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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 211 127 84
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 20.49% 22.56% 19.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.81% 56.70% 57.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 88 54
10th Percentile £370 £351 £425
25th Percentile £425 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -7.21% -15.10%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £616
90th Percentile £653 £616 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £483 £520
% change year-on-year +3.63% -7.21% -15.10%

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 385 224 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 37.38% 39.79% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 154 95
10th Percentile £363 £322 £400
25th Percentile £413 £377 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £520
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% -9.52% -13.33%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £592
90th Percentile £616 £612 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -9.57%

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 6 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 (9.00%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.16%) Confluence
3 3 (1.42%) SAS
4 2 (0.95%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.47%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 53 (25.12%) GCP
2 42 (19.91%) Azure
3 32 (15.17%) AWS
3 32 (15.17%) OpenShift
4 31 (14.69%) GitHub
5 15 (7.11%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.79%) OCI
8 7 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.84%) CloudBees
9 6 (2.84%) Slack
10 5 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.37%) Datadog
11 4 (1.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.42%) Azure Storage
13 2 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.95%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.95%) IaaS
13 2 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.53%) DNS
2 9 (4.27%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.32%) BIG-IP
3 7 (3.32%) DHCP
3 7 (3.32%) SAN
4 6 (2.84%) Firewall
4 6 (2.84%) Network Security
5 4 (1.90%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.42%) HTTP
6 3 (1.42%) NAS
7 2 (0.95%) VSAN
8 1 (0.47%) BGP
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.47%) DWDM
8 1 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.47%) Internet
8 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.47%) LAN
8 1 (0.47%) VPN
8 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.11%) Power BI
3 12 (5.69%) Hadoop
3 12 (5.69%) Metadata
3 12 (5.69%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.21%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.79%) Big Data
6 7 (3.32%) Neo4j
6 7 (3.32%) Tableau
7 6 (2.84%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.42%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.95%) Parquet
11 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (27.49%) Jenkins
2 44 (20.85%) JIRA
3 14 (6.64%) Git
4 9 (4.27%) GitLab
4 9 (4.27%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.79%) Maven
6 6 (2.84%) Gatling
6 6 (2.84%) JMeter
6 6 (2.84%) NeoLoad
7 5 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.37%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.90%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.90%) MSBuild
8 4 (1.90%) Postman
8 4 (1.90%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.42%) Selenium
10 2 (0.95%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.95%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 56 (26.54%) Finance
2 52 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (24.64%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.69%) Banking
4 9 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.79%) Publishing
6 3 (1.42%) Advertising
6 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.42%) Law
6 3 (1.42%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.95%) Legal
7 2 (0.95%) Marketing
8 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Retail
8 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (17.06%) Developer
2 35 (16.59%) Python Developer
3 34 (16.11%) Lead
4 27 (12.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (7.58%) Analyst
5 16 (7.58%) Data Engineer
6 15 (7.11%) Python Engineer
7 14 (6.64%) Architect
8 12 (5.69%) Data Analyst
9 10 (4.74%) Senior
10 8 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Consultant
11 7 (3.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.84%) DevOps Developer
12 6 (2.84%) Lead DevOps
12 6 (2.84%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.37%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.27%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (10.90%) REST
3 21 (9.95%) JSON
3 21 (9.95%) Node.js
4 19 (9.00%) FastAPI
5 11 (5.21%) YAML
6 10 (4.74%) Kafka
7 8 (3.79%) SLSA
8 7 (3.32%) Apache Avro
8 7 (3.32%) Protocol Buffers
8 7 (3.32%) pytest
8 7 (3.32%) React
9 6 (2.84%) PySpark
9 6 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.90%) .NET
10 4 (1.90%) LDAP
11 3 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.42%) OpenID
12 2 (0.95%) LangChain
12 2 (0.95%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.01%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.43%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.32%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.84%) Blog
6 6 (2.84%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.84%) EMC VMAX
6 6 (2.84%) PKI
7 5 (2.37%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.37%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.90%) Replication
9 2 (0.95%) Clustering
9 2 (0.95%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.64%) Linux
2 15 (7.11%) Windows
3 7 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.37%) Unix
4 5 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.90%) VMS
6 3 (1.42%) zOS
7 2 (0.95%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.95%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (51.66%) CI/CD
2 92 (43.60%) DevOps
3 68 (32.23%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (24.17%) Observability
5 50 (23.70%) Agile
6 44 (20.85%) Containerisation
7 38 (18.01%) Analytics
8 33 (15.64%) Test Automation
9 32 (15.17%) AI
10 30 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (13.74%) Data Engineering
12 28 (13.27%) Data Protection
13 26 (12.32%) API Development
14 25 (11.85%) Migration
14 25 (11.85%) Validation
15 24 (11.37%) Data Pipeline
16 23 (10.90%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (10.90%) RBAC
16 23 (10.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (10.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (17.54%) Bash
2 34 (16.11%) SQL
3 32 (15.17%) Java
4 22 (10.43%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.95%) Go
6 10 (4.74%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.27%) Groovy
8 8 (3.79%) R
9 7 (3.32%) Rust
10 6 (2.84%) VBA
11 4 (1.90%) C#
11 4 (1.90%) Scala
11 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.42%) Bicep
12 3 (1.42%) Cypher
13 2 (0.95%) JCL
13 2 (0.95%) Perl
13 2 (0.95%) REXX
13 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (2.84%) Degree
2 5 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (2.37%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.42%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.42%) CISSP
3 3 (1.42%) OCP
3 3 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.95%) GIAC
4 2 (0.95%) NCDA
4 2 (0.95%) NCIE
4 2 (0.95%) RHCA
5 1 (0.47%) CISM
5 1 (0.47%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.47%) GSEC
5 1 (0.47%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.47%) JNCIS
5 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.37%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.37%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.90%) NIST
3 3 (1.42%) QA
4 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) SLA
4 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (15.64%) Docker
2 19 (9.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.64%) vSphere
4 9 (4.27%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.90%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.90%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.90%) NFS
6 4 (1.90%) SRDF
6 4 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.42%) KVM
8 2 (0.95%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.95%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.47%) Ceph
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 72 (34.12%) Kubernetes
2 67 (31.75%) Ansible
3 49 (23.22%) Terraform
4 38 (18.01%) Grafana
5 33 (15.64%) Prometheus
6 17 (8.06%) Argo
7 13 (6.16%) Control-M
7 13 (6.16%) vCenter Server
8 12 (5.69%) IBM Guardium
8 12 (5.69%) Nessus
9 8 (3.79%) NetBackup
9 8 (3.79%) Puppet
10 4 (1.90%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.42%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.95%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.95%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.95%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.95%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 30 (14.22%) Splunk
2 22 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.43%) VMware
3 19 (9.00%) Google
3 19 (9.00%) Red Hat
4 13 (6.16%) Pure Storage
5 12 (5.69%) Databricks
5 12 (5.69%) Tenable
6 9 (4.27%) F5
7 8 (3.79%) Cisco
7 8 (3.79%) Dell
7 8 (3.79%) Sonatype
8 7 (3.32%) Infoblox
8 7 (3.32%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.84%) Broadcom
9 6 (2.84%) Commvault
9 6 (2.84%) Veritas
10 5 (2.37%) Brocade
11 4 (1.90%) EMC
11 4 (1.90%) HP