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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +20
Contract jobs citing Python 194 141 71
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 18.62% 24.91% 17.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.79% 56.63% 51.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 99 48
10th Percentile £400 £384 £450
25th Percentile £429 £443 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -9.36%
75th Percentile £578 £558 £622
90th Percentile £669 £655 £665
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 382 249 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.66% 43.99% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 175 95
10th Percentile £373 £325 £385
25th Percentile £432 £400 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -8.00% -10.63%
75th Percentile £570 £547 £597
90th Percentile £669 £650 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £530
% change year-on-year +4.17% -9.43% -9.78%

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 27 September 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 13 (6.70%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.12%) Confluence
3 5 (2.58%) Apache
4 4 (2.06%) SAS
5 3 (1.55%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.03%) nginx
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.52%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 75 (38.66%) GCP
2 59 (30.41%) Azure
3 40 (20.62%) AWS
4 20 (10.31%) GitHub
5 17 (8.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 14 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.70%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.15%) Cloud Run
9 9 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (4.64%) Entra ID
9 9 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.64%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.61%) Datadog
11 6 (3.09%) Serverless
11 6 (3.09%) Slack
12 5 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.06%) Azure Databricks
13 4 (2.06%) Azure Storage
13 4 (2.06%) OCI
14 3 (1.55%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.25%) Network Security
2 15 (7.73%) DNS
3 9 (4.64%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.61%) BIG-IP
4 7 (3.61%) DHCP
4 7 (3.61%) Firewall
5 5 (2.58%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.55%) HTTP
6 3 (1.55%) NAS
6 3 (1.55%) SAN
6 3 (1.55%) VPN
7 2 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.03%) Internet
7 2 (1.03%) VSAN
7 2 (1.03%) WAN
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.52%) Modbus
8 1 (0.52%) NaaS
8 1 (0.52%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.25%) Metadata
2 13 (6.70%) Big Data
2 13 (6.70%) Power BI
3 11 (5.67%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.12%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.61%) Neo4j
6 7 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.61%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.09%) Tableau
8 5 (2.58%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.03%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.52%) Parquet
11 1 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 38 (19.59%) Jenkins
2 35 (18.04%) JIRA
3 18 (9.28%) Git
4 8 (4.12%) GitLab
4 8 (4.12%) Maven
4 8 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (3.61%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.61%) Zephyr
6 6 (3.09%) Gatling
6 6 (3.09%) JMeter
6 6 (3.09%) NeoLoad
7 4 (2.06%) Claude Code
7 4 (2.06%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.06%) MSBuild
7 4 (2.06%) Postman
7 4 (2.06%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.03%) Selenium
9 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.52%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
General
1 65 (33.51%) Finance
2 50 (25.77%) Social Skills
3 39 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.46%) Banking
5 7 (3.61%) Publishing
6 5 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.06%) Law
8 3 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.55%) Marketing
9 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (13.40%) Developer
2 25 (12.89%) Lead
3 23 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (10.31%) Python Developer
5 15 (7.73%) Analyst
5 15 (7.73%) Senior
6 12 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (6.19%) Data Analyst
7 11 (5.67%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.15%) Architect
9 9 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.64%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.61%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 6 (3.09%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (30.93%) Terraform
2 24 (12.37%) Node.js
3 23 (11.86%) REST
4 15 (7.73%) React
5 13 (6.70%) JSON
5 13 (6.70%) OpenID
6 11 (5.67%) OAuth
6 11 (5.67%) OAuth2
7 10 (5.15%) FastAPI
7 10 (5.15%) Kafka
8 9 (4.64%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (4.64%) pytest
9 8 (4.12%) SAML
10 7 (3.61%) JWT
10 7 (3.61%) YAML
11 6 (3.09%) .NET
11 6 (3.09%) LDAP
11 6 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.58%) PySpark
12 5 (2.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.71%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.79%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.15%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.12%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.61%) PKI
7 6 (3.09%) Blog
7 6 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.58%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.58%) Replication
9 4 (2.06%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.06%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.55%) Clustering
10 3 (1.55%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.55%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.98%) Linux
2 10 (5.15%) Unix
2 10 (5.15%) Windows
3 6 (3.09%) VMS
3 6 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.55%) zOS
5 2 (1.03%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (53.61%) CI/CD
2 85 (43.81%) DevOps
3 66 (34.02%) Observability
4 53 (27.32%) Agile
5 47 (24.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (21.65%) AI
7 40 (20.62%) Software Engineering
8 39 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (17.53%) Analytics
10 32 (16.49%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (16.49%) Data Engineering
10 32 (16.49%) DevSecOps
10 32 (16.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (15.98%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (15.46%) Containerisation
13 29 (14.95%) Identity Access Management
14 26 (13.40%) Test Automation
14 26 (13.40%) Validation
15 25 (12.89%) Cloud Security
15 25 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 47 (24.23%) Java
2 41 (21.13%) SQL
3 33 (17.01%) Bash
4 30 (15.46%) Go
5 29 (14.95%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.64%) C#
6 9 (4.64%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.61%) R
7 7 (3.61%) Rust
8 6 (3.09%) Groovy
8 6 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.09%) VBA
9 5 (2.58%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.06%) Bicep
10 4 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.06%) Scala
11 3 (1.55%) Cypher
12 2 (1.03%) JCL
12 2 (1.03%) Perl
12 2 (1.03%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (4.64%) Degree
2 5 (2.58%) CISSP
3 4 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.03%) CCNP
5 2 (1.03%) CCSP
5 2 (1.03%) CISM
5 2 (1.03%) GIAC
5 2 (1.03%) NCDA
5 2 (1.03%) NCIE
5 2 (1.03%) RHCA
5 2 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.52%) CCIE
6 1 (0.52%) CCNA
6 1 (0.52%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.61%) NIST
3 6 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.09%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.58%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.58%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.55%) QA
6 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (13.40%) Docker
2 8 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.06%) NFS
6 2 (1.03%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.03%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.03%) SRDF
6 2 (1.03%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.03%) vSphere
7 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.52%) Ceph
7 1 (0.52%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (34.02%) Kubernetes
2 43 (22.16%) Ansible
3 26 (13.40%) Grafana
4 24 (12.37%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.12%) Argo
5 8 (4.12%) Control-M
6 7 (3.61%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (3.61%) Nessus
7 5 (2.58%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.55%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.03%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (1.03%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.03%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.03%) SnapMirror
9 2 (1.03%) SnapVault
9 2 (1.03%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 38 (19.59%) Google
2 30 (15.46%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.22%) Databricks
4 12 (6.19%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.19%) Splunk
5 7 (3.61%) AppDynamics
5 7 (3.61%) Cisco
5 7 (3.61%) F5
5 7 (3.61%) Infoblox
5 7 (3.61%) Okta
5 7 (3.61%) Tenable
5 7 (3.61%) VMware
6 6 (3.09%) Oracle
6 6 (3.09%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.58%) Brocade
7 5 (2.58%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.06%) Dell
8 4 (2.06%) Ping Identity
8 4 (2.06%) Sonatype
9 3 (1.55%) EMC