Observability
5 39 (18.84%) Containerisation
6 36 (17.39%) Analytics
7 34 (16.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (16.43%) Test Automation
8 32 (15.46%) AI
9 30 (14.49%) Data Engineering
10 27 (13.04%) Data Protection
11 26 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (12.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 24 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (11.59%) DevSecOps
13 24 (11.59%) Migration
13 24 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.29%) Bash
2 38 (18.36%) SQL
3 34 (16.43%) Java
4 24 (11.59%) PowerShell
5 23 (11.11%) Go
6 9 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.86%) Groovy
7 8 (3.86%) R
8 7 (3.38%) Rust
9 6 (2.90%) C#
9 6 (2.90%) VBA
10 4 (1.93%) Scala
10 4 (1.93%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.45%) Cypher
11 3 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.97%) Bicep
12 2 (0.97%) JCL
12 2 (0.97%) Perl
12 2 (0.97%) REXX
12 2 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (2.42%) Degree
2 4 (1.93%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.45%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (1.45%) OCP
3 3 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.97%) CISSP
4 2 (0.97%) GIAC
4 2 (0.97%) NCDA
4 2 (0.97%) NCIE
4 2 (0.97%) RHCA
5 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.48%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.48%) GSEC
5 1 (0.48%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.48%) JNCIS
5 1 (0.48%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.90%) NIST
2 5 (2.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.42%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.45%) QA
4 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (13.53%) Docker
2 19 (9.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.28%) vSphere
4 8 (3.86%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.42%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.93%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.93%) NFS
6 4 (1.93%) SRDF
6 4 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.45%) KVM
7 3 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.97%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.97%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.48%) Ceph
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 65 (31.40%) Ansible
1 65 (31.40%) Kubernetes
2 52 (25.12%) Terraform
3 33 (15.94%) Grafana
4 25 (12.08%) Prometheus
5 16 (7.73%) Argo
6 12 (5.80%) vCenter Server
7 10 (4.83%) Control-M
8 9 (4.35%) IBM Guardium
8 9 (4.35%) Nessus
9 8 (3.86%) NetBackup
9 8 (3.86%) Puppet
10 4 (1.93%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.97%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.97%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.97%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.97%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.97%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 24 (11.59%) Splunk
2 23 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 21 (10.14%) Google
3 21 (10.14%) VMware
4 18 (8.70%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.80%) Databricks
5 12 (5.80%) Pure Storage
6 9 (4.35%) Cisco
6 9 (4.35%) F5
6 9 (4.35%) Tenable
7 8 (3.86%) Dell
8 7 (3.38%) Infoblox
8 7 (3.38%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.38%) Sonatype
9 6 (2.90%) Broadcom
9 6 (2.90%) Commvault
9 6 (2.90%) Veritas
10 5 (2.42%) Brocade
11 4 (1.93%) EMC
11 4 (1.93%) HP