Python Contracts in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 26 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 40 33 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.91% 6.55% 11.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.08% 25.58% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 27 40
10th Percentile £357 £458 £325
25th Percentile £393 £463 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £510 £543
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -5.99% +0.46%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £600
90th Percentile £680 £606 £653
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £573
% change year-on-year -5.00% -12.66% +5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £42.53
25th Percentile - - £46.31
Median hourly rate - - £52.75
75th Percentile - - £59.31
90th Percentile - - £63.18
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 £49.57
% change year-on-year - +36.17% +83.59%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 129 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.62% 25.60% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 146
10th Percentile £323 £311 £315
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £575
90th Percentile £600 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford +5 23 £475 -4.95% 8
Macclesfield +4 5 £600 +18.81% 1
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 3
Chester - 1 £600 - 48
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 5 (12.50%) JBoss
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Azure
3 7 (17.50%) OpenShift
4 5 (12.50%) GCP
5 4 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (10.00%) Azure AI
5 4 (10.00%) Google Gemini
6 2 (5.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (2.50%) BGP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.50%) DMZ
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) DWDM
3 1 (2.50%) Internet
3 1 (2.50%) IPsec
3 1 (2.50%) L2TP
3 1 (2.50%) MPLS
3 1 (2.50%) Multicast
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
3 1 (2.50%) OSPF
3 1 (2.50%) SSL
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) WAN
3 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (10.00%) Neo4j
3 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.00%) Tableau
4 1 (2.50%) Big Data
4 1 (2.50%) DB2
4 1 (2.50%) MySQL
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (47.50%) Git
2 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (25.00%) JIRA
4 7 (17.50%) GitLab
5 6 (15.00%) SonarQube
6 5 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (12.50%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.50%) Selenium
General
1 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (10.00%) Legal
4 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Senior
2 6 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Automation Developer
5 2 (5.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Database Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) ETL Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (10.00%) PySpark
3 4 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 4 (10.00%) TensorFlow
4 2 (5.00%) Kafka
5 1 (2.50%) 802.1X
5 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.50%) CSS3
5 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.50%) HTML
5 1 (2.50%) HTML5
5 1 (2.50%) JSON
5 1 (2.50%) Node.js
5 1 (2.50%) OLE
5 1 (2.50%) React
5 1 (2.50%) REST
5 1 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.50%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (22.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (17.50%) Windows
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 19 (47.50%) DevOps
3 12 (30.00%) Agile
3 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.00%) Microservices
5 9 (22.50%) Configuration Management
5 9 (22.50%) Migration
6 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 7 (17.50%) Code Quality
7 7 (17.50%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (17.50%) SDLC
8 6 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
8 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (15.00%) Natural Language Processing
8 6 (15.00%) Task Automation
8 6 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Bash
1 10 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (17.50%) Ruby
3 6 (15.00%) Java
3 6 (15.00%) Perl
3 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) Scala
6 2 (5.00%) R
7 1 (2.50%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) RHCE
2 3 (7.50%) CCNP
2 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) CCNA
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CCIE
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (37.50%) Progress Chef
3 12 (30.00%) Ansible
4 5 (12.50%) Kibana
5 3 (7.50%) Terraform
6 1 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Red Hat
2 8 (20.00%) Splunk
3 6 (15.00%) Fortinet
3 6 (15.00%) Oracle
4 5 (12.50%) AppDynamics
4 5 (12.50%) Infoblox
4 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 4 (10.00%) Cloudera
6 2 (5.00%) ForgeRock
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.50%) Ariba
7 1 (2.50%) Arista
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco
7 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.50%) HubSpot
7 1 (2.50%) IBM
7 1 (2.50%) Imperva
7 1 (2.50%) McAfee
7 1 (2.50%) SAP