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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 61 44 50
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 9.19% 9.91% 9.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.94% 37.93% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 32 33
10th Percentile £296 - £463
25th Percentile £354 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% +1.50% +6.38%
75th Percentile £495 £600 £515
90th Percentile £608 £672 £575
North West median daily rate £456 £486 £500
% change year-on-year -6.17% -2.80% -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 191 116 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.77% 26.13% 28.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 71 107
10th Percentile £325 £310 £325
25th Percentile £358 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £410 £510
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -19.61% +13.33%
75th Percentile £495 £546 £583
90th Percentile £643 £638 £619
North West median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -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 £46.18
% change year-on-year +6.87% +41.84% +13.77%

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 20 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 20 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 -14 41 £415 +15.28% 10
Chester +1 15 £780 +15.56% 22
Warrington - 4 £394 - 11
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 9 (14.75%) SAS
2 7 (11.48%) Confluence
2 7 (11.48%) SharePoint
3 5 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) AWS
2 21 (34.43%) Azure
3 16 (26.23%) GCP
4 7 (11.48%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (8.20%) Amazon SageMaker
5 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.28%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.28%) Datadog
8 2 (3.28%) GitHub
8 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.28%) IBM Watson
8 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.28%) Serverless
9 1 (1.64%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) Wireshark
2 11 (18.03%) BIG-IP
2 11 (18.03%) DNS
2 11 (18.03%) HTTP
2 11 (18.03%) SSL
2 11 (18.03%) TCP/IP
3 8 (13.11%) SSH
4 4 (6.56%) Firewall
5 1 (1.64%) DWDM
5 1 (1.64%) LAN
5 1 (1.64%) MPLS
5 1 (1.64%) Multicast
5 1 (1.64%) VPN
5 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.20%) Big Data
2 5 (8.20%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Jenkins
2 11 (18.03%) Fiddler
2 11 (18.03%) JIRA
3 10 (16.39%) GitLab
4 6 (9.84%) Git
4 6 (9.84%) MLflow
5 3 (4.92%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.28%) Pylint
6 2 (3.28%) Selenium
6 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.64%) Appium
General
1 22 (36.07%) Finance
2 13 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.03%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Marketing
4 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Analyst
2 12 (19.67%) Architect
2 12 (19.67%) Network Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) Junior
3 11 (18.03%) Junior Network Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) Web Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Applications Architect
5 4 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.28%) Insight Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Lead
7 2 (3.28%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) HTML
1 6 (9.84%) PySpark
2 5 (8.20%) Flask
2 5 (8.20%) REST
2 5 (8.20%) RESTful
3 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.56%) LangChain
4 3 (4.92%) Node.js
5 2 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.28%) LangGraph
5 2 (3.28%) LlamaIndex
5 2 (3.28%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.28%) React
5 2 (3.28%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.64%) .NET
6 1 (1.64%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.64%) CSS
6 1 (1.64%) Kafka
6 1 (1.64%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Credit Risk
2 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.84%) Tandem
4 5 (8.20%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.92%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.28%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.64%) CMDB
7 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.64%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Linux
1 11 (18.03%) Windows
2 10 (16.39%) Unix
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Machine Learning
2 16 (26.23%) CI/CD
3 13 (21.31%) AI
4 12 (19.67%) Agile
4 12 (19.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 12 (19.67%) DevOps
4 12 (19.67%) Load Balancing
5 11 (18.03%) Analytics
5 11 (18.03%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 11 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (16.39%) Data Science
7 9 (14.75%) Decision-Making
7 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.11%) Computer Science
8 8 (13.11%) Incident Response
8 8 (13.11%) Information Security
8 8 (13.11%) IT Strategy
8 8 (13.11%) ITIL
8 8 (13.11%) MLOps
8 8 (13.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) Java
2 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
2 7 (11.48%) R
3 6 (9.84%) Bash
4 5 (8.20%) SQL
5 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.28%) Perl
6 2 (3.28%) PHP
6 2 (3.28%) Ruby
7 1 (1.64%) C#
7 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Degree
2 8 (13.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.84%) AWS Certification
3 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (4.92%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.64%) CBAP
8 1 (1.64%) CISSP
8 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.64%) PSD2
System Software
1 13 (21.31%) Docker
2 12 (19.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (27.87%) Ansible
2 16 (26.23%) Kubernetes
3 10 (16.39%) Terraform
4 4 (6.56%) Grafana
5 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) VMware
2 11 (18.03%) Blue Coat
2 11 (18.03%) F5
2 11 (18.03%) McAfee
3 8 (13.11%) Gemalto
3 8 (13.11%) IBM
3 8 (13.11%) Thales
4 7 (11.48%) Pega
5 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
6 4 (6.56%) Google
7 3 (4.92%) Oracle
8 2 (3.28%) Databricks
8 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.28%) Teradata
9 1 (1.64%) Arista
9 1 (1.64%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.64%) SevOne
9 1 (1.64%) Splunk
9 1 (1.64%) UiPath