Application Rationalisation Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Application Rationalisation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Application Rationalisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Rationalisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £613 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Application Rationalisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 726 580 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.82% 91.77% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 437 282
10th Percentile £306 £305 £329
25th Percentile £401 £358 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £478
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -9.99% -4.45%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £670
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £499
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.82% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 21 16
10th Percentile £16.01 - £16.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £30.31
Median hourly rate £35.82 £17.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.80% -49.29% +14.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £34.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £105.69 £67.25 £47.50
North West median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £41.41
% change year-on-year +88.87% -39.27% +18.32%

Application Rationalisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Rationalisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Application Rationalisation job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Application Rationalisation
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Application Rationalisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Application Rationalisation

Application Rationalisation
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 Application Rationalisation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. 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
Chester - 1 £425 - 2
Application Rationalisation
North West

Application Rationalisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (100.00%) Project Coordinator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft