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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 69 52 39
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 9.76% 10.14% 9.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.50% 42.62% 36.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 39 25
10th Percentile £310 £356 £472
25th Percentile £347 £386 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.72% -8.95% +13.88%
75th Percentile £459 £576 £593
90th Percentile £502 £647 £612
North West median daily rate £440 £485 £538
% change year-on-year -9.28% -9.77% -2.27%
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 £74.26 £60.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.56% +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 206 122 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.14% 23.78% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 87 75
10th Percentile £313 £321 £425
25th Percentile £350 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £474 £546 £583
90th Percentile £579 £638 £612
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £44.30 £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% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86.00 £85.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £92.75 £86.50 £68.00
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £50.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +48.15% +8.54% -20.31%

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 November 2025.

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 November 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 -2 55 £375 -6.77% 6
Warrington -5 7 £388 -13.89% 67
Chester -7 6 £675 - 8
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 (10.14%) Confluence
1 7 (10.14%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (7.25%) SAS
3 4 (5.80%) JBoss
4 1 (1.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) AWS
2 16 (23.19%) Azure
3 14 (20.29%) OpenShift
4 10 (14.49%) GCP
5 9 (13.04%) IaaS
5 9 (13.04%) PaaS
5 9 (13.04%) SaaS
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (8.70%) GitHub
8 5 (7.25%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (2.90%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.90%) Datadog
11 2 (2.90%) Serverless
11 2 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) Firewall
1 6 (8.70%) SSH
1 6 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.80%) LAN
2 4 (5.80%) WAN
3 3 (4.35%) Network Security
3 3 (4.35%) WLAN
4 2 (2.90%) BGP
4 2 (2.90%) BIG-IP
4 2 (2.90%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.90%) DNS
4 2 (2.90%) HTTP
4 2 (2.90%) NX-OS
4 2 (2.90%) SSL
4 2 (2.90%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.74%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.70%) Big Data
2 6 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.25%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.80%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.35%) Impala
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.45%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.45%) MySQL
7 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (40.58%) Jenkins
2 21 (30.43%) Git
3 18 (26.09%) JIRA
4 13 (18.84%) GitLab
5 7 (10.14%) Gradle
5 7 (10.14%) Xcode
6 6 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (7.25%) MLflow
8 4 (5.80%) Bitbucket
8 4 (5.80%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.80%) JUnit
8 4 (5.80%) SonarQube
8 4 (5.80%) TeamCity
9 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
10 2 (2.90%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.90%) Fiddler
10 2 (2.90%) Pylint
10 2 (2.90%) Selenium
11 1 (1.45%) Appium
General
1 18 (26.09%) Finance
2 16 (23.19%) Banking
3 13 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.84%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Retail
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) Developer
2 11 (15.94%) Analyst
3 7 (10.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Architect
4 6 (8.70%) iOS Developer
4 6 (8.70%) Lead
4 6 (8.70%) Network Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Junior
8 2 (2.90%) Junior Network Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Senior
8 2 (2.90%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.84%) HTML
1 13 (18.84%) Node.js
2 10 (14.49%) AngularJS
2 10 (14.49%) RESTful
3 8 (11.59%) CSS
3 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot
4 7 (10.14%) PySpark
5 6 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (8.70%) REST
6 5 (7.25%) Flask
6 5 (7.25%) Kafka
7 4 (5.80%) React
7 4 (5.80%) Spring
8 2 (2.90%) LangChain
8 2 (2.90%) LangGraph
8 2 (2.90%) Streamlit
9 1 (1.45%) JSON
9 1 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (1.45%) SOAP
9 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Mobile App
1 8 (11.59%) Mobile Banking
2 6 (8.70%) Tandem
3 5 (7.25%) Credit Risk
4 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.45%) CMDB
6 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (27.54%) Linux
1 19 (27.54%) Windows
2 8 (11.59%) Apple iOS
3 7 (10.14%) Android
3 7 (10.14%) Unix
4 5 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.09%) Agile
2 17 (24.64%) CI/CD
3 15 (21.74%) Analytics
4 14 (20.29%) AI
4 14 (20.29%) DevOps
4 14 (20.29%) Observability
4 14 (20.29%) Scrum
5 13 (18.84%) Machine Learning
5 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.39%) Microservices
6 12 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (15.94%) Front End Development
7 11 (15.94%) TDD
8 10 (14.49%) Change Management
8 10 (14.49%) ETL
8 10 (14.49%) Incident Response
8 10 (14.49%) Release Management
8 10 (14.49%) Roadmaps
9 9 (13.04%) Migration
9 9 (13.04%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.09%) Java
2 12 (17.39%) SQL
3 10 (14.49%) Ruby
4 9 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.04%) PHP
5 8 (11.59%) Perl
5 8 (11.59%) R
6 7 (10.14%) C
6 7 (10.14%) C++
6 7 (10.14%) Kotlin
6 7 (10.14%) Objective-C
6 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
6 7 (10.14%) Scala
6 7 (10.14%) Swift
7 6 (8.70%) Bash
8 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (10.14%) Degree
3 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.35%) CCNP
5 3 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) CCDP
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.45%) CBAP
7 1 (1.45%) CCNA
7 1 (1.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) QA
System Software
1 20 (28.99%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.94%) Grafana
3 6 (8.70%) Ansible
4 5 (7.25%) Terraform
5 4 (5.80%) Kibana
5 4 (5.80%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) AppDynamics
2 12 (17.39%) Oracle
3 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.14%) Splunk
5 6 (8.70%) Gemalto
5 6 (8.70%) IBM
5 6 (8.70%) Thales
6 5 (7.25%) Cloudera
6 5 (7.25%) F5
6 5 (7.25%) Pega
6 5 (7.25%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.80%) Cisco
8 3 (4.35%) Meraki
8 3 (4.35%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.90%) Blue Coat
9 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
9 2 (2.90%) McAfee
9 2 (2.90%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.90%) VMware
10 1 (1.45%) Google