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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 189 130 70
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 18.58% 22.77% 17.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.08% 55.79% 50.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 88 48
10th Percentile £367 £377 £450
25th Percentile £425 £424 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £575 £539 £622
90th Percentile £669 £616 £665
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -10.42%

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 370 233 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.38% 40.81% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 160 94
10th Percentile £363 £319 £383
25th Percentile £425 £389 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -11.24%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £598
90th Percentile £669 £625 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £478 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -8.95% -10.63%

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 15 September 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 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.76%) Confluence
3 4 (2.12%) Apache
3 4 (2.12%) SAS
4 3 (1.59%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.06%) nginx
6 1 (0.53%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.53%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.92%) GCP
2 52 (27.51%) Azure
3 37 (19.58%) AWS
4 22 (11.64%) GitHub
5 15 (7.94%) Power Platform
6 14 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.35%) OpenShift
8 10 (5.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.70%) Datadog
12 6 (3.17%) OCI
12 6 (3.17%) Slack
13 5 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.65%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.65%) Serverless
14 4 (2.12%) Azure Databricks
14 4 (2.12%) Azure Storage
15 3 (1.59%) Cloud Run
15 3 (1.59%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.52%) DNS
2 13 (6.88%) Network Security
3 9 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.70%) BIG-IP
4 7 (3.70%) DHCP
4 7 (3.70%) Firewall
5 4 (2.12%) SAN
6 3 (1.59%) HTTP
6 3 (1.59%) NAS
6 3 (1.59%) VPN
7 2 (1.06%) Internet
7 2 (1.06%) VSAN
7 2 (1.06%) WAN
8 1 (0.53%) Calico
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.53%) Modbus
8 1 (0.53%) NaaS
8 1 (0.53%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.99%) Metadata
2 15 (7.94%) Power BI
3 13 (6.88%) Big Data
4 9 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.70%) Neo4j
5 7 (3.70%) Tableau
6 6 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.65%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.12%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.12%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.06%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.53%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.53%) Parquet
11 1 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 35 (18.52%) JIRA
3 17 (8.99%) Git
4 9 (4.76%) Maven
4 9 (4.76%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.70%) GitLab
6 7 (3.70%) Zephyr
7 6 (3.17%) Gatling
7 6 (3.17%) JMeter
7 6 (3.17%) NeoLoad
8 4 (2.12%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.12%) MSBuild
8 4 (2.12%) Postman
8 4 (2.12%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.06%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.06%) Selenium
10 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.53%) TruffleHog
General
1 59 (31.22%) Finance
2 49 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 37 (19.58%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.81%) Banking
5 9 (4.76%) Publishing
6 5 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.12%) Law
8 3 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.59%) Marketing
9 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (14.81%) Lead
2 24 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (10.58%) Developer
4 19 (10.05%) Python Developer
5 17 (8.99%) Analyst
6 14 (7.41%) Python Engineer
7 13 (6.88%) Data Analyst
8 11 (5.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Architect
9 10 (5.29%) Data Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Senior
10 8 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 6 (3.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.17%) Test Leader
13 5 (2.65%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (28.57%) Terraform
2 22 (11.64%) REST
3 21 (11.11%) Node.js
4 15 (7.94%) JSON
5 11 (5.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (5.29%) FastAPI
6 10 (5.29%) Kafka
7 9 (4.76%) React
7 9 (4.76%) YAML
8 8 (4.23%) OpenID
8 8 (4.23%) pytest
9 6 (3.17%) .NET
9 6 (3.17%) LDAP
9 6 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.17%) SLSA
10 5 (2.65%) OAuth
10 5 (2.65%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.65%) PySpark
11 3 (1.59%) Jakarta EE
11 3 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.16%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.58%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (5.29%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.70%) PKI
6 6 (3.17%) Blog
6 6 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.65%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.12%) Replication
9 3 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.59%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.59%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.93%) Linux
2 11 (5.82%) Windows
3 8 (4.23%) Unix
4 6 (3.17%) VMS
4 6 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.59%) zOS
7 2 (1.06%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.06%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.53%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 81 (42.86%) DevOps
3 56 (29.63%) Observability
4 45 (23.81%) Agile
5 43 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (20.11%) AI
6 38 (20.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (18.52%) Analytics
8 33 (17.46%) Software Engineering
9 31 (16.40%) DevSecOps
9 31 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
10 30 (15.87%) Data Engineering
11 28 (14.81%) Containerisation
11 28 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
11 28 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (12.17%) LLM
14 22 (11.64%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (11.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 46 (24.34%) Java
2 40 (21.16%) SQL
3 36 (19.05%) Bash
4 28 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 22 (11.64%) Go
6 8 (4.23%) C#
6 8 (4.23%) Groovy
6 8 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.23%) R
7 7 (3.70%) Rust
8 6 (3.17%) VBA
9 5 (2.65%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.12%) Bicep
10 4 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.12%) Scala
10 4 (2.12%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.59%) Cypher
12 2 (1.06%) JCL
12 2 (1.06%) Perl
12 2 (1.06%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (2.65%) Degree
2 4 (2.12%) CISSP
3 3 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (1.59%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.06%) CCSP
4 2 (1.06%) CISM
4 2 (1.06%) GIAC
4 2 (1.06%) NCDA
4 2 (1.06%) NCIE
4 2 (1.06%) OCP
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (1.06%) RHCA
4 2 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.53%) CCNP
5 1 (0.53%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.70%) NIST
3 6 (3.17%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.59%) QA
5 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.53%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (12.70%) Docker
2 10 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.23%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.65%) vSphere
6 4 (2.12%) NFS
7 3 (1.59%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.06%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.06%) SRDF
8 2 (1.06%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.53%) Ceph
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.53%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 62 (32.80%) Kubernetes
2 49 (25.93%) Ansible
3 27 (14.29%) Grafana
4 21 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.82%) Argo
6 7 (3.70%) Control-M
7 6 (3.17%) IBM Guardium
7 6 (3.17%) Nessus
7 6 (3.17%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.65%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.59%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (1.59%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.06%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.06%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.06%) SnapVault
10 2 (1.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (15.34%) Google
1 29 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.94%) Splunk
3 13 (6.88%) Databricks
4 10 (5.29%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.29%) VMware
5 8 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.70%) AppDynamics
6 7 (3.70%) Cisco
6 7 (3.70%) F5
6 7 (3.70%) Infoblox
7 6 (3.17%) Oracle
7 6 (3.17%) Pure Storage
7 6 (3.17%) Sonatype
7 6 (3.17%) Tenable
8 5 (2.65%) Brocade
8 5 (2.65%) Dell
9 4 (2.12%) EMC
9 4 (2.12%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.59%) Checkmarx