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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 257 92 86
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 23.45% 19.57% 20.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.94% 56.44% 56.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 65 47
10th Percentile £369 £351 £425
25th Percentile £425 £388 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.31% -22.00%
75th Percentile £552 £550 £577
90th Percentile £615 £620 £641
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £507
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.80% -22.00%

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 436 163 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 39.78% 34.68% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 112 93
10th Percentile £367 £352 £400
25th Percentile £425 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £507
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -2.07% -15.50%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £580
90th Percentile £625 £649 £635
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.15% -13.02%

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 10 July 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 19 (7.39%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.84%) Confluence
3 3 (1.17%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.39%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 61 (23.74%) GCP
2 50 (19.46%) OpenShift
3 44 (17.12%) Azure
4 41 (15.95%) GitHub
5 34 (13.23%) AWS
6 14 (5.45%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.72%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.72%) OCI
11 6 (2.33%) CloudBees
11 6 (2.33%) Slack
12 5 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.95%) Azure Storage
13 4 (1.56%) Serverless
14 3 (1.17%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.17%) Datadog
14 3 (1.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.73%) DNS
2 13 (5.06%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.89%) BIG-IP
3 10 (3.89%) SAN
4 9 (3.50%) DHCP
4 9 (3.50%) Network Security
5 7 (2.72%) Firewall
5 7 (2.72%) NAS
6 4 (1.56%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.17%) HTTP
8 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.78%) DWDM
8 2 (0.78%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.78%) LAN
8 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.78%) VPN
8 2 (0.78%) VSAN
8 2 (0.78%) WAN
9 1 (0.39%) BGP
9 1 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.45%) Power BI
3 13 (5.06%) Hadoop
4 12 (4.67%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.28%) Metadata
5 11 (4.28%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.50%) Neo4j
7 8 (3.11%) Big Data
8 7 (2.72%) Tableau
9 6 (2.33%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.95%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.17%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.78%) Parquet
13 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.39%) MySQL
13 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.39%) QlikView
13 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 81 (31.52%) Jenkins
2 57 (22.18%) JIRA
3 16 (6.23%) Git
3 16 (6.23%) GitLab
4 11 (4.28%) Postman
5 9 (3.50%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.11%) Maven
7 7 (2.72%) JMeter
8 6 (2.33%) Gatling
8 6 (2.33%) NeoLoad
8 6 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.95%) Zephyr
10 4 (1.56%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.56%) MSBuild
10 4 (1.56%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.17%) Liquibase
11 3 (1.17%) Selenium
12 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 69 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 65 (25.29%) Finance
3 54 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.45%) Banking
5 13 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.72%) Publishing
7 4 (1.56%) Advertising
7 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.17%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.17%) Legal
8 3 (1.17%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Law
10 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (16.73%) Developer
2 38 (14.79%) Python Developer
3 37 (14.40%) Lead
4 35 (13.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (9.34%) Architect
6 19 (7.39%) Data Engineer
7 15 (5.84%) Analyst
8 14 (5.45%) Python Engineer
9 13 (5.06%) Senior
10 12 (4.67%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.50%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) GCP DevOps
12 8 (3.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Test Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Test Engineer
13 7 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.72%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (15.95%) OpenTelemetry
2 27 (10.51%) Node.js
3 26 (10.12%) REST
4 24 (9.34%) JSON
5 22 (8.56%) FastAPI
6 18 (7.00%) YAML
7 10 (3.89%) Kafka
7 10 (3.89%) OpenID
8 9 (3.50%) Apache Avro
8 9 (3.50%) Playwright
8 9 (3.50%) Protocol Buffers
9 8 (3.11%) LDAP
9 8 (3.11%) SLSA
10 7 (2.72%) PySpark
10 7 (2.72%) pytest
10 7 (2.72%) React
11 5 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.95%) RESTful
12 4 (1.56%) .NET
12 4 (1.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.73%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.89%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.33%) Blog
7 6 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.33%) PKI
7 6 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.33%) Replication
8 5 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.17%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.78%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.95%) Linux
2 20 (7.78%) Windows
3 11 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.95%) VMS
6 4 (1.56%) Unix
7 3 (1.17%) zOS
8 2 (0.78%) CentOS
8 2 (0.78%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (54.47%) CI/CD
2 115 (44.75%) DevOps
3 78 (30.35%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (23.74%) Agile
4 61 (23.74%) Containerisation
5 57 (22.18%) Observability
6 44 (17.12%) Test Automation
7 43 (16.73%) RBAC
8 41 (15.95%) Analytics
8 41 (15.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (13.62%) Migration
10 32 (12.45%) API Development
11 31 (12.06%) Data Protection
11 31 (12.06%) Validation
12 30 (11.67%) AI
13 28 (10.89%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (10.51%) Data Engineering
14 27 (10.51%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (10.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (10.12%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 43 (16.73%) Bash
2 37 (14.40%) Java
3 31 (12.06%) SQL
4 28 (10.89%) Go
5 26 (10.12%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.67%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.89%) Groovy
8 9 (3.50%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.50%) VBA
9 8 (3.11%) R
9 8 (3.11%) Scala
10 7 (2.72%) Rust
11 6 (2.33%) Cypher
11 6 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.95%) Bicep
13 4 (1.56%) Perl
14 3 (1.17%) C#
14 3 (1.17%) Ruby
15 2 (0.78%) JCL
15 2 (0.78%) REXX
Qualifications
1 8 (3.11%) Degree
2 7 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.33%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.95%) CISSP
5 4 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.17%) CISM
6 3 (1.17%) OCP
6 3 (1.17%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.17%) RHCE
7 2 (0.78%) CCNA
7 2 (0.78%) CCNP
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.78%) GIAC
7 2 (0.78%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.78%) NCDA
7 2 (0.78%) NCIE
7 2 (0.78%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.33%) QA
2 5 (1.95%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.56%) NIST
4 3 (1.17%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.17%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (14.79%) Docker
2 24 (9.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.78%) vSphere
4 13 (5.06%) VMware NSX
5 12 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.33%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.95%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (1.95%) KVM
7 5 (1.95%) NFS
8 4 (1.56%) SRDF
9 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.78%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.39%) Ceph
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 91 (35.41%) Ansible
2 88 (34.24%) Kubernetes
3 68 (26.46%) Terraform
4 50 (19.46%) Grafana
5 44 (17.12%) Prometheus
6 21 (8.17%) Argo
7 19 (7.39%) vCenter Server
8 16 (6.23%) Control-M
9 15 (5.84%) IBM Guardium
9 15 (5.84%) Nessus
10 10 (3.89%) Puppet
11 8 (3.11%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.56%) Kustomize
12 4 (1.56%) PowerCLI
13 3 (1.17%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (0.78%) Istio
14 2 (0.78%) SnapMirror
14 2 (0.78%) SnapVault
14 2 (0.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 38 (14.79%) Splunk
2 31 (12.06%) Red Hat
3 28 (10.89%) Microsoft
3 28 (10.89%) VMware
4 24 (9.34%) Google
5 19 (7.39%) Pure Storage
6 15 (5.84%) Tenable
7 12 (4.67%) F5
7 12 (4.67%) ServiceNow
8 11 (4.28%) Databricks
9 10 (3.89%) Cisco
10 9 (3.50%) Infoblox
11 8 (3.11%) Dell
11 8 (3.11%) Sonatype
12 6 (2.33%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.33%) Brocade
12 6 (2.33%) Commvault
12 6 (2.33%) Veritas
13 5 (1.95%) EMC
13 5 (1.95%) NetApp