Software Engineering Contracts in Cheshire

Software Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 55 49
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 -15
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 18 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.55% 1.32% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 1.45% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 3
10th Percentile £475 £509 £433
25th Percentile £501 £613 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £680 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +18.26% +30.68%
75th Percentile £604 - £616
90th Percentile £614 £682 £633
North West median daily rate £548 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -8.67% +20.00% +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £40.59 £50.13
% change year-on-year +18.26% -19.02% +14.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 484 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.42% 91.49% 86.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 328 263
10th Percentile £276 £275 £214
25th Percentile £400 £397 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £632 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.06 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -22.79%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £39.20 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.56 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -38.41% +70.82% +10.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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 +14 11 £577 -15.22%
Macclesfield - 5 £510 -
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
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 (27.78%) Apache
1 5 (27.78%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (27.78%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (27.78%) Amazon EMR
1 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
1 5 (27.78%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (27.78%) Serverless
1 5 (27.78%) Snowflake
2 4 (22.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) JIRA
2 5 (27.78%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Manufacturing
2 5 (27.78%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Project Manager
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) JSON
1 5 (27.78%) XML
2 4 (22.22%) Django
2 4 (22.22%) FastAPI
2 4 (22.22%) Flask
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Unix
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) CRM
2 7 (38.89%) Design Patterns
2 7 (38.89%) Project Management
2 7 (38.89%) Requirements Gathering
2 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (38.89%) Systems Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Thought Leadership
3 6 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
4 5 (27.78%) Data Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Data Management
4 5 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (27.78%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (27.78%) ETL
4 5 (27.78%) OO
4 5 (27.78%) OOP
4 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (27.78%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 5 (27.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (50.00%) Python
3 7 (38.89%) PL/SQL
4 5 (27.78%) C#
4 5 (27.78%) Java
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
1 4 (22.22%) Progress Chef
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Avaloq
2 5 (27.78%) Informatica
2 5 (27.78%) Talend