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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 16 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Python 74 41 44
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 10.39% 9.93% 8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.95% 38.32% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 35 32
10th Percentile £312 £357 -
25th Percentile £370 £392 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £538
90th Percentile £623 £680 £580
North West median daily rate £470 £496 £503
% change year-on-year -5.19% -1.34% -11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +87.50% -38.93%
North West median hourly rate £62.00 £75.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -17.33% +62.41% -12.84%

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 190 107 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 26.69% 25.91% 27.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 81 109
10th Percentile £326 £322 £311
25th Percentile £358 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -15.00% +1.42%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £582
90th Percentile £621 £638 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile - £75.20 £40.00
25th Percentile - £79.25 £40.63
Median hourly rate £86.00 £86.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +102.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £69.00 £70.00 £49.22
% change year-on-year -1.43% +42.23% +18.59%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -4 51 £455 +16.14% 2
Chester +10 17 £780 +32.77% 6
Warrington - 5 £400 - 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 10 (13.51%) SAS
2 8 (10.81%) Confluence
3 6 (8.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (54.05%) AWS
2 34 (45.95%) Azure
3 23 (31.08%) GCP
4 7 (9.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.46%) GitHub
5 6 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (6.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (5.41%) Akamai
7 4 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.41%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (4.05%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.05%) IBM Watson
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.70%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.70%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.97%) DNS
2 15 (20.27%) HTTP
2 15 (20.27%) TCP/IP
3 14 (18.92%) Wireshark
4 11 (14.86%) BIG-IP
4 11 (14.86%) SSL
5 9 (12.16%) Firewall
6 8 (10.81%) SSH
7 2 (2.70%) LAN
7 2 (2.70%) tcpdump
7 2 (2.70%) VLAN
7 2 (2.70%) VPN
7 2 (2.70%) WAN
8 1 (1.35%) BGP
8 1 (1.35%) DWDM
8 1 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.35%) MPLS
8 1 (1.35%) Multicast
8 1 (1.35%) OSPF
8 1 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.46%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.05%) Metadata
3 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.70%) Big Data
4 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.22%) JIRA
3 11 (14.86%) Fiddler
3 11 (14.86%) GitLab
4 7 (9.46%) Git
5 3 (4.05%) CircleCI
5 3 (4.05%) MLflow
6 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 29 (39.19%) Finance
2 17 (22.97%) Banking
3 16 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (20.27%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.05%) Marketing
7 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Retail
8 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (18.92%) Network Engineer
2 13 (17.57%) Analyst
2 13 (17.57%) Architect
3 12 (16.22%) Security Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Junior
4 11 (14.86%) Junior Network Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Web Engineer
5 10 (13.51%) Senior
6 8 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Applications Architect
8 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Senior Security Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Lead
10 3 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Insight Analyst
10 3 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) REST
2 5 (6.76%) LangChain
2 5 (6.76%) PyTorch
3 4 (5.41%) scikit-learn
4 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.05%) HTML
5 2 (2.70%) .NET
5 2 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.70%) Flask
5 2 (2.70%) Node.js
5 2 (2.70%) PySpark
5 2 (2.70%) React
5 2 (2.70%) RESTful
6 1 (1.35%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.35%) CSS
6 1 (1.35%) Django
6 1 (1.35%) Kafka
6 1 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.35%) SOAP
6 1 (1.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (13.51%) Credit Risk
3 6 (8.11%) Tandem
4 4 (5.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.41%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.70%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.57%) Linux
2 12 (16.22%) Unix
3 11 (14.86%) Windows
4 3 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.35%) Solaris
6 1 (1.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (33.78%) CI/CD
2 22 (29.73%) DevOps
3 17 (22.97%) Machine Learning
4 15 (20.27%) Data Loss Prevention
4 15 (20.27%) Load Balancing
5 14 (18.92%) DevSecOps
5 14 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (17.57%) Agile
6 13 (17.57%) Analytics
6 13 (17.57%) Incident Response
7 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.22%) SIEM
7 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (14.86%) Containerisation
8 11 (14.86%) Malware Detection/Protection
9 10 (13.51%) AI
9 10 (13.51%) OWASP
10 9 (12.16%) Computer Science
10 9 (12.16%) Stress Testing
10 9 (12.16%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.27%) PowerShell
2 14 (18.92%) Bash
3 12 (16.22%) Java
4 7 (9.46%) R
5 6 (8.11%) SQL
6 3 (4.05%) Bicep
6 3 (4.05%) Perl
6 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.70%) Ruby
8 1 (1.35%) C#
8 1 (1.35%) PHP
8 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) AWS Certification
1 11 (14.86%) Degree
2 9 (12.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.46%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.11%) Azure Certification
4 6 (8.11%) CISSP
5 5 (6.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.70%) CCNA
7 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.35%) CCNP
8 1 (1.35%) CISM
8 1 (1.35%) GCIA
8 1 (1.35%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.35%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.35%) OCP
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) GDPR
1 3 (4.05%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (2.70%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.70%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.70%) NIST
2 2 (2.70%) PSD2
3 1 (1.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (21.62%) Docker
2 13 (17.57%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.35%) Firmware
4 1 (1.35%) Snort
4 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (28.38%) Ansible
1 21 (28.38%) Kubernetes
2 18 (24.32%) Terraform
3 8 (10.81%) Grafana
4 6 (8.11%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.76%) Argo
6 2 (2.70%) Istio
6 2 (2.70%) linkerd
7 1 (1.35%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.35%) Suricata
7 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) VMware
2 11 (14.86%) Blue Coat
2 11 (14.86%) F5
2 11 (14.86%) McAfee
3 9 (12.16%) IBM
4 8 (10.81%) Gemalto
4 8 (10.81%) Thales
5 7 (9.46%) Pega
5 7 (9.46%) Splunk
6 6 (8.11%) Google
7 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
7 4 (5.41%) Oracle
8 3 (4.05%) Cisco
8 3 (4.05%) CyberArk
8 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
8 3 (4.05%) Teradata
9 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.35%) Meraki
10 1 (1.35%) SevOne
10 1 (1.35%) Varonis