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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 204 128 79
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 19.58% 22.65% 19.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.54% 56.39% 55.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 88 55
10th Percentile £371 £354 £425
25th Percentile £425 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -6.11% -12.50%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £594
90th Percentile £643 £616 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £530
% change year-on-year +1.44% -7.00% -11.67%

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 381 227 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.56% 40.18% 34.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 155 96
10th Percentile £363 £319 £400
25th Percentile £416 £379 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -11.47%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £591
90th Percentile £615 £612 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -8.70%

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 15 August 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 19 (9.31%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.39%) Confluence
3 3 (1.47%) Apache
3 3 (1.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.49%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.49%) nginx
4 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.49%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 55 (26.96%) GCP
2 44 (21.57%) Azure
3 31 (15.20%) AWS
4 29 (14.22%) GitHub
5 23 (11.27%) OpenShift
6 15 (7.35%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.43%) OCI
10 6 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.94%) Slack
11 5 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.45%) CloudBees
11 5 (2.45%) Datadog
12 3 (1.47%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.47%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.47%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.98%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.31%) DNS
2 9 (4.41%) Network Security
2 9 (4.41%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.43%) BIG-IP
3 7 (3.43%) DHCP
3 7 (3.43%) SAN
4 5 (2.45%) Firewall
5 4 (1.96%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.47%) HTTP
6 3 (1.47%) NAS
7 2 (0.98%) BGP
7 2 (0.98%) Internet
7 2 (0.98%) VPN
7 2 (0.98%) VSAN
7 2 (0.98%) WAN
8 1 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.49%) Modbus
8 1 (0.49%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.35%) Power BI
2 12 (5.88%) Hadoop
2 12 (5.88%) Metadata
2 12 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.90%) Big Data
3 10 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.92%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.43%) Neo4j
5 7 (3.43%) Tableau
6 6 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.45%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.96%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.47%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.98%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.98%) Parquet
11 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.49%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 39 (19.12%) JIRA
3 15 (7.35%) Git
4 9 (4.41%) GitLab
5 8 (3.92%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.43%) Maven
7 6 (2.94%) Gatling
7 6 (2.94%) JMeter
7 6 (2.94%) NeoLoad
7 6 (2.94%) Zephyr
8 5 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.96%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.96%) MSBuild
9 4 (1.96%) Postman
9 4 (1.96%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.47%) Selenium
11 2 (0.98%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.49%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 54 (26.47%) Finance
2 50 (24.51%) Social Skills
3 47 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (14.22%) Banking
5 7 (3.43%) Publishing
6 6 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.96%) Law
8 3 (1.47%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.98%) Advertising
9 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Marketing
9 2 (0.98%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (17.16%) Lead
2 29 (14.22%) Developer
3 28 (13.73%) Python Developer
4 24 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (7.84%) Analyst
6 15 (7.35%) Python Engineer
7 12 (5.88%) Architect
7 12 (5.88%) Data Analyst
8 11 (5.39%) Data Engineer
8 11 (5.39%) Senior
9 8 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.43%) Consultant
10 7 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
11 6 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.27%) REST
2 21 (10.29%) Node.js
3 16 (7.84%) JSON
3 16 (7.84%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (6.37%) FastAPI
5 10 (4.90%) YAML
6 8 (3.92%) pytest
7 7 (3.43%) Kafka
7 7 (3.43%) React
7 7 (3.43%) SLSA
8 6 (2.94%) PySpark
8 6 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.45%) LDAP
10 4 (1.96%) .NET
10 4 (1.96%) OpenID
11 2 (0.98%) Apache Avro
11 2 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.98%) LangChain
11 2 (0.98%) Playwright
11 2 (0.98%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.14%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.29%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.94%) Blog
5 6 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.94%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (2.94%) PKI
5 6 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.96%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.96%) Replication
8 3 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.47%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 35 (17.16%) Linux
2 15 (7.35%) Windows
3 7 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.45%) Unix
4 5 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.96%) VMS
6 3 (1.47%) zOS
7 2 (0.98%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.98%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (51.47%) CI/CD
2 92 (45.10%) DevOps
3 57 (27.94%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (25.00%) Observability
5 48 (23.53%) Agile
6 36 (17.65%) Analytics
6 36 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 36 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (16.18%) Test Automation
8 32 (15.69%) AI
9 31 (15.20%) Data Engineering
10 26 (12.75%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (12.75%) Data Protection
11 24 (11.76%) DevSecOps
11 24 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 24 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (11.27%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (11.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 41 (20.10%) Bash
2 40 (19.61%) SQL
3 34 (16.67%) Java
4 24 (11.76%) Go
4 24 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 9 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.92%) Groovy
6 8 (3.92%) R
7 7 (3.43%) Rust
8 6 (2.94%) C#
8 6 (2.94%) VBA
9 4 (1.96%) Scala
9 4 (1.96%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.47%) Cypher
10 3 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.98%) Bicep
11 2 (0.98%) JCL
11 2 (0.98%) Perl
11 2 (0.98%) REXX
11 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (2.45%) Degree
2 4 (1.96%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.47%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (1.47%) OCP
3 3 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.98%) CISSP
4 2 (0.98%) GIAC
4 2 (0.98%) NCDA
4 2 (0.98%) NCIE
4 2 (0.98%) RHCA
5 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.49%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.49%) GSEC
5 1 (0.49%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.49%) JNCIS
5 1 (0.49%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.94%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.94%) NIST
2 5 (2.45%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.47%) QA
4 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
5 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (13.24%) Docker
2 18 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.39%) vSphere
4 6 (2.94%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.45%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.96%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.96%) NFS
6 4 (1.96%) SRDF
6 4 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.47%) KVM
7 3 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.98%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.98%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.49%) Ceph
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 64 (31.37%) Ansible
2 63 (30.88%) Kubernetes
3 52 (25.49%) Terraform
4 31 (15.20%) Grafana
5 24 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.86%) Argo
7 10 (4.90%) vCenter Server
8 9 (4.41%) Control-M
9 8 (3.92%) IBM Guardium
9 8 (3.92%) Nessus
10 7 (3.43%) NetBackup
10 7 (3.43%) Puppet
11 4 (1.96%) Kustomize
12 3 (1.47%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.98%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.98%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.98%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.98%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.98%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 24 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.27%) Splunk
3 22 (10.78%) Google
4 19 (9.31%) VMware
5 16 (7.84%) Red Hat
6 12 (5.88%) Databricks
7 10 (4.90%) Cisco
7 10 (4.90%) Pure Storage
8 9 (4.41%) F5
9 8 (3.92%) Dell
9 8 (3.92%) Tenable
10 7 (3.43%) Infoblox
10 7 (3.43%) ServiceNow
10 7 (3.43%) Sonatype
11 6 (2.94%) Broadcom
12 5 (2.45%) Brocade
12 5 (2.45%) Commvault
12 5 (2.45%) Veritas
13 4 (1.96%) EMC
13 4 (1.96%) HP