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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 71 44 49
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 10.58% 10.40% 9.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.04% 39.29% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 33 32
10th Percentile £311 £357 £463
25th Percentile £361 £402 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £570 £498
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +14.57% +1.22%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £516
90th Percentile £623 £733 £575
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -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% -6.84%

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 197 112 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.36% 26.48% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 72 111
10th Percentile £326 £311 £325
25th Percentile £358 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.37% -6.86% +9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £581 £583
90th Percentile £650 £672 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -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 £48.22
% change year-on-year +6.87% +35.85% +17.47%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -6 51 £455 +14.46% 7
Chester +1 15 £780 +15.56% 9
Warrington - 4 £394 - 7
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 (14.08%) SAS
2 8 (11.27%) Confluence
3 6 (8.45%) SharePoint
4 4 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (56.34%) AWS
2 31 (43.66%) Azure
3 23 (32.39%) GCP
4 7 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.45%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (8.45%) GitHub
5 6 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (7.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (5.63%) Akamai
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (5.63%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (4.23%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.23%) IBM Watson
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.82%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.82%) Serverless
9 2 (2.82%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (21.13%) DNS
1 15 (21.13%) HTTP
2 14 (19.72%) TCP/IP
3 12 (16.90%) Wireshark
4 11 (15.49%) BIG-IP
4 11 (15.49%) SSL
5 8 (11.27%) Firewall
5 8 (11.27%) SSH
6 1 (1.41%) DWDM
6 1 (1.41%) LAN
6 1 (1.41%) MPLS
6 1 (1.41%) Multicast
6 1 (1.41%) VPN
6 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.86%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.63%) Big Data
4 3 (4.23%) Metadata
4 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (19.72%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.31%) GitLab
3 12 (16.90%) JIRA
4 11 (15.49%) Fiddler
5 6 (8.45%) Git
6 5 (7.04%) MLflow
7 3 (4.23%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.41%) Pylint
9 1 (1.41%) Selenium
General
1 27 (38.03%) Finance
2 16 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (21.13%) Banking
4 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.23%) Marketing
7 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (18.31%) Analyst
2 12 (16.90%) Architect
2 12 (16.90%) Network Engineer
2 12 (16.90%) Security Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Junior
3 11 (15.49%) Junior Network Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Web Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Senior
5 5 (7.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Senior Security Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Applications Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) LangChain
2 5 (7.04%) HTML
2 5 (7.04%) PyTorch
2 5 (7.04%) REST
3 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.63%) Flask
3 4 (5.63%) PySpark
3 4 (5.63%) RESTful
3 4 (5.63%) scikit-learn
4 3 (4.23%) Node.js
5 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.82%) React
5 2 (2.82%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.41%) .NET
6 1 (1.41%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.41%) CSS
6 1 (1.41%) Kafka
6 1 (1.41%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.41%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 10 (14.08%) Credit Risk
3 6 (8.45%) Tandem
4 4 (5.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.63%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.82%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.41%) CMDB
7 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.41%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.31%) Linux
2 12 (16.90%) Windows
3 10 (14.08%) Unix
4 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) CI/CD
2 20 (28.17%) DevOps
2 20 (28.17%) Machine Learning
3 15 (21.13%) Data Loss Prevention
4 14 (19.72%) DevSecOps
5 13 (18.31%) Agile
5 13 (18.31%) Analytics
5 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (18.31%) Load Balancing
6 12 (16.90%) AI
6 12 (16.90%) Incident Response
6 12 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (15.49%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 10 (14.08%) Containerisation
8 10 (14.08%) Data Science
8 10 (14.08%) OWASP
8 10 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (14.08%) SIEM
9 9 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (12.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.72%) PowerShell
2 13 (18.31%) Bash
3 11 (15.49%) Java
4 7 (9.86%) R
5 6 (8.45%) SQL
6 3 (4.23%) Bicep
7 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.82%) Perl
7 2 (2.82%) PHP
7 2 (2.82%) Ruby
7 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) C#
8 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (15.49%) AWS Certification
2 10 (14.08%) Degree
3 8 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
5 6 (8.45%) Azure Certification
5 6 (8.45%) CISSP
6 5 (7.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (5.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.41%) CISM
9 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) GDPR
1 3 (4.23%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (2.82%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.82%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (25.35%) Docker
2 12 (16.90%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (30.99%) Kubernetes
2 17 (23.94%) Ansible
3 15 (21.13%) Terraform
4 8 (11.27%) Grafana
5 6 (8.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.63%) Argo
7 2 (2.82%) Istio
7 2 (2.82%) linkerd
8 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (16.90%) VMware
2 11 (15.49%) Blue Coat
2 11 (15.49%) F5
2 11 (15.49%) McAfee
3 9 (12.68%) IBM
4 8 (11.27%) Gemalto
4 8 (11.27%) Thales
5 7 (9.86%) Pega
6 6 (8.45%) Google
6 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
7 5 (7.04%) Splunk
8 4 (5.63%) Oracle
9 3 (4.23%) CyberArk
9 3 (4.23%) Teradata
10 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.41%) Cisco
11 1 (1.41%) NetScout
11 1 (1.41%) SevOne
11 1 (1.41%) Varonis