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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 24 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 56 24 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 5.70% 6.19% 4.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.77% 21.24% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 32 9 41
10th Percentile £33,750 £49,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £57,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +40.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £65,250
90th Percentile - £81,250 £82,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -42.86% +40.00% +17.65%

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 182 113 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.53% 29.12% 31.39%
Number of salaries quoted 156 92 298
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,475 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,565 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% -8.00% +1.95%
75th Percentile £66,105 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £75,772
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -

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 11 July 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 (8.93%) Jupyter
2 2 (3.57%) CMS
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 36 (64.29%) Azure
2 22 (39.29%) Azure AI
3 16 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 10 (17.86%) AWS
4 10 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (16.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (16.07%) Azure Functions
5 9 (16.07%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (16.07%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (16.07%) Serverless
6 5 (8.93%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub
7 2 (3.57%) SaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.79%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.79%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) Firewall
1 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (37.50%) Tableau
2 16 (28.57%) Power BI
3 10 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (16.07%) Spark SQL
5 5 (8.93%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.79%) Big Data
7 1 (1.79%) Metadata
7 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (5.36%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.79%) GitLab
4 1 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Postman
4 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Law
4 5 (8.93%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.93%) Retail
5 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Legal
6 2 (3.57%) Legal Technology
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Publishing
7 1 (1.79%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 22 (39.29%) Analyst
2 21 (37.50%) Data Analyst
3 16 (28.57%) Junior
3 16 (28.57%) Junior Analyst
3 16 (28.57%) Junior Data Analyst
4 11 (19.64%) Lead
4 11 (19.64%) Trainee
5 10 (17.86%) Data Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Lead Data Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 5 (8.93%) Network Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Programmer
8 5 (8.93%) Trainee Analyst
8 5 (8.93%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 5 (8.93%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.86%) PySpark
1 10 (17.86%) REST
2 9 (16.07%) ARM Templates
3 5 (8.93%) Hugging Face
3 5 (8.93%) Matplotlib
3 5 (8.93%) NumPy
3 5 (8.93%) Pandas
3 5 (8.93%) scikit-learn
3 5 (8.93%) Streamlit
4 2 (3.57%) CSS
5 1 (1.79%) .NET
5 1 (1.79%) HTML
5 1 (1.79%) jQuery
5 1 (1.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Algorithms
1 5 (8.93%) Life Science
1 5 (8.93%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) AI
2 16 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (19.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
3 11 (19.64%) DevOps
3 11 (19.64%) ETL
3 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (17.86%) Computer Science
4 10 (17.86%) Data Engineering
4 10 (17.86%) Data Governance
4 10 (17.86%) Data Integration
4 10 (17.86%) Data Modelling
4 10 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
4 10 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (17.86%) Release Management
4 10 (17.86%) Test Automation
5 9 (16.07%) Cost Optimisation
5 9 (16.07%) Dashboard Development
5 9 (16.07%) Observability
5 9 (16.07%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 35 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (5.36%) C#
3 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.57%) PHP
3 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.57%) R
4 1 (1.79%) Bash
4 1 (1.79%) Bicep
4 1 (1.79%) C++
4 1 (1.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 23 (41.07%) Azure Certification
2 11 (19.64%) Degree
3 10 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 6 (10.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.79%) KVM
1 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (26.79%) Terraform
2 7 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (51.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Databricks
3 1 (1.79%) Informatica
3 1 (1.79%) VMware