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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 264 79 91
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.07% 18.41% 21.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.86% 52.67% 59.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 53 46
10th Percentile £373 £350 £425
25th Percentile £425 £385 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.35% -22.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £578
90th Percentile £613 £645 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -22.00%

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 441 150 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.20% 34.97% 35.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 100 89
10th Percentile £367 £352 £400
25th Percentile £425 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -15.50%
75th Percentile £557 £599 £579
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.15% -14.83%

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 1 July 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 (7.20%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.68%) Confluence
3 3 (1.14%) SAS
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 59 (22.35%) GCP
2 51 (19.32%) OpenShift
3 43 (16.29%) Azure
4 40 (15.15%) GitHub
5 34 (12.88%) AWS
6 15 (5.68%) Power Platform
7 11 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.65%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.65%) OCI
10 6 (2.27%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.27%) Slack
11 5 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.89%) Azure Storage
12 4 (1.52%) Serverless
13 3 (1.14%) Cloud Run
13 3 (1.14%) Datadog
13 3 (1.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.09%) DNS
2 13 (4.92%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.79%) BIG-IP
3 10 (3.79%) SAN
4 9 (3.41%) DHCP
5 8 (3.03%) Network Security
6 7 (2.65%) Firewall
6 7 (2.65%) NAS
7 4 (1.52%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.14%) HTTP
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.76%) DWDM
9 2 (0.76%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.76%) LAN
9 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.76%) VPN
9 2 (0.76%) VSAN
9 2 (0.76%) WAN
10 1 (0.38%) BGP
10 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.68%) Power BI
3 14 (5.30%) Hadoop
4 12 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.17%) Metadata
5 11 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.03%) Big Data
6 8 (3.03%) Neo4j
7 7 (2.65%) Tableau
8 5 (1.89%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.52%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.14%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.76%) Parquet
12 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.38%) MySQL
12 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.38%) QlikView
12 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 79 (29.92%) Jenkins
2 55 (20.83%) JIRA
3 15 (5.68%) Git
3 15 (5.68%) GitLab
4 12 (4.55%) Postman
5 9 (3.41%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.03%) Maven
7 6 (2.27%) JMeter
8 5 (1.89%) Gatling
8 5 (1.89%) NeoLoad
8 5 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.52%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.52%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.14%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.14%) MSBuild
10 3 (1.14%) Selenium
10 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.76%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 72 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 64 (24.24%) Finance
3 55 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (12.88%) Banking
5 15 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.65%) Publishing
7 4 (1.52%) Advertising
7 4 (1.52%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.14%) Legal
8 3 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Law
9 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (16.29%) Developer
2 40 (15.15%) Lead
3 38 (14.39%) Python Developer
4 34 (12.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (9.85%) Architect
6 20 (7.58%) Data Engineer
7 16 (6.06%) Analyst
8 14 (5.30%) Python Engineer
9 13 (4.92%) Senior
10 12 (4.55%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.41%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.03%) GCP DevOps
12 8 (3.03%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.65%) Consultant
13 7 (2.65%) Test Automation Engineer
13 7 (2.65%) Test Engineer
14 6 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (15.53%) OpenTelemetry
2 28 (10.61%) Node.js
3 25 (9.47%) REST
3 25 (9.47%) YAML
4 24 (9.09%) JSON
5 22 (8.33%) FastAPI
6 10 (3.79%) Playwright
7 9 (3.41%) Apache Avro
7 9 (3.41%) Kafka
7 9 (3.41%) OpenID
7 9 (3.41%) Protocol Buffers
8 8 (3.03%) PySpark
8 8 (3.03%) SLSA
9 7 (2.65%) LDAP
9 7 (2.65%) React
10 6 (2.27%) pytest
11 5 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.89%) RESTful
12 4 (1.52%) OAuth
12 4 (1.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.47%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.27%) Blog
7 6 (2.27%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.27%) PKI
7 6 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.27%) Replication
8 5 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.14%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.76%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 43 (16.29%) Linux
2 20 (7.58%) Windows
3 14 (5.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.89%) CentOS
5 5 (1.89%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.89%) VMS
6 4 (1.52%) Unix
7 3 (1.14%) zOS
8 2 (0.76%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.76%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (54.17%) CI/CD
2 118 (44.70%) DevOps
3 80 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (23.11%) Containerisation
5 59 (22.35%) Agile
6 55 (20.83%) Observability
7 49 (18.56%) RBAC
8 45 (17.05%) Test Automation
9 41 (15.53%) Analytics
10 40 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (14.39%) Migration
12 32 (12.12%) API Development
13 31 (11.74%) AI
13 31 (11.74%) Data Protection
14 30 (11.36%) Validation
15 27 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.23%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (10.23%) Data Engineering
15 27 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (9.85%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 43 (16.29%) Bash
2 39 (14.77%) Java
3 32 (12.12%) SQL
4 27 (10.23%) Go
5 24 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.79%) Groovy
7 10 (3.79%) Scala
7 10 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.79%) VBA
8 8 (3.03%) R
9 7 (2.65%) Perl
9 7 (2.65%) Rust
10 6 (2.27%) Ruby
10 6 (2.27%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.89%) Bicep
11 5 (1.89%) Cypher
12 3 (1.14%) C#
13 2 (0.76%) JCL
13 2 (0.76%) REXX
Qualifications
1 8 (3.03%) Degree
2 7 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.27%) RHCE
3 6 (2.27%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.89%) CISSP
5 4 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.14%) CISM
6 3 (1.14%) OCP
6 3 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.76%) CCNA
7 2 (0.76%) CCNP
7 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.76%) GIAC
7 2 (0.76%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.76%) NCDA
7 2 (0.76%) NCIE
7 2 (0.76%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.27%) QA
2 5 (1.89%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.52%) NIST
4 3 (1.14%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.14%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (14.39%) Docker
2 24 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.58%) vSphere
4 13 (4.92%) VMware NSX
5 12 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.27%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.89%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.89%) KVM
7 5 (1.89%) NFS
8 4 (1.52%) SRDF
9 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.76%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.76%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.38%) Ceph
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 97 (36.74%) Ansible
2 86 (32.58%) Kubernetes
3 65 (24.62%) Terraform
4 47 (17.80%) Grafana
5 42 (15.91%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.58%) Argo
7 19 (7.20%) vCenter Server
8 16 (6.06%) Control-M
9 15 (5.68%) IBM Guardium
9 15 (5.68%) Nessus
10 13 (4.92%) Puppet
11 8 (3.03%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.52%) PowerCLI
13 3 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
13 3 (1.14%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.76%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (0.76%) Istio
14 2 (0.76%) SnapMirror
14 2 (0.76%) SnapVault
14 2 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 39 (14.77%) Splunk
2 38 (14.39%) Red Hat
3 28 (10.61%) VMware
4 27 (10.23%) Microsoft
5 23 (8.71%) Google
6 19 (7.20%) Pure Storage
7 15 (5.68%) Tenable
8 12 (4.55%) F5
8 12 (4.55%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.79%) Cisco
9 10 (3.79%) Databricks
10 9 (3.41%) Infoblox
11 8 (3.03%) Dell
11 8 (3.03%) Sonatype
12 6 (2.27%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.27%) Brocade
12 6 (2.27%) Commvault
12 6 (2.27%) Veritas
13 5 (1.89%) EMC
13 5 (1.89%) NetApp