Developer Contracts in Cheshire

Developer
North West > Cheshire

The median Developer daily rate in Cheshire is £320 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 37 79 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.39% 14.66% 10.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.89% 16.42% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 65 48
10th Percentile £287 £416 £313
25th Percentile £297 £463 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £550 £461
Median % change year-on-year -41.82% +19.31% +9.76%
75th Percentile £487 £575 £538
90th Percentile £540 £638 £631
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 469 481 503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 89.24% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 331 284
10th Percentile £276 £263 £190
25th Percentile £383 £394 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £631 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £18.82 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £27.98 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.20% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Cheshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Cheshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Cheshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Cheshire

Developer
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 Developer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 17 £321 -41.73% 5
Warrington +7 4 £550 -5.38% 14
Chester +4 2 £413 -17.50% 17
Wilmslow - 1 £363 - 2
Winsford - 1 £288 - 4
Developer
North West

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 10 (27.03%) .NET
2 9 (24.32%) Java
3 8 (21.62%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) Unix
3 8 (21.62%) Python
3 8 (21.62%) API Development
4 7 (18.92%) C#
4 7 (18.92%) .NET Framework
4 7 (18.92%) REST
5 6 (16.22%) Ansible
5 6 (16.22%) Android
5 6 (16.22%) Finance
5 6 (16.22%) Agile
5 6 (16.22%) Terraform
5 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
5 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
6 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.51%) Observability
6 5 (13.51%) Progress Chef
6 5 (13.51%) Windows
6 5 (13.51%) CSS
6 5 (13.51%) Web Services
6 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
6 5 (13.51%) Microservices
6 5 (13.51%) Android Development
7 4 (10.81%) Liquibase
7 4 (10.81%) Flask
7 4 (10.81%) Kafka
7 4 (10.81%) Entity Framework

Developer Skill Set
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 4 (10.81%) Mule
2 2 (5.41%) CMS
2 2 (5.41%) IIS
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
3 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Maximo
2 1 (2.70%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) AWS
1 4 (10.81%) SaaS
2 3 (8.11%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) Essbase
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.70%) Power Query
3 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Liquibase
1 4 (10.81%) Log4j
2 3 (8.11%) Mockito
3 2 (5.41%) Git
3 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (16.22%) Finance
1 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Banking
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) .NET
2 7 (18.92%) .NET Framework
2 7 (18.92%) REST
3 5 (13.51%) CSS
3 5 (13.51%) Web Services
4 4 (10.81%) Django
4 4 (10.81%) Entity Framework
4 4 (10.81%) FastAPI
4 4 (10.81%) Flask
4 4 (10.81%) Hibernate
4 4 (10.81%) HTML
4 4 (10.81%) Kafka
4 4 (10.81%) React Native
5 3 (8.11%) .NET Core
5 3 (8.11%) Android Jetpack
5 3 (8.11%) Jetpack Compose
5 3 (8.11%) React
5 3 (8.11%) XML
6 2 (5.41%) JSON
6 2 (5.41%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) NHS
2 3 (8.11%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.41%) Low-Code
3 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Unix
2 6 (16.22%) Android
3 5 (13.51%) Windows
4 2 (5.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) API Development
2 6 (16.22%) Agile
2 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (13.51%) Android Development
3 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
3 5 (13.51%) Microservices
3 5 (13.51%) Observability
4 4 (10.81%) Open Source
4 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
4 4 (10.81%) Unit Testing
5 3 (8.11%) DevOps
5 3 (8.11%) OO
5 3 (8.11%) OOD
5 3 (8.11%) SDLC
5 3 (8.11%) Workflow
6 2 (5.41%) Design Patterns
6 2 (5.41%) Prototyping
6 2 (5.41%) Sprint Backlog
6 2 (5.41%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) Java
2 8 (21.62%) Python
2 8 (21.62%) SQL
3 7 (18.92%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (5.41%) Perl
5 2 (5.41%) PHP
5 2 (5.41%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.70%) Bicep
6 1 (2.70%) Groovy
6 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) HL7
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Ansible
1 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) IBM
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.41%) Nintex
1 2 (5.41%) Pega
1 2 (5.41%) SAP
1 2 (5.41%) VMware
2 1 (2.70%) Hyperion
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) Sitecore