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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 9 29
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 -17
Contract jobs citing Python 178 40 26
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.69% 12.99% 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.03% 47.06% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 34 20
10th Percentile £370 £433 £393
25th Percentile £425 £503 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £577 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% +2.58% -6.95%
75th Percentile £537 £650 £605
90th Percentile £647 £700 £626
South Yorkshire median daily rate £497 £577 £450
% change year-on-year -13.95% +28.22% -25.56%

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 278 85 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.56% 27.60% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 65 80
10th Percentile £345 £404 £406
25th Percentile £400 £470 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £588
90th Percentile £628 £690 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -9.40% +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 19 December 2025.

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 (8.43%) Confluence
2 5 (2.81%) Apache
2 5 (2.81%) Apache Pig
3 4 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.12%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 59 (33.15%) GCP
2 58 (32.58%) AWS
3 32 (17.98%) Azure
4 31 (17.42%) Serverless
5 19 (10.67%) GitHub
6 17 (9.55%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.87%) OpenShift
8 10 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (5.62%) AWS KMS
8 10 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.06%) CloudBees
10 7 (3.93%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.81%) SaaS
12 4 (2.25%) Cohesity
13 1 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.56%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 1 (0.56%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.49%) Firewall
2 7 (3.93%) DNS
3 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.69%) Internet
4 3 (1.69%) NAS
4 3 (1.69%) SAN
5 2 (1.12%) HTTP
6 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.03%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (21.35%) NoSQL
3 17 (9.55%) Power BI
4 16 (8.99%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.43%) MySQL
6 14 (7.87%) Oracle Database
7 10 (5.62%) Power Query
8 8 (4.49%) Apache Hive
8 8 (4.49%) Hadoop
9 7 (3.93%) Data Mining
10 6 (3.37%) PowerPivot
10 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.81%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.25%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.69%) HBase
13 3 (1.69%) Metadata
14 2 (1.12%) OLTP
14 2 (1.12%) Spark SQL
15 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
15 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (44.94%) Jenkins
2 63 (35.39%) GitLab
3 36 (20.22%) JIRA
4 31 (17.42%) Liquibase
5 21 (11.80%) Git
6 9 (5.06%) Postman
7 7 (3.93%) Selenium
8 6 (3.37%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.37%) REST Assured
8 6 (3.37%) TestRail
9 5 (2.81%) PyCharm
10 3 (1.69%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.56%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.56%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 76 (42.70%) Social Skills
2 71 (39.89%) Finance
3 57 (32.02%) Banking
4 29 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (13.48%) Financial Institution
6 10 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.69%) Law
7 3 (1.69%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Police
8 2 (1.12%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (15.17%) Developer
2 26 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (12.92%) Automation Engineer
4 18 (10.11%) Senior
4 18 (10.11%) Software Engineer
5 17 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (8.99%) GCP Engineer
7 14 (7.87%) Analyst
7 14 (7.87%) Data Engineer
8 13 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Python Developer
10 9 (5.06%) Administrator
10 9 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Data Protection Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) AWS Software Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Data Analyst
12 7 (3.93%) Lead
12 7 (3.93%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (23.03%) REST
2 37 (20.79%) Elastic Stack
3 34 (19.10%) RESTful
4 20 (11.24%) FastAPI
5 15 (8.43%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (6.74%) TensorFlow
7 9 (5.06%) .NET
8 7 (3.93%) Hugging Face
8 7 (3.93%) OpenCV
8 7 (3.93%) PyTorch
8 7 (3.93%) Regular Expression
8 7 (3.93%) SpaCy
9 5 (2.81%) LDAP
9 5 (2.81%) Middleware
9 5 (2.81%) NumPy
9 5 (2.81%) OpenID
9 5 (2.81%) Pandas
9 5 (2.81%) SailPoint
10 4 (2.25%) Anaconda
11 3 (1.69%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.54%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (17.42%) Cloud Native
2 31 (17.42%) Public Cloud
3 13 (7.30%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.30%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.93%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.81%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.25%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Clustering
7 3 (1.69%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.12%) PKI
8 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 59 (33.15%) Linux
2 9 (5.06%) Windows
3 5 (2.81%) Unix
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (62.92%) DevOps
2 92 (51.69%) CI/CD
3 80 (44.94%) Agile
4 61 (34.27%) Containerisation
5 53 (29.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (24.16%) Root Cause Analysis
8 38 (21.35%) Microservices
9 37 (20.79%) Computer Science
9 37 (20.79%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (19.66%) Test Automation
11 34 (19.10%) Data Security
12 32 (17.98%) Infrastructure Automation
13 31 (17.42%) Change Management
13 31 (17.42%) Software Engineering
14 29 (16.29%) High Availability
15 28 (15.73%) Cryptography
16 27 (15.17%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (14.61%) Continuous Delivery
17 26 (14.61%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.60%) Go
2 38 (21.35%) SQL
3 36 (20.22%) Bash
4 33 (18.54%) Java
5 28 (15.73%) Shell Script
6 10 (5.62%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.62%) VBA
7 9 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.06%) Scala
8 6 (3.37%) PHP
9 4 (2.25%) Perl
10 3 (1.69%) C#
10 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.12%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 40 (22.47%) Degree
2 34 (19.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (17.42%) Master's Degree
4 12 (6.74%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.93%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.12%) CISM
8 2 (1.12%) CISSP
8 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.49%) QA
2 3 (1.69%) PMO
2 3 (1.69%) SLA
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (28.65%) Docker
2 10 (5.62%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.25%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.25%) vSphere
6 3 (1.69%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.69%) HDFS
7 1 (0.56%) KVM
Systems Management
1 90 (50.56%) Ansible
2 76 (42.70%) Kubernetes
3 65 (36.52%) Terraform
4 53 (29.78%) Grafana
5 50 (28.09%) Prometheus
6 13 (7.30%) NetBackup
7 11 (6.18%) Puppet
8 10 (5.62%) Control-M
8 10 (5.62%) Data Guard
8 10 (5.62%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (5.62%) Nessus
8 10 (5.62%) yum
9 4 (2.25%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.69%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (1.69%) vRealize
11 2 (1.12%) Argo
11 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (1.12%) SCCM
12 1 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (24.16%) Splunk
2 26 (14.61%) Microsoft
3 21 (11.80%) Google
4 16 (8.99%) Oracle
5 15 (8.43%) Red Hat
6 13 (7.30%) Commvault
7 12 (6.74%) VMware
8 11 (6.18%) ServiceNow
9 10 (5.62%) Tenable
10 9 (5.06%) Veritas
11 3 (1.69%) F5
12 2 (1.12%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (1.12%) Databricks
12 2 (1.12%) Delphix
12 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.56%) Bloomberg
13 1 (0.56%) EMC
13 1 (0.56%) Pure Storage
13 1 (0.56%) Salesforce