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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +22
Contract jobs citing Python 196 142 73
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 18.77% 24.07% 17.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.65% 56.35% 50.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 102 51
10th Percentile £400 £386 £460
25th Percentile £435 £448 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -9.13%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £624
90th Percentile £675 £673 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -9.13%

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 387 252 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 37.07% 42.71% 34.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 178 100
10th Percentile £381 £325 £398
25th Percentile £438 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -8.86% -9.19%
75th Percentile £570 £542 £600
90th Percentile £669 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £484 £534
% change year-on-year +3.31% -9.36% -9.10%

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 6 October 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 9 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.06%) Confluence
3 4 (2.04%) Apache
3 4 (2.04%) SAS
4 3 (1.53%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.02%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.51%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.51%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 77 (39.29%) GCP
2 58 (29.59%) Azure
3 46 (23.47%) AWS
4 23 (11.73%) GitHub
5 18 (9.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 15 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.63%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.10%) Cloud Run
8 10 (5.10%) Entra ID
8 10 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.57%) Datadog
10 7 (3.57%) OpenShift
11 6 (3.06%) Serverless
11 6 (3.06%) Slack
12 4 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.04%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.04%) Kong
12 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.18%) Network Security
2 13 (6.63%) DNS
3 7 (3.57%) Firewall
3 7 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.55%) BIG-IP
4 5 (2.55%) DHCP
4 5 (2.55%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.53%) HTTP
5 3 (1.53%) VPN
6 2 (1.02%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.02%) Internet
6 2 (1.02%) NAS
6 2 (1.02%) SAN
6 2 (1.02%) VSAN
6 2 (1.02%) WAN
7 1 (0.51%) Calico
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.51%) LAN
7 1 (0.51%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.16%) Metadata
2 13 (6.63%) Power BI
3 10 (5.10%) Big Data
3 10 (5.10%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.59%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.59%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.57%) Neo4j
6 7 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.06%) Tableau
8 5 (2.55%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.02%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.02%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.51%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 39 (19.90%) Jenkins
2 31 (15.82%) JIRA
3 20 (10.20%) Git
4 9 (4.59%) Maven
5 8 (4.08%) Claude Code
5 8 (4.08%) GitLab
5 8 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.57%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.57%) Zephyr
7 6 (3.06%) Gatling
7 6 (3.06%) JMeter
7 6 (3.06%) NeoLoad
8 4 (2.04%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.04%) MSBuild
8 4 (2.04%) Postman
8 4 (2.04%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.51%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.51%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.51%) TruffleHog
General
1 64 (32.65%) Finance
2 47 (23.98%) Social Skills
3 37 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.27%) Banking
5 7 (3.57%) Publishing
6 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.04%) Law
7 3 (1.53%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.53%) Marketing
8 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.51%) Legal
9 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (13.78%) Developer
2 25 (12.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (12.76%) Lead
3 21 (10.71%) Python Developer
4 20 (10.20%) Senior
5 16 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (6.63%) Analyst
7 11 (5.61%) Data Analyst
7 11 (5.61%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 9 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Architect
10 8 (4.08%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Test Leader
13 5 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (31.63%) Terraform
2 24 (12.24%) Node.js
2 24 (12.24%) REST
3 16 (8.16%) React
4 14 (7.14%) OpenID
5 12 (6.12%) OAuth
5 12 (6.12%) OAuth2
6 11 (5.61%) JSON
7 10 (5.10%) pytest
8 9 (4.59%) FastAPI
8 9 (4.59%) Kafka
8 9 (4.59%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (4.59%) SAML
9 8 (4.08%) YAML
10 7 (3.57%) .NET
10 7 (3.57%) JWT
11 6 (3.06%) LDAP
11 6 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.55%) PySpark
12 5 (2.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.98%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.20%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.10%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.08%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.08%) PKI
6 6 (3.06%) Blog
6 6 (3.06%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.06%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.04%) Replication
8 4 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.53%) Clustering
9 3 (1.53%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.53%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.33%) Linux
2 12 (6.12%) Windows
3 11 (5.61%) Unix
4 7 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.06%) VMS
6 3 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.53%) zOS
7 2 (1.02%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.02%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.51%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 88 (44.90%) DevOps
3 66 (33.67%) Observability
4 52 (26.53%) Agile
5 50 (25.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (22.45%) Software Engineering
7 43 (21.94%) AI
8 39 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (16.84%) DevSecOps
9 33 (16.84%) Platform Engineering
10 32 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (15.31%) Analytics
12 28 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 28 (14.29%) Data Engineering
12 28 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
13 27 (13.78%) LLM
14 26 (13.27%) Cloud Security
15 25 (12.76%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (12.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.49%) Java
2 42 (21.43%) SQL
3 36 (18.37%) Bash
4 33 (16.84%) PowerShell
5 30 (15.31%) Go
6 12 (6.12%) C#
7 9 (4.59%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.08%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.57%) Rust
10 6 (3.06%) Groovy
10 6 (3.06%) R
11 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.04%) Bicep
12 4 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.04%) VBA
13 3 (1.53%) Cypher
13 3 (1.53%) Scala
14 2 (1.02%) JCL
14 2 (1.02%) Perl
14 2 (1.02%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (4.59%) Degree
2 6 (3.06%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.55%) CISSP
4 4 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.53%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.02%) CCNP
6 2 (1.02%) CCSP
6 2 (1.02%) CISM
6 2 (1.02%) GIAC
6 2 (1.02%) NCDA
6 2 (1.02%) NCIE
6 2 (1.02%) RHCA
6 2 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.51%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.51%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.06%) NIST
3 5 (2.55%) HIPAA
3 5 (2.55%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.55%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.02%) QA
5 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (12.24%) Docker
2 9 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.04%) NFS
6 2 (1.02%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.02%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.02%) SRDF
6 2 (1.02%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.02%) vSphere
7 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.51%) Ceph
7 1 (0.51%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 63 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 42 (21.43%) Ansible
3 26 (13.27%) Grafana
4 24 (12.24%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.08%) Argo
5 8 (4.08%) Control-M
6 7 (3.57%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (3.57%) Nessus
7 5 (2.55%) Kustomize
8 4 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.53%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.02%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.02%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.02%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.02%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.02%) SnapVault
10 2 (1.02%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 38 (19.39%) Google
2 31 (15.82%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.12%) Databricks
4 12 (6.12%) Splunk
5 7 (3.57%) AppDynamics
5 7 (3.57%) Okta
5 7 (3.57%) Tenable
5 7 (3.57%) VMware
6 6 (3.06%) Cisco
6 6 (3.06%) Oracle
7 5 (2.55%) F5
7 5 (2.55%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.55%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.55%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.04%) Brocade
8 4 (2.04%) Dell
8 4 (2.04%) Ping Identity
8 4 (2.04%) Sonatype
9 3 (1.53%) Teradata