Skype Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Skype
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Skype skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Skype over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 58 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing Skype 1 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.20% 0.56% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.39% 3.30% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £385 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.94%
75th Percentile £395 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £625 £450 £200
% change year-on-year +38.89% +125.00% -20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

Skype is in the Communications and Computer Networking 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 communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 72 91 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.55% 16.88% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 56 48
10th Percentile £65 £269 £163
25th Percentile £199 £325 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £412
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.22% -4.90%
75th Percentile £515 £567 £575
90th Percentile £560 £615 £630
North West median daily rate £475 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £20.11 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.90% -
75th Percentile £24.25 - -
90th Percentile £25.30 - -
North West median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £19.25
% change year-on-year -14.40% +62.34% -59.41%

Skype
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Skype in Cheshire

Skype
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Skype in Cheshire

Skype
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Skype in Cheshire

Skype
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 Skype within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Warrington +3 1 £390 - 1
Skype
North West

Skype
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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Proofpoint
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) VMware