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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing Python 80 66 29
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 9.63% 10.41% 5.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.69% 30.70% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 57 24
10th Percentile £372 £312 £356
25th Percentile £421 £358 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £405 £469
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -13.60% -20.01%
75th Percentile £604 £492 £527
90th Percentile £635 £600 £606
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £501
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.24% -10.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.50 -
North West median hourly rate £52.50 £66.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -21.05% +44.00% -

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 149 215 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.93% 33.91% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 184 81
10th Percentile £357 £311 £319
25th Percentile £413 £357 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £444
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.46% -18.53%
75th Percentile £582 £473 £511
90th Percentile £630 £533 £606
North West median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.61% -9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £78.58 £37.15 -
25th Percentile £79.81 £47.88 -
Median hourly rate £83.25 £66.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.19% - -
75th Percentile £85.31 £67.25 -
90th Percentile £85.73 - -
North West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £53.13
% change year-on-year -7.14% +31.76% +15.04%

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 29 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 29 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 +5 39 £453 +15.27% 18
Chester +9 27 £550 -16.03% 12
Warrington -14 3 £325 -13.91% 7
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 (7.50%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.75%) SAS
4 2 (2.50%) Camunda
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (60.00%) AWS
2 41 (51.25%) Azure
3 16 (20.00%) GCP
4 10 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (11.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (8.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (8.75%) Serverless
7 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.25%) AWS KMS
8 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.75%) GitHub
10 3 (3.75%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (25.00%) Firewall
2 14 (17.50%) Network Security
3 10 (12.50%) WAN
4 9 (11.25%) Wireless
5 7 (8.75%) SD-WAN
6 6 (7.50%) VPN
7 5 (6.25%) BGP
7 5 (6.25%) DNS
7 5 (6.25%) OSPF
8 4 (5.00%) SSH
8 4 (5.00%) SSL
8 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
9 3 (3.75%) DMZ
9 3 (3.75%) IPsec
9 3 (3.75%) Multicast
9 3 (3.75%) SNMP
10 2 (2.50%) Internet
10 2 (2.50%) L2TP
10 2 (2.50%) LAN
10 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) Power BI
2 5 (6.25%) Metadata
2 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.25%) Sybase ASE
3 4 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) JIRA
2 7 (8.75%) Git
3 6 (7.50%) GitLab
4 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
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 34 (42.50%) Finance
2 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (20.00%) Banking
5 3 (3.75%) Marketing
6 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Automotive
7 1 (1.25%) German Language
7 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Security Engineer
2 11 (13.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Senior
5 7 (8.75%) Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Lead
7 5 (6.25%) Architect
7 5 (6.25%) DBA
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Sybase DBA
8 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Splunk Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Data Insight Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Insight Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Insight Data Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Lead Data Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Security Architect
9 3 (3.75%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.00%) Terraform
2 6 (7.50%) LangChain
2 6 (7.50%) REST
3 4 (5.00%) JSON
4 3 (3.75%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (3.75%) Django
4 3 (3.75%) PySpark
4 3 (3.75%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.75%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.50%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.50%) LangGraph
5 2 (2.50%) Middleware
5 2 (2.50%) React
5 2 (2.50%) XML
6 1 (1.25%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.25%) Flask
6 1 (1.25%) Kafka
6 1 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.25%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 15 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.75%) Security Posture
4 8 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (7.50%) PKI
6 5 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (6.25%) Replication
7 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.75%) Credit Risk
8 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.75%) Tandem
9 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
9 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.25%) Infotainment
10 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (33.75%) Linux
2 21 (26.25%) 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
5 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.25%) CentOS
6 1 (1.25%) Solaris
6 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 24 (30.00%) Analytics
3 21 (26.25%) AI
3 21 (26.25%) Change Management
4 20 (25.00%) DevOps
4 20 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (23.75%) Cloud Security
6 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (20.00%) Agile
8 16 (20.00%) SIEM
9 14 (17.50%) Observability
9 14 (17.50%) Scrum
10 12 (15.00%) Computer Science
10 12 (15.00%) Incident Response
10 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (15.00%) Migration
11 11 (13.75%) Cryptography
11 11 (13.75%) Generative AI
11 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 21 (26.25%) SQL
3 19 (23.75%) Bash
4 12 (15.00%) Java
5 9 (11.25%) Bicep
6 5 (6.25%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (3.75%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.75%) Perl
7 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Degree
2 17 (21.25%) CISSP
3 13 (16.25%) AWS Certification
4 9 (11.25%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (6.25%) GCIH
8 4 (5.00%) CCNP
8 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.75%) CCIE
9 3 (3.75%) GCFA
9 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.50%) CCNA
10 2 (2.50%) GCIA
10 2 (2.50%) GIAC
10 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.25%) CCSP
11 1 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (1.25%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.75%) NIST
3 3 (3.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) SLA
5 1 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.25%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.25%) PSD2
5 1 (1.25%) SEPA
5 1 (1.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (15.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.50%) vSphere
5 1 (1.25%) Firmware
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.25%) Snort
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (30.00%) Ansible
2 20 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (15.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.75%) CASB
5 2 (2.50%) Argo
5 2 (2.50%) Grafana
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.25%) QRadar
6 1 (1.25%) Suricata
6 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 19 (23.75%) Splunk
3 11 (13.75%) Google
4 10 (12.50%) Cisco
5 8 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 7 (8.75%) BeyondTrust
7 6 (7.50%) ServiceNow
8 5 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (6.25%) IBM
8 5 (6.25%) Sybase
8 5 (6.25%) Thales
9 4 (5.00%) Gemalto
9 4 (5.00%) Remedy
9 4 (5.00%) VMware
10 3 (3.75%) Cribl.io
10 3 (3.75%) CyberArk
10 3 (3.75%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.75%) McAfee
10 3 (3.75%) Teradata
11 2 (2.50%) Oracle