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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 29 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 +32
Permanent jobs citing Python 36 17 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 3.29% 4.25% 7.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.18% 19.77% 28.14%
Number of salaries quoted 24 13 18
10th Percentile - - £39,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £28,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £49,000 £50,386
Median % change year-on-year +36.34% -2.75% -4.03%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £65,188
90th Percentile - £77,000 £69,276
South Yorkshire median annual salary £66,805 £49,000 £50,386
% change year-on-year +36.34% -2.75% +0.77%

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 170 86 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 15.55% 21.50% 27.37%
Number of salaries quoted 156 80 93
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,950 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -12.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £71,551 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £79,350 £71,991
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +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 27 September 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 2 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) Azure AI
3 8 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (19.44%) Azure Functions
4 7 (19.44%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (19.44%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (19.44%) Serverless
5 6 (16.67%) AWS
6 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.56%) GCP
7 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.56%) n8n
8 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.78%) SaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Firewall
1 6 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (19.44%) Spark SQL
2 5 (13.89%) Power BI
2 5 (13.89%) Tableau
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Postman
3 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Law
3 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Legal Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Publishing
5 1 (2.78%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Lead
3 7 (19.44%) Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Databricks Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Lead Data Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Network Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Junior
5 5 (13.89%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Junior Data Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Senior
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) Terraform
2 10 (27.78%) REST
3 8 (22.22%) PySpark
4 7 (19.44%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.56%) CrewAI
5 2 (5.56%) LangGraph
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (5.56%) pytest
6 1 (2.78%) .NET
6 1 (2.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Life Science
1 6 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) AI
2 12 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 11 (30.56%) DevOps
4 10 (27.78%) Data Engineering
4 10 (27.78%) ETL
4 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 9 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 9 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (22.22%) Observability
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) Release Management
7 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (19.44%) Cost Optimisation
7 7 (19.44%) Dashboard Development
7 7 (19.44%) Data Integration
7 7 (19.44%) Lakehouse
7 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
7 7 (19.44%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (2.78%) Bicep
3 1 (2.78%) C#
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) PHP
3 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 7 (19.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (19.44%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) Informatica