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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 9 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Python 216 30 31
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 26.54% 12.55% 8.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.86% 35.71% 25.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 23 14
10th Percentile £374 £485 £349
25th Percentile £446 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -11.65%
75th Percentile £537 £636 £598
90th Percentile £634 £650 £635
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £441
% change year-on-year -13.04% +30.31% -29.12%

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 333 84 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.91% 35.15% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 63 76
10th Percentile £368 £400 £409
25th Percentile £446 £470 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +6.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £587
90th Percentile £656 £650 £597
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £534 £475
% change year-on-year -6.28% +12.32% -13.64%

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 7 February 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 15 (6.94%) Confluence
2 5 (2.31%) Apache
2 5 (2.31%) Apache Pig
3 4 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.93%) IIS
5 2 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.85%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.78%) GCP
2 51 (23.61%) AWS
3 34 (15.74%) OpenShift
4 31 (14.35%) Azure
5 29 (13.43%) GitHub
6 26 (12.04%) Serverless
7 15 (6.94%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.63%) AWS KMS
9 9 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.24%) CloudBees
12 6 (2.78%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.31%) SaaS
14 4 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.85%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.85%) Cohesity
15 3 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.39%) Azure Storage
15 3 (1.39%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.56%) DNS
2 8 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.31%) Firewall
4 4 (1.85%) NAS
4 4 (1.85%) Network Security
5 3 (1.39%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.39%) Internet
5 3 (1.39%) SAN
5 3 (1.39%) VPN
6 2 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.93%) DHCP
6 2 (0.93%) DWDM
6 2 (0.93%) LAN
6 2 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.93%) WAN
7 1 (0.46%) HTTP
7 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (14.35%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.94%) MySQL
3 15 (6.94%) Power BI
4 10 (4.63%) Hadoop
5 8 (3.70%) Apache Hive
5 8 (3.70%) Power Query
5 8 (3.70%) PowerPivot
6 7 (3.24%) Data Mining
7 6 (2.78%) Metadata
7 6 (2.78%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.31%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.85%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.85%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.39%) HBase
10 3 (1.39%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.93%) OLTP
12 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 83 (38.43%) Jenkins
2 56 (25.93%) GitLab
3 48 (22.22%) JIRA
4 22 (10.19%) Liquibase
5 17 (7.87%) Postman
6 10 (4.63%) Git
7 8 (3.70%) Selenium
8 6 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.78%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.78%) TestRail
9 5 (2.31%) JMeter
9 5 (2.31%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.85%) Gatling
10 4 (1.85%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.85%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.39%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.93%) Maven
12 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 79 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 68 (31.48%) Finance
3 53 (24.54%) Banking
4 35 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 11 (5.09%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.39%) Legal
8 3 (1.39%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.93%) Law
9 2 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.46%) Advertising
10 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Publishing
10 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (12.50%) Developer
2 24 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (10.19%) Lead
4 19 (8.80%) GCP Engineer
5 17 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (7.87%) Senior
6 16 (7.41%) Analyst
6 16 (7.41%) Architect
6 16 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
6 16 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 15 (6.94%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.02%) Python Developer
9 11 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.17%) Automation Test Lead
12 8 (3.70%) Strategy Analyst
12 8 (3.70%) Test Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.70%) Test Engineer
13 7 (3.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 7 (3.24%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (18.06%) REST
2 29 (13.43%) Elastic Stack
2 29 (13.43%) OpenTelemetry
3 28 (12.96%) RESTful
4 25 (11.57%) YAML
5 14 (6.48%) FastAPI
6 12 (5.56%) OpenID
7 11 (5.09%) Node.js
8 10 (4.63%) LDAP
9 9 (4.17%) Playwright
9 9 (4.17%) SailPoint
9 9 (4.17%) TensorFlow
10 7 (3.24%) .NET
10 7 (3.24%) JSON
11 5 (2.31%) Kafka
11 5 (2.31%) NumPy
11 5 (2.31%) Pandas
12 4 (1.85%) OpenCV
12 4 (1.85%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.85%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.28%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (11.57%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.02%) Algorithms
5 12 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.78%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.39%) Clustering
11 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.39%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.93%) PKI
12 2 (0.93%) Replication
12 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (25.46%) Linux
2 10 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.17%) Windows
4 8 (3.70%) CentOS
4 8 (3.70%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.31%) Unix
6 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (61.57%) CI/CD
2 119 (55.09%) DevOps
3 73 (33.80%) Containerisation
4 66 (30.56%) Agile
5 58 (26.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (25.46%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (20.37%) Root Cause Analysis
8 40 (18.52%) Test Automation
9 37 (17.13%) RBAC
10 35 (16.20%) Observability
11 33 (15.28%) Computer Science
11 33 (15.28%) Cybersecurity
12 31 (14.35%) Microservices
13 30 (13.89%) Change Management
14 29 (13.43%) Data Security
15 28 (12.96%) High Availability
16 27 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 24 (11.11%) Analytics
17 24 (11.11%) Cryptography
17 24 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (20.83%) Java
2 38 (17.59%) Bash
2 38 (17.59%) Go
3 36 (16.67%) SQL
4 18 (8.33%) Scala
5 15 (6.94%) Shell Script
6 12 (5.56%) Perl
7 11 (5.09%) VBA
8 10 (4.63%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.17%) Ruby
10 8 (3.70%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.78%) PHP
12 5 (2.31%) Groovy
13 4 (1.85%) Cypher
14 3 (1.39%) Bicep
15 1 (0.46%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.46%) C#
15 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 36 (16.67%) Degree
2 30 (13.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (12.04%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.70%) RHCE
5 7 (3.24%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.85%) CISM
6 4 (1.85%) CISSP
7 2 (0.93%) CCNA
7 2 (0.93%) CCNP
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.93%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.93%) JNCIS
7 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.63%) QA
2 4 (1.85%) PMO
3 3 (1.39%) SLA
4 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (22.69%) Docker
2 12 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.24%) vSphere
4 5 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.31%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 3 (1.39%) HDFS
6 3 (1.39%) KVM
7 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.46%) NFS
Systems Management
1 98 (45.37%) Ansible
2 83 (38.43%) Kubernetes
3 72 (33.33%) Terraform
4 57 (26.39%) Grafana
5 53 (24.54%) Prometheus
6 17 (7.87%) Puppet
7 14 (6.48%) Control-M
7 14 (6.48%) IBM Guardium
7 14 (6.48%) Nessus
8 11 (5.09%) NetBackup
9 7 (3.24%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.78%) Argo
11 3 (1.39%) Hadoop YARN
12 2 (0.93%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.46%) Istio
13 1 (0.46%) Kibana
13 1 (0.46%) logstash
13 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 45 (20.83%) Splunk
2 40 (18.52%) Red Hat
3 25 (11.57%) Google
4 22 (10.19%) Microsoft
5 17 (7.87%) ServiceNow
6 14 (6.48%) Tenable
7 11 (5.09%) Commvault
8 9 (4.17%) VMware
9 7 (3.24%) Pure Storage
9 7 (3.24%) Veritas
10 6 (2.78%) Oracle
11 4 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.85%) Okta
12 3 (1.39%) Alibaba
12 3 (1.39%) Cisco
12 3 (1.39%) F5
12 3 (1.39%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.93%) EMC
13 2 (0.93%) Infoblox
13 2 (0.93%) NetApp