Python Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Python
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 +39 -50
Permanent jobs citing Python 128 38 43
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 10.23% 9.97% 3.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.78% 27.34% 9.73%
Number of salaries quoted 46 20 38
10th Percentile - £49,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £62,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £71,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.86% +42.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £68,955 £96,250 £64,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £96,625 £83,239
Yorkshire median annual salary £51,250 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.15% +18.18% -15.38%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 238 139 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.02% 36.48% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 153 112 379
10th Percentile £24,200 £29,825 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,700 £86,250 £75,772
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -9.09%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Python job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Python
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in South Yorkshire

Python
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -3 70 £40,000 -43.86% 26
Doncaster - 31 £42,250 - 3
Barnsley - 27 - -
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 5 (3.91%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.34%) WordPress
3 2 (1.56%) CMS
Applications
1 73 (57.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.91%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 107 (83.59%) Azure
2 81 (63.28%) Azure AI
3 64 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 21 (16.41%) AWS
5 14 (10.94%) GitHub
6 9 (7.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.03%) Azure Functions
6 9 (7.03%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (7.03%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (7.03%) Serverless
7 5 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.56%) SaaS
9 1 (0.78%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.78%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.78%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (57.03%) Tableau
2 64 (50.00%) Power BI
3 10 (7.81%) Data Mining
3 10 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.03%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.78%) Metadata
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (11.72%) Git
2 5 (3.91%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 84 (65.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.06%) Finance
3 14 (10.94%) Multimedia
4 13 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.91%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.91%) Retail
6 2 (1.56%) Legal
6 2 (1.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Publishing
7 1 (0.78%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 75 (58.59%) Analyst
2 74 (57.81%) Data Analyst
3 63 (49.22%) Junior
3 63 (49.22%) Junior Analyst
3 63 (49.22%) Junior Data Analyst
4 29 (22.66%) Trainee
5 18 (14.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (8.59%) Lead
7 10 (7.81%) Trainee Analyst
7 10 (7.81%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 9 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) Data Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) Lead Data Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Developer
9 7 (5.47%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Trainee Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.72%) CSS
2 14 (10.94%) HTML
3 10 (7.81%) REST
4 9 (7.03%) ARM Templates
4 9 (7.03%) PySpark
5 5 (3.91%) Hugging Face
5 5 (3.91%) Matplotlib
5 5 (3.91%) NumPy
5 5 (3.91%) Pandas
5 5 (3.91%) scikit-learn
5 5 (3.91%) Streamlit
6 1 (0.78%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.91%) Algorithms
2 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (67.19%) AI
2 64 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (17.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 15 (11.72%) Mentoring
5 12 (9.38%) Data Analysis
6 11 (8.59%) Analytics
6 11 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (8.59%) Project Management
7 10 (7.81%) Business Analysis
7 10 (7.81%) CI/CD
7 10 (7.81%) Computer Science
7 10 (7.81%) Data Analytics
7 10 (7.81%) Data Governance
7 10 (7.81%) Data Integration
7 10 (7.81%) Data Modelling
7 10 (7.81%) DevOps
7 10 (7.81%) ETL
7 10 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (7.81%) Test Automation
8 9 (7.03%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 88 (68.75%) SQL
2 15 (11.72%) JavaScript
3 10 (7.81%) R
4 3 (2.34%) C#
5 2 (1.56%) PHP
6 1 (0.78%) Bash
6 1 (0.78%) C
6 1 (0.78%) C++
6 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.78%) Java
6 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 95 (74.22%) Azure Certification
2 19 (14.84%) AWS Certification
2 19 (14.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 14 (10.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (8.59%) Degree
5 10 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.03%) GDPR
2 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.78%) KVM
1 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (7.03%) Terraform
2 1 (0.78%) Ansible
2 1 (0.78%) PowerCLI
2 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 93 (72.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.03%) Databricks
3 1 (0.78%) VMware