B2B Contracts in Cheshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring B2B skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited B2B over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 55 58
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -
Contract jobs citing B2B 7 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.56% 0.60% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 0.71% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £342 - £270
25th Percentile £385 - £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £680 £425
Median % change year-on-year -32.87% +60.00% -
75th Percentile £528 - £542
90th Percentile £571 - £551
North West median daily rate £400 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% -2.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

B2B 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 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing B2B in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 May 2025. 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 - 6 £600 - 5
Knutsford - 1 £313 -
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 5 (71.43%) Mattermost
1 5 (71.43%) Skype for Business
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) InVision
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
1 1 (14.29%) UserZoom
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Skype
1 5 (71.43%) Softphone
1 5 (71.43%) Unified Communications
1 5 (71.43%) WebEx
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (14.29%) DMZ
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) DWDM
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) L2TP
2 1 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (14.29%) Multicast
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) OSPF
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Axure RP
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Messaging Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Messaging Support
1 5 (71.43%) Messaging Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Operations Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Operations Support Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Messaging Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Messaging Support Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Operational Support Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Operations Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Operations Support Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) XMPP
2 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
1 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (71.43%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Benchmarking
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Ergonomics
2 1 (14.29%) Human Factors
2 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Product Management
2 1 (14.29%) Psychology
2 1 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Usability Testing
2 1 (14.29%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) User Stories
2 1 (14.29%) UX Design
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCOM
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) Splunk
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Arista
3 1 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) McAfee