B2B Contracts in Cheshire

Business-to-Business (B2B)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for B2B skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited B2B over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 56 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing B2B 3 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.59% 0.92% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.02% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
North West median daily rate £600 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +26.32% -8.65% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

B2B 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 431 492 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.35% 90.94% 85.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 336 246
10th Percentile £292 £269 £212
25th Percentile £401 £385 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £539
90th Percentile £623 £653 £632
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 24
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £11.13
25th Percentile £16.67 £22.41 £16.02
Median hourly rate £26.66 £27.98 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +19.06% -22.79%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £37.93
90th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £61.73
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.02%

B2B
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing B2B as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for B2B in Cheshire

B2B
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing B2B in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for B2B in Cheshire

B2B
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing B2B in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for B2B in Cheshire

B2B
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 B2B within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +7 3 £680 +26.51% 7
B2B
North West

B2B
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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Sass
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Feasibility Study
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft