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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -14
Contract jobs citing Python 192 32 26
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.81% 12.96% 6.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.72% 43.24% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 26 17
10th Percentile £395 £491 £370
25th Percentile £450 £514 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £579 £590
Median % change year-on-year -13.61% -1.91% -2.48%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £619
90th Percentile £628 £700 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £579 £490
% change year-on-year -13.61% +18.11% -19.01%

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 327 74 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.25% 29.96% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 54 82
10th Percentile £350 £369 £412
25th Percentile £416 £473 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £588
90th Percentile £626 £668 £649
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -9.09%

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 14 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 15 (7.81%) Confluence
2 6 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.60%) Apache
3 5 (2.60%) Apache Pig
4 3 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.04%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.69%) GCP
2 55 (28.65%) AWS
3 28 (14.58%) Azure
3 28 (14.58%) Serverless
4 19 (9.90%) GitHub
5 17 (8.85%) OpenShift
5 17 (8.85%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.21%) AWS KMS
7 9 (4.69%) CloudBees
8 8 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.60%) SaaS
10 4 (2.08%) Cohesity
11 3 (1.56%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.56%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.52%) Apigee
12 1 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) Firewall
1 5 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.08%) DNS
3 3 (1.56%) Internet
4 2 (1.04%) HTTP
5 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.23%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.85%) Power BI
4 16 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 15 (7.81%) MySQL
6 14 (7.29%) Oracle Database
7 10 (5.21%) Power Query
8 9 (4.69%) Hadoop
9 8 (4.17%) Apache Hive
9 8 (4.17%) PowerPivot
10 7 (3.65%) Data Mining
11 6 (3.13%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.60%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.56%) HBase
14 2 (1.04%) Metadata
14 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.04%) Neo4j
14 2 (1.04%) OLTP
15 1 (0.52%) Data Hub
15 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 73 (38.02%) Jenkins
2 56 (29.17%) GitLab
3 38 (19.79%) JIRA
4 27 (14.06%) Liquibase
5 18 (9.38%) Git
6 13 (6.77%) Postman
7 7 (3.65%) Selenium
8 6 (3.13%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.13%) REST Assured
8 6 (3.13%) TestRail
9 5 (2.60%) PyCharm
10 3 (1.56%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.04%) Gatling
11 2 (1.04%) JMeter
11 2 (1.04%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.04%) NeoLoad
12 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.52%) Travis CI
12 1 (0.52%) WebDriver
General
1 77 (40.10%) Social Skills
2 66 (34.38%) Finance
3 51 (26.56%) Banking
4 30 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.42%) Financial Institution
6 10 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.56%) Law
8 3 (1.56%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Police
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (11.98%) Automation Engineer
1 23 (11.98%) Developer
2 22 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (9.90%) Senior
4 18 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (9.38%) Software Engineer
5 16 (8.33%) Analyst
5 16 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
5 16 (8.33%) Lead
6 15 (7.81%) Data Engineer
7 13 (6.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.69%) Data Protection Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Administrator
11 8 (4.17%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Strategy Analyst
12 7 (3.65%) Architect
12 7 (3.65%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 7 (3.65%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.27%) REST
2 33 (17.19%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (15.63%) RESTful
4 20 (10.42%) FastAPI
5 18 (9.38%) YAML
6 15 (7.81%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (4.69%) .NET
7 9 (4.69%) OpenID
8 8 (4.17%) TensorFlow
9 7 (3.65%) LDAP
9 7 (3.65%) SailPoint
10 6 (3.13%) Node.js
11 5 (2.60%) NumPy
11 5 (2.60%) Pandas
12 4 (2.08%) Anaconda
12 4 (2.08%) Playwright
13 3 (1.56%) Hugging Face
13 3 (1.56%) PyTorch
13 3 (1.56%) SpaCy
13 3 (1.56%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.63%) Cloud Native
1 30 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (15.10%) Public Cloud
3 13 (6.77%) Algorithms
3 13 (6.77%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.08%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.56%) Clustering
7 3 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.56%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.04%) PKI
8 2 (1.04%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 59 (30.73%) Linux
2 7 (3.65%) CentOS
2 7 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.65%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.13%) Windows
4 5 (2.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (61.98%) DevOps
2 107 (55.73%) CI/CD
3 71 (36.98%) Agile
4 61 (31.77%) Containerisation
5 55 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
8 39 (20.31%) Test Automation
9 33 (17.19%) Microservices
10 32 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 31 (16.15%) Cybersecurity
12 30 (15.63%) Data Security
13 27 (14.06%) Change Management
14 26 (13.54%) Software Engineering
15 25 (13.02%) Continuous Integration
15 25 (13.02%) High Availability
15 25 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
16 24 (12.50%) Cryptography
16 24 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (21.88%) Java
2 40 (20.83%) Go
3 36 (18.75%) Bash
4 35 (18.23%) SQL
5 26 (13.54%) Shell Script
6 13 (6.77%) Scala
7 11 (5.73%) Perl
8 10 (5.21%) VBA
9 9 (4.69%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.65%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.65%) Ruby
11 6 (3.13%) PHP
12 5 (2.60%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.56%) C#
14 2 (1.04%) Cypher
14 2 (1.04%) Groovy
15 1 (0.52%) Bicep
15 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 35 (18.23%) Degree
2 29 (15.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (14.06%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.65%) RHCE
5 7 (3.65%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.04%) CISM
8 2 (1.04%) CISSP
8 2 (1.04%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (2.08%) PMO
3 3 (1.56%) SLA
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (23.44%) Docker
2 10 (5.21%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.56%) HDFS
5 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.52%) KVM
6 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (51.56%) Ansible
2 68 (35.42%) Kubernetes
3 62 (32.29%) Terraform
4 49 (25.52%) Grafana
5 46 (23.96%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.38%) Puppet
7 13 (6.77%) NetBackup
8 10 (5.21%) Control-M
8 10 (5.21%) Data Guard
8 10 (5.21%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (5.21%) Nessus
8 10 (5.21%) yum
9 3 (1.56%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (1.04%) Argo
10 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (1.04%) SCCM
11 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (20.83%) Splunk
2 32 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 21 (10.94%) Google
4 20 (10.42%) Microsoft
5 16 (8.33%) Oracle
6 14 (7.29%) ServiceNow
7 13 (6.77%) Commvault
8 10 (5.21%) Tenable
9 9 (4.69%) Veritas
10 8 (4.17%) VMware
11 2 (1.04%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.04%) Delphix
11 2 (1.04%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.04%) Okta
12 1 (0.52%) Alibaba
12 1 (0.52%) Databricks
12 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.52%) Pure Storage