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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 252 58 47
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 26.84% 18.95% 13.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 67.56% 56.31% 41.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 40 21
10th Percentile £366 £352 £411
25th Percentile £424 £387 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -30.77%
75th Percentile £529 £615 £530
90th Percentile £571 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £535 £430
% change year-on-year -11.21% +24.42% -33.85%

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 373 103 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 39.72% 33.66% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 73 68
10th Percentile £366 £358 £404
25th Percentile £425 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £510 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +14.60% -24.25%
75th Percentile £538 £610 £538
90th Percentile £613 £650 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £525 £439
% change year-on-year -6.90% +19.66% -23.70%

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 4 April 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 18 (7.14%) Confluence
2 14 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.19%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.59%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.21%) OpenShift
2 58 (23.02%) GCP
3 48 (19.05%) AWS
4 47 (18.65%) GitHub
5 32 (12.70%) Azure
6 18 (7.14%) Serverless
7 12 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.57%) AWS KMS
8 9 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (2.78%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.98%) OCI
11 5 (1.98%) SaaS
12 3 (1.19%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.19%) IaaS
12 3 (1.19%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.73%) DNS
2 11 (4.37%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.17%) SAN
4 6 (2.38%) Firewall
5 5 (1.98%) BIG-IP
5 5 (1.98%) NAS
6 4 (1.59%) DHCP
6 4 (1.59%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.59%) Network Security
7 3 (1.19%) Internet
7 3 (1.19%) VPN
8 2 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.79%) DWDM
8 2 (0.79%) LAN
8 2 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.79%) WAN
9 1 (0.40%) BGP
9 1 (0.40%) HTTP
9 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.68%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.90%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.35%) MySQL
4 12 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 12 (4.76%) Power BI
5 11 (4.37%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.57%) Metadata
7 8 (3.17%) Power Query
7 8 (3.17%) PowerPivot
8 7 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.98%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.98%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.98%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.59%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.19%) Big Data
12 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.79%) Parquet
12 2 (0.79%) Tableau
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 93 (36.90%) Jenkins
2 48 (19.05%) JIRA
3 42 (16.67%) GitLab
4 17 (6.75%) Postman
5 12 (4.76%) Git
5 12 (4.76%) Liquibase
6 9 (3.57%) Selenium
7 6 (2.38%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.38%) Maven
7 6 (2.38%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.38%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.38%) TestRail
8 5 (1.98%) JMeter
8 5 (1.98%) PyCharm
9 4 (1.59%) Gatling
9 4 (1.59%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.59%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.19%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.79%) Robot Framework
General
1 85 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 67 (26.59%) Finance
3 50 (19.84%) Banking
4 45 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.97%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.98%) Publishing
8 3 (1.19%) Advertising
8 3 (1.19%) Legal
8 3 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.40%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (15.87%) Lead
2 38 (15.08%) Developer
3 29 (11.51%) Python Developer
4 28 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (8.73%) Architect
6 19 (7.54%) Data Engineer
6 19 (7.54%) GCP Engineer
7 17 (6.75%) Analyst
8 15 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (5.56%) Senior
10 11 (4.37%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.97%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) Automation Test Lead
13 8 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (3.17%) Data Analyst
13 8 (3.17%) GCP DevOps
13 8 (3.17%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.17%) Strategy Analyst
13 8 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.68%) OpenTelemetry
2 35 (13.89%) REST
3 29 (11.51%) YAML
4 23 (9.13%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (7.94%) RESTful
6 19 (7.54%) JSON
7 17 (6.75%) FastAPI
8 13 (5.16%) Node.js
9 12 (4.76%) OpenID
10 10 (3.97%) Kafka
10 10 (3.97%) LDAP
11 9 (3.57%) Apache Avro
11 9 (3.57%) Playwright
11 9 (3.57%) Protocol Buffers
11 9 (3.57%) SailPoint
12 6 (2.38%) .NET
12 6 (2.38%) Pandas
12 6 (2.38%) SLSA
12 6 (2.38%) TensorFlow
13 5 (1.98%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.54%) Public Cloud
5 18 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (3.97%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.59%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.59%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (1.19%) Clustering
10 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.19%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.19%) PKI
10 3 (1.19%) Replication
10 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.62%) Linux
2 15 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (5.95%) Windows
3 8 (3.17%) CentOS
3 8 (3.17%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.78%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (59.52%) CI/CD
2 135 (53.57%) DevOps
3 79 (31.35%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (30.16%) Containerisation
5 59 (23.41%) Agile
6 55 (21.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (19.84%) Test Automation
8 47 (18.65%) RBAC
9 41 (16.27%) Migration
10 37 (14.68%) Analytics
10 37 (14.68%) Observability
11 34 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (12.30%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
13 30 (11.90%) High Availability
14 29 (11.51%) Data Protection
15 27 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
17 25 (9.92%) Data Modelling
18 24 (9.52%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.24%) Bash
2 38 (15.08%) SQL
3 35 (13.89%) Java
4 28 (11.11%) Go
5 13 (5.16%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.16%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.16%) VBA
6 11 (4.37%) Scala
7 10 (3.97%) Groovy
7 10 (3.97%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.97%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.57%) Ruby
9 8 (3.17%) Perl
10 6 (2.38%) PHP
11 4 (1.59%) Cypher
12 3 (1.19%) Bicep
13 2 (0.79%) R
14 1 (0.40%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.40%) C
14 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (9.52%) Degree
2 19 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (5.95%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.97%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.17%) RHCE
6 5 (1.98%) CISM
6 5 (1.98%) CISSP
7 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.19%) OCP
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.79%) CCNA
9 2 (0.79%) CCNP
9 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.79%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.79%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.79%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.76%) QA
2 4 (1.59%) PMO
2 4 (1.59%) SLA
3 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.40%) NIST
4 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (17.06%) Docker
2 19 (7.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (7.54%) vSphere
3 14 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 10 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.38%) KVM
6 4 (1.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.79%) SRDF
8 1 (0.40%) NFS
Systems Management
1 115 (45.63%) Ansible
2 98 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 80 (31.75%) Terraform
4 57 (22.62%) Grafana
5 50 (19.84%) Prometheus
6 21 (8.33%) Puppet
7 18 (7.14%) vCenter Server
8 15 (5.95%) Argo
9 11 (4.37%) Control-M
9 11 (4.37%) IBM Guardium
9 11 (4.37%) Nessus
10 10 (3.97%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.59%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.79%) Istio
14 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.40%) logstash
14 1 (0.40%) vRealize
14 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 53 (21.03%) Splunk
2 48 (19.05%) Red Hat
3 25 (9.92%) VMware
4 22 (8.73%) Microsoft
5 20 (7.94%) Google
6 18 (7.14%) Pure Storage
7 13 (5.16%) ServiceNow
8 11 (4.37%) Tenable
9 9 (3.57%) Commvault
10 8 (3.17%) Cisco
11 7 (2.78%) F5
11 7 (2.78%) Oracle
11 7 (2.78%) Veritas
12 6 (2.38%) Sonatype
13 5 (1.98%) Databricks
14 4 (1.59%) Broadcom
14 4 (1.59%) Dell
14 4 (1.59%) EMC
14 4 (1.59%) HP
14 4 (1.59%) Okta