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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 207 28 31
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 25.94% 11.91% 8.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.69% 35.90% 25.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 22 15
10th Percentile £369 £483 £358
25th Percentile £450 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £541 £590
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -8.26% -3.28%
75th Percentile £537 £643 £609
90th Percentile £630 £650 £635
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% -26.23%

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 325 78 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.73% 33.19% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 58 80
10th Percentile £364 £400 £411
25th Percentile £450 £480 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £588
90th Percentile £656 £650 £631
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £483
% change year-on-year -6.98% +11.40% -12.27%

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 31 January 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 16 (7.73%) Confluence
2 5 (2.42%) Apache
2 5 (2.42%) Apache Pig
3 4 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.97%) IIS
5 2 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.93%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 59 (28.50%) GCP
2 51 (24.64%) AWS
3 31 (14.98%) Azure
4 27 (13.04%) OpenShift
5 26 (12.56%) Serverless
6 24 (11.59%) GitHub
7 15 (7.25%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.83%) AWS KMS
9 9 (4.35%) CloudBees
9 9 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.90%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.42%) SaaS
13 4 (1.93%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.93%) Cohesity
14 3 (1.45%) Cloud Run
15 2 (0.97%) Azure Functions
15 2 (0.97%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.86%) DNS
2 7 (3.38%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.90%) Firewall
4 3 (1.45%) Internet
4 3 (1.45%) NAS
4 3 (1.45%) VPN
5 2 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.97%) DWDM
5 2 (0.97%) LAN
5 2 (0.97%) Network Security
5 2 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.97%) SAN
5 2 (0.97%) WAN
6 1 (0.48%) HTTP
6 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.32%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (14.98%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.25%) MySQL
3 15 (7.25%) Power BI
4 10 (4.83%) Hadoop
5 8 (3.86%) Apache Hive
5 8 (3.86%) Power Query
5 8 (3.86%) PowerPivot
5 8 (3.86%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.38%) Data Mining
7 6 (2.90%) Metadata
7 6 (2.90%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.42%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.93%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.45%) HBase
10 3 (1.45%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.97%) OLTP
12 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (38.16%) Jenkins
2 57 (27.54%) GitLab
3 44 (21.26%) JIRA
4 22 (10.63%) Liquibase
5 17 (8.21%) Postman
6 11 (5.31%) Git
7 7 (3.38%) Selenium
8 6 (2.90%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.90%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.90%) TestRail
9 5 (2.42%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.93%) Gatling
10 4 (1.93%) JMeter
10 4 (1.93%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.93%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.45%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.97%) Maven
12 2 (0.97%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 75 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 61 (29.47%) Finance
3 52 (25.12%) Banking
4 35 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.70%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.45%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.97%) Law
9 2 (0.97%) Legal
9 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 1 (0.48%) Police
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
10 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (13.04%) Developer
2 24 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (10.14%) Lead
4 19 (9.18%) GCP Engineer
5 18 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
5 18 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 17 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (8.21%) Senior
7 16 (7.73%) Analyst
8 15 (7.25%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.28%) Python Developer
10 12 (5.80%) Architect
11 11 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (4.35%) Automation Test Lead
12 9 (4.35%) Data Protection Engineer
13 8 (3.86%) Strategy Analyst
13 8 (3.86%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.86%) Test Engineer
14 7 (3.38%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.36%) REST
2 30 (14.49%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (14.01%) RESTful
4 25 (12.08%) OpenTelemetry
5 24 (11.59%) YAML
6 16 (7.73%) FastAPI
7 12 (5.80%) OpenID
8 11 (5.31%) Node.js
9 10 (4.83%) LDAP
10 9 (4.35%) Playwright
10 9 (4.35%) SailPoint
10 9 (4.35%) TensorFlow
11 7 (3.38%) .NET
12 5 (2.42%) NumPy
12 5 (2.42%) Pandas
13 4 (1.93%) Anaconda
13 4 (1.93%) Kafka
13 4 (1.93%) OpenCV
13 4 (1.93%) PyTorch
13 4 (1.93%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.46%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (14.98%) Cloud Native
3 25 (12.08%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.28%) Algorithms
4 13 (6.28%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.83%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.83%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.90%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.45%) Clustering
9 3 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.45%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.97%) PKI
10 2 (0.97%) Replication
10 2 (0.97%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (25.12%) Linux
2 10 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.86%) CentOS
3 8 (3.86%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.86%) Windows
4 5 (2.42%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
5 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (61.35%) CI/CD
2 121 (58.45%) DevOps
3 71 (34.30%) Containerisation
4 66 (31.88%) Agile
5 56 (27.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (20.77%) Root Cause Analysis
7 43 (20.77%) Test Automation
8 34 (16.43%) RBAC
9 33 (15.94%) Computer Science
10 32 (15.46%) Observability
11 31 (14.98%) Cybersecurity
12 30 (14.49%) Microservices
13 29 (14.01%) Data Security
14 27 (13.04%) Change Management
15 26 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (12.08%) High Availability
17 24 (11.59%) Cryptography
17 24 (11.59%) Data Protection
18 22 (10.63%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 46 (22.22%) Java
2 38 (18.36%) Bash
3 37 (17.87%) Go
4 36 (17.39%) SQL
5 18 (8.70%) Scala
6 15 (7.25%) Shell Script
7 12 (5.80%) Perl
8 10 (4.83%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.35%) VBA
10 8 (3.86%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.86%) Ruby
11 6 (2.90%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.90%) PHP
12 4 (1.93%) Cypher
12 4 (1.93%) Groovy
13 2 (0.97%) Bicep
14 1 (0.48%) C#
14 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 36 (17.39%) Degree
2 30 (14.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (12.56%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.86%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.86%) RHCE
5 6 (2.90%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.45%) CISM
7 3 (1.45%) CISSP
8 2 (0.97%) CCNA
8 2 (0.97%) CCNP
8 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.97%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.97%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.97%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.35%) QA
2 4 (1.93%) PMO
3 3 (1.45%) SLA
4 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.97%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (23.67%) Docker
2 7 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.93%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (1.93%) vSphere
4 3 (1.45%) HDFS
4 3 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.45%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.97%) KVM
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.48%) NFS
6 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 95 (45.89%) Ansible
2 74 (35.75%) Kubernetes
3 68 (32.85%) Terraform
4 55 (26.57%) Grafana
5 52 (25.12%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.70%) Puppet
7 14 (6.76%) Control-M
7 14 (6.76%) IBM Guardium
7 14 (6.76%) Nessus
8 13 (6.28%) NetBackup
9 4 (1.93%) Argo
9 4 (1.93%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.45%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.97%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.97%) yum
12 1 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.48%) Kibana
12 1 (0.48%) logstash
12 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (19.81%) Splunk
2 39 (18.84%) Red Hat
3 24 (11.59%) Google
4 21 (10.14%) Microsoft
5 17 (8.21%) ServiceNow
6 14 (6.76%) Tenable
7 13 (6.28%) Commvault
8 9 (4.35%) Veritas
9 8 (3.86%) Oracle
9 8 (3.86%) VMware
10 4 (1.93%) Okta
10 4 (1.93%) Pure Storage
11 3 (1.45%) Cisco
11 3 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.97%) Delphix
12 2 (0.97%) EMC
12 2 (0.97%) NetApp
12 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.97%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.97%) Teradata