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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 21 21
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 0
Contract jobs citing Python 86 65 38
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 10.75% 9.77% 7.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.11% 29.41% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 56 27
10th Percentile £386 £311 £356
25th Percentile £452 £356 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -13.68% -17.39%
75th Percentile £604 £492 £555
90th Percentile £631 £560 £700
North West median daily rate £525 £469 £486
% change year-on-year +11.94% -3.55% -8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.50 -
North West median hourly rate £52.50 £54.22 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.17% +17.41% -

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 148 221 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.50% 33.23% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 186 76
10th Percentile £356 £312 £324
25th Percentile £420 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £405 £419
Median % change year-on-year +26.54% -3.34% -15.35%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £535
90th Percentile £630 £575 £624
North West median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £78.58 £40.73 -
25th Percentile £79.81 £56.81 -
Median hourly rate £83.25 £66.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.19% - -
75th Percentile £85.31 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £85.73 £88.25 -
North West median hourly rate £72.00 £68.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year +5.49% +39.29% +6.11%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +8 38 £474 +22.32% 11
Chester +15 33 £550 -18.52% 18
Warrington -12 2 £325 -13.91% 19
Crewe - 1 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
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 6 (6.98%) Confluence
2 4 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.49%) SAS
4 2 (2.33%) Camunda
5 1 (1.16%) Apache
5 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.98%) AWS
2 41 (47.67%) Azure
3 17 (19.77%) GCP
4 11 (12.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (10.47%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (10.47%) Serverless
6 8 (9.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (8.14%) Entra ID
7 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.98%) AWS KMS
9 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.65%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (26.74%) Firewall
2 18 (20.93%) Network Security
3 14 (16.28%) WAN
4 12 (13.95%) Wireless
5 11 (12.79%) SD-WAN
6 8 (9.30%) VPN
7 5 (5.81%) BGP
7 5 (5.81%) OSPF
8 4 (4.65%) Multicast
8 4 (4.65%) SNMP
8 4 (4.65%) SSH
8 4 (4.65%) SSL
9 3 (3.49%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (3.49%) DMZ
9 3 (3.49%) DNS
9 3 (3.49%) DWDM
9 3 (3.49%) IPsec
9 3 (3.49%) MPLS
9 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
10 2 (2.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.14%) Power BI
2 5 (5.81%) Metadata
2 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.81%) Sybase ASE
3 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.33%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.16%) Big Data
6 1 (1.16%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (11.63%) Git
2 8 (9.30%) JIRA
3 5 (5.81%) GitLab
4 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.33%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.16%) Postman
6 1 (1.16%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.16%) Selenium
6 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (44.19%) Finance
2 29 (33.72%) Social Skills
3 21 (24.42%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (22.09%) Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Marketing
6 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Automotive
7 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.16%) German Language
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) Security Engineer
2 12 (13.95%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (13.95%) Developer
2 12 (13.95%) Network Engineer
3 10 (11.63%) Senior
4 9 (10.47%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Data Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Architect
6 5 (5.81%) Automation Developer
6 5 (5.81%) DBA
6 5 (5.81%) Lead
6 5 (5.81%) Sybase DBA
7 4 (4.65%) Network Security Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.65%) Splunk Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Data Insight Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.07%) Terraform
2 8 (9.30%) REST
3 7 (8.14%) JSON
4 6 (6.98%) Django
4 6 (6.98%) LangChain
5 4 (4.65%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.65%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (4.65%) Flask
5 4 (4.65%) scikit-learn
6 3 (3.49%) PySpark
6 3 (3.49%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.33%) 802.1X
7 2 (2.33%) LangGraph
7 2 (2.33%) Middleware
7 2 (2.33%) React
7 2 (2.33%) XML
8 1 (1.16%) .NET
8 1 (1.16%) Kafka
8 1 (1.16%) Pandas
8 1 (1.16%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.77%) Management Information System
2 15 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 15 (17.44%) Security Posture
3 8 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.98%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (6.98%) PKI
5 5 (5.81%) Replication
6 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.49%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (3.49%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.49%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (3.49%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.49%) Tandem
8 2 (2.33%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.16%) Infotainment
9 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (36.05%) Linux
2 22 (25.58%) Windows
3 10 (11.63%) Unix
4 9 (10.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.49%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.49%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.16%) CentOS
6 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.53%) CI/CD
2 26 (30.23%) Analytics
2 26 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (26.74%) Change Management
4 22 (25.58%) AI
4 22 (25.58%) Cloud Security
5 19 (22.09%) DevOps
5 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (20.93%) Agile
6 18 (20.93%) Incident Response
6 18 (20.93%) SIEM
7 17 (19.77%) Observability
7 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (17.44%) Scrum
9 13 (15.12%) Computer Science
9 13 (15.12%) Configuration Management
9 13 (15.12%) Migration
10 12 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (13.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.02%) PowerShell
2 25 (29.07%) SQL
3 20 (23.26%) Bash
4 13 (15.12%) Java
5 9 (10.47%) Bicep
6 6 (6.98%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.49%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.33%) Perl
8 2 (2.33%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.16%) C#
Qualifications
1 26 (30.23%) Degree
2 18 (20.93%) CISSP
3 14 (16.28%) AWS Certification
4 10 (11.63%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.81%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.65%) CCIE
7 4 (4.65%) CCNP
7 4 (4.65%) GCIH
7 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
8 3 (3.49%) GCFA
8 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.49%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.33%) GIAC
10 1 (1.16%) CCIE Security
10 1 (1.16%) CCSA
10 1 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.81%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.65%) GDPR
3 4 (4.65%) NIST
4 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.33%) QA
5 2 (2.33%) SLA
6 1 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.16%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.16%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.16%) PSD2
6 1 (1.16%) SEPA
6 1 (1.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (13.95%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (27.91%) Ansible
2 19 (22.09%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.44%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.49%) CASB
5 1 (1.16%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (31.40%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.77%) Splunk
3 12 (13.95%) Google
4 9 (10.47%) Cisco
5 8 (9.30%) Red Hat
6 7 (8.14%) BeyondTrust
7 6 (6.98%) ServiceNow
8 5 (5.81%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (5.81%) IBM
8 5 (5.81%) Sybase
8 5 (5.81%) Thales
9 4 (4.65%) Gemalto
9 4 (4.65%) Remedy
10 3 (3.49%) Arista
10 3 (3.49%) Cribl.io
10 3 (3.49%) CyberArk
10 3 (3.49%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.49%) McAfee
10 3 (3.49%) Teradata
10 3 (3.49%) VMware