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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 179 127 73
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 17.92% 21.97% 17.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.58% 55.46% 51.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 86 50
10th Percentile £367 £358 £425
25th Percentile £425 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -11.07% -10.42%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £616
90th Percentile £669 £600 £655
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £478 £538
% change year-on-year +4.60% -11.07% -10.42%

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 361 229 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.14% 39.62% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 156 97
10th Percentile £361 £323 £384
25th Percentile £425 £385 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -11.47%
75th Percentile £569 £528 £594
90th Percentile £644 £600 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -10.63%

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 September 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 12 (6.70%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.35%) Confluence
3 4 (2.23%) Apache
3 4 (2.23%) SAS
4 3 (1.68%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.56%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.56%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 57 (31.84%) GCP
2 46 (25.70%) Azure
3 30 (16.76%) AWS
4 24 (13.41%) GitHub
5 16 (8.94%) Power Platform
6 13 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.26%) OpenShift
7 10 (5.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.91%) Datadog
10 6 (3.35%) OCI
10 6 (3.35%) Slack
11 5 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.23%) Azure Databricks
12 4 (2.23%) Serverless
13 3 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.68%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (1.68%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.50%) DNS
2 10 (5.59%) Network Security
3 8 (4.47%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.91%) BIG-IP
4 7 (3.91%) DHCP
4 7 (3.91%) Firewall
5 4 (2.23%) SAN
6 3 (1.68%) HTTP
6 3 (1.68%) NAS
7 2 (1.12%) Internet
7 2 (1.12%) VPN
7 2 (1.12%) VSAN
7 2 (1.12%) WAN
8 1 (0.56%) Calico
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.56%) DMZ
8 1 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.56%) Modbus
8 1 (0.56%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.94%) Power BI
2 12 (6.70%) Metadata
3 10 (5.59%) Big Data
4 8 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.91%) Neo4j
5 7 (3.91%) Tableau
6 6 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.79%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.79%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.79%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.23%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.68%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.12%) Parquet
11 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (23.46%) Jenkins
2 33 (18.44%) JIRA
3 17 (9.50%) Git
4 9 (5.03%) Maven
4 9 (5.03%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.91%) GitLab
6 7 (3.91%) Zephyr
7 6 (3.35%) Gatling
7 6 (3.35%) JMeter
7 6 (3.35%) NeoLoad
8 4 (2.23%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.23%) MSBuild
8 4 (2.23%) Postman
8 4 (2.23%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.56%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
General
1 53 (29.61%) Finance
2 42 (23.46%) Social Skills
3 37 (20.67%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.08%) Banking
5 6 (3.35%) Publishing
6 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.23%) Law
8 3 (1.68%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.68%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.68%) Marketing
9 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (15.08%) Lead
2 23 (12.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (12.29%) Developer
4 21 (11.73%) Python Developer
5 17 (9.50%) Analyst
6 14 (7.82%) Python Engineer
7 13 (7.26%) Data Analyst
8 11 (6.15%) Architect
9 10 (5.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Senior
11 7 (3.91%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Test Leader
13 5 (2.79%) Automation Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (28.49%) Terraform
2 21 (11.73%) Node.js
2 21 (11.73%) REST
3 16 (8.94%) JSON
4 13 (7.26%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (5.59%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.59%) Kafka
6 9 (5.03%) YAML
7 8 (4.47%) pytest
7 8 (4.47%) React
8 6 (3.35%) LDAP
8 6 (3.35%) PySpark
8 6 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.35%) SLSA
9 5 (2.79%) OpenID
10 4 (2.23%) .NET
11 3 (1.68%) Jakarta EE
11 3 (1.68%) LangChain
11 3 (1.68%) LangGraph
11 3 (1.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.61%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (5.59%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.91%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.35%) Blog
6 6 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.79%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.79%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.79%) PKI
7 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.23%) Replication
9 3 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.68%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.88%) Linux
2 10 (5.59%) Windows
3 8 (4.47%) Unix
4 6 (3.35%) VMS
5 5 (2.79%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.68%) zOS
8 2 (1.12%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (49.16%) CI/CD
2 80 (44.69%) DevOps
3 54 (30.17%) Observability
4 43 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (23.46%) Agile
6 35 (19.55%) AI
7 34 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (17.32%) Analytics
9 29 (16.20%) Containerisation
10 27 (15.08%) DevSecOps
10 27 (15.08%) Platform Engineering
11 25 (13.97%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (13.41%) Data Engineering
12 24 (13.41%) Identity Access Management
12 24 (13.41%) Software Engineering
13 23 (12.85%) Validation
14 21 (11.73%) RBAC
15 20 (11.17%) LLM
15 20 (11.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (22.91%) Java
2 36 (20.11%) Bash
2 36 (20.11%) SQL
3 24 (13.41%) PowerShell
4 22 (12.29%) Go
5 8 (4.47%) Groovy
5 8 (4.47%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.47%) R
6 7 (3.91%) Rust
7 6 (3.35%) C#
7 6 (3.35%) VBA
8 5 (2.79%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.23%) Scala
10 3 (1.68%) Cypher
10 3 (1.68%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.12%) Bicep
11 2 (1.12%) JCL
11 2 (1.12%) Perl
11 2 (1.12%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (2.79%) Degree
2 3 (1.68%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (1.68%) CISSP
2 3 (1.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.12%) GIAC
3 2 (1.12%) NCDA
3 2 (1.12%) NCIE
3 2 (1.12%) OCP
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (1.12%) RHCA
3 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.56%) CSSLP
4 1 (0.56%) GSEC
4 1 (0.56%) JNCIA
4 1 (0.56%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.91%) NIST
2 6 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.35%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.12%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
4 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (13.41%) Docker
2 10 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.35%) vSphere
4 5 (2.79%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.23%) NFS
5 4 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.23%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.12%) SRDF
6 2 (1.12%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.56%) Ceph
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 62 (34.64%) Kubernetes
2 50 (27.93%) Ansible
3 29 (16.20%) Grafana
4 22 (12.29%) Prometheus
5 12 (6.70%) Argo
6 8 (4.47%) Control-M
7 7 (3.91%) IBM Guardium
7 7 (3.91%) Nessus
8 6 (3.35%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.79%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.68%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (1.68%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.12%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.12%) SnapMirror
11 2 (1.12%) SnapVault
11 2 (1.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.56%) Puppet
12 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.56%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 25 (13.97%) Google
1 25 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.94%) Splunk
3 13 (7.26%) Databricks
4 11 (6.15%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.59%) VMware
6 8 (4.47%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.91%) AppDynamics
7 7 (3.91%) Cisco
7 7 (3.91%) F5
7 7 (3.91%) Infoblox
7 7 (3.91%) Pure Storage
7 7 (3.91%) Tenable
8 6 (3.35%) Oracle
8 6 (3.35%) Sonatype
9 5 (2.79%) Brocade
9 5 (2.79%) Dell
10 4 (2.23%) EMC
11 3 (1.68%) IBM
11 3 (1.68%) NetApp