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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing Python 186 32 26
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 24.73% 13.01% 6.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.62% 43.84% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 26 17
10th Percentile £393 £491 £370
25th Percentile £450 £514 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £579 £590
Median % change year-on-year -13.61% -1.91% -2.48%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £619
90th Percentile £633 £700 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £579 £490
% change year-on-year -13.61% +18.11% -19.01%

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 312 73 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 41.49% 29.67% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 54 82
10th Percentile £346 £369 £412
25th Percentile £413 £473 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £588
90th Percentile £636 £668 £649
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -9.09%

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 13 January 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 (8.06%) Confluence
2 6 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.69%) Apache
3 5 (2.69%) Apache Pig
4 3 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.08%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.15%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.96%) AWS
1 52 (27.96%) GCP
2 27 (14.52%) Serverless
3 24 (12.90%) Azure
4 19 (10.22%) GitHub
5 17 (9.14%) OpenShift
5 17 (9.14%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.38%) AWS KMS
7 9 (4.84%) CloudBees
8 8 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.69%) SaaS
10 4 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.15%) Cohesity
11 3 (1.61%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.54%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.54%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (0.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.54%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.69%) Firewall
1 5 (2.69%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.15%) DNS
3 3 (1.61%) Internet
4 2 (1.08%) HTTP
5 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.82%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (17.20%) NoSQL
3 17 (9.14%) Power BI
4 16 (8.60%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.06%) MySQL
6 14 (7.53%) Oracle Database
7 10 (5.38%) Power Query
8 9 (4.84%) Hadoop
9 8 (4.30%) Apache Hive
9 8 (4.30%) PowerPivot
10 7 (3.76%) Data Mining
11 6 (3.23%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.69%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.61%) HBase
14 2 (1.08%) Metadata
14 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.08%) OLTP
15 1 (0.54%) Data Hub
15 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 71 (38.17%) Jenkins
2 54 (29.03%) GitLab
3 36 (19.35%) JIRA
4 27 (14.52%) Liquibase
5 18 (9.68%) Git
6 11 (5.91%) Postman
7 7 (3.76%) Selenium
8 6 (3.23%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.23%) REST Assured
8 6 (3.23%) TestRail
9 5 (2.69%) PyCharm
10 3 (1.61%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.54%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.54%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.54%) WebDriver
General
1 76 (40.86%) Social Skills
2 65 (34.95%) Finance
3 50 (26.88%) Banking
4 29 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.75%) Financial Institution
6 10 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.61%) Law
8 3 (1.61%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (1.08%) Police
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (12.37%) Automation Engineer
2 22 (11.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (11.29%) Developer
4 18 (9.68%) Senior
4 18 (9.68%) Software Engineer
5 17 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (8.60%) Analyst
6 16 (8.60%) GCP Engineer
7 15 (8.06%) Data Engineer
7 15 (8.06%) Lead
8 13 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (5.38%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.84%) Data Protection Engineer
12 8 (4.30%) Administrator
12 8 (4.30%) AWS Software Engineer
12 8 (4.30%) Strategy Analyst
13 7 (3.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 7 (3.76%) Data Analyst
14 6 (3.23%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.82%) REST
2 33 (17.74%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (15.05%) RESTful
4 20 (10.75%) FastAPI
5 18 (9.68%) YAML
6 15 (8.06%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (4.84%) .NET
8 8 (4.30%) TensorFlow
9 5 (2.69%) LDAP
9 5 (2.69%) NumPy
9 5 (2.69%) OpenID
9 5 (2.69%) Pandas
9 5 (2.69%) SailPoint
10 4 (2.15%) Anaconda
10 4 (2.15%) Node.js
11 3 (1.61%) Hugging Face
11 3 (1.61%) PyTorch
11 3 (1.61%) Regular Expression
11 3 (1.61%) SpaCy
11 3 (1.61%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.59%) Distributed Systems
1 29 (15.59%) Public Cloud
2 27 (14.52%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.99%) Algorithms
3 13 (6.99%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.76%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.15%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.61%) Clustering
7 3 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.61%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.08%) PKI
8 2 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 59 (31.72%) Linux
2 7 (3.76%) CentOS
2 7 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.76%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.23%) Windows
4 5 (2.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (61.29%) DevOps
2 102 (54.84%) CI/CD
3 69 (37.10%) Agile
4 58 (31.18%) Containerisation
5 54 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (26.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (20.97%) Root Cause Analysis
8 36 (19.35%) Test Automation
9 32 (17.20%) Microservices
10 31 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 30 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
11 30 (16.13%) Data Security
12 27 (14.52%) Change Management
13 26 (13.98%) Software Engineering
14 25 (13.44%) Continuous Integration
14 25 (13.44%) High Availability
14 25 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (12.90%) Continuous Delivery
15 24 (12.90%) Cryptography
15 24 (12.90%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (20.43%) Go
2 37 (19.89%) Java
3 35 (18.82%) Bash
3 35 (18.82%) SQL
4 26 (13.98%) Shell Script
5 11 (5.91%) Perl
5 11 (5.91%) Scala
6 10 (5.38%) VBA
7 9 (4.84%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.76%) Ruby
9 6 (3.23%) PHP
9 6 (3.23%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.61%) C#
10 3 (1.61%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.08%) Groovy
12 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 34 (18.28%) Degree
2 28 (15.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (14.52%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.30%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.76%) RHCE
5 7 (3.76%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.08%) CISM
8 2 (1.08%) CISSP
8 2 (1.08%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.23%) QA
2 4 (2.15%) PMO
3 3 (1.61%) SLA
4 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (24.19%) Docker
2 10 (5.38%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.61%) HDFS
3 3 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.54%) KVM
5 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (53.23%) Ansible
2 66 (35.48%) Kubernetes
3 59 (31.72%) Terraform
4 49 (26.34%) Grafana
5 46 (24.73%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.68%) Puppet
7 13 (6.99%) NetBackup
8 10 (5.38%) Control-M
8 10 (5.38%) Data Guard
8 10 (5.38%) IBM Guardium
8 10 (5.38%) Nessus
8 10 (5.38%) yum
9 3 (1.61%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (1.08%) Argo
10 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (1.08%) SCCM
11 1 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.54%) logstash
11 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (21.51%) Splunk
2 32 (17.20%) Red Hat
3 19 (10.22%) Microsoft
4 17 (9.14%) Google
5 16 (8.60%) Oracle
6 13 (6.99%) Commvault
7 11 (5.91%) ServiceNow
8 10 (5.38%) Tenable
9 9 (4.84%) Veritas
10 8 (4.30%) VMware
11 2 (1.08%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.08%) Delphix
11 2 (1.08%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.54%) Databricks
12 1 (0.54%) EMC
12 1 (0.54%) Pure Storage
12 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.54%) SAP
12 1 (0.54%) Sybase