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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 205 29 31
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 25.66% 12.29% 8.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 61.93% 37.66% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 23 15
10th Percentile £371 £485 £358
25th Percentile £450 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -7.63% -2.88%
75th Percentile £537 £636 £609
90th Percentile £600 £650 £635
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% -25.93%

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 331 77 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 41.43% 32.63% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 57 79
10th Percentile £357 £400 £411
25th Percentile £438 £480 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £588
90th Percentile £640 £650 £632
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £491
% change year-on-year -6.98% +9.41% -10.68%

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 28 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 16 (7.80%) Confluence
2 5 (2.44%) Apache
2 5 (2.44%) Apache Pig
3 4 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.98%) IIS
5 2 (0.98%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.95%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.22%) GCP
2 56 (27.32%) AWS
3 32 (15.61%) Azure
4 28 (13.66%) Serverless
5 22 (10.73%) GitHub
6 20 (9.76%) OpenShift
7 15 (7.32%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.88%) AWS KMS
9 9 (4.39%) CloudBees
9 9 (4.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.93%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.44%) SaaS
13 4 (1.95%) Cohesity
14 3 (1.46%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.46%) Cloud Run
15 2 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
15 2 (0.98%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.41%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.93%) DNS
2 6 (2.93%) Firewall
3 3 (1.46%) Internet
3 3 (1.46%) VPN
4 2 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.98%) DWDM
4 2 (0.98%) LAN
4 2 (0.98%) NAS
4 2 (0.98%) Network Security
4 2 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.98%) WAN
5 1 (0.49%) HTTP
5 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.54%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (16.10%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.32%) MySQL
3 15 (7.32%) Power BI
4 10 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.39%) Hadoop
6 8 (3.90%) Apache Hive
6 8 (3.90%) Oracle Database
6 8 (3.90%) Power Query
6 8 (3.90%) PowerPivot
7 7 (3.41%) Data Mining
8 6 (2.93%) Metadata
9 5 (2.44%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.44%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.95%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.46%) HBase
12 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.98%) OLTP
13 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 80 (39.02%) Jenkins
2 56 (27.32%) GitLab
3 43 (20.98%) JIRA
4 25 (12.20%) Liquibase
5 17 (8.29%) Postman
6 13 (6.34%) Git
7 7 (3.41%) Selenium
8 6 (2.93%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.93%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.93%) TestRail
9 5 (2.44%) PyCharm
10 4 (1.95%) Gatling
10 4 (1.95%) JMeter
10 4 (1.95%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.95%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.46%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.98%) Maven
12 2 (0.98%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 73 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 61 (29.76%) Finance
3 51 (24.88%) Banking
4 34 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.76%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.46%) Law
8 3 (1.46%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.98%) Legal
9 2 (0.98%) Marketing
9 2 (0.98%) Police
10 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Publishing
10 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (14.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (13.17%) Developer
3 21 (10.24%) Lead
4 18 (8.78%) Automation Engineer
4 18 (8.78%) GCP Engineer
5 17 (8.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (8.29%) Senior
6 16 (7.80%) Analyst
6 16 (7.80%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.32%) Data Engineer
8 13 (6.34%) Python Developer
9 12 (5.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (5.37%) Architect
11 10 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (4.39%) Automation Test Lead
12 9 (4.39%) Data Protection Engineer
13 8 (3.90%) Strategy Analyst
13 8 (3.90%) Test Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.90%) Test Engineer
14 7 (3.41%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.02%) REST
2 32 (15.61%) Elastic Stack
3 31 (15.12%) RESTful
4 24 (11.71%) YAML
5 21 (10.24%) OpenTelemetry
6 17 (8.29%) FastAPI
7 12 (5.85%) OpenID
8 11 (5.37%) Node.js
9 10 (4.88%) LDAP
10 9 (4.39%) Playwright
10 9 (4.39%) SailPoint
11 8 (3.90%) TensorFlow
12 7 (3.41%) .NET
13 5 (2.44%) NumPy
13 5 (2.44%) Pandas
14 4 (1.95%) Anaconda
14 4 (1.95%) Middleware
15 3 (1.46%) OAuth
15 3 (1.46%) Regular Expression
15 3 (1.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.61%) Cloud Native
2 30 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (13.66%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.34%) Algorithms
4 13 (6.34%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.39%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.93%) Credit Risk
8 5 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.46%) Clustering
10 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.46%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.98%) PKI
11 2 (0.98%) Replication
11 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.49%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 54 (26.34%) Linux
2 9 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.90%) CentOS
3 8 (3.90%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.93%) Windows
5 5 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (60.98%) CI/CD
1 125 (60.98%) DevOps
2 70 (34.15%) Containerisation
3 68 (33.17%) Agile
4 57 (27.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (21.46%) Root Cause Analysis
7 43 (20.98%) Test Automation
8 33 (16.10%) Computer Science
9 32 (15.61%) RBAC
10 31 (15.12%) Cybersecurity
10 31 (15.12%) Microservices
11 30 (14.63%) Data Security
12 28 (13.66%) Observability
13 26 (12.68%) Change Management
13 26 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (12.20%) High Availability
14 25 (12.20%) Software Engineering
15 24 (11.71%) Continuous Integration
16 23 (11.22%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (24.88%) Java
2 39 (19.02%) Go
3 35 (17.07%) Bash
3 35 (17.07%) SQL
4 19 (9.27%) Shell Script
5 18 (8.78%) Scala
6 12 (5.85%) Perl
7 10 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.39%) VBA
9 8 (3.90%) Ruby
10 7 (3.41%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.93%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.93%) PHP
12 4 (1.95%) Cypher
12 4 (1.95%) Groovy
13 2 (0.98%) Bicep
14 1 (0.49%) C#
14 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 36 (17.56%) Degree
2 30 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (12.68%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.90%) RHCE
5 7 (3.41%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.41%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.98%) CCNA
8 2 (0.98%) CCNP
8 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.98%) CISM
8 2 (0.98%) CISSP
8 2 (0.98%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.98%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.98%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.39%) QA
2 4 (1.95%) PMO
3 3 (1.46%) SLA
4 2 (0.98%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (24.88%) Docker
2 5 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.95%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.46%) HDFS
5 1 (0.49%) KVM
5 1 (0.49%) NFS
5 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 97 (47.32%) Ansible
2 74 (36.10%) Kubernetes
3 69 (33.66%) Terraform
4 54 (26.34%) Grafana
5 51 (24.88%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.78%) Puppet
7 13 (6.34%) Control-M
7 13 (6.34%) IBM Guardium
7 13 (6.34%) Nessus
7 13 (6.34%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.95%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.95%) yum
9 3 (1.46%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.98%) Argo
11 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.49%) Istio
11 1 (0.49%) Kibana
11 1 (0.49%) logstash
11 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 40 (19.51%) Splunk
2 37 (18.05%) Red Hat
3 25 (12.20%) Google
4 20 (9.76%) Microsoft
5 17 (8.29%) ServiceNow
6 13 (6.34%) Commvault
6 13 (6.34%) Tenable
7 10 (4.88%) Oracle
8 9 (4.39%) Veritas
9 5 (2.44%) VMware
10 4 (1.95%) Okta
11 3 (1.46%) Cisco
12 2 (0.98%) Alibaba
12 2 (0.98%) Arista
12 2 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.98%) EMC
12 2 (0.98%) NetApp
12 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.98%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.98%) Teradata