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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 234 110 83
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 22.14% 21.44% 19.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.78% 59.46% 56.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 75 53
10th Percentile £366 £351 £425
25th Percentile £419 £394 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £485 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -6.73% -20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £622
90th Percentile £615 £626 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £485 £520
% change year-on-year +1.55% -6.73% -20.00%

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 405 185 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.32% 36.06% 34.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 125 96
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £388 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -14.17%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £588
90th Percentile £623 £626 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £478 £520
% change year-on-year +4.71% -8.17% -7.56%

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 25 July 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 20 (8.55%) Apache Spark
2 15 (6.41%) Confluence
3 3 (1.28%) SAS
4 2 (0.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.43%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.79%) GCP
2 48 (20.51%) OpenShift
3 41 (17.52%) Azure
4 40 (17.09%) GitHub
5 30 (12.82%) AWS
6 15 (6.41%) Power Platform
7 11 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.99%) OCI
10 6 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.56%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.56%) Slack
11 5 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.28%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.28%) Datadog
12 3 (1.28%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.85%) IaaS
13 2 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.83%) DNS
2 11 (4.70%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.27%) BIG-IP
3 10 (4.27%) SAN
4 9 (3.85%) DHCP
5 7 (2.99%) NAS
5 7 (2.99%) Network Security
6 5 (2.14%) Firewall
7 4 (1.71%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.28%) HTTP
9 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.85%) VSAN
10 1 (0.43%) BGP
10 1 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.41%) Power BI
3 13 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 12 (5.13%) Metadata
4 12 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.13%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.42%) Big Data
6 7 (2.99%) Tableau
7 6 (2.56%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.14%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.14%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.28%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.85%) Parquet
11 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 73 (31.20%) Jenkins
2 52 (22.22%) JIRA
3 14 (5.98%) Git
4 12 (5.13%) GitLab
5 9 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.42%) Maven
7 5 (2.14%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.71%) MSBuild
8 4 (1.71%) Postman
8 4 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.71%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.28%) JMeter
9 3 (1.28%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.28%) Selenium
10 2 (0.85%) Gatling
10 2 (0.85%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.85%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.43%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 65 (27.78%) Finance
2 63 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 52 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.68%) Banking
5 11 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.99%) Publishing
7 4 (1.71%) Advertising
7 4 (1.71%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Legal
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (16.24%) Developer
2 37 (15.81%) Python Developer
3 32 (13.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (13.25%) Lead
5 19 (8.12%) Architect
5 19 (8.12%) Data Engineer
6 16 (6.84%) Python Engineer
7 15 (6.41%) Analyst
8 12 (5.13%) Data Analyst
8 12 (5.13%) Senior
9 9 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.42%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (2.99%) Consultant
12 6 (2.56%) Administrator
12 6 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.56%) DevOps Developer
12 6 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.56%) Lead DevOps
12 6 (2.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.24%) OpenTelemetry
2 25 (10.68%) REST
3 24 (10.26%) JSON
4 21 (8.97%) FastAPI
4 21 (8.97%) Node.js
5 12 (5.13%) Kafka
5 12 (5.13%) YAML
6 9 (3.85%) Apache Avro
6 9 (3.85%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (3.42%) SLSA
8 7 (2.99%) PySpark
8 7 (2.99%) pytest
8 7 (2.99%) React
9 6 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.71%) .NET
10 4 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.71%) LDAP
11 3 (1.28%) OpenID
12 2 (0.85%) Playwright
12 2 (0.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.52%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.68%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.56%) Blog
7 6 (2.56%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.56%) PKI
7 6 (2.56%) Replication
8 5 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.85%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.67%) Linux
2 20 (8.55%) Windows
3 9 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.14%) VMS
6 4 (1.71%) Unix
7 3 (1.28%) zOS
8 2 (0.85%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (52.14%) CI/CD
2 100 (42.74%) DevOps
3 74 (31.62%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (23.93%) Agile
4 56 (23.93%) Observability
5 52 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 40 (17.09%) Analytics
7 37 (15.81%) Test Automation
8 33 (14.10%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (13.68%) AI
10 31 (13.25%) Data Engineering
10 31 (13.25%) Data Protection
10 31 (13.25%) Migration
11 29 (12.39%) API Development
11 29 (12.39%) RBAC
12 27 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 25 (10.68%) Validation
14 24 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.52%) Bash
2 33 (14.10%) SQL
3 26 (11.11%) Java
4 24 (10.26%) Go
4 24 (10.26%) PowerShell
5 12 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.27%) Groovy
7 8 (3.42%) R
7 8 (3.42%) VBA
8 7 (2.99%) Rust
9 6 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.71%) C#
11 3 (1.28%) Bicep
12 2 (0.85%) Cypher
12 2 (0.85%) JCL
12 2 (0.85%) Perl
12 2 (0.85%) REXX
12 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.43%) C
13 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (2.56%) Degree
1 6 (2.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (2.14%) CISSP
2 5 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.28%) CISM
4 3 (1.28%) OCP
4 3 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.85%) GIAC
5 2 (0.85%) NCDA
5 2 (0.85%) NCIE
5 2 (0.85%) RHCA
6 1 (0.43%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.43%) GSEC
6 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.43%) RHCE
6 1 (0.43%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.14%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.14%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.71%) NIST
3 3 (1.28%) QA
4 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.43%) SLA
4 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (15.38%) Docker
2 24 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.55%) vSphere
4 13 (5.56%) VMware NSX
5 10 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.56%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.14%) KVM
7 5 (2.14%) NFS
8 4 (1.71%) SRDF
9 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.85%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.85%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.43%) Ceph
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 85 (36.32%) Kubernetes
2 83 (35.47%) Ansible
3 58 (24.79%) Terraform
4 47 (20.09%) Grafana
5 41 (17.52%) Prometheus
6 21 (8.97%) Argo
7 19 (8.12%) vCenter Server
8 15 (6.41%) Control-M
9 14 (5.98%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (5.98%) Nessus
10 8 (3.42%) NetBackup
10 8 (3.42%) Puppet
11 4 (1.71%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.71%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.28%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.85%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.85%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.85%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 37 (15.81%) Splunk
2 28 (11.97%) VMware
3 25 (10.68%) Red Hat
4 24 (10.26%) Microsoft
5 19 (8.12%) Pure Storage
6 16 (6.84%) Google
7 14 (5.98%) Tenable
8 12 (5.13%) Databricks
8 12 (5.13%) F5
9 9 (3.85%) Infoblox
10 8 (3.42%) Cisco
10 8 (3.42%) Dell
10 8 (3.42%) Sonatype
11 6 (2.56%) Broadcom
11 6 (2.56%) Brocade
11 6 (2.56%) Commvault
11 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.56%) Veritas
12 5 (2.14%) EMC
12 5 (2.14%) NetApp