Python Contracts in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Python 33 60 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.59% 11.32% 6.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.40% 31.58% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 40 17
10th Percentile £458 £325 £321
25th Percentile £463 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £543 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +0.46% +35.17%
75th Percentile £536 £600 £632
90th Percentile £606 £653 £642
North West median daily rate £500 £573 £540
% change year-on-year -12.66% +6.02% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £52.75 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +88.39% -
North West median hourly rate £67.50 £49.57 £27.00
% change year-on-year +36.17% +83.59% -38.64%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 125 190 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.95% 35.85% 23.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 146 88
10th Percentile £311 £315 £300
25th Percentile £393 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £403
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +24.07% +0.75%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £538
90th Percentile £611 £638 £631
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile - £25.93 £20.80
25th Percentile £41.25 £31.21 £22.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +63.27% -27.94%
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.88 £26.50
90th Percentile - £60.60 £27.40
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
% change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Cheshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in Cheshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Cheshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Cheshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Macclesfield -4 16 £505 +12.22% 2
Knutsford +4 10 £500 -0.45%
Warrington +8 4 £550 +29.41% 4
Python
North West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (18.18%) Apache
1 6 (18.18%) Apache Spark
1 6 (18.18%) SAS
2 5 (15.15%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.06%) IIS
4 1 (3.03%) Confluence
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) Snowflake
2 10 (30.30%) Power Platform
3 9 (27.27%) AWS
4 8 (24.24%) Power Automate
5 7 (21.21%) Collibra
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (15.15%) Serverless
7 4 (12.12%) SaaS
8 3 (9.09%) Azure
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
10 1 (3.03%) dbt
10 1 (3.03%) GitHub
10 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) FTP
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) LAN
2 1 (3.03%) SAN
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
2 1 (3.03%) WAN
2 1 (3.03%) Wireless
2 1 (3.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Power BI
2 7 (21.21%) SQL Server
3 6 (18.18%) Ataccama
3 6 (18.18%) Big Data
3 6 (18.18%) Qlik Sense
3 6 (18.18%) Tableau
4 5 (15.15%) Data Lake
4 5 (15.15%) Data Mining
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.06%) Metadata
6 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
1 7 (21.21%) JIRA
2 6 (18.18%) Git
2 6 (18.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) PyCharm
General
1 13 (39.39%) Pharmaceutical
2 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Manufacturing
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Analyst
2 9 (27.27%) Data Analyst
3 8 (24.24%) Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Data Quality Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) QA Analyst
4 6 (18.18%) Quality Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Python Developer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Senior QA Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Quality Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Splunk Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Automation Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Pega Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Supply Chain Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) JSON
2 5 (15.15%) XML
3 4 (12.12%) Django
3 4 (12.12%) FastAPI
3 4 (12.12%) Flask
4 2 (6.06%) .NET
4 2 (6.06%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.06%) CSS
4 2 (6.06%) HTML
4 2 (6.06%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Unix
3 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) ETL
2 11 (33.33%) Data Management
3 9 (27.27%) Agile
3 9 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 8 (24.24%) Analytics
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.21%) Data Analysis
5 7 (21.21%) Data Governance
5 7 (21.21%) DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) OO
5 7 (21.21%) Visualisation
6 6 (18.18%) API Development
6 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 6 (18.18%) Data Architecture
6 6 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 5 (15.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 20 (60.61%) SQL
2 10 (30.30%) Java
3 7 (21.21%) C#
4 5 (15.15%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (15.15%) Shell Script
5 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.06%) Bash
6 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) C
7 1 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) Groovy
7 1 (3.03%) Julia
7 1 (3.03%) R
7 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
1 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) Good Clinical Practice
2 1 (3.03%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Ansible
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Progress Chef
3 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) SAP
2 6 (18.18%) Alteryx
2 6 (18.18%) Dataiku
2 6 (18.18%) Trillium
3 5 (15.15%) Informatica
3 5 (15.15%) Splunk
3 5 (15.15%) Talend
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.09%) VMware
5 2 (6.06%) Databricks
5 2 (6.06%) IBM
5 2 (6.06%) Nintex
5 2 (6.06%) Pega
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) Meraki
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.03%) Teradata
6 1 (3.03%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (3.03%) Veeam