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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 6 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Python 246 45 38
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 27.39% 18.22% 10.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 67.96% 49.45% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 33 17
10th Percentile £378 £417 £374
25th Percentile £438 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -30.77%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £588
90th Percentile £641 - £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £430
% change year-on-year -13.04% +33.72% -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 362 91 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.31% 36.84% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 67 72
10th Percentile £368 £400 £401
25th Percentile £438 £470 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £460
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +14.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £587
90th Percentile £655 £650 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -18.18%

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 February 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 16 (6.50%) Confluence
2 9 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Pig
4 3 (1.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.63%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 62 (25.20%) GCP
2 53 (21.54%) AWS
3 50 (20.33%) OpenShift
4 38 (15.45%) GitHub
5 32 (13.01%) Azure
6 25 (10.16%) Serverless
7 13 (5.28%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.07%) AWS KMS
9 9 (3.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.85%) CloudBees
11 6 (2.44%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.03%) SaaS
13 4 (1.63%) Cohesity
13 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.22%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (1.22%) Azure Storage
14 3 (1.22%) Cloud Run
14 3 (1.22%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.50%) DNS
2 9 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.44%) Firewall
4 5 (2.03%) SAN
5 4 (1.63%) NAS
5 4 (1.63%) Network Security
6 3 (1.22%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.22%) Internet
6 3 (1.22%) VPN
7 2 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.81%) DHCP
7 2 (0.81%) DWDM
7 2 (0.81%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.81%) LAN
7 2 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.81%) WAN
8 1 (0.41%) BGP
8 1 (0.41%) HTTP
8 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (18.70%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (15.45%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.10%) MySQL
4 13 (5.28%) Hadoop
4 13 (5.28%) Power BI
5 8 (3.25%) Metadata
5 8 (3.25%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.25%) Power Query
5 8 (3.25%) PowerPivot
6 6 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.03%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.03%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.63%) Neo4j
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.22%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.22%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (37.40%) Jenkins
2 54 (21.95%) JIRA
3 52 (21.14%) GitLab
4 22 (8.94%) Liquibase
5 17 (6.91%) Postman
6 10 (4.07%) Git
7 7 (2.85%) Selenium
8 6 (2.44%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.44%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.44%) TestRail
9 5 (2.03%) JMeter
9 5 (2.03%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.63%) Gatling
10 4 (1.63%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.63%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.22%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.22%) Maven
11 3 (1.22%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 87 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 77 (31.30%) Finance
3 60 (24.39%) Banking
4 49 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.91%) Financial Institution
6 14 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.25%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.22%) Legal
8 3 (1.22%) Marketing
8 3 (1.22%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.81%) Advertising
9 2 (0.81%) Law
9 2 (0.81%) Publishing
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (15.04%) Developer
2 34 (13.82%) Lead
3 26 (10.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (10.16%) Python Developer
5 20 (8.13%) Data Engineer
5 20 (8.13%) GCP Engineer
6 19 (7.72%) Architect
6 19 (7.72%) Senior
7 18 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (6.91%) Analyst
9 16 (6.50%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Automation Test Lead
11 9 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) GCP DevOps
11 9 (3.66%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
1 41 (16.67%) REST
2 30 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (10.98%) RESTful
4 26 (10.57%) YAML
5 23 (9.35%) FastAPI
6 12 (4.88%) JSON
6 12 (4.88%) OpenID
7 11 (4.47%) Node.js
8 10 (4.07%) Kafka
8 10 (4.07%) LDAP
9 9 (3.66%) Playwright
9 9 (3.66%) SailPoint
10 8 (3.25%) Apache Avro
10 8 (3.25%) Protocol Buffers
10 8 (3.25%) TensorFlow
11 7 (2.85%) .NET
12 5 (2.03%) NumPy
12 5 (2.03%) Pandas
13 4 (1.63%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 33 (13.41%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (10.57%) Public Cloud
4 17 (6.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (5.28%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (4.07%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.07%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.66%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.85%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.22%) Clustering
11 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.22%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.22%) PKI
12 2 (0.81%) EMC VMAX
12 2 (0.81%) Replication
12 2 (0.81%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (23.58%) Linux
2 13 (5.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (4.88%) Windows
4 8 (3.25%) CentOS
4 8 (3.25%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.85%) Unix
6 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (61.79%) CI/CD
2 128 (52.03%) DevOps
3 85 (34.55%) Containerisation
4 77 (31.30%) Agile
5 76 (30.89%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (24.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (19.11%) Test Automation
8 45 (18.29%) Observability
9 42 (17.07%) RBAC
10 41 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
11 35 (14.23%) Cybersecurity
12 33 (13.41%) Analytics
12 33 (13.41%) Computer Science
12 33 (13.41%) Migration
13 32 (13.01%) Change Management
13 32 (13.01%) High Availability
14 30 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
14 30 (12.20%) Microservices
15 29 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (10.98%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 45 (18.29%) Bash
2 44 (17.89%) SQL
3 39 (15.85%) Java
4 38 (15.45%) Go
5 14 (5.69%) Scala
6 13 (5.28%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.47%) Perl
7 11 (4.47%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.47%) VBA
8 10 (4.07%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.66%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.66%) Ruby
10 6 (2.44%) Groovy
10 6 (2.44%) PHP
11 4 (1.63%) Cypher
12 3 (1.22%) Bicep
13 1 (0.41%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.41%) C#
13 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 36 (14.63%) Degree
2 29 (11.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (10.16%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.25%) RHCE
4 8 (3.25%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.85%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.03%) CISM
6 5 (2.03%) CISSP
7 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.81%) CCNA
9 2 (0.81%) CCNP
9 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.81%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.81%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.81%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.07%) QA
2 4 (1.63%) PMO
3 3 (1.22%) SLA
4 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (22.36%) Docker
2 14 (5.69%) vSphere
3 12 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.07%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.44%) KVM
6 4 (1.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.81%) SRDF
8 1 (0.41%) NFS
Systems Management
1 107 (43.50%) Ansible
2 102 (41.46%) Kubernetes
3 79 (32.11%) Terraform
4 67 (27.24%) Grafana
5 64 (26.02%) Prometheus
6 20 (8.13%) Puppet
7 19 (7.72%) Control-M
7 19 (7.72%) IBM Guardium
7 19 (7.72%) Nessus
8 13 (5.28%) vCenter Server
9 11 (4.47%) Argo
9 11 (4.47%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.22%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.81%) Istio
12 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.41%) Kibana
12 1 (0.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 59 (23.98%) Splunk
2 43 (17.48%) Red Hat
3 25 (10.16%) Google
4 22 (8.94%) Microsoft
5 19 (7.72%) Tenable
6 18 (7.32%) VMware
7 16 (6.50%) ServiceNow
8 12 (4.88%) Pure Storage
9 10 (4.07%) Commvault
10 7 (2.85%) Veritas
11 6 (2.44%) Oracle
12 5 (2.03%) Cisco
12 5 (2.03%) F5
13 4 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (1.63%) Okta
14 3 (1.22%) Alibaba
14 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
14 3 (1.22%) Sonatype
14 3 (1.22%) Teradata
15 2 (0.81%) TOWER Software