Collaborative Working Contracts in Cheshire

Collaborative Working
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working 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 44 53 53
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -10
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 14 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.12% 0.99% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 1.18% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £494 £180 -
25th Percentile £506 £315 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £433 £450
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% -3.89% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £488 £488
90th Percentile £639 - £578
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £544
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.64% +8.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Collaborative Working 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%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in Cheshire

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in Cheshire

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in Cheshire

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in Cheshire

Collaborative Working
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 Collaborative Working 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
Knutsford -1 4 £625 +60.26% 1
Warrington -2 4 - - 17
Chester - 3 £575 - 10
Macclesfield +16 2 £520 +453.19% 1
Collaborative Working
North West

Collaborative Working
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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Anthropic Claude
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure AI
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Google Gemini
3 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) BGP
1 3 (21.43%) EIGRP
1 3 (21.43%) IPv4
1 3 (21.43%) MPLS
1 3 (21.43%) OSPF
1 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
1 3 (21.43%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 3 (21.43%) Legal
4 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
4 3 (21.43%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
5 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.14%) Military
6 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IP Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Transmission Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Operational Change Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) PyTorch
1 3 (21.43%) TensorFlow
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
5 4 (28.57%) ITIL
6 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (21.43%) Business Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) Change Management
6 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
6 3 (21.43%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
6 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Natural Language Processing
6 3 (21.43%) Network Planning
6 3 (21.43%) Pattern Recognition
6 3 (21.43%) RDF
6 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
6 3 (21.43%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CCNP
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) BMC
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco
1 3 (21.43%) Huawei
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) Remedy
2 1 (7.14%) Ariba
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) VMware