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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 215 125 84
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 20.75% 22.52% 19.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.56% 57.87% 57.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 86 54
10th Percentile £374 £351 £425
25th Percentile £424 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -7.21% -20.00%
75th Percentile £556 £555 £616
90th Percentile £621 £619 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £483 £520
% change year-on-year +3.63% -7.21% -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 387 216 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 37.36% 38.92% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 147 95
10th Percentile £363 £331 £400
25th Percentile £413 £379 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -10.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £554 £547 £592
90th Percentile £615 £613 £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 3 August 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 19 (8.84%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.05%) Confluence
3 3 (1.40%) SAS
4 2 (0.93%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.47%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.72%) GCP
2 41 (19.07%) Azure
3 36 (16.74%) OpenShift
4 35 (16.28%) GitHub
5 31 (14.42%) AWS
6 15 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.26%) OCI
9 6 (2.79%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.79%) CloudBees
9 6 (2.79%) Slack
10 5 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.86%) Datadog
11 4 (1.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.40%) Azure Storage
13 2 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.93%) IaaS
13 2 (0.93%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.77%) DNS
2 10 (4.65%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.19%) BIG-IP
4 8 (3.72%) DHCP
5 7 (3.26%) Network Security
5 7 (3.26%) SAN
6 6 (2.79%) Firewall
7 4 (1.86%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.40%) HTTP
8 3 (1.40%) NAS
9 2 (0.93%) VSAN
10 1 (0.47%) BGP
10 1 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.47%) DWDM
10 1 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.47%) Internet
10 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.47%) LAN
10 1 (0.47%) VPN
10 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.98%) Power BI
3 12 (5.58%) Hadoop
3 12 (5.58%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.12%) Metadata
4 11 (5.12%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.72%) Big Data
6 7 (3.26%) Tableau
7 6 (2.79%) Neo4j
7 6 (2.79%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.86%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.40%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.93%) Parquet
11 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 62 (28.84%) Jenkins
2 47 (21.86%) JIRA
3 13 (6.05%) Git
4 9 (4.19%) GitLab
5 8 (3.72%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.26%) Maven
7 5 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.33%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.86%) Gatling
8 4 (1.86%) JMeter
8 4 (1.86%) MSBuild
8 4 (1.86%) NeoLoad
8 4 (1.86%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.40%) Postman
10 2 (0.93%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.93%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.93%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.93%) Selenium
11 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 61 (28.37%) Finance
2 57 (26.51%) Social Skills
3 50 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (14.42%) Banking
5 10 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.26%) Publishing
7 4 (1.86%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.40%) Advertising
8 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Law
9 2 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (16.74%) Developer
2 35 (16.28%) Python Developer
3 33 (15.35%) Lead
4 27 (12.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (7.91%) Architect
6 16 (7.44%) Data Engineer
7 15 (6.98%) Analyst
7 15 (6.98%) Python Engineer
8 12 (5.58%) Data Analyst
9 10 (4.65%) Senior
10 8 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) Consultant
11 7 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.79%) DevOps Developer
12 6 (2.79%) Lead DevOps
13 5 (2.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.42%) OpenTelemetry
2 22 (10.23%) REST
3 21 (9.77%) JSON
4 20 (9.30%) Node.js
5 19 (8.84%) FastAPI
6 11 (5.12%) Kafka
7 10 (4.65%) YAML
8 8 (3.72%) Apache Avro
8 8 (3.72%) Protocol Buffers
9 7 (3.26%) pytest
9 7 (3.26%) React
9 7 (3.26%) SLSA
10 6 (2.79%) PySpark
10 6 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.86%) .NET
12 3 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.40%) LDAP
12 3 (1.40%) OpenID
13 2 (0.93%) LangChain
13 2 (0.93%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.23%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.26%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.79%) Blog
5 6 (2.79%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (2.79%) PKI
6 5 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.86%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.86%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.86%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.86%) Replication
8 2 (0.93%) Clustering
8 2 (0.93%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.93%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.35%) Linux
2 16 (7.44%) Windows
3 7 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.79%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.86%) Unix
5 4 (1.86%) VMS
6 3 (1.40%) zOS
7 2 (0.93%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (50.70%) CI/CD
2 92 (42.79%) DevOps
3 70 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (23.72%) Agile
5 49 (22.79%) Observability
6 45 (20.93%) Containerisation
7 39 (18.14%) Analytics
8 33 (15.35%) Test Automation
9 31 (14.42%) AI
10 30 (13.95%) Data Engineering
10 30 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (13.02%) Data Protection
12 27 (12.56%) Migration
13 26 (12.09%) API Development
14 25 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (11.63%) RBAC
15 24 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
15 24 (11.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 24 (11.16%) Validation
16 23 (10.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 37 (17.21%) Bash
2 32 (14.88%) SQL
3 27 (12.56%) Java
4 22 (10.23%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.77%) Go
6 11 (5.12%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.19%) Groovy
8 8 (3.72%) R
9 7 (3.26%) Rust
9 7 (3.26%) VBA
10 4 (1.86%) C#
10 4 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.40%) Bicep
11 3 (1.40%) Cypher
12 2 (0.93%) JCL
12 2 (0.93%) Perl
12 2 (0.93%) REXX
12 2 (0.93%) Scala
12 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (2.79%) Degree
1 6 (2.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.86%) CISSP
3 4 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (1.40%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.40%) OCP
4 3 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.93%) CISM
5 2 (0.93%) GIAC
5 2 (0.93%) NCDA
5 2 (0.93%) NCIE
5 2 (0.93%) RHCA
6 1 (0.47%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.47%) GSEC
6 1 (0.47%) JNCIA
6 1 (0.47%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.33%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.86%) NIST
3 2 (0.93%) QA
4 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) SLA
4 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (14.88%) Docker
2 22 (10.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (7.91%) vSphere
4 11 (5.12%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.86%) KVM
7 4 (1.86%) NFS
7 4 (1.86%) SRDF
8 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.93%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.93%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.47%) Ceph
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 74 (34.42%) Kubernetes
2 72 (33.49%) Ansible
3 50 (23.26%) Terraform
4 40 (18.60%) Grafana
5 34 (15.81%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.84%) Argo
7 16 (7.44%) vCenter Server
8 13 (6.05%) Control-M
9 12 (5.58%) IBM Guardium
9 12 (5.58%) Nessus
10 8 (3.72%) NetBackup
10 8 (3.72%) Puppet
11 4 (1.86%) Kustomize
12 3 (1.40%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (1.40%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.93%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.93%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.93%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 32 (14.88%) Splunk
2 25 (11.63%) VMware
3 22 (10.23%) Microsoft
4 21 (9.77%) Red Hat
5 18 (8.37%) Google
6 15 (6.98%) Pure Storage
7 12 (5.58%) Databricks
7 12 (5.58%) Tenable
8 11 (5.12%) F5
9 8 (3.72%) Cisco
9 8 (3.72%) Dell
9 8 (3.72%) Infoblox
10 7 (3.26%) ServiceNow
10 7 (3.26%) Sonatype
11 6 (2.79%) Broadcom
11 6 (2.79%) Commvault
11 6 (2.79%) Veritas
12 5 (2.33%) Brocade
13 4 (1.86%) EMC
13 4 (1.86%) HP