Python Contracts in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 18 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Python 35 44 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.56% 8.56% 11.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.98% 31.88% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 32 42
10th Percentile £355 - £325
25th Percentile £393 £463 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £510 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -9.38% +12.56%
75th Percentile £638 £547 £638
90th Percentile £702 £604 £680
North West median daily rate £492 £501 £575
% change year-on-year -1.85% -12.83% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £42.53
25th Percentile £72.50 - £46.31
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -24.17% -
75th Percentile £77.50 - £59.31
90th Percentile - - £63.18
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £49.57
% change year-on-year +62.41% -6.84% -

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 103 138 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 25.18% 26.85% 38.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 107 167
10th Percentile £318 £312 £308
25th Percentile £358 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +1.42% +23.87%
75th Percentile £573 £582 £575
90th Percentile £638 £614 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 4
10th Percentile £75.20 £40.00 £27.69
25th Percentile £79.25 £40.63 £35.60
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +4.29% +94.05%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £48.13
90th Percentile - - £58.70
North West median hourly rate £72.50 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +49.70% +19.32% -0.06%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Cheshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in Cheshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Cheshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Cheshire

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 1 April 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 -1 17 £393 -20.61% 14
Macclesfield +6 7 £548 +7.35%
Chester -8 1 £600 - 13
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Python
North West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) AWS
2 9 (25.71%) Azure
3 8 (22.86%) OpenShift
4 6 (17.14%) GCP
5 4 (11.43%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (11.43%) Azure AI
5 4 (11.43%) Google Gemini
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.86%) GitHub
7 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) BGP
2 2 (5.71%) OSPF
3 1 (2.86%) BIG-IP
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.86%) DMZ
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) DWDM
3 1 (2.86%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.86%) Internet
3 1 (2.86%) IPsec
3 1 (2.86%) L2TP
3 1 (2.86%) MPLS
3 1 (2.86%) Network Security
3 1 (2.86%) SSL
3 1 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (2.86%) WAN
3 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.43%) Hadoop
3 4 (11.43%) Neo4j
4 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.71%) Tableau
6 1 (2.86%) Big Data
6 1 (2.86%) DB2
6 1 (2.86%) MySQL
6 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.86%) Power BI
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (42.86%) Git
2 13 (37.14%) Jenkins
3 7 (20.00%) JIRA
4 6 (17.14%) GitLab
4 6 (17.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 5 (14.29%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Finance
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (11.43%) Legal
4 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Senior
2 6 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Python Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.71%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Database Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) ETL Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) PyTorch
1 6 (17.14%) Spring Boot
1 6 (17.14%) TensorFlow
2 5 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (11.43%) PySpark
4 3 (8.57%) Kafka
5 2 (5.71%) LangChain
5 2 (5.71%) Pandas
5 2 (5.71%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
6 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.86%) CSS3
6 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.86%) HTML5
6 1 (2.86%) Node.js
6 1 (2.86%) React
6 1 (2.86%) REST
6 1 (2.86%) RESTful
6 1 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.86%) Insider Threat
3 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
1 7 (20.00%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 16 (45.71%) DevOps
3 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (37.14%) Agile
5 10 (28.57%) Machine Learning
6 9 (25.71%) Microservices
7 8 (22.86%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
7 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (22.86%) Generative AI
7 8 (22.86%) LLM
8 7 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 7 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (20.00%) SDLC
9 6 (17.14%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (17.14%) Computer Vision
9 6 (17.14%) Data Ingestion
9 6 (17.14%) Natural Language Processing
9 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (17.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) Bash
3 6 (17.14%) Perl
4 5 (14.29%) Java
5 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.57%) Ruby
6 3 (8.57%) Scala
7 2 (5.71%) R
7 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.86%) Go
8 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) CCNP
1 4 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) CCIE
3 2 (5.71%) CCNA
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (2.86%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (45.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (31.43%) Ansible
3 10 (28.57%) Progress Chef
4 5 (14.29%) Kibana
4 5 (14.29%) Terraform
5 1 (2.86%) Consul
5 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Splunk
2 7 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
4 5 (14.29%) AppDynamics
4 5 (14.29%) Infoblox
4 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 4 (11.43%) Cloudera
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle
6 2 (5.71%) VMware
7 1 (2.86%) Ariba
7 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.86%) F5
7 1 (2.86%) Google
7 1 (2.86%) IBM
7 1 (2.86%) Imperva
7 1 (2.86%) Juniper
7 1 (2.86%) McAfee
7 1 (2.86%) SAP