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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Python 69 52 37
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 10.27% 10.97% 9.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.67% 46.85% 35.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 39 23
10th Percentile £304 £356 £462
25th Percentile £325 £366 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year -20.51% -1.52% +6.45%
75th Percentile £469 £580 £556
90th Percentile £504 £647 £593
North West median daily rate £450 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -9.04% -5.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £80.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +100.00% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £60.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.56% +31.20% -2.78%

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 199 111 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.61% 23.42% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 73 74
10th Percentile £310 £330 £373
25th Percentile £355 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -6.86% +13.97%
75th Percentile £480 £550 £579
90th Percentile £551 £638 £591
North West median daily rate £425 £453 £488
% change year-on-year -6.08% -7.18% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £44.30 £75.50 -
25th Percentile £65.75 £80.00 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £85.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +113.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86.00 £86.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £92.75 £87.05 £68.00
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.25% +40.75% +20.26%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 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 -9 54 £381 -5.22% 6
Warrington -4 7 £388 -13.89% 39
Chester -9 7 £675 - 31
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 (10.14%) Confluence
1 7 (10.14%) SAS
1 7 (10.14%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.25%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.35%) JBoss
4 1 (1.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.58%) AWS
2 18 (26.09%) Azure
3 13 (18.84%) OpenShift
4 12 (17.39%) GCP
5 9 (13.04%) IaaS
5 9 (13.04%) PaaS
5 9 (13.04%) SaaS
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (8.70%) GitHub
8 5 (7.25%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (2.90%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.90%) Datadog
11 2 (2.90%) Serverless
11 2 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) SSH
1 8 (11.59%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.70%) Firewall
3 4 (5.80%) BIG-IP
3 4 (5.80%) DNS
3 4 (5.80%) HTTP
3 4 (5.80%) LAN
3 4 (5.80%) SSL
3 4 (5.80%) WAN
3 4 (5.80%) Wireshark
4 3 (4.35%) Network Security
4 3 (4.35%) WLAN
5 2 (2.90%) BGP
5 2 (2.90%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (2.90%) NX-OS
6 1 (1.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.29%) Relational Database
2 7 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.70%) Big Data
4 4 (5.80%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.35%) Impala
5 3 (4.35%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.45%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.45%) MySQL
7 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 17 (24.64%) JIRA
3 15 (21.74%) Git
4 14 (20.29%) GitLab
5 5 (7.25%) MLflow
5 5 (7.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (5.80%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.80%) Fiddler
6 4 (5.80%) JUnit
7 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.35%) CircleCI
7 3 (4.35%) Gradle
7 3 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.35%) TeamCity
7 3 (4.35%) Xcode
8 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (2.90%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (2.90%) Pylint
8 2 (2.90%) Selenium
9 1 (1.45%) Appium
General
1 23 (33.33%) Finance
2 15 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.84%) Social Skills
4 12 (17.39%) Banking
5 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) Analyst
2 8 (11.59%) Architect
2 8 (11.59%) Developer
2 8 (11.59%) Network Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Lead
5 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Junior
6 4 (5.80%) Junior Network Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Web Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior
8 2 (2.90%) Data Scientist
8 2 (2.90%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.84%) Node.js
2 11 (15.94%) AngularJS
3 10 (14.49%) RESTful
4 9 (13.04%) HTML
5 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot
6 7 (10.14%) REST
7 6 (8.70%) PySpark
8 5 (7.25%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (7.25%) Flask
8 5 (7.25%) Kafka
8 5 (7.25%) React
8 5 (7.25%) Spring
9 4 (5.80%) CSS
10 2 (2.90%) LangChain
10 2 (2.90%) LangGraph
10 2 (2.90%) Streamlit
11 1 (1.45%) Bootstrap
11 1 (1.45%) JSON
11 1 (1.45%) SOAP
11 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Credit Risk
2 6 (8.70%) Tandem
3 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.80%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.45%) CMDB
6 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.09%) Linux
1 18 (26.09%) Windows
2 8 (11.59%) Unix
3 4 (5.80%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.35%) Android
4 3 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.19%) Analytics
1 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
2 15 (21.74%) Machine Learning
3 14 (20.29%) Agile
3 14 (20.29%) AI
4 13 (18.84%) DevOps
4 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (17.39%) Microservices
5 12 (17.39%) Observability
6 10 (14.49%) Containerisation
6 10 (14.49%) Incident Response
6 10 (14.49%) Release Management
6 10 (14.49%) Scrum
7 9 (13.04%) Change Management
7 9 (13.04%) Data Science
7 9 (13.04%) ETL
8 8 (11.59%) Data Analysis
8 8 (11.59%) Information Security
8 8 (11.59%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.29%) Java
2 11 (15.94%) SQL
3 10 (14.49%) PHP
3 10 (14.49%) R
4 7 (10.14%) Perl
4 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.70%) Bash
6 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.25%) Ruby
7 3 (4.35%) C
7 3 (4.35%) C++
7 3 (4.35%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.35%) Objective-C
7 3 (4.35%) Scala
7 3 (4.35%) Swift
8 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (10.14%) Degree
4 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.35%) CCNP
6 3 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) CCDP
7 2 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.45%) CBAP
8 1 (1.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) QA
System Software
1 21 (30.43%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) VMware NSX
3 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 12 (17.39%) Grafana
3 7 (10.14%) Ansible
4 5 (7.25%) Terraform
5 3 (4.35%) Kibana
5 3 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (18.84%) AppDynamics
2 12 (17.39%) Oracle
3 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 8 (11.59%) Gemalto
4 8 (11.59%) Thales
5 7 (10.14%) F5
5 7 (10.14%) Pega
6 6 (8.70%) IBM
7 5 (7.25%) Splunk
8 4 (5.80%) Blue Coat
8 4 (5.80%) Cisco
8 4 (5.80%) Cloudera
8 4 (5.80%) McAfee
8 4 (5.80%) VMware
9 3 (4.35%) Meraki
9 3 (4.35%) Palo Alto
9 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.90%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.45%) ArcSight
11 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow