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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 70 44 49
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 10.59% 10.14% 9.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.53% 38.60% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 33 32
10th Percentile £311 - £463
25th Percentile £361 £356 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +5.53% +1.53%
75th Percentile £558 £625 £515
90th Percentile £623 £668 £575
North West median daily rate £470 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -2.19% -3.90% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -38.93%
North West median hourly rate £58.63 £80.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -26.71% +73.24% -12.87%

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 197 114 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.80% 26.27% 28.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 72 105
10th Percentile £326 £311 £325
25th Percentile £358 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £418 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -18.14% +10.87%
75th Percentile £532 £554 £583
90th Percentile £649 £638 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile - £75.50 £40.00
25th Percentile - £80.00 £40.94
Median hourly rate £86.00 £85.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% +101.18% +41.67%
75th Percentile £91.63 £86.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.05 £53.13
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +36.46% +18.26%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -9 50 £441 +22.57% 6
Chester +1 15 £780 +15.56% 5
Warrington - 4 £394 - 6
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 10 (14.29%) SAS
2 8 (11.43%) Confluence
3 6 (8.57%) SharePoint
4 5 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 38 (54.29%) AWS
2 29 (41.43%) Azure
3 20 (28.57%) GCP
4 7 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.71%) GitHub
7 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (5.71%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (4.29%) IBM Watson
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.86%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.86%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.86%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.86%) Serverless
9 2 (2.86%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.14%) DNS
1 12 (17.14%) HTTP
1 12 (17.14%) TCP/IP
1 12 (17.14%) Wireshark
2 11 (15.71%) BIG-IP
2 11 (15.71%) SSL
3 8 (11.43%) Firewall
3 8 (11.43%) SSH
4 1 (1.43%) DWDM
4 1 (1.43%) LAN
4 1 (1.43%) MPLS
4 1 (1.43%) Multicast
4 1 (1.43%) VPN
4 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.14%) Big Data
4 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.29%) Metadata
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (18.57%) Jenkins
1 13 (18.57%) JIRA
2 12 (17.14%) GitLab
3 11 (15.71%) Fiddler
4 6 (8.57%) Git
4 6 (8.57%) MLflow
5 3 (4.29%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.86%) Pylint
6 2 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 26 (37.14%) Finance
2 16 (22.86%) Banking
3 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (18.57%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Marketing
5 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (20.00%) Analyst
2 12 (17.14%) Architect
2 12 (17.14%) Network Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) Junior
3 11 (15.71%) Junior Network Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) Web Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Security Engineer
5 8 (11.43%) Senior
6 7 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Data Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Applications Architect
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Security Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Insight Analyst
10 3 (4.29%) Lead
11 2 (2.86%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) LangChain
2 6 (8.57%) HTML
2 6 (8.57%) PySpark
3 5 (7.14%) Flask
3 5 (7.14%) PyTorch
3 5 (7.14%) REST
3 5 (7.14%) RESTful
4 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.71%) scikit-learn
5 3 (4.29%) Node.js
6 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.86%) LangGraph
6 2 (2.86%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (2.86%) React
6 2 (2.86%) Streamlit
7 1 (1.43%) .NET
7 1 (1.43%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.43%) CSS
7 1 (1.43%) Kafka
7 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (14.29%) Credit Risk
3 6 (8.57%) Tandem
4 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.71%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.29%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.86%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.43%) CMDB
7 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.43%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.57%) Linux
2 12 (17.14%) Windows
3 10 (14.29%) Unix
4 3 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) Machine Learning
2 21 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 19 (27.14%) DevOps
4 16 (22.86%) AI
5 15 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
6 14 (20.00%) Agile
7 13 (18.57%) Analytics
7 13 (18.57%) Load Balancing
8 12 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (15.71%) Data Science
9 11 (15.71%) Malware Detection/Protection
10 10 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (14.29%) DevSecOps
11 9 (12.86%) Containerisation
11 9 (12.86%) Decision-Making
11 9 (12.86%) Generative AI
11 9 (12.86%) Incident Response
11 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (12.86%) Roadmaps
11 9 (12.86%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.14%) PowerShell
2 11 (15.71%) Bash
2 11 (15.71%) Java
3 8 (11.43%) SQL
4 7 (10.00%) R
5 2 (2.86%) Bicep
5 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.86%) Perl
5 2 (2.86%) PHP
5 2 (2.86%) Ruby
5 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.43%) C#
6 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 10 (14.29%) Degree
2 8 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.57%) Azure Certification
4 6 (8.57%) CISSP
5 5 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (5.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.43%) CBAP
8 1 (1.43%) CISM
8 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.86%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (24.29%) Docker
2 12 (17.14%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (24.29%) Ansible
3 13 (18.57%) Terraform
4 6 (8.57%) Grafana
5 4 (5.71%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.86%) Argo
6 2 (2.86%) Istio
6 2 (2.86%) linkerd
7 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) VMware
2 11 (15.71%) Blue Coat
2 11 (15.71%) F5
2 11 (15.71%) McAfee
3 9 (12.86%) IBM
4 8 (11.43%) Gemalto
4 8 (11.43%) Thales
5 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (10.00%) Pega
6 6 (8.57%) Google
7 4 (5.71%) Oracle
8 3 (4.29%) CyberArk
8 3 (4.29%) Splunk
8 3 (4.29%) Teradata
9 2 (2.86%) Databricks
9 2 (2.86%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.43%) Arista
10 1 (1.43%) Cisco
10 1 (1.43%) OpenAI