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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 8 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 217 30 33
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 26.50% 12.82% 8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.78% 36.59% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 23 14
10th Percentile £377 £485 £349
25th Percentile £447 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £537 £636 £623
90th Percentile £642 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £575 £441
% change year-on-year -13.91% +30.31% -29.40%

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 335 82 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.90% 35.04% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 62 78
10th Percentile £369 £400 £404
25th Percentile £444 £473 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +6.70% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £587
90th Percentile £675 £650 £609
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £534 £475
% change year-on-year -6.37% +12.42% -13.64%

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 10 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 15 (6.91%) Confluence
2 5 (2.30%) Apache
2 5 (2.30%) Apache Pig
3 4 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.92%) IIS
5 2 (0.92%) SAS
6 1 (0.46%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.84%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 61 (28.11%) GCP
2 52 (23.96%) AWS
3 35 (16.13%) OpenShift
4 31 (14.29%) Azure
4 31 (14.29%) GitHub
5 26 (11.98%) Serverless
6 15 (6.91%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.61%) AWS KMS
8 9 (4.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.76%) CloudBees
10 6 (2.76%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.30%) SaaS
12 4 (1.84%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.84%) Cohesity
13 3 (1.38%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.38%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.38%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.99%) DNS
2 8 (3.69%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.76%) Firewall
4 4 (1.84%) NAS
4 4 (1.84%) Network Security
5 3 (1.38%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.38%) Internet
5 3 (1.38%) SAN
5 3 (1.38%) VPN
6 2 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.92%) DHCP
6 2 (0.92%) DWDM
6 2 (0.92%) LAN
6 2 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.92%) WAN
7 1 (0.46%) HTTP
7 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (18.89%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.91%) MySQL
3 15 (6.91%) Power BI
4 10 (4.61%) Hadoop
5 8 (3.69%) Apache Hive
5 8 (3.69%) Power Query
5 8 (3.69%) PowerPivot
6 7 (3.23%) Data Mining
6 7 (3.23%) Metadata
7 6 (2.76%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.30%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.84%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.84%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.38%) HBase
10 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.92%) OLTP
12 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (39.17%) Jenkins
2 56 (25.81%) GitLab
3 48 (22.12%) JIRA
4 23 (10.60%) Liquibase
5 17 (7.83%) Postman
6 10 (4.61%) Git
7 7 (3.23%) Selenium
8 6 (2.76%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.76%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.76%) TestRail
9 5 (2.30%) JMeter
9 5 (2.30%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.84%) Gatling
10 4 (1.84%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.84%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.38%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.38%) Maven
11 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
General
1 79 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 70 (32.26%) Finance
3 54 (24.88%) Banking
4 35 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.29%) Financial Institution
6 11 (5.07%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.38%) Legal
8 3 (1.38%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.92%) Law
9 2 (0.92%) Marketing
9 2 (0.92%) Publishing
10 1 (0.46%) Advertising
10 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (12.44%) Developer
2 25 (11.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (10.14%) Lead
4 20 (9.22%) GCP Engineer
5 18 (8.29%) Architect
5 18 (8.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (8.29%) Senior
6 16 (7.37%) Analyst
6 16 (7.37%) Software Engineer
7 15 (6.91%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (6.91%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.99%) Python Developer
9 12 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.15%) Automation Test Lead
12 8 (3.69%) GCP DevOps
12 8 (3.69%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.69%) Strategy Analyst
12 8 (3.69%) Test Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.43%) REST
2 30 (13.82%) Elastic Stack
2 30 (13.82%) OpenTelemetry
3 28 (12.90%) RESTful
4 26 (11.98%) YAML
5 15 (6.91%) FastAPI
6 12 (5.53%) OpenID
7 11 (5.07%) Node.js
8 10 (4.61%) LDAP
9 9 (4.15%) Playwright
9 9 (4.15%) SailPoint
9 9 (4.15%) TensorFlow
10 8 (3.69%) JSON
11 7 (3.23%) .NET
12 5 (2.30%) Kafka
12 5 (2.30%) NumPy
12 5 (2.30%) Pandas
13 4 (1.84%) Anaconda
13 4 (1.84%) Regular Expression
13 4 (1.84%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.21%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (11.98%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.99%) Algorithms
5 12 (5.53%) Data Centre
6 11 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (5.07%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.15%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.76%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.84%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.38%) Clustering
11 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.38%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.92%) PKI
12 2 (0.92%) Replication
12 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (26.27%) Linux
2 11 (5.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.15%) Windows
4 8 (3.69%) CentOS
4 8 (3.69%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.30%) Unix
6 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (62.21%) CI/CD
2 120 (55.30%) DevOps
3 75 (34.56%) Containerisation
4 66 (30.41%) Agile
5 58 (26.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (20.28%) Root Cause Analysis
8 38 (17.51%) Test Automation
9 37 (17.05%) RBAC
10 35 (16.13%) Observability
11 34 (15.67%) Computer Science
11 34 (15.67%) Cybersecurity
12 31 (14.29%) Change Management
12 31 (14.29%) Microservices
13 30 (13.82%) Data Security
14 29 (13.36%) High Availability
15 27 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (11.52%) Migration
17 24 (11.06%) Cryptography
17 24 (11.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (20.28%) Java
2 39 (17.97%) Go
3 38 (17.51%) Bash
4 37 (17.05%) SQL
5 18 (8.29%) Scala
6 15 (6.91%) Shell Script
7 12 (5.53%) Perl
8 11 (5.07%) VBA
9 10 (4.61%) TypeScript
10 9 (4.15%) JavaScript
10 9 (4.15%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.15%) Ruby
11 6 (2.76%) Groovy
11 6 (2.76%) PHP
12 4 (1.84%) Cypher
13 3 (1.38%) Bicep
14 1 (0.46%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.46%) C#
14 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 37 (17.05%) Degree
2 30 (13.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (11.98%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.69%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.69%) RHCE
5 7 (3.23%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.30%) CISM
6 5 (2.30%) CISSP
7 4 (1.84%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.92%) CCNA
8 2 (0.92%) CCNP
8 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.92%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.92%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.92%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.61%) QA
2 4 (1.84%) PMO
3 3 (1.38%) SLA
4 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.92%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
System Software
1 50 (23.04%) Docker
2 12 (5.53%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.69%) vSphere
4 6 (2.76%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.84%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (1.38%) HDFS
7 3 (1.38%) KVM
8 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.46%) NFS
Systems Management
1 98 (45.16%) Ansible
2 85 (39.17%) Kubernetes
3 74 (34.10%) Terraform
4 59 (27.19%) Grafana
5 54 (24.88%) Prometheus
6 17 (7.83%) Puppet
7 14 (6.45%) Control-M
7 14 (6.45%) IBM Guardium
7 14 (6.45%) Nessus
8 10 (4.61%) NetBackup
9 8 (3.69%) vCenter Server
10 7 (3.23%) Argo
11 3 (1.38%) Hadoop YARN
12 2 (0.92%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.46%) Istio
13 1 (0.46%) Kibana
13 1 (0.46%) logstash
13 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 47 (21.66%) Splunk
2 41 (18.89%) Red Hat
3 25 (11.52%) Google
4 22 (10.14%) Microsoft
5 17 (7.83%) ServiceNow
6 14 (6.45%) Tenable
7 10 (4.61%) Commvault
7 10 (4.61%) VMware
8 8 (3.69%) Pure Storage
9 6 (2.76%) Oracle
9 6 (2.76%) Veritas
10 4 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.84%) Okta
11 3 (1.38%) Alibaba
11 3 (1.38%) Cisco
11 3 (1.38%) F5
11 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.38%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.92%) EMC
12 2 (0.92%) NetApp