Python Job Trends in Sheffield

Python
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 +37 -40
Permanent jobs citing Python 61 48 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 10.76% 17.27% 4.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.59% 43.64% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 46 25 33
10th Percentile - £47,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £62,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £77,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.30% +40.00% +29.41%
75th Percentile £45,000 £96,250 £78,750
90th Percentile - - £84,471
South Yorkshire median annual salary £37,500 £77,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -51.30% +46.67% +23.53%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 123 110 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 21.69% 39.57% 35.80%
Number of salaries quoted 105 65 292
10th Percentile £24,900 £30,050 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £55,972 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £96,250 £77,327
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Python job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Python
Salary Trend in Sheffield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Sheffield over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Sheffield

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 5 (8.20%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (47.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (60.66%) Azure
2 27 (44.26%) AWS
3 22 (36.07%) GitHub
4 14 (22.95%) Azure AI
4 14 (22.95%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.20%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.64%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (36.07%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (47.54%) Tableau
2 15 (24.59%) Data Mining
3 14 (22.95%) Power BI
4 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (36.07%) Git
2 5 (8.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (36.07%) Multimedia
2 20 (32.79%) Finance
3 16 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.20%) Retail
5 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (68.85%) Trainee
2 29 (47.54%) Analyst
2 29 (47.54%) Data Analyst
3 15 (24.59%) Trainee Analyst
3 15 (24.59%) Trainee Data Analyst
4 14 (22.95%) Junior
4 14 (22.95%) Junior Analyst
4 14 (22.95%) Junior Data Analyst
5 11 (18.03%) Developer
5 11 (18.03%) Software Developer
5 11 (18.03%) Trainee Developer
5 11 (18.03%) Trainee Software Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 5 (8.20%) Programmer
6 5 (8.20%) Trainee Programmer
7 3 (4.92%) Data Scientist
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Data Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (36.07%) CSS
1 22 (36.07%) HTML
2 5 (8.20%) Hugging Face
2 5 (8.20%) Matplotlib
2 5 (8.20%) NumPy
2 5 (8.20%) Pandas
2 5 (8.20%) scikit-learn
2 5 (8.20%) Streamlit
3 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.64%) PySpark
3 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) Mentoring
2 21 (34.43%) AI
2 21 (34.43%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (24.59%) Analytics
3 15 (24.59%) Business Analysis
3 15 (24.59%) Data Analysis
3 15 (24.59%) Data Analytics
3 15 (24.59%) Project Management
4 14 (22.95%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (11.48%) LLM
5 7 (11.48%) Machine Learning
5 7 (11.48%) Visualisation
6 5 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 5 (8.20%) Conversational UI
6 5 (8.20%) Customer Service
6 5 (8.20%) Data Privacy
6 5 (8.20%) Neural Network
6 5 (8.20%) Prompt Engineering
6 5 (8.20%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 5 (8.20%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (54.10%) SQL
2 22 (36.07%) JavaScript
3 12 (19.67%) R
4 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (59.02%) Azure Certification
2 27 (44.26%) AWS Certification
2 27 (44.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 22 (36.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.28%) Degree
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.64%) KVM
1 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Ansible
1 1 (1.64%) PowerCLI
1 1 (1.64%) Terraform
1 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (91.80%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.64%) Databricks
2 1 (1.64%) VMware