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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 261 62 70
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.95% 18.79% 18.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.44% 54.39% 49.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 42 40
10th Percentile £375 £352 £424
25th Percentile £425 £386 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -1.90% -27.71%
75th Percentile £537 £573 £605
90th Percentile £600 £648 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% -30.71%

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 405 114 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.72% 34.55% 37.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 77 93
10th Percentile £367 £356 £400
25th Percentile £422 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £554
90th Percentile £615 £650 £624
South Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £520 £470
% change year-on-year -6.20% +10.59% -21.67%

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 21 May 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 17 (6.51%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.36%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) SAS
4 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 62 (23.75%) OpenShift
2 50 (19.16%) GCP
3 40 (15.33%) AWS
3 40 (15.33%) Azure
4 38 (14.56%) GitHub
5 12 (4.60%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 8 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.30%) CloudBees
8 6 (2.30%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.30%) Slack
9 5 (1.92%) OCI
9 5 (1.92%) SaaS
10 4 (1.53%) Azure Storage
10 4 (1.53%) Serverless
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.15%) Cloud Run
11 3 (1.15%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.20%) DNS
2 14 (5.36%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.45%) SAN
4 8 (3.07%) BIG-IP
5 7 (2.68%) DHCP
5 7 (2.68%) Firewall
6 6 (2.30%) NAS
7 5 (1.92%) Network Security
8 4 (1.53%) iSCSI
9 3 (1.15%) HTTP
9 3 (1.15%) VPN
10 2 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.77%) DWDM
10 2 (0.77%) LAN
10 2 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.77%) WAN
11 1 (0.38%) BGP
11 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.98%) Hadoop
2 13 (4.98%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.60%) Power BI
4 11 (4.21%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.45%) Metadata
6 7 (2.68%) MySQL
6 7 (2.68%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.68%) Tableau
7 6 (2.30%) Big Data
8 4 (1.53%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.77%) Parquet
10 2 (0.77%) Power Query
10 2 (0.77%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.77%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.38%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 77 (29.50%) Jenkins
2 53 (20.31%) JIRA
3 26 (9.96%) GitLab
4 17 (6.51%) Postman
5 13 (4.98%) Git
6 9 (3.45%) Selenium
7 6 (2.30%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.30%) Maven
7 6 (2.30%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.30%) TestRail
8 5 (1.92%) JMeter
9 4 (1.53%) Gatling
9 4 (1.53%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.53%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.15%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.15%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.77%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 73 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 61 (23.37%) Finance
3 53 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.88%) Banking
5 17 (6.51%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.30%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.92%) Publishing
8 4 (1.53%) Advertising
9 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.15%) Law
9 3 (1.15%) Legal
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing
10 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (17.24%) Lead
2 40 (15.33%) Developer
3 33 (12.64%) Python Developer
4 30 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (10.34%) Architect
6 18 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 16 (6.13%) Analyst
8 12 (4.60%) Python Engineer
8 12 (4.60%) Senior
9 11 (4.21%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (4.21%) Data Analyst
10 9 (3.45%) Automation Test Lead
10 9 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) GCP DevOps
11 8 (3.07%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) Test Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) Test Engineer
12 7 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.30%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 31 (11.88%) YAML
3 26 (9.96%) REST
4 24 (9.20%) Node.js
5 21 (8.05%) JSON
6 20 (7.66%) FastAPI
7 12 (4.60%) OpenID
8 11 (4.21%) Kafka
9 10 (3.83%) LDAP
10 9 (3.45%) Apache Avro
10 9 (3.45%) Playwright
10 9 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
10 9 (3.45%) SailPoint
11 8 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (2.30%) .NET
12 6 (2.30%) SLSA
13 5 (1.92%) PySpark
13 5 (1.92%) RESTful
14 3 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
14 3 (1.15%) React
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.26%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.20%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.83%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.92%) EMC VMAX
7 5 (1.92%) PKI
8 4 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.53%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.53%) Replication
9 3 (1.15%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.77%) CMDB
10 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.77%) Linux
2 21 (8.05%) Windows
3 17 (6.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.07%) CentOS
4 8 (3.07%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.53%) Unix
7 2 (0.77%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.77%) VMS
7 2 (0.77%) zOS
8 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (55.94%) CI/CD
2 119 (45.59%) DevOps
3 87 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (25.29%) Containerisation
5 53 (20.31%) RBAC
6 51 (19.54%) Agile
7 50 (19.16%) Observability
8 46 (17.62%) Test Automation
9 44 (16.86%) Migration
10 41 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (13.79%) Analytics
12 31 (11.88%) Data Protection
12 31 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (11.49%) AI
14 28 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (10.73%) Validation
15 27 (10.34%) API Development
15 27 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 26 (9.96%) ETL
16 26 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (19.92%) Bash
2 48 (18.39%) Java
3 36 (13.79%) SQL
4 21 (8.05%) Go
5 18 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.21%) Scala
8 10 (3.83%) Groovy
8 10 (3.83%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.45%) Perl
9 9 (3.45%) Ruby
9 9 (3.45%) VBA
10 8 (3.07%) R
11 7 (2.68%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.30%) PHP
13 4 (1.53%) Cypher
14 3 (1.15%) Bicep
14 3 (1.15%) Rust
15 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (3.45%) RHCE
2 7 (2.68%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.30%) Degree
4 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.92%) CISM
4 5 (1.92%) CISSP
4 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.15%) OCP
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.77%) CCNA
6 2 (0.77%) CCNP
6 2 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.77%) JNCIA
6 2 (0.77%) JNCIS
6 2 (0.77%) RHCA
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.60%) QA
2 5 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.53%) NIST
4 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.15%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.15%) SLA
4 3 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.77%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (14.94%) Docker
2 23 (8.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (7.28%) vSphere
4 13 (4.98%) VMware NSX
5 12 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.92%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.92%) KVM
6 5 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (1.15%) NFS
8 3 (1.15%) SRDF
9 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
9 1 (0.38%) Ceph
9 1 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.38%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 108 (41.38%) Ansible
2 93 (35.63%) Kubernetes
3 68 (26.05%) Terraform
4 48 (18.39%) Grafana
5 42 (16.09%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.90%) Puppet
6 18 (6.90%) vCenter Server
7 16 (6.13%) Argo
8 15 (5.75%) Control-M
9 14 (5.36%) IBM Guardium
9 14 (5.36%) Nessus
10 7 (2.68%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.53%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.77%) Istio
14 1 (0.38%) Kibana
14 1 (0.38%) logstash
14 1 (0.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 45 (17.24%) Red Hat
2 39 (14.94%) Splunk
3 28 (10.73%) Microsoft
3 28 (10.73%) VMware
4 19 (7.28%) ServiceNow
5 18 (6.90%) Pure Storage
6 16 (6.13%) Google
7 14 (5.36%) Tenable
8 10 (3.83%) F5
9 9 (3.45%) Cisco
10 8 (3.07%) Databricks
11 7 (2.68%) Infoblox
12 6 (2.30%) Commvault
12 6 (2.30%) Dell
12 6 (2.30%) Sonatype
12 6 (2.30%) Veritas
13 5 (1.92%) Broadcom
14 4 (1.53%) EMC
14 4 (1.53%) HP
14 4 (1.53%) NetApp