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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 228 31 35
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 27.14% 12.76% 9.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 65.90% 38.75% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 23 13
10th Percentile £374 £451 £341
25th Percentile £444 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -0.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £537 £636 £630
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £575 £433
% change year-on-year -15.74% +32.95% -30.80%

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 346 80 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 41.19% 32.92% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 60 76
10th Percentile £370 £400 £403
25th Percentile £447 £454 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £491
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.83% -10.68%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £587
90th Percentile £675 £650 £595
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £470
% change year-on-year -4.76% +11.70% -14.55%

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 14 February 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 13 (5.70%) Confluence
2 5 (2.19%) Apache
2 5 (2.19%) Apache Pig
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.88%) IIS
5 2 (0.88%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.75%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 61 (26.75%) GCP
2 52 (22.81%) AWS
3 43 (18.86%) OpenShift
4 34 (14.91%) GitHub
5 31 (13.60%) Azure
6 26 (11.40%) Serverless
7 15 (6.58%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.39%) AWS KMS
9 9 (3.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.63%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.19%) SaaS
13 4 (1.75%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.75%) CloudBees
13 4 (1.75%) Cohesity
14 3 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.32%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.32%) Azure Storage
14 3 (1.32%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.14%) DNS
2 8 (3.51%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.63%) Firewall
4 4 (1.75%) NAS
4 4 (1.75%) Network Security
5 3 (1.32%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.32%) Internet
5 3 (1.32%) SAN
5 3 (1.32%) VPN
6 2 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.88%) DHCP
6 2 (0.88%) DWDM
6 2 (0.88%) LAN
6 2 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.88%) WAN
7 1 (0.44%) HTTP
7 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (20.18%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (13.60%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.58%) MySQL
3 15 (6.58%) Power BI
4 10 (4.39%) Hadoop
5 8 (3.51%) Apache Hive
5 8 (3.51%) Power Query
5 8 (3.51%) PowerPivot
6 7 (3.07%) Data Mining
6 7 (3.07%) Metadata
6 7 (3.07%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.63%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.19%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.75%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.75%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.32%) HBase
11 2 (0.88%) OLTP
12 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (37.28%) Jenkins
2 53 (23.25%) GitLab
3 50 (21.93%) JIRA
4 23 (10.09%) Liquibase
5 17 (7.46%) Postman
6 10 (4.39%) Git
7 7 (3.07%) Selenium
8 6 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.63%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.63%) TestRail
9 5 (2.19%) JMeter
9 5 (2.19%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.75%) Gatling
10 4 (1.75%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.75%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.32%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.32%) Maven
11 3 (1.32%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.44%) Travis CI
General
1 83 (36.40%) Social Skills
2 72 (31.58%) Finance
3 55 (24.12%) Banking
4 40 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.89%) Financial Institution
6 14 (6.14%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.32%) Legal
8 3 (1.32%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.88%) Advertising
9 2 (0.88%) Law
9 2 (0.88%) Marketing
9 2 (0.88%) Publishing
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (14.47%) Developer
2 24 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (10.53%) Lead
3 20 (8.77%) GCP Engineer
4 19 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 19 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 18 (7.89%) Architect
5 18 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (7.89%) Senior
6 16 (7.02%) Analyst
6 16 (7.02%) Software Engineer
7 12 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
7 12 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (3.95%) Automation Test Lead
10 8 (3.51%) GCP DevOps
10 8 (3.51%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Strategy Analyst
10 8 (3.51%) Test Automation Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.98%) OpenTelemetry
2 40 (17.54%) REST
3 30 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (12.28%) RESTful
5 26 (11.40%) YAML
6 20 (8.77%) FastAPI
7 12 (5.26%) JSON
7 12 (5.26%) OpenID
8 11 (4.82%) Node.js
9 10 (4.39%) Kafka
9 10 (4.39%) LDAP
10 9 (3.95%) Playwright
10 9 (3.95%) SailPoint
10 9 (3.95%) TensorFlow
11 7 (3.07%) .NET
11 7 (3.07%) Apache Avro
11 7 (3.07%) Protocol Buffers
12 5 (2.19%) NumPy
12 5 (2.19%) Pandas
13 4 (1.75%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.11%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (11.40%) Public Cloud
4 16 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (5.70%) Algorithms
6 12 (5.26%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.39%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.51%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.63%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.32%) Clustering
12 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.32%) Online Banking
13 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.88%) PKI
13 2 (0.88%) Replication
13 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
14 1 (0.44%) CMDB
14 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (25.00%) Linux
2 11 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.95%) Windows
4 8 (3.51%) CentOS
4 8 (3.51%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (60.96%) CI/CD
2 120 (52.63%) DevOps
3 81 (35.53%) Containerisation
4 70 (30.70%) Agile
5 65 (28.51%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (19.30%) Observability
7 44 (19.30%) Root Cause Analysis
8 41 (17.98%) RBAC
9 36 (15.79%) Test Automation
10 34 (14.91%) Computer Science
10 34 (14.91%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (13.60%) Change Management
11 31 (13.60%) Microservices
12 30 (13.16%) Data Security
12 30 (13.16%) High Availability
13 29 (12.72%) Analytics
14 27 (11.84%) Migration
14 27 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (10.53%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 44 (19.30%) Java
2 39 (17.11%) Go
3 38 (16.67%) Bash
4 37 (16.23%) SQL
5 18 (7.89%) Scala
6 15 (6.58%) Shell Script
7 12 (5.26%) Perl
8 11 (4.82%) VBA
9 10 (4.39%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.95%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.95%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.95%) Ruby
11 6 (2.63%) Groovy
11 6 (2.63%) PHP
12 4 (1.75%) Cypher
13 3 (1.32%) Bicep
14 1 (0.44%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.44%) C#
14 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 37 (16.23%) Degree
2 30 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (11.40%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.51%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.51%) RHCE
4 8 (3.51%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.19%) CISM
5 5 (2.19%) CISSP
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.88%) CCNA
7 2 (0.88%) CCNP
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.88%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.88%) JNCIS
7 2 (0.88%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.39%) QA
2 4 (1.75%) PMO
3 3 (1.32%) SLA
4 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (24.12%) Docker
2 12 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.39%) vSphere
4 8 (3.51%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (1.32%) HDFS
7 3 (1.32%) KVM
8 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.44%) NFS
Systems Management
1 98 (42.98%) Ansible
2 97 (42.54%) Kubernetes
3 76 (33.33%) Terraform
4 65 (28.51%) Grafana
5 64 (28.07%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.89%) Control-M
6 18 (7.89%) IBM Guardium
6 18 (7.89%) Nessus
6 18 (7.89%) Puppet
7 10 (4.39%) vCenter Server
8 9 (3.95%) Argo
9 8 (3.51%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.32%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.88%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.44%) Istio
12 1 (0.44%) Kibana
12 1 (0.44%) logstash
12 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 53 (23.25%) Splunk
2 40 (17.54%) Red Hat
3 25 (10.96%) Google
4 21 (9.21%) Microsoft
5 18 (7.89%) Tenable
6 17 (7.46%) ServiceNow
7 12 (5.26%) VMware
8 10 (4.39%) Pure Storage
9 8 (3.51%) Commvault
10 6 (2.63%) Oracle
11 4 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.75%) Okta
11 4 (1.75%) Veritas
12 3 (1.32%) Alibaba
12 3 (1.32%) Cisco
12 3 (1.32%) F5
12 3 (1.32%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.32%) Sonatype
13 2 (0.88%) EMC
13 2 (0.88%) NetApp