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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 19 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 52 35 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.14% 8.64% 6.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.28% 33.33% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 28
10th Percentile £356 - £325
25th Percentile £386 £495 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +18.79% -2.53%
75th Percentile £576 £593 £634
90th Percentile £647 £613 £682
North West median daily rate £486 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -9.67% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £73.50 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - £21.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £40.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +73.91% +15.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £24.50
90th Percentile £86.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £60.59 £46.18 £36.04
% change year-on-year +31.20% +28.14% +80.20%

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 123 105 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.98% 25.93% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 72 142
10th Percentile £322 £407 £326
25th Percentile £356 £462 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +15.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £548 £586 £540
90th Percentile £638 £612 £632
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.53% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £73.50 - £21.70
25th Percentile £75.00 - £21.78
Median hourly rate £80.00 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £57.50 £33.13
90th Percentile £86.50 £68.00 £37.18
North West median hourly rate £49.00 £46.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year +6.11% -2.78% +8.96%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 2024. 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 -5 31 £402 -23.38% 3
Chester +4 7 £675 +17.39% 1
Macclesfield +8 6 £506 -15.75% 2
Warrington - 1 £450 - 2
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 (5.77%) Apache
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (59.62%) AWS
2 14 (26.92%) Azure
3 9 (17.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (15.38%) Serverless
5 7 (13.46%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (13.46%) Amazon S3
5 7 (13.46%) Power Platform
6 6 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (11.54%) GCP
7 5 (9.62%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (9.62%) OpenShift
8 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (3.85%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.85%) Veeva
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) DHCP
1 8 (15.38%) DNS
2 1 (1.92%) BGP
2 1 (1.92%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.92%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.92%) EIGRP
2 1 (1.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (1.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Power BI
2 6 (11.54%) DynamoDB
2 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.77%) MySQL
4 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.77%) Tableau
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.85%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.85%) Spotfire
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.92%) Metadata
6 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.46%) GitLab
3 5 (9.62%) Git
4 2 (3.85%) JIRA
4 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.92%) Babel
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.92%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.92%) ESLint
5 1 (1.92%) JProfiler
5 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.92%) VisualVM
5 1 (1.92%) webpack
5 1 (1.92%) YourKit
General
1 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Finance
3 13 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (5.77%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (5.77%) Publishing
5 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Front Office
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Senior
3 6 (11.54%) Lead
4 5 (9.62%) Data Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Automation Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Architect
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Report Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) Kafka
2 5 (9.62%) JSON
3 4 (7.69%) Hugging Face
3 4 (7.69%) PyTorch
3 4 (7.69%) scikit-learn
3 4 (7.69%) TensorFlow
4 3 (5.77%) CSS
4 3 (5.77%) HTML
4 3 (5.77%) Node.js
4 3 (5.77%) React
4 3 (5.77%) REST
5 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.85%) jQuery
5 2 (3.85%) LangChain
5 2 (3.85%) Pandas
5 2 (3.85%) RESTful
5 2 (3.85%) XML
6 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.92%) MERN Stack
6 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.77%) CMDB
4 3 (5.77%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) Unix
4 2 (3.85%) Android
4 2 (3.85%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 14 (26.92%) DevOps
3 12 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (15.38%) Generative AI
5 8 (15.38%) Natural Language Processing
5 8 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (13.46%) Data Analysis
6 7 (13.46%) Design Patterns
6 7 (13.46%) Incident Management
6 7 (13.46%) Service Catalogue
6 7 (13.46%) Use Case
7 6 (11.54%) Agile
7 6 (11.54%) Data Modelling
7 6 (11.54%) ITIL
7 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (11.54%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) Java
2 12 (23.08%) SQL
3 8 (15.38%) Bash
4 7 (13.46%) Groovy
5 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.69%) Go
7 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.77%) Ruby
8 2 (3.85%) C#
8 2 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.85%) R
8 2 (3.85%) VBA
9 1 (1.92%) C++
9 1 (1.92%) Perl
9 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Degree
2 3 (5.77%) CISSP
2 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.92%) CCIE
4 1 (1.92%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (1.92%) CCNP
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.85%) GxP
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) HDFS
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Ansible
2 7 (13.46%) Progress Chef
3 6 (11.54%) Terraform
4 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.92%) Ambari
5 1 (1.92%) Consul
5 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.92%) Ganglia
5 1 (1.92%) Grafana
5 1 (1.92%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.92%) Kibana
5 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.77%) Splunk
4 2 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (3.85%) Blue Coat
4 2 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.85%) Google
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) SnapLogic
4 2 (3.85%) VMware
5 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco
5 1 (1.92%) F5
5 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.92%) Genesys
5 1 (1.92%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.92%) Juniper
5 1 (1.92%) Talend
5 1 (1.92%) Tanium