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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 253 62 51
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 25.38% 19.62% 13.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 65.21% 56.88% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 43 24
10th Percentile £368 £353 £411
25th Percentile £425 £387 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.52% -29.64%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £628
90th Percentile £600 £650 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £445
% change year-on-year -5.00% +12.36% -36.43%

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 388 109 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.92% 34.49% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 76 76
10th Percentile £366 £359 £395
25th Percentile £420 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £514 £448
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +14.80% -25.42%
75th Percentile £538 £607 £578
90th Percentile £616 £650 £631
South Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £520 £433
% change year-on-year -8.05% +20.20% -27.92%

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 May 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 17 (6.72%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.53%) Confluence
3 4 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.19%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 62 (24.51%) OpenShift
2 49 (19.37%) GCP
3 41 (16.21%) Azure
4 40 (15.81%) AWS
5 39 (15.42%) GitHub
6 16 (6.32%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.37%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.37%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.98%) OCI
11 5 (1.98%) SaaS
12 4 (1.58%) Azure Storage
12 4 (1.58%) Serverless
13 3 (1.19%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.19%) Cloud Run
13 3 (1.19%) IaaS
13 3 (1.19%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.49%) DNS
2 14 (5.53%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.56%) SAN
4 8 (3.16%) BIG-IP
5 7 (2.77%) DHCP
5 7 (2.77%) Firewall
6 6 (2.37%) NAS
7 5 (1.98%) Network Security
8 4 (1.58%) iSCSI
9 3 (1.19%) VPN
10 2 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.79%) DWDM
10 2 (0.79%) LAN
10 2 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.79%) WAN
11 1 (0.40%) BGP
11 1 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (0.40%) HTTP
11 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.32%) Power BI
3 13 (5.14%) Hadoop
3 13 (5.14%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.56%) Metadata
6 8 (3.16%) Tableau
7 7 (2.77%) MySQL
7 7 (2.77%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.37%) Big Data
9 5 (1.98%) Power Query
9 5 (1.98%) PowerPivot
10 4 (1.58%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.79%) Parquet
12 2 (0.79%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 77 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 47 (18.58%) JIRA
3 26 (10.28%) GitLab
4 18 (7.11%) Postman
5 13 (5.14%) Git
6 9 (3.56%) Selenium
7 6 (2.37%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.37%) Maven
7 6 (2.37%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.37%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.37%) TestRail
8 5 (1.98%) JMeter
9 4 (1.58%) Gatling
9 4 (1.58%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.58%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.58%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.19%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.79%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
General
1 77 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.92%) Finance
3 56 (22.13%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (13.83%) Banking
5 15 (5.93%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.37%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.98%) Publishing
8 4 (1.58%) Advertising
9 3 (1.19%) Law
9 3 (1.19%) Legal
9 3 (1.19%) Marketing
10 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (17.39%) Lead
2 40 (15.81%) Developer
3 33 (13.04%) Python Developer
4 30 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (10.67%) Architect
6 20 (7.91%) Analyst
7 18 (7.11%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.74%) Data Analyst
8 12 (4.74%) Python Engineer
9 10 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (3.56%) Automation Test Lead
10 9 (3.56%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (3.56%) Senior
11 8 (3.16%) GCP DevOps
11 8 (3.16%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.16%) Test Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.16%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.37%) Administrator
12 6 (2.37%) Security Engineer
12 6 (2.37%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.81%) OpenTelemetry
2 31 (12.25%) YAML
3 21 (8.30%) JSON
4 20 (7.91%) FastAPI
4 20 (7.91%) REST
5 15 (5.93%) Node.js
6 12 (4.74%) OpenID
7 11 (4.35%) Kafka
8 10 (3.95%) LDAP
9 9 (3.56%) Apache Avro
9 9 (3.56%) Playwright
9 9 (3.56%) Protocol Buffers
9 9 (3.56%) SailPoint
10 8 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (2.37%) .NET
11 6 (2.37%) SLSA
12 5 (1.98%) PySpark
12 5 (1.98%) RESTful
13 3 (1.19%) OAuth
13 3 (1.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (7.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.74%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.98%) EMC VMAX
6 5 (1.98%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.58%) PKI
7 4 (1.58%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.58%) Replication
8 3 (1.19%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.79%) CMDB
9 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.97%) Linux
2 20 (7.91%) Windows
3 17 (6.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.16%) CentOS
4 8 (3.16%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.58%) Unix
5 4 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.79%) CoreOS
6 2 (0.79%) VMS
6 2 (0.79%) zOS
7 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (56.92%) CI/CD
2 118 (46.64%) DevOps
3 89 (35.18%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (26.48%) Containerisation
5 48 (18.97%) RBAC
6 47 (18.58%) Agile
7 46 (18.18%) Observability
8 44 (17.39%) Migration
8 44 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 43 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (15.42%) Analytics
11 30 (11.86%) Data Protection
11 30 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
12 28 (11.07%) Validation
13 26 (10.28%) API Development
14 25 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (9.88%) ETL
15 24 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.16%) Bash
2 40 (15.81%) Java
3 39 (15.42%) SQL
4 20 (7.91%) Go
5 17 (6.72%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.32%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.74%) VBA
8 11 (4.35%) Scala
9 10 (3.95%) Groovy
9 10 (3.95%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.56%) Perl
10 9 (3.56%) Ruby
11 8 (3.16%) R
12 7 (2.77%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.37%) PHP
14 4 (1.58%) Cypher
15 3 (1.19%) Bicep
16 2 (0.79%) Rust
17 1 (0.40%) ActionScript
17 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (3.56%) RHCE
2 7 (2.77%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.37%) Degree
4 5 (1.98%) CISM
4 5 (1.98%) CISSP
4 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.19%) OCP
6 3 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.79%) CCNA
7 2 (0.79%) CCNP
7 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.79%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.79%) JNCIS
7 2 (0.79%) RHCA
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.74%) QA
2 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.58%) NIST
3 4 (1.58%) PMO
4 3 (1.19%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.19%) SLA
4 3 (1.19%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (15.81%) Docker
2 23 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (7.51%) vSphere
4 13 (5.14%) VMware NSX
5 12 (4.74%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.98%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.98%) KVM
6 5 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.58%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (1.19%) NFS
8 3 (1.19%) SRDF
9 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
9 1 (0.40%) Ceph
9 1 (0.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 107 (42.29%) Ansible
2 93 (36.76%) Kubernetes
3 70 (27.67%) Terraform
4 48 (18.97%) Grafana
5 42 (16.60%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.11%) Puppet
6 18 (7.11%) vCenter Server
7 16 (6.32%) Argo
8 15 (5.93%) Control-M
9 14 (5.53%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (5.53%) Nessus
10 7 (2.77%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.58%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.79%) Istio
14 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 1 (0.40%) vRealize
14 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 45 (17.79%) Red Hat
2 39 (15.42%) Splunk
3 28 (11.07%) VMware
4 23 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 18 (7.11%) Pure Storage
6 15 (5.93%) Google
7 14 (5.53%) Tenable
8 13 (5.14%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.95%) F5
10 9 (3.56%) Cisco
11 8 (3.16%) Databricks
12 7 (2.77%) Infoblox
13 6 (2.37%) Commvault
13 6 (2.37%) Dell
13 6 (2.37%) Sonatype
13 6 (2.37%) Veritas
14 5 (1.98%) Broadcom
15 4 (1.58%) EMC
15 4 (1.58%) HP
15 4 (1.58%) Okta