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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 202 29 31
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 25.35% 11.93% 8.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.66% 37.18% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 23 16
10th Percentile £400 £485 £366
25th Percentile £452 £509 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £592
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -7.86% -2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £636 £622
90th Percentile £644 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -21.81%

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 333 78 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 41.78% 32.10% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 58 81
10th Percentile £354 £400 £412
25th Percentile £438 £480 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £588
90th Percentile £653 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +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 24 January 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 15 (7.43%) Confluence
2 5 (2.48%) Apache
2 5 (2.48%) Apache Pig
2 5 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) IIS
4 2 (0.99%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.98%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.68%) GCP
2 56 (27.72%) AWS
3 32 (15.84%) Azure
4 28 (13.86%) Serverless
5 20 (9.90%) GitHub
6 18 (8.91%) OpenShift
7 16 (7.92%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.95%) AWS KMS
9 9 (4.46%) CloudBees
10 8 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.97%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.48%) SaaS
13 4 (1.98%) Cohesity
14 3 (1.49%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.49%) Cloud Run
15 2 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
15 2 (0.99%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.97%) DNS
1 6 (2.97%) Firewall
1 6 (2.97%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.49%) Internet
2 3 (1.49%) VPN
3 2 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.99%) DWDM
3 2 (0.99%) LAN
3 2 (0.99%) Network Security
3 2 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.99%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.82%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (16.34%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.92%) Power BI
4 15 (7.43%) MySQL
5 12 (5.94%) SQL Server
6 10 (4.95%) Oracle Database
7 9 (4.46%) Hadoop
7 9 (4.46%) Power Query
8 8 (3.96%) Apache Hive
8 8 (3.96%) PowerPivot
9 7 (3.47%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.48%) Metadata
10 5 (2.48%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.48%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.98%) Neo4j
12 3 (1.49%) HBase
13 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.99%) OLTP
14 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 77 (38.12%) Jenkins
2 56 (27.72%) GitLab
3 41 (20.30%) JIRA
4 25 (12.38%) Liquibase
5 17 (8.42%) Postman
6 14 (6.93%) Git
7 7 (3.47%) Selenium
8 6 (2.97%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.97%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.97%) TestRail
9 5 (2.48%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.98%) Gatling
10 4 (1.98%) JMeter
10 4 (1.98%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.98%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.50%) Travis CI
General
1 75 (37.13%) Social Skills
2 62 (30.69%) Finance
3 51 (25.25%) Banking
4 33 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.90%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.95%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Law
8 3 (1.49%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.99%) Legal
9 2 (0.99%) Marketing
9 2 (0.99%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (12.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (12.38%) Developer
3 21 (10.40%) Lead
4 19 (9.41%) Automation Engineer
5 18 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (8.91%) GCP Engineer
5 18 (8.91%) Senior
6 17 (8.42%) Analyst
7 16 (7.92%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.43%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (5.45%) Architect
10 11 (5.45%) Python Developer
11 10 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Automation Test Lead
12 9 (4.46%) Data Protection Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Strategy Analyst
13 8 (3.96%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Test Engineer
14 7 (3.47%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.81%) REST
2 32 (15.84%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (14.85%) RESTful
4 23 (11.39%) YAML
5 18 (8.91%) OpenTelemetry
6 17 (8.42%) FastAPI
7 12 (5.94%) OpenID
8 10 (4.95%) Node.js
9 9 (4.46%) LDAP
9 9 (4.46%) Playwright
9 9 (4.46%) SailPoint
10 8 (3.96%) TensorFlow
11 7 (3.47%) .NET
12 5 (2.48%) NumPy
12 5 (2.48%) Pandas
13 4 (1.98%) Anaconda
13 4 (1.98%) Middleware
14 3 (1.49%) Kafka
14 3 (1.49%) Regular Expression
14 3 (1.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.84%) Cloud Native
2 30 (14.85%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (13.86%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.44%) Algorithms
5 12 (5.94%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.46%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.97%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.49%) Clustering
11 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.49%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.99%) PKI
12 2 (0.99%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 54 (26.73%) Linux
2 8 (3.96%) CentOS
2 8 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (3.96%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.48%) Unix
3 5 (2.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (61.88%) DevOps
2 119 (58.91%) CI/CD
3 67 (33.17%) Agile
4 66 (32.67%) Containerisation
5 57 (28.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (21.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 43 (21.29%) Test Automation
8 33 (16.34%) Computer Science
9 31 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (15.35%) Microservices
10 30 (14.85%) Data Security
10 30 (14.85%) RBAC
11 26 (12.87%) Change Management
11 26 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (12.38%) High Availability
13 24 (11.88%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (11.88%) Observability
13 24 (11.88%) Software Engineering
14 23 (11.39%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.26%) Java
2 40 (19.80%) Go
3 36 (17.82%) Bash
3 36 (17.82%) SQL
4 21 (10.40%) Shell Script
5 18 (8.91%) Scala
6 12 (5.94%) Perl
7 10 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.95%) VBA
8 8 (3.96%) Ruby
9 7 (3.47%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.97%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.97%) PHP
11 4 (1.98%) Cypher
12 3 (1.49%) Groovy
13 2 (0.99%) Bicep
14 1 (0.50%) C#
14 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 36 (17.82%) Degree
2 30 (14.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (12.87%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.96%) RHCE
5 7 (3.47%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.47%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.99%) CCNA
8 2 (0.99%) CCNP
8 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.99%) CISM
8 2 (0.99%) CISSP
8 2 (0.99%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.99%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.46%) QA
2 4 (1.98%) PMO
3 3 (1.49%) SLA
4 2 (0.99%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (23.76%) Docker
2 6 (2.97%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.98%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 3 (1.49%) HDFS
6 1 (0.50%) KVM
6 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (48.51%) Ansible
2 70 (34.65%) Kubernetes
3 67 (33.17%) Terraform
4 51 (25.25%) Grafana
5 48 (23.76%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.91%) Puppet
7 13 (6.44%) NetBackup
8 11 (5.45%) Control-M
8 11 (5.45%) IBM Guardium
8 11 (5.45%) Nessus
9 6 (2.97%) Data Guard
9 6 (2.97%) yum
10 3 (1.49%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.99%) Argo
12 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.50%) Istio
12 1 (0.50%) Kibana
12 1 (0.50%) logstash
12 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (19.80%) Splunk
2 36 (17.82%) Red Hat
3 25 (12.38%) Google
4 20 (9.90%) Microsoft
5 17 (8.42%) ServiceNow
6 13 (6.44%) Commvault
7 12 (5.94%) Oracle
8 11 (5.45%) Tenable
9 9 (4.46%) Veritas
10 6 (2.97%) VMware
11 4 (1.98%) Okta
12 2 (0.99%) Alibaba
12 2 (0.99%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.99%) Arista
12 2 (0.99%) Cisco
12 2 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.99%) Delphix
12 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.99%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.99%) Teradata