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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 81 67 25
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 9.64% 10.55% 4.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.36% 30.88% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 58 21
10th Percentile £375 £312 £400
25th Percentile £425 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £478
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -11.09% -18.43%
75th Percentile £610 £515 £534
90th Percentile £644 £661 £606
North West median daily rate £513 £475 £504
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.75% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.50 -
North West median hourly rate £52.50 £66.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -21.05% +44.00% -

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 149 217 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.74% 34.17% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 185 84
10th Percentile £359 £312 £320
25th Percentile £413 £357 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.56% -19.18%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £520
90th Percentile £630 £575 £606
North West median daily rate £500 £430 £453
% change year-on-year +16.28% -4.97% -9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £78.58 £37.15 -
25th Percentile £79.81 £47.88 -
Median hourly rate £83.25 £66.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.19% - -
75th Percentile £85.31 £67.25 -
90th Percentile £85.73 - -
North West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% +19.10%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +5 43 £555 +48.00% 13
Chester +7 24 £550 -16.03% 6
Warrington -12 3 £325 -13.91% 5
Crewe - 1 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
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 6 (7.41%) Confluence
2 4 (4.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.47%) Camunda
3 2 (2.47%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 51 (62.96%) AWS
2 47 (58.02%) Azure
3 22 (27.16%) GCP
4 10 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (12.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (7.41%) GitHub
7 6 (7.41%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.17%) AWS KMS
8 5 (6.17%) Serverless
9 4 (4.94%) Akamai
9 4 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.70%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.70%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.69%) Firewall
2 14 (17.28%) Network Security
3 9 (11.11%) DNS
4 8 (9.88%) WAN
5 7 (8.64%) TCP/IP
5 7 (8.64%) Wireless
6 6 (7.41%) VPN
7 5 (6.17%) BGP
7 5 (6.17%) OSPF
7 5 (6.17%) SD-WAN
8 4 (4.94%) HTTP
8 4 (4.94%) SSH
8 4 (4.94%) SSL
9 3 (3.70%) DMZ
9 3 (3.70%) IPsec
9 3 (3.70%) Multicast
10 2 (2.47%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (2.47%) tcpdump
10 2 (2.47%) VLAN
10 2 (2.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Power BI
2 5 (6.17%) Sybase ASE
3 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.47%) Metadata
5 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.23%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.23%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) GitLab
2 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.88%) JIRA
3 6 (7.41%) Git
4 2 (2.47%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.23%) Postman
5 1 (1.23%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.23%) Selenium
5 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (43.21%) Finance
2 20 (24.69%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
4 17 (20.99%) Banking
5 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.23%) Automotive
6 1 (1.23%) German Language
6 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (30.86%) Security Engineer
2 13 (16.05%) Senior
3 11 (13.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (12.35%) Network Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Architect
6 5 (6.17%) DBA
6 5 (6.17%) Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Lead
6 5 (6.17%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Sybase DBA
7 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Splunk Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (30.86%) Terraform
2 6 (7.41%) LangChain
3 5 (6.17%) REST
4 3 (3.70%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (3.70%) JSON
4 3 (3.70%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.70%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.47%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.47%) Django
5 2 (2.47%) LangGraph
5 2 (2.47%) Middleware
5 2 (2.47%) React
5 2 (2.47%) XML
6 1 (1.23%) .NET
6 1 (1.23%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.23%) Kafka
6 1 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.23%) Playwright
6 1 (1.23%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.75%) Management Information System
2 15 (18.52%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.58%) Security Posture
4 8 (9.88%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (7.41%) PKI
6 5 (6.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (6.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (6.17%) Replication
7 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.70%) Tandem
8 2 (2.47%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.47%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.47%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.23%) Infotainment
9 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.10%) Linux
2 21 (25.93%) Windows
3 11 (13.58%) Unix
4 8 (9.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.70%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.23%) CentOS
6 1 (1.23%) Solaris
6 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 23 (28.40%) DevOps
2 23 (28.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (27.16%) Analytics
4 20 (24.69%) Change Management
5 19 (23.46%) AI
5 19 (23.46%) Cloud Security
5 19 (23.46%) SIEM
6 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (19.75%) Agile
7 16 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (18.52%) Incident Response
8 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure Automation
9 14 (17.28%) Scrum
10 13 (16.05%) DevSecOps
11 12 (14.81%) Computer Science
11 12 (14.81%) Migration
11 12 (14.81%) Observability
12 11 (13.58%) Cryptography
12 11 (13.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.91%) PowerShell
2 22 (27.16%) Bash
3 17 (20.99%) SQL
4 12 (14.81%) Java
5 11 (13.58%) Bicep
6 4 (4.94%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.70%) Perl
7 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (30.86%) Degree
2 17 (20.99%) CISSP
3 16 (19.75%) AWS Certification
4 12 (14.81%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (6.17%) GCIH
8 4 (4.94%) CCNP
8 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) CCIE
9 3 (3.70%) GCFA
9 3 (3.70%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.47%) CCNA
10 2 (2.47%) GCIA
10 2 (2.47%) GIAC
10 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.23%) OCP
11 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.94%) GDPR
1 4 (4.94%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.70%) NIST
2 3 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.47%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) SLA
4 1 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.23%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.23%) PSD2
4 1 (1.23%) SEPA
4 1 (1.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (18.52%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.47%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.47%) vSphere
5 1 (1.23%) Firmware
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.23%) Snort
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (29.63%) Ansible
2 23 (28.40%) Kubernetes
3 12 (14.81%) Progress Chef
4 5 (6.17%) Argo
4 5 (6.17%) Grafana
5 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.70%) CASB
7 2 (2.47%) Istio
7 2 (2.47%) linkerd
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.23%) QRadar
8 1 (1.23%) Suricata
8 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (28.40%) Microsoft
2 21 (25.93%) Splunk
3 11 (13.58%) Google
4 10 (12.35%) Cisco
5 8 (9.88%) Red Hat
6 7 (8.64%) BeyondTrust
7 6 (7.41%) ServiceNow
8 5 (6.17%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (6.17%) IBM
8 5 (6.17%) Sybase
8 5 (6.17%) Thales
9 4 (4.94%) Gemalto
9 4 (4.94%) Remedy
9 4 (4.94%) VMware
10 3 (3.70%) Cribl.io
10 3 (3.70%) CyberArk
10 3 (3.70%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.70%) McAfee
11 2 (2.47%) Arista
11 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto