Python Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Python
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 209 133 80
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 18.17% 21.18% 17.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.32% 54.29% 53.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 92 56
10th Percentile £373 £346 £425
25th Percentile £425 £400 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -7.00% -11.67%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £605
90th Percentile £633 £613 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.78%

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 392 245 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 34.09% 39.01% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 171 101
10th Percentile £363 £316 £400
25th Percentile £420 £379 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £590
90th Percentile £615 £609 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £497 £506
% change year-on-year +0.70% -1.88% -1.27%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Python job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in South Yorkshire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +3 204 £500 +1.44% 33
Doncaster - 1 - - 4
Python
Yorkshire

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.26%) Confluence
3 3 (1.44%) Apache
3 3 (1.44%) SAS
3 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
4 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.48%) Zemax
Cloud Services
1 55 (26.32%) GCP
2 47 (22.49%) Azure
3 33 (15.79%) AWS
4 31 (14.83%) GitHub
5 23 (11.00%) OpenShift
6 18 (8.61%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.35%) OCI
10 6 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.87%) Slack
11 5 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.39%) CloudBees
11 5 (2.39%) Datadog
12 4 (1.91%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.91%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.44%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.44%) Cloud Run
13 3 (1.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.05%) DNS
2 9 (4.31%) DHCP
2 9 (4.31%) Network Security
2 9 (4.31%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.35%) BIG-IP
3 7 (3.35%) SAN
4 5 (2.39%) Firewall
5 4 (1.91%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.44%) HTTP
6 3 (1.44%) NAS
7 2 (0.96%) BGP
7 2 (0.96%) Internet
7 2 (0.96%) SNMP
7 2 (0.96%) VPN
7 2 (0.96%) VSAN
7 2 (0.96%) WAN
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.48%) Modbus
8 1 (0.48%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.18%) Power BI
2 12 (5.74%) Hadoop
2 12 (5.74%) Metadata
2 12 (5.74%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.78%) Big Data
3 10 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.83%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.35%) Neo4j
5 7 (3.35%) Tableau
6 6 (2.87%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.39%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.91%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.44%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.96%) Parquet
11 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 53 (25.36%) Jenkins
2 39 (18.66%) JIRA
3 15 (7.18%) Git
4 9 (4.31%) GitLab
5 8 (3.83%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.35%) Maven
7 6 (2.87%) Gatling
7 6 (2.87%) JMeter
7 6 (2.87%) NeoLoad
7 6 (2.87%) Zephyr
8 5 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.91%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.91%) MSBuild
9 4 (1.91%) Postman
9 4 (1.91%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.44%) Selenium
11 2 (0.96%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.96%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.48%) Jaeger
General
1 55 (26.32%) Finance
2 50 (23.92%) Social Skills
3 47 (22.49%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.88%) Banking
5 7 (3.35%) Publishing
6 6 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.91%) Law
7 4 (1.91%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.96%) Advertising
9 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.96%) Legal
9 2 (0.96%) Marketing
10 1 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Retail
10 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (16.75%) Lead
2 29 (13.88%) Developer
3 28 (13.40%) Python Developer
4 26 (12.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (7.66%) Analyst
6 15 (7.18%) Python Engineer
7 12 (5.74%) Architect
7 12 (5.74%) Data Analyst
8 11 (5.26%) Data Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) Senior
9 8 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.35%) Consultant
10 7 (3.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.87%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (2.87%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (2.87%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (2.87%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.00%) REST
2 21 (10.05%) Node.js
3 18 (8.61%) JSON
3 18 (8.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (6.22%) FastAPI
5 10 (4.78%) YAML
6 8 (3.83%) pytest
7 7 (3.35%) Kafka
7 7 (3.35%) React
7 7 (3.35%) SLSA
8 6 (2.87%) PySpark
8 6 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.39%) LDAP
10 4 (1.91%) .NET
10 4 (1.91%) OpenID
11 2 (0.96%) Apache Avro
11 2 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.96%) Playwright
11 2 (0.96%) Protocol Buffers
11 2 (0.96%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.70%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.05%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.31%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.87%) Blog
5 6 (2.87%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.87%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (2.87%) PKI
5 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.39%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.91%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.91%) Replication
8 3 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 35 (16.75%) Linux
2 15 (7.18%) Windows
3 7 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.39%) Unix
4 5 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.91%) VMS
6 3 (1.44%) zOS
7 2 (0.96%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.96%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (51.20%) CI/CD
2 94 (44.98%) DevOps
3 57 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (25.36%) Observability
5 48 (22.97%) Agile
6 40 (19.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (17.22%) Analytics
7 36 (17.22%) Containerisation
8 33 (15.79%) AI
8 33 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 31 (14.83%) Data Engineering
10 27 (12.92%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (12.44%) Data Protection
11 26 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (11.48%) DevSecOps
12 24 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (11.00%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (11.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.57%) Bash
2 40 (19.14%) SQL
3 34 (16.27%) Java
4 25 (11.96%) PowerShell
5 24 (11.48%) Go
6 9 (4.31%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.83%) Groovy
7 8 (3.83%) R
8 7 (3.35%) Rust
9 6 (2.87%) C#
9 6 (2.87%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.87%) VBA
10 4 (1.91%) Scala
11 3 (1.44%) Cypher
11 3 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.96%) Bicep
12 2 (0.96%) JCL
12 2 (0.96%) Perl
12 2 (0.96%) REXX
12 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (2.39%) Degree
1 5 (2.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (1.44%) OCP
2 3 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.96%) CISSP
3 2 (0.96%) GIAC
3 2 (0.96%) NCDA
3 2 (0.96%) NCIE
3 2 (0.96%) RHCA
4 1 (0.48%) CSSLP
4 1 (0.48%) GSEC
4 1 (0.48%) JNCIA
4 1 (0.48%) JNCIS
4 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.48%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.35%) NIST
2 6 (2.87%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.39%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.44%) QA
5 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.48%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (13.88%) Docker
2 18 (8.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.26%) vSphere
4 6 (2.87%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.39%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.91%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.91%) NFS
6 4 (1.91%) SRDF
6 4 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.44%) KVM
7 3 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.96%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.96%) Firmware
8 2 (0.96%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.48%) Ceph
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 66 (31.58%) Ansible
2 65 (31.10%) Kubernetes
3 56 (26.79%) Terraform
4 31 (14.83%) Grafana
5 26 (12.44%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.70%) Argo
7 10 (4.78%) vCenter Server
8 9 (4.31%) Control-M
9 8 (3.83%) IBM Guardium
9 8 (3.83%) Nessus
10 7 (3.35%) NetBackup
10 7 (3.35%) Puppet
11 4 (1.91%) Kustomize
12 3 (1.44%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.96%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (0.96%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.96%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.96%) SnapVault
13 2 (0.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 25 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.00%) Splunk
3 22 (10.53%) Google
4 19 (9.09%) VMware
5 16 (7.66%) Red Hat
6 12 (5.74%) Databricks
7 10 (4.78%) Cisco
7 10 (4.78%) Dell
7 10 (4.78%) Pure Storage
8 9 (4.31%) F5
8 9 (4.31%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.83%) Tenable
10 7 (3.35%) Infoblox
10 7 (3.35%) Sonatype
11 6 (2.87%) Broadcom
12 5 (2.39%) Brocade
12 5 (2.39%) Commvault
12 5 (2.39%) Veritas
13 4 (1.91%) EMC
13 4 (1.91%) HP