Python Contracts in Sheffield

Python
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 57 44 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 19.52% 12.46% 10.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.29% 38.94% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 19 34
10th Percentile £353 £410 £529
25th Percentile £406 £418 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -31.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile £623 £525 £700
90th Percentile £650 £638 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £534 £430 £650
% change year-on-year +24.19% -33.85% +30.00%

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 105 113 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.96% 32.01% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 67 92
10th Percentile £359 £404 £413
25th Percentile £431 £414 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £445 £581
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -23.44% +16.25%
75th Percentile £609 £541 £700
90th Percentile £650 £588 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £430 £550
% change year-on-year +22.09% -21.82% +15.79%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Sheffield

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Python in Sheffield

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Sheffield over the 6 months to 25 March 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Sheffield

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (14.04%) Confluence
2 6 (10.53%) Apache
2 6 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.75%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.81%) GCP
2 12 (21.05%) AWS
3 9 (15.79%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) OCI
4 6 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (10.53%) Kong
5 5 (8.77%) GitHub
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.51%) CloudBees
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.75%) Serverless
7 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) DNS
1 6 (10.53%) Network Security
2 4 (7.02%) Firewall
2 4 (7.02%) SAN
2 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (5.26%) DWDM
3 3 (5.26%) LAN
3 3 (5.26%) VPN
3 3 (5.26%) WAN
4 2 (3.51%) DHCP
4 2 (3.51%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.75%) BGP
5 1 (1.75%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.75%) OSPF
5 1 (1.75%) SMTP
5 1 (1.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Oracle Database
2 5 (8.77%) Flink
3 3 (5.26%) MySQL
4 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 13 (22.81%) Git
2 13 (22.81%) JIRA
3 9 (15.79%) Cucumber
4 7 (12.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (10.53%) Vagrant
6 5 (8.77%) Visual Studio
7 4 (7.02%) Newman
7 4 (7.02%) Postman
7 4 (7.02%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.51%) ERwin
8 2 (3.51%) Selenium
8 2 (3.51%) TestNG
9 1 (1.75%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.75%) GitLab
9 1 (1.75%) ScriptRunner
General
1 26 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 25 (43.86%) Finance
3 15 (26.32%) Banking
4 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.77%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (15.79%) Data Engineer
2 7 (12.28%) Automation Engineer
2 7 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Senior
4 5 (8.77%) Architect
4 5 (8.77%) Network Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Data Protection Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Administrator
6 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Unix Administrator
7 2 (3.51%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Lead
7 2 (3.51%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) JSON
2 5 (8.77%) Gherkin
2 5 (8.77%) REST
2 5 (8.77%) RESTful
3 4 (7.02%) FastAPI
3 4 (7.02%) YAML
4 3 (5.26%) PySpark
4 3 (5.26%) React
5 2 (3.51%) .NET
5 2 (3.51%) Anaconda
5 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.51%) CSS
5 2 (3.51%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.51%) FpML
5 2 (3.51%) HTML
5 2 (3.51%) Kafka
5 2 (3.51%) Pandas
5 2 (3.51%) pytest
5 2 (3.51%) XML
6 1 (1.75%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.51%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (3.51%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.54%) Linux
2 7 (12.28%) Unix
3 5 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.02%) VMS
5 3 (5.26%) AIX
5 3 (5.26%) Solaris
6 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (56.14%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (40.35%) CI/CD
3 17 (29.82%) Agile
4 16 (28.07%) DevOps
5 13 (22.81%) Containerisation
6 10 (17.54%) Data Protection
7 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
8 8 (14.04%) Computer Science
8 8 (14.04%) Data Modelling
8 8 (14.04%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (12.28%) ETL
10 6 (10.53%) Change Management
10 6 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (10.53%) Workflow
11 5 (8.77%) Analytics
11 5 (8.77%) Data Lineage
11 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.32%) SQL
2 14 (24.56%) Shell Script
3 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.28%) Bash
4 7 (12.28%) Java
5 6 (10.53%) PHP
6 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.77%) Ruby
7 4 (7.02%) PL/SQL
7 4 (7.02%) Rust
8 3 (5.26%) Groovy
8 3 (5.26%) Korn
8 3 (5.26%) Perl
9 2 (3.51%) ActionScript
9 2 (3.51%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (3.51%) C
9 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.75%) Go
10 1 (1.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (14.04%) Degree
2 3 (5.26%) CCNP
2 3 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (3.51%) CCNA
3 2 (3.51%) IBM Certification
3 2 (3.51%) JNCIA
3 2 (3.51%) JNCIS
3 2 (3.51%) OCP
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.75%) CISM
4 1 (1.75%) CISSP
4 1 (1.75%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) GDPR
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) NIST
3 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (36.84%) Docker
2 7 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.53%) VirtualBox
4 3 (5.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.51%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (3.51%) vSphere
6 1 (1.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 27 (47.37%) Ansible
2 21 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 14 (24.56%) Terraform
4 12 (21.05%) Puppet
5 5 (8.77%) Progress Chef
6 4 (7.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (5.26%) NetBackup
7 3 (5.26%) vRealize
8 1 (1.75%) Nagios
8 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Oracle
2 9 (15.79%) Google
2 9 (15.79%) VMware
3 7 (12.28%) Cisco
3 7 (12.28%) Splunk
4 4 (7.02%) Commvault
4 4 (7.02%) EMC
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.26%) Arista
5 3 (5.26%) Veritas
6 2 (3.51%) 3PAR
6 2 (3.51%) Brocade
6 2 (3.51%) Databricks
6 2 (3.51%) Hitachi
6 2 (3.51%) HP
6 2 (3.51%) IBM
6 2 (3.51%) IBM Sterling
6 2 (3.51%) Infoblox
6 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.51%) Sparx
23 Python jobs in South Yorkshire