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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 229 111 83
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 21.79% 21.06% 19.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.54% 57.81% 56.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 75 53
10th Percentile £374 £351 £425
25th Percentile £424 £394 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -6.73% -20.00%
75th Percentile £552 £553 £622
90th Percentile £621 £626 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £520
% change year-on-year +3.09% -6.73% -20.00%

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 398 192 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 37.87% 36.43% 34.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 129 96
10th Percentile £363 £334 £400
25th Percentile £413 £384 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.21% -13.75%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £591
90th Percentile £625 £625 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -9.57%

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 28 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 20 (8.73%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.11%) Confluence
3 3 (1.31%) SAS
4 2 (0.87%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.44%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.71%) GCP
2 46 (20.09%) OpenShift
3 42 (18.34%) Azure
4 38 (16.59%) GitHub
5 31 (13.54%) AWS
6 15 (6.55%) Power Platform
7 11 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.06%) OCI
9 6 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.62%) CloudBees
9 6 (2.62%) Slack
10 5 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.75%) Datadog
11 4 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.31%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.31%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.31%) Serverless
13 2 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.04%) DNS
2 10 (4.37%) BIG-IP
2 10 (4.37%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.93%) DHCP
3 9 (3.93%) SAN
4 7 (3.06%) Network Security
5 5 (2.18%) Firewall
5 5 (2.18%) NAS
6 4 (1.75%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.31%) HTTP
8 2 (0.87%) VSAN
9 1 (0.44%) BGP
9 1 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.44%) Internet
9 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.55%) Power BI
3 13 (5.68%) Hadoop
4 12 (5.24%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.80%) Metadata
6 8 (3.49%) Big Data
7 7 (3.06%) Tableau
8 6 (2.62%) Neo4j
8 6 (2.62%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.18%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.31%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.87%) Parquet
12 1 (0.44%) Apache Arrow
12 1 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.44%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.44%) Trino
Development Applications
1 69 (30.13%) Jenkins
2 49 (21.40%) JIRA
3 13 (5.68%) Git
3 13 (5.68%) GitLab
4 8 (3.49%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.06%) Maven
6 5 (2.18%) JMeter
6 5 (2.18%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.75%) Gatling
7 4 (1.75%) MSBuild
7 4 (1.75%) NeoLoad
7 4 (1.75%) Postman
7 4 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.75%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.31%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.31%) Selenium
9 2 (0.87%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.87%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.44%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.44%) TruffleHog
General
1 65 (28.38%) Finance
2 63 (27.51%) Social Skills
3 50 (21.83%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.97%) Banking
5 11 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.06%) Publishing
7 4 (1.75%) Advertising
7 4 (1.75%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.31%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Law
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (15.72%) Developer
2 35 (15.28%) Python Developer
3 33 (14.41%) Lead
4 29 (12.66%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (8.30%) Architect
5 19 (8.30%) Data Engineer
6 16 (6.99%) Python Engineer
7 15 (6.55%) Analyst
8 12 (5.24%) Data Analyst
8 12 (5.24%) Senior
9 9 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.49%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.06%) Consultant
12 6 (2.62%) Administrator
12 6 (2.62%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) DevOps Developer
12 6 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) Lead DevOps
12 6 (2.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.28%) OpenTelemetry
2 24 (10.48%) REST
3 23 (10.04%) JSON
4 20 (8.73%) Node.js
5 19 (8.30%) FastAPI
6 12 (5.24%) Kafka
7 11 (4.80%) YAML
8 9 (3.93%) Apache Avro
8 9 (3.93%) Protocol Buffers
9 7 (3.06%) PySpark
9 7 (3.06%) pytest
9 7 (3.06%) React
9 7 (3.06%) SLSA
10 6 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.75%) .NET
11 4 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.31%) LDAP
12 3 (1.31%) OpenID
13 2 (0.87%) LangChain
13 2 (0.87%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.78%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.48%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (7.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.62%) Blog
7 6 (2.62%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.62%) PKI
7 6 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.18%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.75%) Replication
10 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.87%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.16%) Linux
2 19 (8.30%) Windows
3 8 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.18%) VMS
6 4 (1.75%) Unix
7 3 (1.31%) zOS
8 2 (0.87%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.87%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (51.53%) CI/CD
2 99 (43.23%) DevOps
3 72 (31.44%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (23.58%) Agile
5 53 (23.14%) Observability
6 49 (21.40%) Containerisation
7 40 (17.47%) Analytics
8 36 (15.72%) Test Automation
9 33 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (13.97%) AI
11 31 (13.54%) Data Engineering
12 30 (13.10%) Data Protection
13 29 (12.66%) Migration
14 27 (11.79%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (11.79%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (11.79%) RBAC
14 27 (11.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (11.35%) API Development
16 25 (10.92%) Validation
17 24 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 40 (17.47%) Bash
2 33 (14.41%) SQL
3 27 (11.79%) Java
4 24 (10.48%) Go
5 23 (10.04%) PowerShell
6 12 (5.24%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.93%) Groovy
8 8 (3.49%) R
8 8 (3.49%) VBA
9 7 (3.06%) Rust
10 6 (2.62%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.75%) C#
12 3 (1.31%) Bicep
12 3 (1.31%) Cypher
13 2 (0.87%) JCL
13 2 (0.87%) Perl
13 2 (0.87%) REXX
13 2 (0.87%) Scala
13 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (2.62%) Degree
1 6 (2.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (2.18%) CISSP
2 5 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (1.31%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.31%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.31%) CISM
4 3 (1.31%) OCP
4 3 (1.31%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.87%) GIAC
5 2 (0.87%) NCDA
5 2 (0.87%) NCIE
5 2 (0.87%) RHCA
6 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.44%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.44%) GSEC
6 1 (0.44%) RHCE
6 1 (0.44%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.18%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.75%) NIST
3 3 (1.31%) QA
4 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.44%) SLA
4 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (14.85%) Docker
2 24 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.73%) vSphere
4 13 (5.68%) VMware NSX
5 10 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.62%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.18%) KVM
8 4 (1.75%) NFS
8 4 (1.75%) SRDF
9 3 (1.31%) Active Directory
10 2 (0.87%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.87%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.44%) Ceph
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 82 (35.81%) Kubernetes
2 80 (34.93%) Ansible
3 55 (24.02%) Terraform
4 44 (19.21%) Grafana
5 38 (16.59%) Prometheus
6 21 (9.17%) Argo
7 19 (8.30%) vCenter Server
8 13 (5.68%) Control-M
9 12 (5.24%) IBM Guardium
9 12 (5.24%) Nessus
10 8 (3.49%) NetBackup
10 8 (3.49%) Puppet
11 4 (1.75%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.75%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.31%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.87%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.87%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.87%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.87%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 37 (16.16%) Splunk
2 28 (12.23%) VMware
3 24 (10.48%) Microsoft
3 24 (10.48%) Red Hat
4 19 (8.30%) Pure Storage
5 18 (7.86%) Google
6 12 (5.24%) Databricks
6 12 (5.24%) F5
6 12 (5.24%) Tenable
7 9 (3.93%) Infoblox
8 8 (3.49%) Dell
9 7 (3.06%) Cisco
9 7 (3.06%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.06%) Sonatype
10 6 (2.62%) Broadcom
10 6 (2.62%) Commvault
10 6 (2.62%) Veritas
11 5 (2.18%) Brocade
12 4 (1.75%) EMC
12 4 (1.75%) HP