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

 6 months to
17 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 232 61 45
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.84% 19.43% 13.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 65.35% 58.10% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 43 19
10th Percentile £367 £353 £411
25th Percentile £420 £387 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -33.33%
75th Percentile £529 £603 £540
90th Percentile £594 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £430
% change year-on-year -9.52% +22.09% -36.30%

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 355 105 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.01% 33.44% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 75 65
10th Percentile £366 £359 £405
25th Percentile £421 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +12.36% -25.83%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £545
90th Percentile £619 £650 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £520 £439
% change year-on-year -7.31% +18.52% -23.70%

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 17 April 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 14 (6.03%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.60%) Confluence
3 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.29%) SAS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 59 (25.43%) OpenShift
2 44 (18.97%) GCP
3 39 (16.81%) GitHub
4 36 (15.52%) AWS
5 33 (14.22%) Azure
6 14 (6.03%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.59%) CloudBees
9 6 (2.59%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.16%) OCI
10 5 (2.16%) SaaS
10 5 (2.16%) Serverless
11 4 (1.72%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.29%) IaaS
12 3 (1.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.05%) DNS
2 11 (4.74%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.88%) SAN
4 6 (2.59%) Firewall
4 6 (2.59%) NAS
5 5 (2.16%) BIG-IP
6 4 (1.72%) DHCP
6 4 (1.72%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.72%) Network Security
7 3 (1.29%) VPN
8 2 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.86%) DWDM
8 2 (0.86%) LAN
8 2 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.86%) WAN
9 1 (0.43%) BGP
9 1 (0.43%) HTTP
9 1 (0.43%) Internet
9 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.03%) Power BI
3 13 (5.60%) Hadoop
3 13 (5.60%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.60%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.88%) Metadata
5 8 (3.45%) MySQL
5 8 (3.45%) Power Query
5 8 (3.45%) PowerPivot
6 7 (3.02%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.72%) Neo4j
7 4 (1.72%) Tableau
8 3 (1.29%) Big Data
9 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.86%) Parquet
10 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (31.90%) Jenkins
2 45 (19.40%) JIRA
3 26 (11.21%) GitLab
4 17 (7.33%) Postman
5 11 (4.74%) Git
6 9 (3.88%) Selenium
7 6 (2.59%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.59%) Maven
7 6 (2.59%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.59%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.59%) TestRail
8 5 (2.16%) JMeter
8 5 (2.16%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.72%) Gatling
9 4 (1.72%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.72%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.29%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.86%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.43%) Travis CI
General
1 72 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.71%) Finance
3 50 (21.55%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (16.81%) Banking
5 15 (6.47%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.16%) Publishing
8 4 (1.72%) Advertising
9 3 (1.29%) Legal
9 3 (1.29%) Marketing
10 2 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.86%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (17.24%) Lead
2 39 (16.81%) Developer
3 32 (13.79%) Python Developer
4 26 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (10.34%) Architect
6 19 (8.19%) Analyst
7 18 (7.76%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.74%) Senior
9 10 (4.31%) Data Analyst
10 9 (3.88%) Automation Test Lead
10 9 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (3.88%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.45%) GCP DevOps
11 8 (3.45%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.45%) Strategy Analyst
11 8 (3.45%) Test Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.45%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) Administrator
12 6 (2.59%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.81%) OpenTelemetry
2 29 (12.50%) YAML
3 21 (9.05%) REST
4 20 (8.62%) FastAPI
5 19 (8.19%) JSON
6 13 (5.60%) Node.js
7 12 (5.17%) OpenID
8 10 (4.31%) Kafka
8 10 (4.31%) LDAP
9 9 (3.88%) Apache Avro
9 9 (3.88%) Playwright
9 9 (3.88%) Protocol Buffers
9 9 (3.88%) SailPoint
10 8 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (2.59%) .NET
11 6 (2.59%) RESTful
11 6 (2.59%) SLSA
12 4 (1.72%) PySpark
13 3 (1.29%) JWT
13 3 (1.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.76%) Data Protection Act
2 18 (7.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.74%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.16%) EMC VMAX
6 4 (1.72%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.72%) Replication
7 3 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.29%) PKI
7 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.86%) CMDB
8 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.86%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.10%) Linux
2 15 (6.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (6.47%) Windows
3 8 (3.45%) CentOS
3 8 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.72%) Unix
5 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
6 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (59.05%) CI/CD
2 112 (48.28%) DevOps
3 85 (36.64%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (27.59%) Containerisation
5 48 (20.69%) RBAC
6 43 (18.53%) Agile
7 42 (18.10%) Observability
7 42 (18.10%) Test Automation
8 41 (17.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (17.67%) Migration
9 38 (16.38%) Analytics
10 29 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
12 25 (10.78%) Data Protection
13 24 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.34%) ETL
13 24 (10.34%) Validation
14 23 (9.91%) API Development
15 22 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (9.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (19.40%) Bash
2 38 (16.38%) SQL
3 36 (15.52%) Java
4 15 (6.47%) Go
5 14 (6.03%) PowerShell
6 13 (5.60%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.60%) VBA
7 11 (4.74%) Scala
8 10 (4.31%) Groovy
8 10 (4.31%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.88%) Ruby
10 8 (3.45%) Perl
11 7 (3.02%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.59%) PHP
13 4 (1.72%) Cypher
13 4 (1.72%) R
14 3 (1.29%) Bicep
15 1 (0.43%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.43%) C
15 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (3.88%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.45%) Degree
2 8 (3.45%) RHCE
3 5 (2.16%) CISM
3 5 (2.16%) CISSP
3 5 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.29%) OCP
5 3 (1.29%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.86%) CCNA
6 2 (0.86%) CCNP
6 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.86%) JNCIA
6 2 (0.86%) JNCIS
6 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.17%) QA
2 4 (1.72%) PMO
3 3 (1.29%) SLA
4 2 (0.86%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.86%) NIST
4 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.86%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 37 (15.95%) Docker
2 20 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (8.19%) vSphere
4 13 (5.60%) VMware NSX
5 10 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.16%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.16%) KVM
6 5 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.72%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (1.29%) SRDF
9 2 (0.86%) NFS
10 1 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 97 (41.81%) Ansible
2 87 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 66 (28.45%) Terraform
4 46 (19.83%) Grafana
5 40 (17.24%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.76%) Puppet
6 18 (7.76%) vCenter Server
7 15 (6.47%) Control-M
8 14 (6.03%) Argo
8 14 (6.03%) IBM Guardium
8 14 (6.03%) Nessus
9 7 (3.02%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.72%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.29%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.86%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.86%) Istio
13 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
13 1 (0.43%) vRealize
13 1 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 43 (18.53%) Red Hat
2 39 (16.81%) Splunk
3 25 (10.78%) VMware
4 21 (9.05%) Microsoft
5 18 (7.76%) Pure Storage
6 14 (6.03%) Tenable
7 13 (5.60%) Google
7 13 (5.60%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.88%) Cisco
9 7 (3.02%) F5
10 6 (2.59%) Sonatype
10 6 (2.59%) Veritas
11 5 (2.16%) Commvault
11 5 (2.16%) Databricks
11 5 (2.16%) Dell
12 4 (1.72%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.72%) EMC
12 4 (1.72%) HP
12 4 (1.72%) Infoblox
12 4 (1.72%) NetApp
42 Python jobs in Sheffield