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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 18 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Python 84 68 25
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 10.05% 10.66% 4.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.38% 31.05% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 59 21
10th Percentile £377 £312 £400
25th Percentile £433 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £478
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -11.09% -18.43%
75th Percentile £615 £520 £534
90th Percentile £649 £658 £606
North West median daily rate £525 £475 £503
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.61% -11.52%
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 149 219 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.82% 34.33% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 187 85
10th Percentile £359 £312 £321
25th Percentile £413 £357 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +27.49% -9.66% -19.09%
75th Percentile £596 £488 £525
90th Percentile £631 £579 £606
North West median daily rate £500 £428 £454
% change year-on-year +16.96% -5.79% -9.25%
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 £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 23 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 23 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 +10 46 £559 +49.00% 4
Chester +8 24 £550 -16.03% 7
Warrington -12 3 £325 -13.91% 4
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 7 (8.33%) Confluence
2 4 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.57%) SAS
4 2 (2.38%) Camunda
Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 55 (65.48%) AWS
2 50 (59.52%) Azure
3 23 (27.38%) GCP
4 11 (13.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 10 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (7.14%) GitHub
8 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.95%) AWS KMS
9 5 (5.95%) Serverless
9 5 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (4.76%) Akamai
10 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.76%) OpenShift
11 3 (3.57%) SaaS
11 3 (3.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (26.19%) Firewall
2 13 (15.48%) Network Security
3 9 (10.71%) DNS
4 7 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 7 (8.33%) WAN
5 6 (7.14%) VPN
5 6 (7.14%) Wireless
6 5 (5.95%) BGP
6 5 (5.95%) OSPF
7 4 (4.76%) HTTP
7 4 (4.76%) SD-WAN
7 4 (4.76%) SSH
7 4 (4.76%) SSL
8 3 (3.57%) DMZ
8 3 (3.57%) IPsec
8 3 (3.57%) Multicast
9 2 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (2.38%) tcpdump
9 2 (2.38%) VLAN
9 2 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) Power BI
2 5 (5.95%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.95%) Sybase ASE
3 4 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.57%) Metadata
5 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.19%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.19%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) JIRA
2 9 (10.71%) GitLab
3 8 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.14%) Git
5 2 (2.38%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.19%) Postman
6 1 (1.19%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.19%) Selenium
6 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (46.43%) Finance
2 19 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (22.62%) Banking
3 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Marketing
5 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Automotive
6 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.19%) German Language
6 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (34.52%) Security Engineer
2 16 (19.05%) Senior
3 12 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (10.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 9 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Lead
6 5 (5.95%) Architect
6 5 (5.95%) DBA
6 5 (5.95%) Developer
6 5 (5.95%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Security Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Sybase DBA
7 4 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.57%) Data Insight Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Insight Data Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.76%) Terraform
2 8 (9.52%) LangChain
3 5 (5.95%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.95%) REST
3 5 (5.95%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.57%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (3.57%) JSON
5 2 (2.38%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.38%) Django
5 2 (2.38%) LangGraph
5 2 (2.38%) Middleware
5 2 (2.38%) React
5 2 (2.38%) XML
6 1 (1.19%) .NET
6 1 (1.19%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.19%) Kafka
6 1 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.19%) PySpark
6 1 (1.19%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 16 (19.05%) Management Information System
3 12 (14.29%) Security Posture
4 8 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (7.14%) PKI
6 5 (5.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (5.95%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (5.95%) Replication
7 3 (3.57%) Credit Risk
7 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.57%) Tandem
8 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (32.14%) Linux
2 22 (26.19%) Windows
3 11 (13.10%) Unix
4 9 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.57%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.19%) CentOS
6 1 (1.19%) Solaris
6 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.05%) CI/CD
2 27 (32.14%) DevOps
3 24 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (26.19%) Analytics
4 22 (26.19%) SIEM
5 21 (25.00%) AI
5 21 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 20 (23.81%) Change Management
7 18 (21.43%) Agile
8 17 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (19.05%) Scrum
9 16 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (17.86%) DevSecOps
10 15 (17.86%) Incident Response
10 15 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (15.48%) Containerisation
11 13 (15.48%) Generative AI
11 13 (15.48%) Threat Modelling
12 12 (14.29%) Migration
12 12 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (46.43%) PowerShell
2 23 (27.38%) Bash
3 19 (22.62%) SQL
4 12 (14.29%) Java
5 11 (13.10%) Bicep
6 4 (4.76%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.57%) Perl
8 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (29.76%) Degree
2 21 (25.00%) CISSP
3 18 (21.43%) AWS Certification
4 13 (15.48%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.95%) GCIH
8 4 (4.76%) CCNP
8 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) CCIE
9 3 (3.57%) GCFA
9 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.38%) CCNA
10 2 (2.38%) CISM
10 2 (2.38%) GCIA
10 2 (2.38%) GIAC
10 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.19%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) GDPR
2 4 (4.76%) NIST
2 4 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.38%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.38%) QA
4 2 (2.38%) SLA
5 1 (1.19%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.19%) PSD2
5 1 (1.19%) SEPA
5 1 (1.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (20.24%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.38%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.38%) vSphere
5 1 (1.19%) Firmware
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.19%) Snort
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (29.76%) Kubernetes
2 23 (27.38%) Ansible
3 11 (13.10%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.95%) Argo
4 5 (5.95%) Grafana
5 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.57%) CASB
7 2 (2.38%) Istio
7 2 (2.38%) linkerd
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.19%) QRadar
8 1 (1.19%) Suricata
8 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 20 (23.81%) Splunk
3 13 (15.48%) Google
4 10 (11.90%) Cisco
5 9 (10.71%) Red Hat
6 7 (8.33%) BeyondTrust
7 6 (7.14%) IBM
7 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow
8 5 (5.95%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (5.95%) Sybase
8 5 (5.95%) Thales
9 4 (4.76%) CyberArk
9 4 (4.76%) Gemalto
9 4 (4.76%) Remedy
9 4 (4.76%) VMware
10 3 (3.57%) Cribl.io
10 3 (3.57%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.57%) McAfee
10 3 (3.57%) Oracle
10 3 (3.57%) Teradata