Python Contracts in South Yorkshire

Python
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 71 60 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 18.88% 13.51% 8.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.38% 42.86% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 31 34
10th Percentile £355 £411 £529
25th Percentile £413 £421 £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -34.07% +32.35%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £700
90th Percentile £650 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +17.07%

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 133 140 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 35.37% 31.53% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 89 94
10th Percentile £373 £400 £379
25th Percentile £449 £413 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.54% -19.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £608 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in South Yorkshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in South Yorkshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in South Yorkshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in South Yorkshire

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 24 April 2025. 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 +2 65 £500 +1.52% 31
Python
Yorkshire

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.68%) Confluence
2 6 (8.45%) Apache
2 6 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.54%) AWS
2 13 (18.31%) GCP
3 10 (14.08%) GitHub
3 10 (14.08%) OCI
4 6 (8.45%) Azure
4 6 (8.45%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (7.04%) CloudBees
6 4 (5.63%) Kong
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.82%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.41%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) DNS
2 6 (8.45%) SAN
3 5 (7.04%) Network Security
4 4 (5.63%) Firewall
4 4 (5.63%) NAS
4 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.23%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (4.23%) DWDM
5 3 (4.23%) LAN
5 3 (4.23%) VPN
5 3 (4.23%) WAN
6 2 (2.82%) DHCP
6 2 (2.82%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.41%) BGP
7 1 (1.41%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.41%) OSPF
7 1 (1.41%) SMTP
7 1 (1.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.49%) Oracle Database
2 5 (7.04%) Flink
3 4 (5.63%) MySQL
4 3 (4.23%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.82%) Power BI
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (33.80%) Jenkins
2 20 (28.17%) Git
3 13 (18.31%) JIRA
4 12 (16.90%) GitLab
5 11 (15.49%) Cucumber
6 7 (9.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (9.86%) Vagrant
6 7 (9.86%) Visual Studio
7 4 (5.63%) Newman
7 4 (5.63%) Postman
7 4 (5.63%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.82%) ERwin
8 2 (2.82%) Selenium
8 2 (2.82%) TestNG
9 1 (1.41%) ScriptRunner
General
1 31 (43.66%) Social Skills
2 25 (35.21%) Finance
3 13 (18.31%) Banking
4 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (12.68%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (12.68%) Data Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) Developer
3 8 (11.27%) Senior
4 5 (7.04%) Data Protection Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Network Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (7.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Architect
5 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Lead
5 4 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (2.82%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) Gherkin
2 6 (8.45%) JSON
3 5 (7.04%) Middleware
3 5 (7.04%) REST
4 4 (5.63%) FastAPI
4 4 (5.63%) React
4 4 (5.63%) RESTful
4 4 (5.63%) YAML
5 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.23%) CSS
5 3 (4.23%) HTML
5 3 (4.23%) PySpark
6 2 (2.82%) .NET
6 2 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.82%) FpML
6 2 (2.82%) Kafka
6 2 (2.82%) Pandas
6 2 (2.82%) pytest
6 2 (2.82%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.04%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.82%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.82%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (28.17%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.04%) Unix
3 5 (7.04%) Windows
4 4 (5.63%) VMS
4 4 (5.63%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.41%) AIX
5 1 (1.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.70%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (43.66%) Agile
2 31 (43.66%) CI/CD
3 24 (33.80%) DevOps
4 12 (16.90%) Containerisation
4 12 (16.90%) Data Protection
4 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure Automation
5 11 (15.49%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (14.08%) Test Automation
7 9 (12.68%) Change Management
7 9 (12.68%) Computer Science
7 9 (12.68%) Microservices
8 8 (11.27%) Data Modelling
8 8 (11.27%) Migration
8 8 (11.27%) TDD
9 7 (9.86%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (9.86%) ETL
9 7 (9.86%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (9.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.58%) Shell Script
2 16 (22.54%) JavaScript
3 14 (19.72%) SQL
4 13 (18.31%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.68%) Java
6 6 (8.45%) Kotlin
6 6 (8.45%) PHP
7 5 (7.04%) Ruby
8 4 (5.63%) Bash
8 4 (5.63%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.63%) Rust
9 3 (4.23%) Groovy
10 2 (2.82%) ActionScript
10 2 (2.82%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.41%) Go
11 1 (1.41%) Korn
11 1 (1.41%) Perl
11 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (12.68%) Degree
2 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) CCNP
3 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (2.82%) CCNA
4 2 (2.82%) IBM Certification
4 2 (2.82%) JNCIA
4 2 (2.82%) JNCIS
4 2 (2.82%) OCP
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.41%) CISM
5 1 (1.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) GDPR
2 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.82%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (25.35%) Docker
2 11 (15.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (9.86%) VirtualBox
3 7 (9.86%) vSphere
4 6 (8.45%) Active Directory
5 4 (5.63%) VMware NSX
6 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (2.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 34 (47.89%) Ansible
2 29 (40.85%) Kubernetes
3 19 (26.76%) Terraform
4 13 (18.31%) Puppet
5 6 (8.45%) vRealize
6 4 (5.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.63%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.82%) Grafana
7 2 (2.82%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.41%) Nagios
8 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Oracle
1 13 (18.31%) VMware
2 8 (11.27%) Google
2 8 (11.27%) Splunk
3 7 (9.86%) Cisco
4 6 (8.45%) Commvault
5 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.23%) Arista
6 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.82%) 3PAR
7 2 (2.82%) Brocade
7 2 (2.82%) Databricks
7 2 (2.82%) EMC
7 2 (2.82%) HP
7 2 (2.82%) IBM
7 2 (2.82%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (2.82%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.82%) Sparx
7 2 (2.82%) Veritas
8 1 (1.41%) F5