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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +23
Contract jobs citing Python 200 164 75
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 19.21% 26.41% 17.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.15% 59.42% 50.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 117 52
10th Percentile £400 £363 £460
25th Percentile £432 £447 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £574 £538 £628
90th Percentile £675 £650 £695
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%

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 391 276 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 37.56% 44.44% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 194 103
10th Percentile £380 £325 £400
25th Percentile £435 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% -8.21% -9.10%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £600
90th Percentile £669 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £534
% change year-on-year +2.56% -8.71% -5.99%

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 12 October 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 10 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.00%) Confluence
3 5 (2.50%) Apache
4 4 (2.00%) SAS
5 3 (1.50%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.00%) nginx
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.50%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 78 (39.00%) GCP
2 59 (29.50%) Azure
3 48 (24.00%) AWS
4 22 (11.00%) GitHub
5 18 (9.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 15 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.50%) Power Platform
8 11 (5.50%) Entra ID
9 10 (5.00%) Cloud Run
10 9 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.50%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.00%) Datadog
12 6 (3.00%) Serverless
12 6 (3.00%) Slack
13 5 (2.50%) Kong
14 4 (2.00%) Azure Databricks
14 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (2.00%) OCI
15 3 (1.50%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.00%) Network Security
2 14 (7.00%) DNS
3 7 (3.50%) Firewall
3 7 (3.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.50%) BIG-IP
4 5 (2.50%) DHCP
4 5 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.50%) HTTP
5 3 (1.50%) VPN
6 2 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.00%) Internet
6 2 (1.00%) WAN
7 1 (0.50%) Calico
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.50%) Modbus
7 1 (0.50%) NaaS
7 1 (0.50%) NAS
7 1 (0.50%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.00%) Metadata
2 13 (6.50%) Power BI
3 11 (5.50%) Big Data
4 10 (5.00%) BigQuery
4 10 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.50%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.50%) Neo4j
7 7 (3.50%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.00%) Tableau
9 5 (2.50%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.50%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.50%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.00%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.50%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 39 (19.50%) Jenkins
2 31 (15.50%) JIRA
3 21 (10.50%) Git
4 9 (4.50%) GitLab
4 9 (4.50%) Maven
5 8 (4.00%) Claude Code
5 8 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.50%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.50%) Zephyr
7 6 (3.00%) Gatling
7 6 (3.00%) JMeter
7 6 (3.00%) NeoLoad
8 4 (2.00%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.00%) MSBuild
8 4 (2.00%) Postman
8 4 (2.00%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.50%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 65 (32.50%) Finance
2 46 (23.00%) Social Skills
3 37 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.00%) Banking
5 7 (3.50%) Publishing
6 4 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.00%) Law
7 3 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (1.50%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.50%) Marketing
8 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Advertising
9 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.50%) Legal
9 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (14.50%) Developer
2 25 (12.50%) Lead
3 24 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (11.00%) Python Developer
5 20 (10.00%) Senior
6 16 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (7.00%) Analyst
8 12 (6.00%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.50%) Python Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 9 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (4.50%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) Architect
13 7 (3.50%) Software Engineer
14 6 (3.00%) Security Engineer
14 6 (3.00%) Test Leader
15 5 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (31.00%) Terraform
2 24 (12.00%) Node.js
2 24 (12.00%) REST
3 16 (8.00%) React
4 15 (7.50%) OpenID
5 13 (6.50%) OAuth
5 13 (6.50%) OAuth2
6 11 (5.50%) JSON
7 10 (5.00%) pytest
7 10 (5.00%) SAML
8 9 (4.50%) FastAPI
8 9 (4.50%) Kafka
8 9 (4.50%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (4.00%) .NET
9 8 (4.00%) YAML
10 7 (3.50%) JWT
11 6 (3.00%) LDAP
11 6 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.50%) PySpark
12 5 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.00%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (4.50%) PKI
6 8 (4.00%) AI Agents
6 8 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.00%) Blog
7 6 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.50%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.00%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.50%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.50%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.00%) Linux
2 12 (6.00%) Windows
3 11 (5.50%) Unix
4 7 (3.50%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.00%) VMS
6 3 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.50%) zOS
7 2 (1.00%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 88 (44.00%) DevOps
3 64 (32.00%) Observability
4 52 (26.00%) Agile
5 51 (25.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (22.50%) Software Engineering
7 44 (22.00%) AI
8 39 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (16.50%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (16.50%) Platform Engineering
10 32 (16.00%) Analytics
10 32 (16.00%) DevSecOps
10 32 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (14.50%) Identity Access Management
12 28 (14.00%) Data Engineering
13 27 (13.50%) Containerisation
13 27 (13.50%) LLM
14 26 (13.00%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.00%) Java
2 43 (21.50%) SQL
3 36 (18.00%) Bash
4 33 (16.50%) PowerShell
5 30 (15.00%) Go
6 13 (6.50%) C#
7 9 (4.50%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.00%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.50%) Rust
10 6 (3.00%) Groovy
10 6 (3.00%) R
11 5 (2.50%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.00%) Bicep
12 4 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.00%) VBA
13 3 (1.50%) Cypher
13 3 (1.50%) Scala
14 2 (1.00%) JCL
14 2 (1.00%) Perl
14 2 (1.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (4.50%) Degree
2 5 (2.50%) CISSP
2 5 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.50%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.00%) CCNP
5 2 (1.00%) CCSP
5 2 (1.00%) CISM
5 2 (1.00%) GIAC
5 2 (1.00%) RHCA
6 1 (0.50%) CCIE
6 1 (0.50%) CCNA
6 1 (0.50%) GSEC
6 1 (0.50%) RHCE
6 1 (0.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.50%) HIPAA
3 5 (2.50%) NIST
3 5 (2.50%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.00%) QA
6 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (12.00%) Docker
2 10 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.50%) NFS
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.00%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.50%) Ceph
6 1 (0.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.50%) SRDF
6 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) vSphere
6 1 (0.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 62 (31.00%) Kubernetes
2 42 (21.00%) Ansible
3 25 (12.50%) Grafana
4 23 (11.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.00%) Argo
5 8 (4.00%) Control-M
6 7 (3.50%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (3.50%) Nessus
7 5 (2.50%) Kustomize
7 5 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (1.00%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.50%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.50%) SCCM
9 1 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.50%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 38 (19.00%) Google
2 32 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.00%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.00%) Databricks
4 12 (6.00%) Splunk
5 7 (3.50%) AppDynamics
5 7 (3.50%) Okta
5 7 (3.50%) Tenable
6 6 (3.00%) Oracle
6 6 (3.00%) VMware
7 5 (2.50%) Cisco
7 5 (2.50%) F5
7 5 (2.50%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.50%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.00%) Ping Identity
8 4 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.00%) Sonatype
9 3 (1.50%) Dell
9 3 (1.50%) IBM
9 3 (1.50%) Teradata