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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 59 35 40
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 8.42% 8.47% 7.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.10% 33.02% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 31
10th Percentile £286 £355 -
25th Percentile £419 £393 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £555 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% +8.82% -9.38%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £556
90th Percentile £643 £702 £606
North West median daily rate £490 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -0.41% -1.60% -12.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +87.50% -24.17%
North West median hourly rate £68.13 £75.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.16% +62.41% -6.84%

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 173 106 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.68% 25.67% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 81 109
10th Percentile £328 £313 £312
25th Percentile £358 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £402 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.72% -19.60% +1.52%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £582
90th Percentile £621 £638 £614
North West median daily rate £458 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -2.66% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £75.20 £40.63
25th Percentile - £79.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £86.00 £86.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +102.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £69.00 £72.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.70% +19.32%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -7 38 £501 +27.39% 1
Chester +9 17 £780 +30.00% 7
Warrington - 2 £575 - 9
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 8 (13.56%) SAS
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (54.24%) AWS
2 28 (47.46%) Azure
3 19 (32.20%) GCP
4 5 (8.47%) GitHub
4 5 (8.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (6.78%) Akamai
5 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.78%) OpenShift
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.08%) Azure AKS
6 3 (5.08%) IBM Watson
7 2 (3.39%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.39%) Vertex AI
7 2 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.69%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.12%) DNS
2 14 (23.73%) HTTP
2 14 (23.73%) TCP/IP
3 13 (22.03%) Wireshark
4 10 (16.95%) BIG-IP
4 10 (16.95%) SSL
5 7 (11.86%) Firewall
6 2 (3.39%) LAN
6 2 (3.39%) SSH
6 2 (3.39%) tcpdump
6 2 (3.39%) VLAN
6 2 (3.39%) VPN
6 2 (3.39%) WAN
7 1 (1.69%) BGP
7 1 (1.69%) DWDM
7 1 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.69%) MPLS
7 1 (1.69%) Multicast
7 1 (1.69%) OSPF
7 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (11.86%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.08%) Metadata
2 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.69%) Big Data
4 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.69%) Power BI
4 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Fiddler
2 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.17%) GitLab
4 3 (5.08%) JIRA
5 2 (3.39%) Git
5 2 (3.39%) MLflow
6 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 23 (38.98%) Finance
2 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (22.03%) Banking
4 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Marketing
6 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Retail
7 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Network Engineer
1 13 (22.03%) Security Engineer
2 11 (18.64%) Architect
3 10 (16.95%) Junior
3 10 (16.95%) Junior Network Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Senior
3 10 (16.95%) Web Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Applications Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Senior Security Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) REST
2 5 (8.47%) LangChain
2 5 (8.47%) PyTorch
3 4 (6.78%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.39%) .NET
4 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.39%) React
5 1 (1.69%) Django
5 1 (1.69%) Flask
5 1 (1.69%) HTML
5 1 (1.69%) Kafka
5 1 (1.69%) Middleware
5 1 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.69%) PySpark
5 1 (1.69%) RESTful
5 1 (1.69%) Spring
5 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.56%) Credit Risk
3 4 (6.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.78%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.39%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Unix
2 6 (10.17%) Windows
3 3 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.69%) Solaris
5 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) CI/CD
2 15 (25.42%) DevOps
3 14 (23.73%) Data Loss Prevention
3 14 (23.73%) Load Balancing
3 14 (23.73%) Machine Learning
4 12 (20.34%) Analytics
4 12 (20.34%) DevSecOps
4 12 (20.34%) SIEM
5 11 (18.64%) Containerisation
5 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (16.95%) Agile
6 10 (16.95%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 10 (16.95%) OWASP
6 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.25%) AI
8 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.86%) Data Science
8 7 (11.86%) Roadmaps
8 7 (11.86%) Stress Testing
8 7 (11.86%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
2 10 (16.95%) Bash
2 10 (16.95%) Java
3 6 (10.17%) SQL
4 5 (8.47%) R
5 3 (5.08%) Bicep
5 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.69%) C#
6 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.69%) Perl
6 1 (1.69%) PHP
6 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) AWS Certification
2 7 (11.86%) CISSP
3 6 (10.17%) Azure Certification
4 5 (8.47%) Degree
5 3 (5.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.39%) CCNA
6 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CCNP
7 1 (1.69%) CISM
7 1 (1.69%) GCIA
7 1 (1.69%) GCIH
7 1 (1.69%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.69%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.69%) OCP
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (3.39%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.39%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.39%) NIST
2 2 (3.39%) PSD2
3 1 (1.69%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (22.03%) Docker
2 12 (20.34%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.69%) Firmware
3 1 (1.69%) Snort
3 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (32.20%) Ansible
2 17 (28.81%) Kubernetes
3 15 (25.42%) Terraform
4 6 (10.17%) Grafana
5 5 (8.47%) Argo
6 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.39%) Istio
7 2 (3.39%) linkerd
8 1 (1.69%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.69%) Suricata
8 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) VMware
2 10 (16.95%) Blue Coat
2 10 (16.95%) F5
2 10 (16.95%) McAfee
3 8 (13.56%) Splunk
4 6 (10.17%) Google
5 5 (8.47%) Pega
6 3 (5.08%) Cisco
6 3 (5.08%) CyberArk
6 3 (5.08%) IBM
6 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.08%) Teradata
7 2 (3.39%) Gemalto
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle
7 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.39%) Thales
8 1 (1.69%) Arista
8 1 (1.69%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.69%) Databricks