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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 244 100 84
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 22.87% 20.58% 19.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.94% 58.82% 56.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 68 51
10th Percentile £367 £349 £425
25th Percentile £423 £385 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £507
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% -7.20% -22.00%
75th Percentile £553 £550 £611
90th Percentile £616 £616 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £514
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.52% -21.00%

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 414 170 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.80% 34.98% 34.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 113 94
10th Percentile £366 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £389 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £511
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -5.48% -14.83%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £586
90th Percentile £622 £623 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £515
% change year-on-year +1.42% -4.27% -8.44%

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 19 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 (8.20%) Apache Spark
2 15 (6.15%) Confluence
3 5 (2.05%) SAS
4 2 (0.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.41%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 53 (21.72%) GCP
2 49 (20.08%) OpenShift
3 40 (16.39%) GitHub
4 39 (15.98%) Azure
5 29 (11.89%) AWS
6 14 (5.74%) Power Platform
7 11 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (2.87%) OCI
10 6 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.46%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.46%) Slack
11 5 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.64%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.23%) Datadog
13 3 (1.23%) IaaS
13 3 (1.23%) Nutanix
13 3 (1.23%) Serverless
14 2 (0.82%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.84%) DNS
2 12 (4.92%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.10%) BIG-IP
3 10 (4.10%) SAN
4 9 (3.69%) DHCP
5 8 (3.28%) Network Security
6 7 (2.87%) NAS
7 6 (2.46%) Firewall
8 4 (1.64%) iSCSI
9 3 (1.23%) HTTP
10 2 (0.82%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.82%) VSAN
11 1 (0.41%) BGP
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.41%) DWDM
11 1 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (0.41%) Internet
11 1 (0.41%) LAN
11 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.74%) Power BI
3 13 (5.33%) Hadoop
3 13 (5.33%) Metadata
3 13 (5.33%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.92%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.28%) Big Data
6 7 (2.87%) Tableau
7 6 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.05%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.05%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.23%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.82%) Parquet
12 1 (0.41%) Apache Arrow
12 1 (0.41%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.41%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.41%) Trino
Development Applications
1 75 (30.74%) Jenkins
2 53 (21.72%) JIRA
3 16 (6.56%) Git
4 12 (4.92%) GitLab
5 9 (3.69%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.28%) Maven
7 5 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.05%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.64%) MSBuild
8 4 (1.64%) Postman
8 4 (1.64%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.23%) JMeter
9 3 (1.23%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.23%) Selenium
10 2 (0.82%) Gatling
10 2 (0.82%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.82%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.41%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.41%) TruffleHog
General
1 66 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 64 (26.23%) Finance
3 55 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.11%) Banking
5 12 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.87%) Publishing
7 4 (1.64%) Advertising
7 4 (1.64%) Marketing
7 4 (1.64%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.41%) Law
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Retail
10 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (16.39%) Developer
2 38 (15.57%) Python Developer
3 35 (14.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (13.52%) Lead
5 21 (8.61%) Architect
6 19 (7.79%) Data Engineer
7 17 (6.97%) Analyst
8 15 (6.15%) Python Engineer
9 13 (5.33%) Data Analyst
10 11 (4.51%) Senior
11 8 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) GCP DevOps
11 8 (3.28%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.87%) Consultant
13 6 (2.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.46%) Lead DevOps
13 6 (2.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.80%) OpenTelemetry
2 24 (9.84%) JSON
3 23 (9.43%) Node.js
3 23 (9.43%) REST
4 22 (9.02%) FastAPI
5 16 (6.56%) YAML
6 11 (4.51%) Kafka
7 9 (3.69%) Apache Avro
7 9 (3.69%) Protocol Buffers
8 8 (3.28%) SLSA
9 7 (2.87%) PySpark
9 7 (2.87%) pytest
9 7 (2.87%) React
10 5 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.64%) .NET
11 4 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.64%) LDAP
11 4 (1.64%) OpenID
12 3 (1.23%) RESTful
13 2 (0.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.66%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (7.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.69%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.46%) Blog
7 6 (2.46%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.46%) PKI
7 6 (2.46%) Replication
7 6 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.64%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.82%) CMDB
11 2 (0.82%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.39%) Linux
2 20 (8.20%) Windows
3 10 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.87%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.05%) VMS
6 4 (1.64%) Unix
7 3 (1.23%) zOS
8 2 (0.82%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.82%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.41%) Solaris
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (52.87%) CI/CD
2 105 (43.03%) DevOps
3 76 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (23.77%) Agile
5 57 (23.36%) Observability
6 56 (22.95%) Containerisation
7 42 (17.21%) Analytics
8 38 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (15.16%) Test Automation
10 36 (14.75%) RBAC
11 34 (13.93%) Migration
12 32 (13.11%) Data Protection
13 31 (12.70%) API Development
14 29 (11.89%) AI
14 29 (11.89%) Data Engineering
15 27 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (11.07%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (11.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (11.07%) Validation
16 24 (9.84%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 42 (17.21%) Bash
2 34 (13.93%) SQL
3 25 (10.25%) Go
3 25 (10.25%) Java
3 25 (10.25%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.10%) Groovy
6 9 (3.69%) VBA
7 8 (3.28%) R
8 7 (2.87%) Rust
9 6 (2.46%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.64%) Bicep
11 3 (1.23%) C#
11 3 (1.23%) Perl
12 2 (0.82%) Cypher
12 2 (0.82%) JCL
12 2 (0.82%) REXX
12 2 (0.82%) Ruby
12 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (2.46%) Degree
1 6 (2.46%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (2.05%) CISSP
2 5 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (1.23%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.23%) CISM
4 3 (1.23%) OCP
4 3 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.82%) GIAC
5 2 (0.82%) NCDA
5 2 (0.82%) NCIE
5 2 (0.82%) RHCA
5 2 (0.82%) RHCE
6 1 (0.41%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.41%) JNCIA
6 1 (0.41%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.05%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.05%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.64%) NIST
3 3 (1.23%) QA
4 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (15.57%) Docker
2 24 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.20%) vSphere
4 13 (5.33%) VMware NSX
5 11 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.46%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.05%) KVM
7 5 (2.05%) NFS
8 4 (1.64%) SRDF
9 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.82%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.82%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.41%) Ceph
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 88 (36.07%) Ansible
2 86 (35.25%) Kubernetes
3 63 (25.82%) Terraform
4 50 (20.49%) Grafana
5 44 (18.03%) Prometheus
6 21 (8.61%) Argo
7 19 (7.79%) vCenter Server
8 16 (6.56%) Control-M
9 15 (6.15%) IBM Guardium
9 15 (6.15%) Nessus
10 9 (3.69%) Puppet
11 8 (3.28%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.64%) Kustomize
12 4 (1.64%) PowerCLI
13 3 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.82%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.82%) SnapMirror
14 2 (0.82%) SnapVault
14 2 (0.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 38 (15.57%) Splunk
2 29 (11.89%) Red Hat
3 28 (11.48%) VMware
4 26 (10.66%) Microsoft
5 19 (7.79%) Pure Storage
6 18 (7.38%) Google
7 15 (6.15%) Tenable
8 12 (4.92%) Databricks
8 12 (4.92%) F5
9 9 (3.69%) Cisco
9 9 (3.69%) Infoblox
10 8 (3.28%) Dell
10 8 (3.28%) Sonatype
11 7 (2.87%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.46%) Broadcom
12 6 (2.46%) Brocade
12 6 (2.46%) Commvault
12 6 (2.46%) Veritas
13 5 (2.05%) EMC
13 5 (2.05%) NetApp