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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 31 12
Rank change year-on-year +11 -19 +15
Contract jobs citing Python 56 30 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.79% 5.47% 11.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.72% 22.73% 36.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 26 37
10th Percentile £346 £459 £325
25th Percentile £373 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £504 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -11.62% +3.64%
75th Percentile £531 £524 £593
90th Percentile £640 £606 £626
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £560
% change year-on-year -5.00% -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £42.53
25th Percentile - - £46.31
Median hourly rate - - £52.75
75th Percentile - - £59.31
90th Percentile - - £63.18
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 £47.88
% change year-on-year - +40.99% +84.13%

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 195 132 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.09% 24.09% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 111 113
10th Percentile £313 £319 £326
25th Percentile £358 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £586
90th Percentile £581 £610 £620
North West median daily rate £447 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -5.89% -7.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile £30.00 £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £32.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% +6.25% +73.91%
75th Percentile £34.00 £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £74.50 £51.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year +45.37% +5.67% -3.39%

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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 +8 38 £393 -22.94% 13
Macclesfield -2 5 £600 +18.81% 10
Chester - 2 £618 - 38
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 1
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 9 (16.07%) JBoss
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) AWS
2 13 (23.21%) OpenShift
3 8 (14.29%) Azure
4 5 (8.93%) GCP
5 4 (7.14%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (7.14%) Azure AI
5 4 (7.14%) GitHub
5 4 (7.14%) Google Gemini
5 4 (7.14%) IaaS
5 4 (7.14%) PaaS
5 4 (7.14%) SaaS
6 2 (3.57%) Serverless
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) Firewall
2 2 (3.57%) HTTP
3 1 (1.79%) BGP
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.79%) DMZ
3 1 (1.79%) DNS
3 1 (1.79%) DWDM
3 1 (1.79%) Internet
3 1 (1.79%) IPsec
3 1 (1.79%) L2TP
3 1 (1.79%) MPLS
3 1 (1.79%) Multicast
3 1 (1.79%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) OSPF
3 1 (1.79%) SSL
3 1 (1.79%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) WAN
3 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) Relational Database
2 9 (16.07%) RDBMS
3 8 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (8.93%) Hadoop
4 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
5 4 (7.14%) Neo4j
6 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.57%) Tableau
8 1 (1.79%) Big Data
8 1 (1.79%) DB2
8 1 (1.79%) MySQL
8 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (55.36%) Git
2 22 (39.29%) Jenkins
3 17 (30.36%) JIRA
4 10 (17.86%) SonarQube
5 9 (16.07%) GitLab
5 9 (16.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (16.07%) TeamCity
6 8 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
6 8 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
7 4 (7.14%) Cucumber
7 4 (7.14%) Gradle
7 4 (7.14%) JUnit
7 4 (7.14%) Xcode
8 3 (5.36%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 15 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Finance
3 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Banking
4 6 (10.71%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (7.14%) Legal
5 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Developer
2 8 (14.29%) Senior
3 6 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) iOS Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (5.36%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (3.57%) Automation Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Developer
7 2 (3.57%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Splunk Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Data Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.21%) Spring Boot
2 9 (16.07%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.93%) CSS
3 5 (8.93%) HTML
3 5 (8.93%) Kafka
3 5 (8.93%) Node.js
3 5 (8.93%) PySpark
3 5 (8.93%) React
3 5 (8.93%) REST
3 5 (8.93%) RESTful
4 4 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 4 (7.14%) Spring
4 4 (7.14%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.79%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.79%) CSS3
5 1 (1.79%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.79%) HTML5
5 1 (1.79%) JSON
5 1 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.14%) Mobile Banking
2 4 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.57%) PKI
4 1 (1.79%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.93%) Linux
2 15 (26.79%) Windows
3 14 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.14%) Android
4 4 (7.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.79%) Unix
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 23 (41.07%) DevOps
3 20 (35.71%) Agile
4 17 (30.36%) Migration
5 16 (28.57%) Microservices
5 16 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 12 (21.43%) Scrum
7 11 (19.64%) Code Quality
7 11 (19.64%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (19.64%) Observability
7 11 (19.64%) SDLC
8 10 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (17.86%) ETL
9 9 (16.07%) Configuration Management
9 9 (16.07%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (16.07%) TDD
10 8 (14.29%) Build Automation
10 8 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.36%) Java
2 14 (25.00%) SQL
3 11 (19.64%) Ruby
4 10 (17.86%) Bash
4 10 (17.86%) Perl
5 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.50%) Scala
6 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 6 (10.71%) Shell Script
7 4 (7.14%) C
7 4 (7.14%) C++
7 4 (7.14%) Kotlin
7 4 (7.14%) Objective-C
7 4 (7.14%) PHP
7 4 (7.14%) Swift
8 2 (3.57%) R
9 1 (1.79%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) RHCE
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.36%) CCNP
2 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (5.36%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) CCNA
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.79%) CCIE
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (39.29%) Docker
2 9 (16.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (51.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (30.36%) Progress Chef
3 11 (19.64%) Ansible
4 9 (16.07%) Kibana
5 4 (7.14%) Grafana
6 2 (3.57%) Terraform
7 1 (1.79%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 13 (23.21%) AppDynamics
2 13 (23.21%) Splunk
3 10 (17.86%) Oracle
4 8 (14.29%) Cloudera
5 6 (10.71%) Fortinet
6 5 (8.93%) Infoblox
6 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
7 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.57%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.79%) Ariba
9 1 (1.79%) Arista
9 1 (1.79%) Cisco
9 1 (1.79%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.79%) HubSpot
9 1 (1.79%) IBM
9 1 (1.79%) Imperva
9 1 (1.79%) McAfee
9 1 (1.79%) SAP