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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Python 265 78 84
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.77% 20.74% 20.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.64% 55.32% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 51 42
10th Percentile £375 £350 £425
25th Percentile £425 £385 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £493 £507
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -2.80% -27.57%
75th Percentile £537 £587 £594
90th Percentile £600 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -3.05% -1.38% -27.57%

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 437 141 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.84% 37.50% 40.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 93 104
10th Percentile £367 £350 £403
25th Percentile £425 £389 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% -16.63%
75th Percentile £549 £600 £575
90th Percentile £615 £650 £624
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -16.67%

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 10 June 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 (7.17%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.28%) Confluence
3 3 (1.13%) SAS
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 53 (20.00%) GCP
2 52 (19.62%) OpenShift
3 41 (15.47%) Azure
4 38 (14.34%) GitHub
5 37 (13.96%) AWS
6 15 (5.66%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.64%) OCI
10 6 (2.26%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.26%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.26%) Slack
11 5 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.89%) Azure Storage
11 5 (1.89%) SaaS
12 4 (1.51%) Serverless
13 3 (1.13%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.43%) DNS
2 15 (5.66%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.77%) BIG-IP
3 10 (3.77%) SAN
4 9 (3.40%) DHCP
5 8 (3.02%) Firewall
6 7 (2.64%) NAS
7 5 (1.89%) Network Security
8 4 (1.51%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.75%) DWDM
9 2 (0.75%) HTTP
9 2 (0.75%) LAN
9 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.75%) VPN
9 2 (0.75%) VSAN
9 2 (0.75%) WAN
10 1 (0.38%) BGP
10 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.66%) Power BI
3 13 (4.91%) Hadoop
3 13 (4.91%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.15%) Metadata
4 11 (4.15%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.02%) Big Data
6 7 (2.64%) MySQL
6 7 (2.64%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.64%) Tableau
7 6 (2.26%) Neo4j
8 4 (1.51%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.13%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.75%) Parquet
10 2 (0.75%) Power Query
10 2 (0.75%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.38%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 78 (29.43%) Jenkins
2 57 (21.51%) JIRA
3 20 (7.55%) GitLab
4 17 (6.42%) Postman
5 11 (4.15%) Git
6 9 (3.40%) Selenium
7 8 (3.02%) Maven
7 8 (3.02%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.26%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.26%) TestRail
9 5 (1.89%) JMeter
10 4 (1.51%) Gatling
10 4 (1.51%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.51%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.13%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.75%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.77%) Finance
3 54 (20.38%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.45%) Banking
5 17 (6.42%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.64%) Publishing
7 5 (1.89%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.51%) Advertising
9 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.13%) Law
9 3 (1.13%) Legal
9 3 (1.13%) Marketing
10 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (17.74%) Lead
2 39 (14.72%) Developer
3 33 (12.45%) Python Developer
4 29 (10.94%) Architect
4 29 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (7.17%) Data Engineer
6 17 (6.42%) Analyst
7 13 (4.91%) Python Engineer
8 12 (4.53%) Data Analyst
8 12 (4.53%) Senior
9 10 (3.77%) Test Automation Engineer
9 10 (3.77%) Test Engineer
10 9 (3.40%) Automation Test Lead
11 8 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (3.02%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) Consultant
12 7 (2.64%) GCP DevOps
12 7 (2.64%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.72%) OpenTelemetry
2 33 (12.45%) YAML
3 28 (10.57%) REST
4 25 (9.43%) Node.js
5 24 (9.06%) JSON
6 20 (7.55%) FastAPI
7 12 (4.53%) OpenID
8 11 (4.15%) Kafka
9 10 (3.77%) LDAP
10 9 (3.40%) Apache Avro
10 9 (3.40%) Playwright
10 9 (3.40%) Protocol Buffers
10 9 (3.40%) SailPoint
11 8 (3.02%) SLSA
12 7 (2.64%) PySpark
13 6 (2.26%) .NET
14 5 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.89%) RESTful
15 4 (1.51%) pytest
15 4 (1.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.06%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (6.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.53%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.26%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.89%) PKI
8 5 (1.89%) Replication
9 4 (1.51%) Blog
9 4 (1.51%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.51%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.13%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.13%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.75%) CMDB
11 2 (0.75%) EMC VNX
11 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (17.74%) Linux
2 23 (8.68%) Windows
3 17 (6.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.02%) CentOS
4 8 (3.02%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.64%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.89%) Unix
7 4 (1.51%) VMS
8 3 (1.13%) zOS
9 2 (0.75%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (54.34%) CI/CD
2 119 (44.91%) DevOps
3 82 (30.94%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (23.40%) Containerisation
5 57 (21.51%) Agile
6 55 (20.75%) RBAC
7 51 (19.25%) Observability
8 46 (17.36%) Test Automation
9 42 (15.85%) Migration
10 41 (15.47%) Analytics
11 36 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 31 (11.70%) AI
12 31 (11.70%) Data Protection
12 31 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (10.94%) Validation
15 27 (10.19%) API Development
15 27 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 26 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (9.81%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (18.87%) Java
2 42 (15.85%) Bash
3 38 (14.34%) SQL
4 24 (9.06%) Go
5 21 (7.92%) PowerShell
6 18 (6.79%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.15%) VBA
8 10 (3.77%) Groovy
8 10 (3.77%) Perl
8 10 (3.77%) Scala
9 9 (3.40%) Ruby
9 9 (3.40%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.02%) R
10 8 (3.02%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.26%) PHP
12 4 (1.51%) Cypher
12 4 (1.51%) Rust
13 3 (1.13%) Bicep
14 2 (0.75%) C#
14 2 (0.75%) JCL
Qualifications
1 9 (3.40%) RHCE
2 7 (2.64%) Degree
2 7 (2.64%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (1.13%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.13%) CISM
6 3 (1.13%) CISSP
6 3 (1.13%) OCP
6 3 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.75%) CCNA
7 2 (0.75%) CCNP
7 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.75%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.75%) JNCIS
7 2 (0.75%) NCDA
7 2 (0.75%) NCIE
7 2 (0.75%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.15%) QA
2 5 (1.89%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.51%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.51%) NIST
4 3 (1.13%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.13%) SLA
4 3 (1.13%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (13.96%) Docker
2 24 (9.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.55%) vSphere
4 13 (4.91%) VMware NSX
5 12 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.26%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.89%) KVM
7 5 (1.89%) NFS
8 4 (1.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (1.51%) SRDF
9 2 (0.75%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.75%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
10 1 (0.38%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 102 (38.49%) Ansible
2 84 (31.70%) Kubernetes
3 59 (22.26%) Terraform
4 44 (16.60%) Grafana
5 38 (14.34%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.17%) Argo
6 19 (7.17%) vCenter Server
7 16 (6.04%) Puppet
8 15 (5.66%) Control-M
9 14 (5.28%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (5.28%) Nessus
10 8 (3.02%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.51%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.13%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.75%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.75%) Istio
13 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.75%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.75%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 46 (17.36%) Red Hat
2 38 (14.34%) Splunk
3 28 (10.57%) VMware
4 25 (9.43%) Microsoft
5 19 (7.17%) Pure Storage
5 19 (7.17%) ServiceNow
6 18 (6.79%) Google
7 14 (5.28%) Tenable
8 12 (4.53%) F5
9 10 (3.77%) Cisco
9 10 (3.77%) Databricks
10 9 (3.40%) Infoblox
11 8 (3.02%) Dell
11 8 (3.02%) Sonatype
12 6 (2.26%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.26%) Brocade
12 6 (2.26%) Commvault
12 6 (2.26%) Veritas
13 5 (1.89%) EMC
13 5 (1.89%) NetApp