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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 19 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing Python 60 44 27
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 8.58% 9.09% 5.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.82% 28.03% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 38 23
10th Percentile £351 £356 £458
25th Percentile £420 £393 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -4.41% -9.86%
75th Percentile £621 £584 £554
90th Percentile £649 £665 £606
North West median daily rate £491 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.00% -9.09%

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 147 157 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 21.03% 32.44% 24.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 122 104
10th Percentile £329 £324 £313
25th Percentile £358 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £402 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.50% -15.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £494 £580
90th Percentile £630 £599 £614
North West median daily rate £475 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate £86.00 £86.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +102.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £80.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year -22.60% +66.74% +4.87%

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 May 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 May 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 33 £538 +35.22% 1
Chester +10 22 £550 -10.93% 1
Warrington - 2 £575 - 5
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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) SAS
3 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.67%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (55.00%) AWS
2 32 (53.33%) Azure
3 15 (25.00%) GCP
4 7 (11.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (10.00%) GitHub
5 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 4 (6.67%) Akamai
7 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.00%) IBM Watson
9 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.33%) Azure AI
9 2 (3.33%) Vertex AI
10 1 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.67%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.00%) DNS
2 12 (20.00%) HTTP
2 12 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 11 (18.33%) Wireshark
4 10 (16.67%) Firewall
5 9 (15.00%) SSL
6 8 (13.33%) BIG-IP
7 3 (5.00%) VPN
7 3 (5.00%) WAN
8 2 (3.33%) BGP
8 2 (3.33%) DWDM
8 2 (3.33%) LAN
8 2 (3.33%) MPLS
8 2 (3.33%) Multicast
8 2 (3.33%) OSPF
8 2 (3.33%) SSH
8 2 (3.33%) tcpdump
8 2 (3.33%) VLAN
8 2 (3.33%) Wireless
9 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.00%) Power BI
3 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.00%) Metadata
4 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.67%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.67%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Fiddler
2 7 (11.67%) JIRA
3 5 (8.33%) GitLab
3 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.00%) Git
5 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.67%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.67%) MLflow
5 1 (1.67%) Postman
5 1 (1.67%) Selenium
5 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (35.00%) Finance
2 15 (25.00%) Banking
3 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Security Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) Senior
4 8 (13.33%) Junior
4 8 (13.33%) Junior Network Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Web Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Security Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Applications Architect
7 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Lead
8 3 (5.00%) Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) LangChain
1 5 (8.33%) PyTorch
2 4 (6.67%) REST
2 4 (6.67%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (1.67%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.67%) Django
4 1 (1.67%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.67%) Playwright
4 1 (1.67%) PySpark
4 1 (1.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (11.67%) Security Posture
4 5 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (5.00%) Credit Risk
6 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.33%) PKI
7 2 (3.33%) Tandem
8 1 (1.67%) Clustering
8 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Replication
8 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.00%) Windows
2 11 (18.33%) Linux
3 7 (11.67%) Unix
4 4 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (5.00%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.67%) Solaris
6 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (31.67%) DevOps
3 15 (25.00%) SIEM
4 14 (23.33%) Load Balancing
5 13 (21.67%) Agile
5 13 (21.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 12 (20.00%) Migration
7 11 (18.33%) Analytics
7 11 (18.33%) OWASP
8 10 (16.67%) AI
8 10 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 8 (13.33%) Cloud Security
9 8 (13.33%) Machine Learning
9 8 (13.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
9 8 (13.33%) Scrum
10 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.67%) PowerShell
2 14 (23.33%) Bash
3 11 (18.33%) Java
4 9 (15.00%) SQL
5 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.00%) Bicep
7 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.33%) Perl
8 1 (1.67%) C#
8 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 12 (20.00%) CISSP
1 12 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 6 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.33%) CCNA
5 2 (3.33%) CCNP
6 1 (1.67%) CCIE
6 1 (1.67%) CISM
6 1 (1.67%) GCIA
6 1 (1.67%) GCIH
6 1 (1.67%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.67%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) OCP
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) GDPR
2 3 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (5.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (5.00%) NIST
3 2 (3.33%) ISO 20022
3 2 (3.33%) PSD2
4 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (21.67%) Docker
2 10 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.67%) Firmware
3 1 (1.67%) Snort
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (30.00%) Ansible
2 17 (28.33%) Kubernetes
3 16 (26.67%) Terraform
4 5 (8.33%) Argo
4 5 (8.33%) Grafana
5 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.33%) Istio
7 2 (3.33%) linkerd
8 1 (1.67%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.67%) Suricata
8 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) Splunk
2 10 (16.67%) VMware
3 9 (15.00%) McAfee
4 8 (13.33%) Blue Coat
4 8 (13.33%) F5
5 7 (11.67%) BeyondTrust
5 7 (11.67%) Google
5 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
6 6 (10.00%) CyberArk
7 5 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (8.33%) IBM
7 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
7 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow
8 4 (6.67%) Cisco
8 4 (6.67%) Remedy
9 3 (5.00%) Oracle
9 3 (5.00%) Teradata
10 2 (3.33%) Gemalto
10 2 (3.33%) Thales
10 2 (3.33%) Varonis