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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 22 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -20
Contract jobs citing Python 58 41 27
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 8.57% 8.67% 5.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.67% 26.62% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 36 23
10th Percentile £275 £353 £458
25th Percentile £419 £393 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £491 £510
Median % change year-on-year +12.02% -3.73% -8.93%
75th Percentile £621 £588 £554
90th Percentile £652 £675 £606
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%

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 150 154 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 22.16% 32.56% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 117 99
10th Percentile £314 £322 £311
25th Percentile £358 £358 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £402 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.19% -15.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £495 £591
90th Percentile £625 £600 £617
North West median daily rate £475 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate £86.00 £86.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +102.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £79.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year -20.89% +63.12% +9.96%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -7 32 £538 +13.16% 2
Chester +13 21 £550 -8.33% 5
Warrington - 2 £575 - 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 5 (8.62%) Confluence
2 3 (5.17%) SAS
3 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (51.72%) AWS
2 29 (50.00%) Azure
3 13 (22.41%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) GitHub
4 6 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (8.62%) OpenShift
6 4 (6.90%) Akamai
6 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.17%) IBM Watson
8 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.45%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.45%) Vertex AI
8 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.86%) DNS
2 13 (22.41%) HTTP
2 13 (22.41%) TCP/IP
3 12 (20.69%) Wireshark
4 9 (15.52%) BIG-IP
4 9 (15.52%) SSL
5 7 (12.07%) Firewall
6 4 (6.90%) SSH
7 2 (3.45%) LAN
7 2 (3.45%) tcpdump
7 2 (3.45%) VLAN
7 2 (3.45%) VPN
7 2 (3.45%) WAN
8 1 (1.72%) BGP
8 1 (1.72%) DWDM
8 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.72%) MPLS
8 1 (1.72%) Multicast
8 1 (1.72%) OSPF
8 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.34%) Power BI
3 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.17%) Metadata
4 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.72%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Fiddler
2 6 (10.34%) JIRA
3 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.90%) GitLab
5 3 (5.17%) Git
6 1 (1.72%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.72%) MLflow
6 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (32.76%) Finance
2 13 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Banking
3 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Marketing
5 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Security Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Network Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Junior
3 9 (15.52%) Junior Network Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Senior
3 9 (15.52%) Web Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Analyst
4 6 (10.34%) Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Security Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Applications Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Lead
7 3 (5.17%) Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) LangChain
1 5 (8.62%) PyTorch
2 4 (6.90%) REST
2 4 (6.90%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.72%) Django
4 1 (1.72%) Middleware
4 1 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.72%) PySpark
4 1 (1.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.62%) Security Posture
4 4 (6.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.17%) Credit Risk
5 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.45%) PKI
6 2 (3.45%) Tandem
7 1 (1.72%) Clustering
7 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Replication
7 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.69%) Windows
2 9 (15.52%) Linux
3 7 (12.07%) Unix
4 3 (5.17%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.17%) Mac OS
4 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.72%) Solaris
6 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) CI/CD
2 16 (27.59%) DevOps
3 14 (24.14%) Data Loss Prevention
4 13 (22.41%) Load Balancing
4 13 (22.41%) SIEM
5 12 (20.69%) DevSecOps
5 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (18.97%) Analytics
6 11 (18.97%) Migration
6 11 (18.97%) OWASP
7 10 (17.24%) Agile
7 10 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (15.52%) AI
8 9 (15.52%) Malware Detection/Protection
9 8 (13.79%) Information Security
9 8 (13.79%) Machine Learning
9 8 (13.79%) Security Operations
10 7 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (12.07%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.31%) PowerShell
2 11 (18.97%) Bash
3 8 (13.79%) Java
3 8 (13.79%) SQL
4 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.17%) Bicep
6 1 (1.72%) C#
6 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.72%) Perl
6 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) AWS Certification
1 10 (17.24%) CISSP
2 8 (13.79%) Degree
3 6 (10.34%) Azure Certification
4 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.45%) CCNA
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.72%) CCNP
7 1 (1.72%) CISM
7 1 (1.72%) GCIA
7 1 (1.72%) GCIH
7 1 (1.72%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.72%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.72%) OCP
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) GDPR
2 3 (5.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (5.17%) HIPAA
2 3 (5.17%) NIST
3 2 (3.45%) ISO 20022
3 2 (3.45%) PSD2
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (18.97%) Docker
1 11 (18.97%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.72%) Firmware
2 1 (1.72%) Snort
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (31.03%) Ansible
2 15 (25.86%) Kubernetes
3 14 (24.14%) Terraform
4 5 (8.62%) Argo
4 5 (8.62%) Grafana
5 4 (6.90%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.45%) Istio
6 2 (3.45%) linkerd
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.72%) Suricata
7 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) Splunk
2 11 (18.97%) VMware
3 9 (15.52%) Blue Coat
3 9 (15.52%) F5
3 9 (15.52%) McAfee
4 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
5 6 (10.34%) BeyondTrust
6 5 (8.62%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (8.62%) CyberArk
6 5 (8.62%) Google
6 5 (8.62%) IBM
6 5 (8.62%) ServiceNow
7 4 (6.90%) Gemalto
7 4 (6.90%) Remedy
7 4 (6.90%) Thales
8 3 (5.17%) Cisco
8 3 (5.17%) Oracle
8 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
8 3 (5.17%) Teradata
9 2 (3.45%) Varonis