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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 25 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 39 34 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.13% 6.55% 10.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.23% 27.20% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 38
10th Percentile £357 £459 £325
25th Percentile £393 £463 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £547 £613
90th Percentile £680 £606 £658
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £570
% change year-on-year -5.00% -12.28% +5.56%
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 121 125 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.34% 24.08% 35.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 100 147
10th Percentile £322 £311 £305
25th Percentile £363 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +0.50% +24.38%
75th Percentile £520 £582 £575
90th Percentile £638 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +7 21 £434 -13.16% 9
Macclesfield +7 7 £548 +7.35% 1
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 4
Chester - 1 £600 - 7
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 (12.82%) JBoss
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (46.15%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) OpenShift
3 7 (17.95%) Azure
4 5 (12.82%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (10.26%) Azure AI
5 4 (10.26%) Google Gemini
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) HTTP
3 1 (2.56%) BGP
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.56%) DMZ
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) DWDM
3 1 (2.56%) Internet
3 1 (2.56%) IPsec
3 1 (2.56%) L2TP
3 1 (2.56%) MPLS
3 1 (2.56%) Multicast
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.56%) OSPF
3 1 (2.56%) SSL
3 1 (2.56%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) WAN
3 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (12.82%) RDBMS
1 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.26%) Hadoop
2 4 (10.26%) Neo4j
3 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.13%) Tableau
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) DB2
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (46.15%) Git
2 12 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 10 (25.64%) JIRA
4 8 (20.51%) GitLab
5 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (12.82%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (12.82%) SonarQube
5 5 (12.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (12.82%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (10.26%) Legal
4 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Senior
2 6 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Python Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Automation Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.13%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Specialist
7 1 (2.56%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Database Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) PyTorch
1 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
1 6 (15.38%) TensorFlow
2 5 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (10.26%) PySpark
4 3 (7.69%) Kafka
5 2 (5.13%) LangChain
5 2 (5.13%) Pandas
5 2 (5.13%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.56%) 802.1X
6 1 (2.56%) ADO
6 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.56%) CSS
6 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.56%) HTML
6 1 (2.56%) JSON
6 1 (2.56%) OLE
6 1 (2.56%) React
6 1 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.56%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 18 (46.15%) DevOps
3 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
5 11 (28.21%) Microservices
6 10 (25.64%) Machine Learning
7 9 (23.08%) Migration
8 8 (20.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (20.51%) Configuration Management
8 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
8 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (20.51%) Generative AI
8 8 (20.51%) LLM
9 7 (17.95%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (17.95%) SDLC
9 7 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (15.38%) Computer Vision
10 6 (15.38%) Observability
10 6 (15.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) SQL
2 9 (23.08%) Bash
3 6 (15.38%) Java
3 6 (15.38%) Perl
3 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.69%) Ruby
4 3 (7.69%) Scala
5 2 (5.13%) R
5 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) CCNP
1 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) CCNA
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) CCIE
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (48.72%) Kubernetes
2 15 (38.46%) Progress Chef
3 13 (33.33%) Ansible
4 5 (12.82%) Kibana
5 4 (10.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Splunk
2 6 (15.38%) Fortinet
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle
2 6 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 5 (12.82%) AppDynamics
3 5 (12.82%) Infoblox
3 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
4 4 (10.26%) Cloudera
5 2 (5.13%) ForgeRock
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.56%) Ariba
6 1 (2.56%) Arista
6 1 (2.56%) Cisco
6 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.56%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.56%) IBM
6 1 (2.56%) Imperva
6 1 (2.56%) McAfee
6 1 (2.56%) SAP