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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 11 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 162 48 25
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.51% 13.19% 7.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.28% 40.34% 28.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 35 19
10th Percentile £358 £425 £385
25th Percentile £425 £500 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £609
90th Percentile £675 £700 £626
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -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 256 119 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.73% 32.69% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 82 60
10th Percentile £327 £400 £412
25th Percentile £400 £470 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £538 £617 £605
90th Percentile £642 £650 £676
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 30 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 (8.64%) Confluence
2 5 (3.09%) Apache
2 5 (3.09%) Apache Pig
3 4 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.23%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.47%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.62%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 49 (30.25%) GCP
2 47 (29.01%) AWS
3 31 (19.14%) Serverless
4 23 (14.20%) Azure
5 18 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 16 (9.88%) GitHub
7 12 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.56%) CloudBees
9 8 (4.94%) AWS KMS
10 7 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.32%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.47%) Cohesity
13 3 (1.85%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
14 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
14 1 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.62%) Route 53
14 1 (0.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.17%) Firewall
2 7 (4.32%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.47%) DNS
4 3 (1.85%) Internet
4 3 (1.85%) NAS
4 3 (1.85%) SAN
5 1 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.07%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (23.46%) NoSQL
3 18 (11.11%) Power BI
4 14 (8.64%) Oracle Database
5 10 (6.17%) Power Query
5 10 (6.17%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.56%) MySQL
7 8 (4.94%) Apache Hive
7 8 (4.94%) Hadoop
8 7 (4.32%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.70%) PowerPivot
9 6 (3.70%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.09%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.85%) HBase
11 3 (1.85%) Metadata
12 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.23%) OLTP
12 2 (1.23%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (45.06%) Jenkins
2 51 (31.48%) GitLab
3 31 (19.14%) Liquibase
4 28 (17.28%) JIRA
5 19 (11.73%) Git
6 8 (4.94%) Postman
7 5 (3.09%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.62%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.62%) Selenium
8 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.62%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (43.83%) Social Skills
2 69 (42.59%) Finance
3 55 (33.95%) Banking
4 29 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (14.81%) Financial Institution
6 9 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.85%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (1.23%) Police
9 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Law
9 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (16.05%) Developer
2 23 (14.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (13.58%) Automation Engineer
3 22 (13.58%) Senior
4 18 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 17 (10.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (9.26%) GCP Engineer
7 14 (8.64%) Analyst
7 14 (8.64%) Data Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (6.79%) Python Developer
10 9 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Data Protection Engineer
11 8 (4.94%) AWS Software Engineer
12 7 (4.32%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 7 (4.32%) Data Analyst
12 7 (4.32%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.70%) Oracle DBA
13 6 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.22%) REST
2 34 (20.99%) RESTful
3 33 (20.37%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (12.35%) FastAPI
5 14 (8.64%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (7.41%) TensorFlow
7 7 (4.32%) Hugging Face
7 7 (4.32%) OpenCV
7 7 (4.32%) PyTorch
7 7 (4.32%) Regular Expression
7 7 (4.32%) SpaCy
8 5 (3.09%) Middleware
8 5 (3.09%) NumPy
8 5 (3.09%) Pandas
9 4 (2.47%) Anaconda
10 3 (1.85%) .NET
10 3 (1.85%) CSS
10 3 (1.85%) HTML
10 3 (1.85%) Node.js
10 3 (1.85%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.37%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 31 (19.14%) Public Cloud
3 13 (8.02%) Algorithms
3 13 (8.02%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.47%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.85%) Clustering
7 3 (1.85%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 54 (33.33%) Linux
2 8 (4.94%) Windows
3 4 (2.47%) Unix
3 4 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.23%) VMS
6 1 (0.62%) CentOS
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.62%) SUSE
6 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (62.35%) DevOps
2 80 (49.38%) Agile
3 75 (46.30%) CI/CD
4 54 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 45 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (23.46%) Microservices
7 37 (22.84%) Computer Science
8 35 (21.60%) Root Cause Analysis
9 34 (20.99%) Cybersecurity
9 34 (20.99%) Data Security
10 32 (19.75%) Infrastructure Automation
11 31 (19.14%) Software Engineering
12 28 (17.28%) Change Management
12 28 (17.28%) Cryptography
13 26 (16.05%) Continuous Delivery
13 26 (16.05%) Continuous Integration
13 26 (16.05%) High Availability
13 26 (16.05%) Non-Functional Testing
13 26 (16.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (24.69%) Go
2 31 (19.14%) SQL
3 26 (16.05%) Shell Script
4 24 (14.81%) Bash
5 23 (14.20%) Java
6 10 (6.17%) VBA
7 9 (5.56%) Scala
8 7 (4.32%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.47%) Perl
10 3 (1.85%) C#
10 3 (1.85%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.85%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.62%) Groovy
11 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 40 (24.69%) Degree
2 34 (20.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (19.14%) Master's Degree
4 12 (7.41%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (4.32%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.23%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.85%) PMO
2 2 (1.23%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (27.78%) Docker
2 10 (6.17%) Oracle RAC
2 10 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.47%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.47%) vSphere
5 3 (1.85%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.85%) HDFS
5 3 (1.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.62%) KVM
Systems Management
1 84 (51.85%) Ansible
2 61 (37.65%) Kubernetes
3 52 (32.10%) Terraform
4 44 (27.16%) Grafana
5 43 (26.54%) Prometheus
6 14 (8.64%) Puppet
7 13 (8.02%) NetBackup
8 10 (6.17%) Control-M
8 10 (6.17%) Data Guard
8 10 (6.17%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (6.17%) Nessus
8 10 (6.17%) yum
9 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (2.47%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.85%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (1.85%) SCCM
10 3 (1.85%) vRealize
11 2 (1.23%) Argo
12 1 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 40 (24.69%) Splunk
2 26 (16.05%) Microsoft
3 21 (12.96%) Google
4 16 (9.88%) Red Hat
4 16 (9.88%) VMware
5 15 (9.26%) Oracle
6 13 (8.02%) Commvault
7 10 (6.17%) Tenable
8 9 (5.56%) Veritas
9 7 (4.32%) MuleSoft
10 4 (2.47%) Databricks
10 4 (2.47%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.85%) F5
12 2 (1.23%) Delphix
13 1 (0.62%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.62%) Bloomberg
13 1 (0.62%) EMC
13 1 (0.62%) Pure Storage
13 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.62%) Sybase