Senior Contracts in Cheshire

Senior
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior daily rate in Cheshire is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 39 35
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 34 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.36% 3.70% 4.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.65% 4.04% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 18
10th Percentile £363 £363 £409
25th Percentile £439 £381 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £531
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -20.00% +6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £478 £630
90th Percentile £656 £586 £634
North West median daily rate £509 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -3.00% -0.47% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £16.62 - -
25th Percentile £16.73 - -
Median hourly rate £29.89 £50.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.22% +78.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £44.74 £37.50 £54.47
% change year-on-year +19.31% -31.15% +60.21%

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 511 470 514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.51% 91.44% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 316 285
10th Percentile £282 £288 £184
25th Percentile £375 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £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 39 26 30
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.13 £12.48
25th Percentile £16.40 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £25.57 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +14.18% +5.36%
75th Percentile £40.88 £35.00 £33.51
90th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £59.18
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.54 £23.22
% change year-on-year +7.71% +31.51% +29.37%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
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 Senior within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Macclesfield 0 18 £500 +25.00% 2
Chester +13 3 £650 +33.33% 8
Warrington +5 3 £450 +20.00% 23
Wilmslow - 3 £375 - 2
Ellesmere Port - 2 - - 1
Knutsford - 1 £900 - 2
Runcorn - 1 - - 2
Senior
North West

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior in the job title.

1 14 (41.18%) SAP
1 14 (41.18%) Data Analysis
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 11 (32.35%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (26.47%) SQL
4 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (26.47%) Data Management
4 9 (26.47%) Data Quality
5 8 (23.53%) QA
5 8 (23.53%) Snowflake
5 8 (23.53%) Customer Experience
5 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
5 8 (23.53%) Power BI
6 7 (20.59%) Data Integration
7 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (17.65%) Data Governance
7 6 (17.65%) Data Structures
7 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
7 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
7 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (17.65%) Data Lake
7 6 (17.65%) GDPR
8 5 (14.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (14.71%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (14.71%) Power Automate
8 5 (14.71%) Dataiku
8 5 (14.71%) Collibra
8 5 (14.71%) Ataccama
8 5 (14.71%) VMware

Senior 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 5 (14.71%) SAS
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) AutoCAD
1 3 (8.82%) Revit
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
1 8 (23.53%) Snowflake
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.71%) Collibra
3 5 (14.71%) Power Automate
4 3 (8.82%) Azure
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.88%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.94%) Commercetools
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) VLAN
2 1 (2.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Power BI
2 6 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 5 (14.71%) Ataccama
3 5 (14.71%) Qlik Sense
3 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
4 4 (11.76%) Data Mining
5 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.94%) MySQL
6 1 (2.94%) Navicat
6 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Postman
2 1 (2.94%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.94%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (14.71%) Manufacturing
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Finance
6 1 (2.94%) Military
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Industry 4.0
2 2 (5.88%) IoT
2 2 (5.88%) Robotics
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 3 (8.82%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.94%) Android
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Data Analysis
2 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (26.47%) Data Management
3 8 (23.53%) Customer Experience
4 7 (20.59%) Data Integration
5 6 (17.65%) Data Governance
5 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (14.71%) Data Architecture
7 4 (11.76%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
8 3 (8.82%) 3D Modelling
8 3 (8.82%) Accounts Payable
8 3 (8.82%) Expense Management
8 3 (8.82%) Order to Cash
8 3 (8.82%) Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (8.82%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) CCNP
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) Data Quality
2 8 (23.53%) QA
3 6 (17.65%) GDPR
4 2 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.88%) SCCM
1 2 (5.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.94%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) SAP
2 5 (14.71%) Alteryx
2 5 (14.71%) Dataiku
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Trillium
2 5 (14.71%) VMware
3 4 (11.76%) Ariba
4 2 (5.88%) Apple
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) HP
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Citrix
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.94%) Symantec
5 1 (2.94%) Veeam
5 1 (2.94%) WatchGuard