Public Sector Contracts in Cheshire

Public Sector
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 30 15
Rank change year-on-year +8 -15 -5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 36 31 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.23% 5.84% 10.40%
As % of the General category 11.69% 10.03% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 48
10th Percentile £310 £330 £354
25th Percentile £356 £455 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £540 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +10.77% -9.72%
75th Percentile £525 £565 £578
90th Percentile £582 £628 £632
North West median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 £12.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £17.81
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.30% -12.05%

All General Skills
Cheshire

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 308 309 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 61.85% 58.19% 59.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 204 184
10th Percentile £276 £227 £205
25th Percentile £390 £363 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% +5.56% +0.90%
75th Percentile £564 £566 £528
90th Percentile £629 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 23
10th Percentile £16.57 £14.65 £10.05
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.15 £11.96
Median hourly rate £24.58 £30.54 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.52% +32.78% +28.49%
75th Percentile £37.25 £33.95 £31.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £36.00 £53.78
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £26.60 £20.00
% change year-on-year -33.38% +33.00% -11.11%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Cheshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
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 Public Sector within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +24 20 £435 -23.10% 2
Warrington +8 14 £475 +7.95% 8
Public Sector
North West

Public Sector
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 2 (5.56%) Mule
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.78%) Revit
1 1 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub
3 2 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DSL
2 2 (5.56%) DMZ
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.78%) Big Data
1 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.78%) Impala
1 1 (2.78%) MySQL
1 1 (2.78%) Spark SQL
1 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) JIRA
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) Liquibase
3 2 (5.56%) Log4j
4 1 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Front Office
6 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Military
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Developer
2 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (8.33%) Consultant
2 3 (8.33%) Lead
2 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
2 3 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Accountant
3 2 (5.56%) Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Architect
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Developer
3 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Change Manager
3 2 (5.56%) ForgeRock Architect
3 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
3 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
3 2 (5.56%) Systems Accountant
4 1 (2.78%) Database Developer
4 1 (2.78%) Design Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Django
1 2 (5.56%) FastAPI
1 2 (5.56%) Flask
1 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
1 2 (5.56%) Kafka
1 2 (5.56%) LDAP
1 2 (5.56%) OAuth
1 2 (5.56%) OpenID
1 2 (5.56%) REST
1 2 (5.56%) SAML
1 2 (5.56%) Web Services
2 1 (2.78%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.78%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Windows
2 6 (16.67%) Unix
3 4 (11.11%) Linux
4 2 (5.56%) Android
5 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (19.44%) Agile
3 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (16.67%) DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) Information Security
4 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
4 5 (13.89%) Project Management
4 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (11.11%) Scrum
6 3 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 3 (8.33%) Information Governance
6 3 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (8.33%) Open Source
6 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (8.33%) PRINCE2
6 3 (8.33%) Process Improvement
6 3 (8.33%) Server Building
6 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) Java
2 3 (8.33%) Ruby
3 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (2.78%) C
4 1 (2.78%) C++
4 1 (2.78%) Go
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.78%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 1 (2.78%) ISO17020
2 1 (2.78%) PMO
2 1 (2.78%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 5 (13.89%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) CFEngine
3 3 (8.33%) PowerBroker
3 3 (8.33%) Puppet
3 3 (8.33%) Terraform
4 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) ForgeRock
2 2 (5.56%) Sage
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk