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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 201 29 31
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 25.51% 12.34% 8.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 61.66% 37.66% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 23 15
10th Percentile £388 £485 £358
25th Percentile £450 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -7.63% -3.28%
75th Percentile £537 £636 £609
90th Percentile £600 £650 £635
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% -26.23%

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 326 77 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 41.37% 32.77% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 57 81
10th Percentile £356 £400 £412
25th Percentile £450 £480 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £588
90th Percentile £642 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -9.09%

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 27 January 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 15 (7.46%) Confluence
2 5 (2.49%) Apache
2 5 (2.49%) Apache Pig
3 4 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.00%) IIS
5 2 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.99%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.84%) GCP
2 56 (27.86%) AWS
3 32 (15.92%) Azure
4 28 (13.93%) Serverless
5 20 (9.95%) GitHub
6 18 (8.96%) OpenShift
7 15 (7.46%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.98%) AWS KMS
9 9 (4.48%) CloudBees
9 9 (4.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.99%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.49%) SaaS
13 4 (1.99%) Cohesity
14 3 (1.49%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.49%) Cloud Run
15 2 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
15 2 (1.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.99%) DNS
1 6 (2.99%) Firewall
1 6 (2.99%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.49%) Internet
2 3 (1.49%) VPN
3 2 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.00%) DWDM
3 2 (1.00%) LAN
3 2 (1.00%) Network Security
3 2 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.00%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.91%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (16.42%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.46%) MySQL
3 15 (7.46%) Power BI
4 10 (4.98%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.48%) Hadoop
6 8 (3.98%) Apache Hive
6 8 (3.98%) Oracle Database
6 8 (3.98%) Power Query
6 8 (3.98%) PowerPivot
7 7 (3.48%) Data Mining
8 5 (2.49%) Metadata
8 5 (2.49%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.99%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.49%) HBase
11 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.00%) OLTP
12 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 77 (38.31%) Jenkins
2 56 (27.86%) GitLab
3 42 (20.90%) JIRA
4 25 (12.44%) Liquibase
5 17 (8.46%) Postman
6 13 (6.47%) Git
7 7 (3.48%) Selenium
8 6 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.99%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.99%) TestRail
9 5 (2.49%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.99%) Gatling
10 4 (1.99%) JMeter
10 4 (1.99%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.99%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.50%) Travis CI
General
1 72 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 61 (30.35%) Finance
3 51 (25.37%) Banking
4 34 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.95%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.98%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Law
8 3 (1.49%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Legal
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing
9 2 (1.00%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (13.43%) Developer
1 27 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (10.45%) Lead
3 18 (8.96%) Automation Engineer
3 18 (8.96%) GCP Engineer
4 17 (8.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (8.46%) Senior
5 16 (7.96%) Analyst
5 16 (7.96%) Software Engineer
6 15 (7.46%) Data Engineer
7 13 (6.47%) Python Developer
8 12 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (5.47%) Architect
10 10 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.48%) Automation Test Lead
11 9 (4.48%) Data Protection Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Strategy Analyst
12 8 (3.98%) Test Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Test Engineer
13 7 (3.48%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.91%) REST
2 32 (15.92%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (14.93%) RESTful
4 23 (11.44%) YAML
5 21 (10.45%) OpenTelemetry
6 17 (8.46%) FastAPI
7 12 (5.97%) OpenID
8 10 (4.98%) Node.js
9 9 (4.48%) LDAP
9 9 (4.48%) Playwright
9 9 (4.48%) SailPoint
10 8 (3.98%) TensorFlow
11 7 (3.48%) .NET
12 5 (2.49%) NumPy
12 5 (2.49%) Pandas
13 4 (1.99%) Anaconda
13 4 (1.99%) Middleware
14 3 (1.49%) Kafka
14 3 (1.49%) Regular Expression
14 3 (1.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.92%) Cloud Native
2 30 (14.93%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (13.93%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.47%) Algorithms
5 12 (5.97%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.48%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.98%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.99%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.49%) Clustering
11 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.49%) Online Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.00%) PKI
12 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
12 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 52 (25.87%) Linux
2 8 (3.98%) CentOS
2 8 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (3.98%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.49%) Unix
3 5 (2.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (61.19%) DevOps
2 122 (60.70%) CI/CD
3 69 (34.33%) Containerisation
4 67 (33.33%) Agile
5 57 (28.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (21.89%) Root Cause Analysis
8 42 (20.90%) Test Automation
9 33 (16.42%) Computer Science
10 31 (15.42%) Cybersecurity
10 31 (15.42%) Microservices
10 31 (15.42%) RBAC
11 30 (14.93%) Data Security
12 27 (13.43%) Observability
13 26 (12.94%) Change Management
14 25 (12.44%) High Availability
14 25 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (11.94%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (11.94%) Software Engineering
16 23 (11.44%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 50 (24.88%) Java
2 39 (19.40%) Go
3 35 (17.41%) SQL
4 34 (16.92%) Bash
5 19 (9.45%) Shell Script
6 18 (8.96%) Scala
7 12 (5.97%) Perl
8 10 (4.98%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.48%) VBA
10 8 (3.98%) Ruby
11 6 (2.99%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.99%) PHP
11 6 (2.99%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.99%) Cypher
13 3 (1.49%) Groovy
14 2 (1.00%) Bicep
15 1 (0.50%) C#
15 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 36 (17.91%) Degree
2 30 (14.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (12.94%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.98%) RHCE
5 7 (3.48%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.48%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.00%) CCNA
8 2 (1.00%) CCNP
8 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.00%) CISM
8 2 (1.00%) CISSP
8 2 (1.00%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.00%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.00%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.48%) QA
2 4 (1.99%) PMO
3 3 (1.49%) SLA
4 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (25.37%) Docker
2 5 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.99%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (1.99%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.49%) HDFS
5 1 (0.50%) KVM
5 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 94 (46.77%) Ansible
2 73 (36.32%) Kubernetes
3 67 (33.33%) Terraform
4 54 (26.87%) Grafana
5 51 (25.37%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.96%) Puppet
7 13 (6.47%) Control-M
7 13 (6.47%) IBM Guardium
7 13 (6.47%) Nessus
7 13 (6.47%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.99%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.99%) yum
9 3 (1.49%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (1.00%) Argo
11 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.50%) Istio
11 1 (0.50%) Kibana
11 1 (0.50%) logstash
11 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (19.90%) Splunk
2 36 (17.91%) Red Hat
3 25 (12.44%) Google
4 20 (9.95%) Microsoft
5 17 (8.46%) ServiceNow
6 13 (6.47%) Commvault
6 13 (6.47%) Tenable
7 10 (4.98%) Oracle
8 9 (4.48%) Veritas
9 5 (2.49%) VMware
10 4 (1.99%) Okta
11 2 (1.00%) Alibaba
11 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.00%) Arista
11 2 (1.00%) Cisco
11 2 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.00%) Delphix
11 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.00%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.00%) Teradata