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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 213 130 79
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 20.52% 22.85% 18.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.04% 57.78% 56.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 89 52
10th Percentile £371 £352 £425
25th Percentile £425 £400 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -6.73% -13.33%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £622
90th Percentile £643 £615 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £520
% change year-on-year +3.09% -6.73% -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 387 225 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 37.28% 39.54% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 153 93
10th Percentile £363 £321 £400
25th Percentile £413 £374 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -13.33%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £594
90th Percentile £615 £612 £649
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 9 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 (8.92%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.10%) Confluence
3 3 (1.41%) Apache
3 3 (1.41%) SAS
4 2 (0.94%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.47%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 52 (24.41%) GCP
2 44 (20.66%) Azure
3 34 (15.96%) GitHub
4 32 (15.02%) OpenShift
5 31 (14.55%) AWS
6 15 (7.04%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.76%) OCI
9 6 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.82%) CloudBees
9 6 (2.82%) Slack
10 5 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.35%) Datadog
11 4 (1.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.41%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.41%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.94%) IaaS
13 2 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.45%) DNS
2 9 (4.23%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.29%) BIG-IP
3 7 (3.29%) DHCP
3 7 (3.29%) SAN
4 6 (2.82%) Firewall
4 6 (2.82%) Network Security
5 4 (1.88%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.41%) HTTP
6 3 (1.41%) NAS
7 2 (0.94%) VPN
7 2 (0.94%) VSAN
7 2 (0.94%) WAN
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.47%) LAN
8 1 (0.47%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.04%) Power BI
3 12 (5.63%) Hadoop
3 12 (5.63%) Metadata
3 12 (5.63%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.16%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.69%) Big Data
6 7 (3.29%) Neo4j
6 7 (3.29%) Tableau
7 6 (2.82%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.35%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.41%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.94%) Parquet
12 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (27.23%) Jenkins
2 44 (20.66%) JIRA
3 13 (6.10%) Git
4 10 (4.69%) GitLab
5 9 (4.23%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.76%) Maven
7 6 (2.82%) Gatling
7 6 (2.82%) JMeter
7 6 (2.82%) NeoLoad
8 5 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.35%) Zephyr
9 4 (1.88%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.88%) MSBuild
9 4 (1.88%) Postman
9 4 (1.88%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.41%) Selenium
11 2 (0.94%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.94%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 57 (26.76%) Finance
2 52 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (24.41%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.55%) Banking
4 9 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.76%) Publishing
6 3 (1.41%) Advertising
6 3 (1.41%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.41%) Law
6 3 (1.41%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.94%) Marketing
8 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.47%) Legal
8 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Retail
8 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (16.90%) Developer
1 36 (16.90%) Lead
2 35 (16.43%) Python Developer
3 26 (12.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (7.51%) Analyst
4 16 (7.51%) Data Engineer
5 15 (7.04%) Python Engineer
6 14 (6.57%) Architect
7 12 (5.63%) Data Analyst
8 10 (4.69%) Senior
9 8 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (3.29%) Consultant
10 7 (3.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.82%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (2.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (2.82%) DevOps Developer
11 6 (2.82%) Lead DevOps
11 6 (2.82%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.15%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (10.80%) REST
3 21 (9.86%) JSON
3 21 (9.86%) Node.js
4 19 (8.92%) FastAPI
5 11 (5.16%) Kafka
5 11 (5.16%) YAML
6 8 (3.76%) SLSA
7 7 (3.29%) Apache Avro
7 7 (3.29%) Protocol Buffers
7 7 (3.29%) pytest
7 7 (3.29%) React
8 6 (2.82%) PySpark
8 6 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.88%) .NET
9 4 (1.88%) LDAP
10 3 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.41%) OpenID
11 2 (0.94%) LangChain
11 2 (0.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.84%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.33%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.82%) Blog
5 6 (2.82%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (2.82%) PKI
6 5 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.88%) Replication
8 2 (0.94%) Clustering
8 2 (0.94%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 35 (16.43%) Linux
2 15 (7.04%) Windows
3 8 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.35%) Unix
4 5 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.88%) VMS
6 3 (1.41%) zOS
7 2 (0.94%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.94%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (51.64%) CI/CD
2 94 (44.13%) DevOps
3 67 (31.46%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (23.94%) Agile
4 51 (23.94%) Observability
5 44 (20.66%) Containerisation
6 40 (18.78%) Analytics
7 33 (15.49%) Test Automation
8 32 (15.02%) Data Engineering
8 32 (15.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (14.55%) AI
10 28 (13.15%) Data Protection
11 27 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (12.21%) API Development
12 26 (12.21%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (12.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 25 (11.74%) Migration
13 25 (11.74%) Validation
14 23 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (10.80%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (18.78%) Bash
2 37 (17.37%) SQL
3 34 (15.96%) Java
4 24 (11.27%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.86%) Go
6 10 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.23%) Groovy
8 8 (3.76%) R
9 7 (3.29%) Rust
10 6 (2.82%) C#
10 6 (2.82%) VBA
11 4 (1.88%) Scala
11 4 (1.88%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.41%) Cypher
12 3 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.94%) Bicep
13 2 (0.94%) JCL
13 2 (0.94%) Perl
13 2 (0.94%) REXX
13 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (2.82%) Degree
2 5 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (2.35%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.41%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.41%) CISSP
3 3 (1.41%) OCP
3 3 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.94%) GIAC
4 2 (0.94%) NCDA
4 2 (0.94%) NCIE
4 2 (0.94%) RHCA
5 1 (0.47%) CISM
5 1 (0.47%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.47%) GSEC
5 1 (0.47%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.47%) JNCIS
5 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.82%) NIST
2 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.35%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.41%) QA
4 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (15.49%) Docker
2 19 (8.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.57%) vSphere
4 9 (4.23%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.35%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.88%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.88%) NFS
6 4 (1.88%) SRDF
6 4 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.41%) KVM
7 3 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.94%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.94%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.47%) Ceph
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 72 (33.80%) Kubernetes
2 67 (31.46%) Ansible
3 52 (24.41%) Terraform
4 39 (18.31%) Grafana
5 34 (15.96%) Prometheus
6 17 (7.98%) Argo
7 13 (6.10%) Control-M
7 13 (6.10%) vCenter Server
8 12 (5.63%) IBM Guardium
8 12 (5.63%) Nessus
9 8 (3.76%) NetBackup
9 8 (3.76%) Puppet
10 4 (1.88%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.41%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.94%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.94%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.94%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.94%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.94%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 30 (14.08%) Splunk
2 22 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.33%) VMware
3 20 (9.39%) Red Hat
4 18 (8.45%) Google
5 13 (6.10%) Databricks
5 13 (6.10%) Pure Storage
6 12 (5.63%) Tenable
7 9 (4.23%) Cisco
7 9 (4.23%) F5
8 8 (3.76%) Dell
8 8 (3.76%) Sonatype
9 7 (3.29%) Infoblox
9 7 (3.29%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.82%) Broadcom
10 6 (2.82%) Commvault
10 6 (2.82%) Veritas
11 5 (2.35%) Brocade
12 4 (1.88%) EMC
12 4 (1.88%) HP