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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 16 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 80 66 26
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 9.94% 10.73% 5.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.14% 31.58% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 58 22
10th Percentile £381 £312 £400
25th Percentile £447 £359 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £477
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -10.81% -17.77%
75th Percentile £621 £515 £532
90th Percentile £631 £640 £606
North West median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -13.04%

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 140 209 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.39% 33.98% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 179 86
10th Percentile £364 £311 £319
25th Percentile £415 £353 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -9.66% -19.09%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £532
90th Percentile £627 £577 £608
North West median daily rate £500 £438 £463
% change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% -9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £78.58 - -
25th Percentile £79.81 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £83.25 £32.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +160.16% - -
75th Percentile £85.31 £34.00 -
90th Percentile £85.73 - -
North West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% +19.10%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 46 £564 +50.33% 20
Chester +7 21 £550 -13.39% 8
Warrington -12 2 £438 +15.89% 6
Crewe - 1 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 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 8 (10.00%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.50%) Camunda
3 2 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (67.50%) AWS
2 49 (61.25%) Azure
3 22 (27.50%) GCP
4 11 (13.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (7.50%) GitHub
7 6 (7.50%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (6.25%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.00%) Akamai
9 4 (5.00%) Azure AI
9 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.00%) IBM Watson
9 4 (5.00%) Serverless
9 4 (5.00%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (27.50%) Firewall
2 10 (12.50%) Network Security
3 9 (11.25%) DNS
4 7 (8.75%) TCP/IP
4 7 (8.75%) WAN
5 6 (7.50%) Wireless
6 5 (6.25%) BGP
6 5 (6.25%) OSPF
6 5 (6.25%) VPN
7 4 (5.00%) HTTP
7 4 (5.00%) SD-WAN
7 4 (5.00%) SSH
7 4 (5.00%) SSL
8 3 (3.75%) DMZ
8 3 (3.75%) IPsec
8 3 (3.75%) Multicast
9 2 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (2.50%) tcpdump
9 2 (2.50%) VLAN
9 2 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) Power BI
2 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.25%) Sybase ASE
3 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.50%) Metadata
5 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) JIRA
2 8 (10.00%) GitLab
3 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.25%) Git
5 2 (2.50%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.25%) Postman
6 1 (1.25%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.25%) Selenium
6 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (47.50%) Finance
2 16 (20.00%) Banking
3 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (1.25%) Automotive
6 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.25%) German Language
6 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (38.75%) Security Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Senior
3 12 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Architect
6 5 (6.25%) DBA
6 5 (6.25%) Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Lead
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Sybase DBA
7 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) LangChain
2 7 (8.75%) PyTorch
2 7 (8.75%) scikit-learn
3 5 (6.25%) REST
4 3 (3.75%) JSON
5 2 (2.50%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.50%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (2.50%) Django
5 2 (2.50%) LangGraph
5 2 (2.50%) Middleware
5 2 (2.50%) React
5 2 (2.50%) XML
6 1 (1.25%) .NET
6 1 (1.25%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.25%) Kafka
6 1 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.25%) Playwright
6 1 (1.25%) PySpark
6 1 (1.25%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Cloud Native
2 15 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 14 (17.50%) Security Posture
4 8 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (6.25%) PKI
5 5 (6.25%) Replication
6 4 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.75%) Tandem
8 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.50%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.25%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.00%) Linux
2 20 (25.00%) Windows
3 11 (13.75%) Unix
4 8 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (47.50%) CI/CD
2 28 (35.00%) DevOps
3 24 (30.00%) SIEM
4 22 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (26.25%) AI
6 19 (23.75%) Agile
6 19 (23.75%) Analytics
6 19 (23.75%) Change Management
6 19 (23.75%) Cloud Security
7 17 (21.25%) Scrum
8 16 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
9 15 (18.75%) Roadmaps
10 14 (17.50%) OWASP
10 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (17.50%) Threat Modelling
11 13 (16.25%) Generative AI
11 13 (16.25%) Incident Response
11 13 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (42.50%) PowerShell
2 22 (27.50%) Bash
3 16 (20.00%) SQL
4 10 (12.50%) Bicep
4 10 (12.50%) Java
5 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.75%) Perl
6 3 (3.75%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (28.75%) Degree
2 19 (23.75%) CISSP
3 17 (21.25%) AWS Certification
4 12 (15.00%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) CCNP
7 3 (3.75%) GCIH
7 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.50%) CCIE
8 2 (2.50%) CCNA
8 2 (2.50%) GCFA
9 1 (1.25%) CISM
9 1 (1.25%) GCIA
9 1 (1.25%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.25%) OCP
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) NIST
3 3 (3.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.75%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.50%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.25%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.25%) PSD2
5 1 (1.25%) SEPA
5 1 (1.25%) SLA
5 1 (1.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (21.25%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.50%) vSphere
4 1 (1.25%) Firmware
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.25%) Snort
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (32.50%) Kubernetes
2 23 (28.75%) Terraform
3 20 (25.00%) Ansible
4 9 (11.25%) Progress Chef
5 5 (6.25%) Argo
5 5 (6.25%) Grafana
6 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.50%) CASB
7 2 (2.50%) Istio
7 2 (2.50%) linkerd
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.25%) Suricata
8 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 16 (20.00%) Splunk
2 13 (16.25%) Google
3 9 (11.25%) Cisco
3 9 (11.25%) Red Hat
4 7 (8.75%) BeyondTrust
4 7 (8.75%) IBM
5 6 (7.50%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (6.25%) CyberArk
6 5 (6.25%) Sybase
7 4 (5.00%) Gemalto
7 4 (5.00%) Remedy
7 4 (5.00%) Thales
8 3 (3.75%) McAfee
8 3 (3.75%) Oracle
8 3 (3.75%) VMware
9 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.50%) Teradata
9 2 (2.50%) Varonis