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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 32
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -21
Contract jobs citing Python 75 57 25
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 9.66% 9.78% 4.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.02% 29.23% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 50 23
10th Percentile £381 £314 £431
25th Percentile £433 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £469 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.27% -3.79% -15.22%
75th Percentile £621 £520 £530
90th Percentile £641 £637 £606
North West median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -11.97%

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 147 195 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.94% 33.45% 22.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 166 103
10th Percentile £363 £312 £319
25th Percentile £416 £352 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £402 £463
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -13.08% -15.91%
75th Percentile £610 £488 £555
90th Percentile £649 £575 £610
North West median daily rate £498 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +13.92% -7.89% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £79.40 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 £30.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £86.00 £32.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +168.75% -24.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile - £34.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.09% +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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +4 44 £555 +41.22% 18
Chester +6 20 £550 -10.93% 4
Alderley Edge 0 1 - - 1
Warrington -10 1 £550 +66.67% 3
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 (10.67%) Confluence
2 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.67%) Camunda
3 2 (2.67%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 50 (66.67%) AWS
2 45 (60.00%) Azure
3 21 (28.00%) GCP
4 11 (14.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (10.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.00%) GitHub
7 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (6.67%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.33%) Akamai
9 4 (5.33%) Azure AI
9 4 (5.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.33%) IBM Watson
9 4 (5.33%) Serverless
9 4 (5.33%) Vertex AI
10 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (26.67%) Firewall
2 10 (13.33%) DNS
3 9 (12.00%) TCP/IP
4 8 (10.67%) Network Security
5 6 (8.00%) HTTP
5 6 (8.00%) SSL
5 6 (8.00%) WAN
6 5 (6.67%) BGP
6 5 (6.67%) OSPF
6 5 (6.67%) VPN
6 5 (6.67%) Wireless
7 4 (5.33%) SSH
7 4 (5.33%) Wireshark
8 3 (4.00%) DMZ
8 3 (4.00%) IPsec
8 3 (4.00%) Multicast
8 3 (4.00%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.67%) DWDM
9 2 (2.67%) Internet
9 2 (2.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (8.00%) Power BI
2 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.67%) Sybase ASE
3 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.67%) Metadata
5 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.33%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) JIRA
2 6 (8.00%) GitLab
3 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.33%) Git
5 2 (2.67%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.67%) Fiddler
6 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.33%) Postman
6 1 (1.33%) Selenium
6 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (45.33%) Finance
2 16 (21.33%) Banking
3 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 11 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 13 (17.33%) Senior
3 11 (14.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Network Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Architect
7 5 (6.67%) DBA
7 5 (6.67%) Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Lead
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Sybase DBA
8 4 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Network Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.00%) LangChain
2 7 (9.33%) PyTorch
2 7 (9.33%) scikit-learn
3 4 (5.33%) REST
4 3 (4.00%) JSON
5 2 (2.67%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.67%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.67%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (2.67%) Django
5 2 (2.67%) Middleware
5 2 (2.67%) React
5 2 (2.67%) XML
6 1 (1.33%) .NET
6 1 (1.33%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.33%) Kafka
6 1 (1.33%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.33%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.33%) Playwright
6 1 (1.33%) PySpark
6 1 (1.33%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 14 (18.67%) Security Posture
4 8 (10.67%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.67%) PKI
5 5 (6.67%) Replication
6 4 (5.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (4.00%) Tandem
8 2 (2.67%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.67%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.67%) Linux
2 20 (26.67%) Windows
3 12 (16.00%) Unix
4 8 (10.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (4.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.33%) CI/CD
2 28 (37.33%) DevOps
3 22 (29.33%) SIEM
4 19 (25.33%) AI
4 19 (25.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (24.00%) Agile
6 17 (22.67%) Change Management
7 16 (21.33%) Cloud Security
7 16 (21.33%) DevSecOps
7 16 (21.33%) Scrum
8 15 (20.00%) Analytics
8 15 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 15 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 14 (18.67%) OWASP
10 13 (17.33%) Threat Modelling
11 12 (16.00%) Load Balancing
11 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (14.67%) Observability
12 11 (14.67%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 30 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 21 (28.00%) Bash
3 13 (17.33%) SQL
4 11 (14.67%) Java
5 9 (12.00%) Bicep
6 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.00%) Perl
8 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (25.33%) Degree
2 17 (22.67%) AWS Certification
2 17 (22.67%) CISSP
3 11 (14.67%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) CCNP
7 2 (2.67%) CCIE
7 2 (2.67%) CCNA
7 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.33%) CISM
8 1 (1.33%) GCIA
8 1 (1.33%) GCIH
8 1 (1.33%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.33%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.33%) OCP
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) NIST
2 3 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (4.00%) GDPR
2 3 (4.00%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.67%) QA
4 1 (1.33%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.33%) PSD2
4 1 (1.33%) SEPA
4 1 (1.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (22.67%) Docker
2 3 (4.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.33%) Firmware
4 1 (1.33%) Snort
4 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 22 (29.33%) Terraform
3 20 (26.67%) Ansible
4 7 (9.33%) Progress Chef
5 5 (6.67%) Argo
5 5 (6.67%) Grafana
6 4 (5.33%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.67%) Istio
7 2 (2.67%) linkerd
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.33%) Suricata
8 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Google
1 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
1 13 (17.33%) Splunk
2 9 (12.00%) Red Hat
3 8 (10.67%) Cisco
4 7 (9.33%) BeyondTrust
4 7 (9.33%) IBM
5 6 (8.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (6.67%) CyberArk
6 5 (6.67%) McAfee
6 5 (6.67%) Sybase
7 4 (5.33%) Gemalto
7 4 (5.33%) Remedy
7 4 (5.33%) Thales
8 3 (4.00%) Oracle
8 3 (4.00%) VMware
9 2 (2.67%) Blue Coat
9 2 (2.67%) F5
9 2 (2.67%) Teradata