Python Contracts in South Yorkshire

Python
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Python 90 41 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.03% 7.90% 11.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.72% 31.30% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 30 49
10th Percentile £415 £505 £474
25th Percentile £430 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.86% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £581 - £650
90th Percentile £638 - £690
Yorkshire median daily rate £507 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -16.37% +10.23% +15.79%

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 174 131 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.79% 25.24% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 89 142
10th Percentile £400 £354 £326
25th Percentile £425 £463 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +23.08% +17.47%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £549
90th Percentile £622 - £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.44%

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 31 May 2024.

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 31 May 2024. 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 +13 80 £507 -27.57% 8
Barnsley - 9 £430 - 1
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 10 (11.11%) Confluence
2 9 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.44%) nginx
4 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 42 (46.67%) GCP
2 34 (37.78%) AWS
3 33 (36.67%) Azure
4 26 (28.89%) GitHub
5 11 (12.22%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (10.00%) Kong
6 9 (10.00%) Serverless
7 8 (8.89%) Amazon S3
7 8 (8.89%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
8 6 (6.67%) Apigee
8 6 (6.67%) CloudBees
9 4 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (3.33%) Vertex AI
11 2 (2.22%) Google Compute Engine
12 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.11%) Datadog
12 1 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.44%) Firewall
2 10 (11.11%) DNS
3 9 (10.00%) HTTP
3 9 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 9 (10.00%) VPN
4 4 (4.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 4 (4.44%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (3.33%) BIG-IP
5 3 (3.33%) SSL
6 1 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 10 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (10.00%) Big Data
3 9 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 9 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.89%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (8.89%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.33%) Bigtable
6 3 (3.33%) ClickHouse
6 3 (3.33%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 45 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (32.22%) Git
3 11 (12.22%) GitLab
3 11 (12.22%) JIRA
4 9 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (10.00%) CircleCI
4 9 (10.00%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.11%) Postman
5 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.44%) Banking
4 3 (3.33%) Finance
4 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (28.89%) Developer
2 13 (14.44%) Architect
2 13 (14.44%) Storage Manager
3 12 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 11 (12.22%) Software Developer
5 9 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.78%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) GCP Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Database Specialist
9 4 (4.44%) DBA
9 4 (4.44%) MongoDB DBA
10 3 (3.33%) Security Engineer
11 2 (2.22%) Lead
11 2 (2.22%) Lead DevOps
11 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow Developer
12 1 (1.11%) AWS Data Architect
12 1 (1.11%) GCP Data Architect
12 1 (1.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.78%) YAML
2 14 (15.56%) HTML
3 12 (13.33%) Kafka
4 11 (12.22%) JSON
5 9 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (10.00%) XML
6 4 (4.44%) FastAPI
6 4 (4.44%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.44%) gRPC
6 4 (4.44%) JWT
6 4 (4.44%) OAuth
6 4 (4.44%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.44%) RESTful
6 4 (4.44%) Swagger
7 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.33%) Apache Beam
7 3 (3.33%) CSS
7 3 (3.33%) Keycloak
7 3 (3.33%) LDAP
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 7 (7.78%) Replication
4 4 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) CMDB
5 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (32.22%) Linux
2 15 (16.67%) zOS
3 9 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.00%) DevOps
2 33 (36.67%) Agile
3 32 (35.56%) Containerisation
4 27 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (28.89%) CI/CD
6 24 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (22.22%) Project Management
8 19 (21.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (18.89%) Problem Management
10 16 (17.78%) Data Modelling
10 16 (17.78%) Task Automation
11 15 (16.67%) Storage Management
12 14 (15.56%) API Development
12 14 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
12 14 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (15.56%) Software Engineering
13 13 (14.44%) Data Integration
13 13 (14.44%) Scrum
14 12 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (13.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.44%) Bash
1 22 (24.44%) Java
1 22 (24.44%) SQL
2 20 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 18 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 15 (16.67%) JCL
4 15 (16.67%) REXX
5 11 (12.22%) C#
6 6 (6.67%) Go
6 6 (6.67%) Groovy
6 6 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.44%) ActionScript
7 4 (4.44%) Ruby
7 4 (4.44%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (17.78%) Degree
2 3 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.11%) CEH
4 1 (1.11%) CISSP
4 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) QA
2 4 (4.44%) GDPR
2 4 (4.44%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.11%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (26.67%) Docker
2 15 (16.67%) NFS
2 15 (16.67%) Time Sharing Option
3 3 (3.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (40.00%) Ansible
2 27 (30.00%) Terraform
3 22 (24.44%) Kubernetes
4 15 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 13 (14.44%) Puppet
6 12 (13.33%) Grafana
7 10 (11.11%) Prometheus
8 9 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (10.00%) Kibana
8 9 (10.00%) logstash
8 9 (10.00%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.11%) Data Guard
10 1 (1.11%) Istio
10 1 (1.11%) Kiali
10 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (25.56%) Splunk
2 18 (20.00%) Google
3 15 (16.67%) Broadcom
3 15 (16.67%) Brocade
3 15 (16.67%) CA
3 15 (16.67%) Dell
3 15 (16.67%) IBM
4 11 (12.22%) PayPal
5 8 (8.89%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.44%) F5
7 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle
8 1 (1.11%) VMware