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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +20
Contract jobs citing Python 199 139 73
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 18.72% 23.84% 17.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.64% 55.38% 51.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 100 50
10th Percentile £400 £384 £457
25th Percentile £437 £445 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -9.36%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £616
90th Percentile £671 £675 £655
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -9.36%

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 393 251 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.97% 43.05% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 178 99
10th Percentile £382 £325 £395
25th Percentile £438 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -7.38% -10.63%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £592
90th Percentile £669 £675 £646
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £483 £533
% change year-on-year +3.52% -9.38% -9.27%

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 3 October 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 11 (5.53%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.52%) Confluence
3 5 (2.51%) Apache
4 4 (2.01%) SAS
5 3 (1.51%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.01%) nginx
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.50%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 78 (39.20%) GCP
2 60 (30.15%) Azure
3 46 (23.12%) AWS
4 23 (11.56%) GitHub
5 18 (9.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 15 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.53%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.03%) Cloud Run
8 10 (5.03%) Entra ID
8 10 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.52%) Datadog
10 7 (3.52%) OpenShift
11 6 (3.02%) Serverless
11 6 (3.02%) Slack
12 5 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.01%) Azure Databricks
13 4 (2.01%) Azure Storage
13 4 (2.01%) Kong
13 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.54%) Network Security
2 13 (6.53%) DNS
3 7 (3.52%) Firewall
3 7 (3.52%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.51%) BIG-IP
4 5 (2.51%) DHCP
4 5 (2.51%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.51%) HTTP
5 3 (1.51%) VPN
6 2 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.01%) Internet
6 2 (1.01%) NAS
6 2 (1.01%) SAN
6 2 (1.01%) VSAN
6 2 (1.01%) WAN
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.50%) Modbus
7 1 (0.50%) NaaS
7 1 (0.50%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.04%) Metadata
2 13 (6.53%) Power BI
3 11 (5.53%) Big Data
3 11 (5.53%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.52%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.52%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.52%) Neo4j
6 7 (3.52%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.02%) Tableau
8 5 (2.51%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.51%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.01%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.50%) Parquet
11 1 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 39 (19.60%) Jenkins
2 32 (16.08%) JIRA
3 20 (10.05%) Git
4 9 (4.52%) Maven
5 8 (4.02%) GitLab
5 8 (4.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.52%) Claude Code
6 7 (3.52%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.52%) Zephyr
7 6 (3.02%) Gatling
7 6 (3.02%) JMeter
7 6 (3.02%) NeoLoad
8 4 (2.01%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.01%) MSBuild
8 4 (2.01%) Postman
8 4 (2.01%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.50%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.50%) TruffleHog
General
1 66 (33.17%) Finance
2 50 (25.13%) Social Skills
3 39 (19.60%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.57%) Banking
5 7 (3.52%) Publishing
6 5 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.01%) Law
8 3 (1.51%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.51%) Marketing
9 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Advertising
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (14.07%) Developer
2 26 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (12.56%) Lead
4 21 (10.55%) Python Developer
5 20 (10.05%) Senior
6 15 (7.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 13 (6.53%) Analyst
8 11 (5.53%) Data Analyst
8 11 (5.53%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.52%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 9 (4.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.02%) Architect
10 8 (4.02%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.52%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.02%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.02%) Test Leader
13 5 (2.51%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (31.66%) Terraform
2 24 (12.06%) Node.js
2 24 (12.06%) REST
3 16 (8.04%) React
4 14 (7.04%) OpenID
5 12 (6.03%) JSON
5 12 (6.03%) OAuth
5 12 (6.03%) OAuth2
6 10 (5.03%) FastAPI
6 10 (5.03%) Kafka
6 10 (5.03%) pytest
7 9 (4.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (4.52%) SAML
8 8 (4.02%) YAML
9 7 (3.52%) .NET
9 7 (3.52%) JWT
10 6 (3.02%) LDAP
10 6 (3.02%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.51%) PySpark
11 5 (2.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.62%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.55%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.03%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.02%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.02%) PKI
6 6 (3.02%) Blog
6 6 (3.02%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.02%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.51%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.01%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.01%) Replication
8 4 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.51%) Clustering
9 3 (1.51%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.08%) Linux
2 12 (6.03%) Windows
3 11 (5.53%) Unix
4 7 (3.52%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.02%) VMS
6 3 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.51%) zOS
7 2 (1.01%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.01%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (56.78%) CI/CD
2 90 (45.23%) DevOps
3 68 (34.17%) Observability
4 53 (26.63%) Agile
5 50 (25.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (22.11%) AI
7 43 (21.61%) Software Engineering
8 41 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (16.58%) Analytics
9 33 (16.58%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (16.58%) DevSecOps
9 33 (16.58%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (15.08%) Containerisation
10 30 (15.08%) Data Engineering
11 29 (14.57%) Identity Access Management
12 27 (13.57%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (13.57%) LLM
13 26 (13.07%) Validation
14 25 (12.56%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.62%) Java
2 42 (21.11%) SQL
3 36 (18.09%) Bash
4 33 (16.58%) PowerShell
5 30 (15.08%) Go
6 12 (6.03%) C#
7 9 (4.52%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.52%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.52%) Rust
9 6 (3.02%) Groovy
9 6 (3.02%) R
10 5 (2.51%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.01%) Bicep
11 4 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.01%) Scala
11 4 (2.01%) VBA
12 3 (1.51%) Cypher
13 2 (1.01%) JCL
13 2 (1.01%) Perl
13 2 (1.01%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (4.52%) Degree
2 6 (3.02%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.51%) CISSP
4 4 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.51%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.51%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.51%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.01%) CCNP
6 2 (1.01%) CCSP
6 2 (1.01%) CISM
6 2 (1.01%) GIAC
6 2 (1.01%) NCDA
6 2 (1.01%) NCIE
6 2 (1.01%) RHCA
6 2 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.50%) CCNA
7 1 (0.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.52%) NIST
3 6 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.02%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.51%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.51%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.01%) QA
6 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (12.56%) Docker
2 9 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.01%) NFS
6 2 (1.01%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.01%) SRDF
6 2 (1.01%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.01%) vSphere
7 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.50%) Ceph
7 1 (0.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 65 (32.66%) Kubernetes
2 42 (21.11%) Ansible
3 26 (13.07%) Grafana
4 24 (12.06%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.02%) Argo
5 8 (4.02%) Control-M
6 7 (3.52%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (3.52%) Nessus
7 5 (2.51%) Kustomize
8 4 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.51%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.01%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.01%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.01%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.01%) SnapVault
10 2 (1.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 39 (19.60%) Google
2 31 (15.58%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.04%) ServiceNow
4 13 (6.53%) Databricks
4 13 (6.53%) Splunk
5 7 (3.52%) AppDynamics
5 7 (3.52%) Okta
5 7 (3.52%) Tenable
5 7 (3.52%) VMware
6 6 (3.02%) Cisco
6 6 (3.02%) Oracle
7 5 (2.51%) F5
7 5 (2.51%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.51%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.51%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.01%) Brocade
8 4 (2.01%) Dell
8 4 (2.01%) Ping Identity
8 4 (2.01%) Sonatype
9 3 (1.51%) IBM