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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 56 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -10
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 10 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.90% 0.72% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 0.86% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £490 £180 £447
25th Percentile £496 £315 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £433 £475
Median % change year-on-year +30.06% -8.95% +1.33%
75th Percentile £610 £488 £575
90th Percentile £628 - £583
North West median daily rate £479 £435 £544
% change year-on-year +10.11% -20.00% +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 501 463 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 95.07% 83.57% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 311 290
10th Percentile £313 £310 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £588
90th Percentile £667 £638 £651
North West median daily rate £456 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -7.88% -1.00% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £16.75
25th Percentile £17.46 £17.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £36.50 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +24.74% +34.34%
75th Percentile £73.81 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £30.27
% change year-on-year +6.67% -0.89% +27.72%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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
Warrington -2 3 - - 6
Chester - 3 £575 - 4
Macclesfield +7 2 £520 +453.19% 1
Knutsford -10 1 £640 +64.10%
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure AI
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
1 3 (30.00%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) BGP
1 3 (30.00%) EIGRP
1 3 (30.00%) IPv4
1 3 (30.00%) MPLS
1 3 (30.00%) OSPF
1 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Legal
3 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (30.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) IP Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Transmission Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IP Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (10.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Computer Vision
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (30.00%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Feature Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
4 3 (30.00%) Linear Algebra
4 3 (30.00%) LLM
4 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) Multi-Agent System
4 3 (30.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (30.00%) Pattern Recognition
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Scala
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CCNP
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) BMC
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
1 3 (30.00%) Huawei
1 3 (30.00%) Remedy
2 1 (10.00%) Ariba
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP