Python Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 62 47 38
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 10.08% 10.98% 8.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.63% 41.96% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 34 24
10th Percentile £303 £356 £462
25th Percentile £351 £360 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £481 £498
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% -3.42% +6.42%
75th Percentile £473 £586 £547
90th Percentile £542 £665 £579
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £80.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +100.00% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +9.75% +31.20% -2.78%

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 174 112 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.29% 26.17% 26.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 69 82
10th Percentile £313 £332 £325
25th Percentile £351 £356 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -16.67% +13.33%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £575
90th Percentile £579 £638 £596
North West median daily rate £447 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -0.61% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile - £75.50 -
25th Percentile £65.75 £80.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £85.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +101.18% +41.67%
75th Percentile £88.81 £86.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £93.88 £87.05 £62.50
North West median hourly rate £59.25 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -8.85% +40.75% +15.45%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Cheshire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python

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 12 January 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -10 44 £395 +2.53% 3
Chester -6 11 £675 - 30
Warrington +8 6 £394 -12.50% 15
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 7 (11.29%) Confluence
1 7 (11.29%) SAS
1 7 (11.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) AWS
2 19 (30.65%) Azure
3 13 (20.97%) GCP
4 7 (11.29%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (11.29%) OpenShift
5 5 (8.06%) Amazon SageMaker
5 5 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (8.06%) IaaS
5 5 (8.06%) PaaS
5 5 (8.06%) SaaS
6 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.23%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.23%) Datadog
8 2 (3.23%) GitHub
8 2 (3.23%) Serverless
8 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) TCP/IP
2 8 (12.90%) SSH
3 7 (11.29%) BIG-IP
3 7 (11.29%) DNS
3 7 (11.29%) HTTP
3 7 (11.29%) SSL
3 7 (11.29%) Wireshark
4 6 (9.68%) Firewall
5 3 (4.84%) LAN
5 3 (4.84%) Network Security
5 3 (4.84%) WAN
5 3 (4.84%) WLAN
6 2 (3.23%) BGP
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (3.23%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (11.29%) Relational Database
2 6 (9.68%) Big Data
3 4 (6.45%) Hadoop
4 3 (4.84%) Impala
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.61%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.61%) MySQL
6 1 (1.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 11 (17.74%) JIRA
3 10 (16.13%) GitLab
4 8 (12.90%) Git
5 7 (11.29%) Fiddler
6 5 (8.06%) MLflow
7 3 (4.84%) CircleCI
7 3 (4.84%) Gradle
7 3 (4.84%) Xcode
8 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.23%) Pylint
8 2 (3.23%) Selenium
8 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.61%) Appium
General
1 22 (35.48%) Finance
2 13 (20.97%) Banking
3 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.61%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Analyst
2 10 (16.13%) Architect
2 10 (16.13%) Network Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) Junior
3 7 (11.29%) Junior Network Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) Web Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Developer
6 3 (4.84%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Senior
7 2 (3.23%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.23%) Lead
7 2 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) SQL Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.52%) HTML
2 8 (12.90%) AngularJS
2 8 (12.90%) Node.js
3 6 (9.68%) PySpark
3 6 (9.68%) RESTful
4 5 (8.06%) Flask
5 4 (6.45%) CSS
6 3 (4.84%) REST
7 2 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.23%) LangChain
7 2 (3.23%) LangGraph
7 2 (3.23%) React
7 2 (3.23%) Streamlit
8 1 (1.61%) .NET
8 1 (1.61%) Bootstrap
8 1 (1.61%) Kafka
8 1 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.61%) SOAP
8 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Credit Risk
2 6 (9.68%) Tandem
3 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.45%) Mobile Banking
3 4 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) CMDB
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Linux
2 11 (17.74%) Windows
3 8 (12.90%) Unix
4 4 (6.45%) Apple iOS
5 3 (4.84%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.19%) Machine Learning
2 14 (22.58%) CI/CD
3 13 (20.97%) Analytics
4 12 (19.35%) Agile
5 11 (17.74%) AI
5 11 (17.74%) DevOps
6 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (14.52%) Data Science
7 9 (14.52%) Incident Response
8 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
8 8 (12.90%) Cryptography
8 8 (12.90%) Data Analysis
8 8 (12.90%) Decision-Making
8 8 (12.90%) Information Security
8 8 (12.90%) ITIL
8 8 (12.90%) Load Balancing
9 7 (11.29%) Front End Development
9 7 (11.29%) Malware Detection/Protection
9 7 (11.29%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.13%) R
2 9 (14.52%) Java
3 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.29%) Bash
4 7 (11.29%) SQL
5 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.68%) PHP
6 5 (8.06%) Ruby
7 4 (6.45%) Perl
8 3 (4.84%) C
8 3 (4.84%) C++
8 3 (4.84%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.84%) Objective-C
8 3 (4.84%) Scala
8 3 (4.84%) Swift
9 1 (1.61%) C#
9 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) Degree
3 7 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
4 5 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.23%) CCDP
6 2 (3.23%) CCNP
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.61%) CBAP
7 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) GDPR
2 1 (1.61%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.61%) PSD2
System Software
1 15 (24.19%) Docker
2 7 (11.29%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (30.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.52%) Ansible
3 8 (12.90%) Grafana
4 6 (9.68%) Terraform
5 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) F5
2 8 (12.90%) Gemalto
2 8 (12.90%) Oracle
2 8 (12.90%) Thales
3 7 (11.29%) Blue Coat
3 7 (11.29%) McAfee
3 7 (11.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.29%) Pega
3 7 (11.29%) VMware
4 6 (9.68%) AppDynamics
4 6 (9.68%) IBM
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco
5 3 (4.84%) Meraki
5 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.23%) Splunk
7 1 (1.61%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.61%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.61%) CyberArk