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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 19 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 44 49 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.91% 8.97% 11.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.93% 31.01% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 47
10th Percentile £357 £463 £317
25th Percentile £402 £487 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £519 £628
90th Percentile £733 £575 £680
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £73.50 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - £65.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £40.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -38.93% -
75th Percentile £85.00 - £65.75
90th Percentile £86.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £80.00 £46.18 £52.99
% change year-on-year +73.24% -12.84% -

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 116 158 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 26.13% 28.94% 39.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 117 176
10th Percentile £314 £316 £308
25th Percentile £356 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £510 £468
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +9.09% +18.06%
75th Percentile £580 £583 £575
90th Percentile £661 £614 £629
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 4
10th Percentile £75.50 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £80.00 £40.94 £27.50
Median hourly rate £85.50 £42.50 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +101.18% +18.88% +70.24%
75th Percentile £86.38 £43.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £87.05 £53.13 £58.70
North West median hourly rate £65.50 £48.22 £44.68
% change year-on-year +35.85% +7.91% +5.13%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +8 20 £398 -19.65% 2
Chester -1 7 £675 - 11
Macclesfield +2 5 £525 +2.94%
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 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.55%) JBoss
3 1 (2.27%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) AWS
2 8 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 6 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 5 (11.36%) Azure
5 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (4.55%) GCP
6 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 2 (4.55%) Veeva
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.27%) dbt
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) DHCP
1 8 (18.18%) DNS
2 5 (11.36%) Firewall
3 1 (2.27%) BGP
3 1 (2.27%) BIG-IP
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.27%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (2.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (2.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) Power BI
2 4 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.82%) Tableau
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.55%) Spotfire
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) DB2
5 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.27%) Metadata
5 1 (2.27%) MySQL
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 11 (25.00%) GitLab
3 9 (20.45%) Git
4 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 3 (6.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (4.55%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.27%) Babel
6 1 (2.27%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.27%) ESLint
6 1 (2.27%) JProfiler
6 1 (2.27%) VisualVM
6 1 (2.27%) webpack
6 1 (2.27%) YourKit
General
1 17 (38.64%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Banking
3 9 (20.45%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Publishing
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Senior
2 7 (15.91%) Automation Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Developer
3 5 (11.36%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Architect
4 4 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Python Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Analytics Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Automation Developer
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) Kafka
2 3 (6.82%) PySpark
2 3 (6.82%) REST
2 3 (6.82%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.55%) LangChain
3 2 (4.55%) Pandas
3 2 (4.55%) PyTorch
3 2 (4.55%) RESTful
3 2 (4.55%) scikit-learn
3 2 (4.55%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.27%) .NET
4 1 (2.27%) ADO
4 1 (2.27%) CSS
4 1 (2.27%) CSS3
4 1 (2.27%) Express.js
4 1 (2.27%) HTML
4 1 (2.27%) HTML5
4 1 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.82%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.82%) CMDB
3 3 (6.82%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.55%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.27%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Linux
2 6 (13.64%) Windows
3 4 (9.09%) Unix
4 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) CI/CD
2 17 (38.64%) DevOps
3 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (22.73%) Agile
5 9 (20.45%) Machine Learning
5 9 (20.45%) Microservices
6 8 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (15.91%) Data Modelling
7 7 (15.91%) Design Patterns
7 7 (15.91%) Event-Driven
7 7 (15.91%) Regulatory Compliance
7 7 (15.91%) Validation
8 6 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
8 6 (13.64%) ETL
8 6 (13.64%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) Bash
1 12 (27.27%) SQL
2 7 (15.91%) Java
3 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.09%) Ruby
5 3 (6.82%) Go
6 2 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.55%) Perl
6 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.55%) VBA
7 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.27%) R
7 1 (2.27%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) CCNP
2 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.82%) CISSP
3 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.55%) CCNA
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.27%) CCIE
4 1 (2.27%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) GxP
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) HDFS
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Ansible
2 11 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 8 (18.18%) Terraform
4 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.55%) Kibana
6 1 (2.27%) Ambari
6 1 (2.27%) Consul
6 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.27%) Ganglia
6 1 (2.27%) Grafana
6 1 (2.27%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Fortinet
3 6 (13.64%) Splunk
4 5 (11.36%) Infoblox
4 5 (11.36%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle
6 2 (4.55%) AppDynamics
6 2 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (4.55%) Blue Coat
6 2 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (4.55%) Google
6 2 (4.55%) SnapLogic
6 2 (4.55%) VMware
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco
7 1 (2.27%) Cloudera
7 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.27%) F5
7 1 (2.27%) Imperva
7 1 (2.27%) Talend