Lead Contracts in Cheshire

Leader
North West > Cheshire

The median Leader daily rate in Cheshire is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 25 34
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 26 32 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.68% 6.32% 4.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.89% 6.99% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 10
10th Percentile £433 £461 £363
25th Percentile £453 £519 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £586 £426
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +37.56% -9.36%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £428
90th Percentile £618 £688 £514
North West median daily rate £585 £550 £490
% change year-on-year +6.36% +12.24% +15.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £15.00 £35.00 £48.45
% change year-on-year -57.14% -27.75% -19.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 532 458 517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 90.51% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 308 282
10th Percentile £283 £288 £185
25th Percentile £379 £400 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +12.67% +4.53%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 32
10th Percentile £13.49 £14.15 £12.51
25th Percentile £15.69 £18.75 £19.75
Median hourly rate £30.83 £23.15 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.17% -2.53% +25.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £33.79
90th Percentile - £44.00 £57.13
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.43% +16.00% +38.45%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in Cheshire over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
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 Lead within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Crewe +10 9 £590 +9.16% 1
Knutsford -4 7 £450 -24.50% 3
Warrington 0 4 £475 -5.00% 12
Chester +7 2 - - 7
Macclesfield -13 1 £585 +23.16% 1
Northwich - 1 - - 1
Lead
North West

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Lead 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 Lead in the job title.

1 11 (42.31%) SQL
2 10 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 8 (30.77%) Siemens
4 8 (30.77%) Configuration Management
4 8 (30.77%) Workflow
4 8 (30.77%) CATIA
4 8 (30.77%) DELMIA
4 8 (30.77%) PLM
4 8 (30.77%) Teamcenter
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
5 5 (19.23%) QA
5 5 (19.23%) AWS
5 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) Serverless
5 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
6 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 4 (15.38%) Banking
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (11.54%) Azure
7 3 (11.54%) ITIL
7 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership

Lead 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:

Applications
1 8 (30.77%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 8 (30.77%) DELMIA
1 8 (30.77%) Teamcenter
2 2 (7.69%) SAP CO
2 2 (7.69%) SAP FI
2 2 (7.69%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) AWS
1 5 (19.23%) Serverless
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) General Ledger
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Automotive
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) .NET
1 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
1 2 (7.69%) Entity Framework
1 2 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (30.77%) Configuration Management
2 8 (30.77%) PLM
2 8 (30.77%) Workflow
3 5 (19.23%) Agile
3 5 (19.23%) DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (7.69%) Accounts Payable
6 2 (7.69%) Accounts Receivable
6 2 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
6 2 (7.69%) Migration
6 2 (7.69%) OO
6 2 (7.69%) OOD
6 2 (7.69%) Pair Programming
6 2 (7.69%) Project Management
6 2 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 8 (30.77%) Siemens
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Citrix
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce