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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 169 58 25
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 25.00% 14.80% 7.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 61.68% 45.67% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 39 19
10th Percentile £358 £425 £400
25th Percentile £424 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £539 £630 £609
90th Percentile £675 £700 £626
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

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 274 127 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.53% 32.40% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 85 60
10th Percentile £320 £400 £406
25th Percentile £400 £470 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -3.24% +1.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £650 £682
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -

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 16 November 2025.

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 (8.28%) Confluence
2 6 (3.55%) Apache
3 5 (2.96%) Apache Pig
4 4 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.78%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.18%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.59%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 48 (28.40%) GCP
2 45 (26.63%) AWS
3 31 (18.34%) Serverless
4 23 (13.61%) Azure
5 16 (9.47%) GitHub
5 16 (9.47%) Power Platform
6 12 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.33%) CloudBees
8 8 (4.73%) AWS KMS
9 7 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.14%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.37%) Cohesity
10 4 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.78%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.59%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.59%) OCI
12 1 (0.59%) Route 53
12 1 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.24%) Firewall
2 16 (9.47%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.37%) DNS
4 3 (1.78%) Internet
4 3 (1.78%) NAS
4 3 (1.78%) SAN
5 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (22.49%) NoSQL
3 16 (9.47%) Power BI
4 15 (8.88%) Oracle Database
5 10 (5.92%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.33%) MySQL
6 9 (5.33%) Power Query
7 8 (4.73%) Apache Hive
7 8 (4.73%) Hadoop
8 7 (4.14%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.55%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.96%) PowerPivot
10 5 (2.96%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.78%) HBase
11 3 (1.78%) Metadata
12 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.18%) OLTP
12 2 (1.18%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (47.93%) Jenkins
2 50 (29.59%) GitLab
3 30 (17.75%) Liquibase
4 28 (16.57%) JIRA
5 26 (15.38%) Git
6 16 (9.47%) Postman
7 5 (2.96%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.59%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.59%) Selenium
8 1 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (43.79%) Finance
2 69 (40.83%) Social Skills
3 54 (31.95%) Banking
4 32 (18.93%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (14.79%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.73%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.78%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (1.18%) Police
9 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Law
9 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (16.57%) Senior
2 24 (14.20%) Automation Engineer
2 24 (14.20%) Developer
3 23 (13.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (10.65%) Software Engineer
5 17 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (8.88%) Data Engineer
6 15 (8.88%) GCP Engineer
7 13 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (7.10%) Analyst
9 11 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (6.51%) Technical Engineer
10 10 (5.92%) Senior Technical Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Data Protection Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.33%) Windows Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) AWS Software Engineer
13 7 (4.14%) Data Analyst
13 7 (4.14%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.12%) REST
1 34 (20.12%) RESTful
2 33 (19.53%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (11.83%) FastAPI
4 14 (8.28%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (7.10%) TensorFlow
6 7 (4.14%) Hugging Face
6 7 (4.14%) OpenCV
6 7 (4.14%) PyTorch
6 7 (4.14%) Regular Expression
6 7 (4.14%) SpaCy
7 5 (2.96%) Middleware
7 5 (2.96%) NumPy
7 5 (2.96%) Pandas
8 4 (2.37%) Anaconda
9 3 (1.78%) .NET
9 3 (1.78%) CSS
9 3 (1.78%) HTML
9 3 (1.78%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (1.18%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.93%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (17.75%) Cloud Native
2 30 (17.75%) Public Cloud
3 13 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.37%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.37%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.78%) Clustering
6 3 (1.78%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 58 (34.32%) Linux
2 14 (8.28%) Windows
3 7 (4.14%) Unix
4 6 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.78%) AIX
6 3 (1.78%) Solaris
6 3 (1.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (1.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.59%) CentOS
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.59%) SUSE
8 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (64.50%) DevOps
2 86 (50.89%) Agile
3 74 (43.79%) CI/CD
4 54 (31.95%) Containerisation
5 45 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (22.49%) Microservices
8 37 (21.89%) Computer Science
9 35 (20.71%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (20.12%) Root Cause Analysis
11 33 (19.53%) Data Security
12 31 (18.34%) Configuration Management
12 31 (18.34%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (17.75%) Software Engineering
14 28 (16.57%) Cryptography
15 26 (15.38%) Change Management
15 26 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
15 26 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
15 26 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.08%) Go
2 30 (17.75%) SQL
3 27 (15.98%) Shell Script
4 24 (14.20%) Bash
5 22 (13.02%) Java
6 9 (5.33%) VBA
7 8 (4.73%) Scala
8 7 (4.14%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.37%) Perl
10 3 (1.78%) C#
10 3 (1.78%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.59%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (23.67%) Degree
2 34 (20.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (18.34%) Master's Degree
4 12 (7.10%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.55%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.18%) PMO
1 2 (1.18%) QA
2 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (26.04%) Docker
2 19 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.92%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (2.37%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.37%) vSphere
7 3 (1.78%) Active Directory
7 3 (1.78%) HDFS
8 1 (0.59%) KVM
Systems Management
1 93 (55.03%) Ansible
2 60 (35.50%) Kubernetes
3 49 (28.99%) Terraform
4 44 (26.04%) Grafana
5 43 (25.44%) Prometheus
6 23 (13.61%) Puppet
7 13 (7.69%) NetBackup
8 10 (5.92%) Control-M
8 10 (5.92%) Data Guard
8 10 (5.92%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (5.92%) Nessus
8 10 (5.92%) yum
9 7 (4.14%) SCCM
10 4 (2.37%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.78%) Hadoop YARN
11 3 (1.78%) vRealize
12 2 (1.18%) Argo
13 1 (0.59%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 40 (23.67%) Splunk
2 31 (18.34%) Microsoft
3 25 (14.79%) VMware
4 21 (12.43%) Google
5 19 (11.24%) Red Hat
6 16 (9.47%) MuleSoft
6 16 (9.47%) Oracle
7 14 (8.28%) Commvault
8 10 (5.92%) Tenable
9 9 (5.33%) Veritas
10 5 (2.96%) Databricks
11 4 (2.37%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.78%) F5
13 2 (1.18%) Delphix
14 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
14 1 (0.59%) Bloomberg
14 1 (0.59%) EMC
14 1 (0.59%) Pure Storage
14 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
14 1 (0.59%) Sybase