Computer Science Contracts in Cheshire

Computer Science
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science 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 41 39 58
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -15
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 17 19 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.79% 3.77% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 4.47% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 2
10th Percentile £170 - £473
25th Percentile £297 £158 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £165 £575
Median % change year-on-year +187.88% -71.30% -8.73%
75th Percentile £615 £519 £656
90th Percentile £699 £620 £698
North West median daily rate £551 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.20% +5.26% -21.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £42.53
25th Percentile - - £46.31
Median hourly rate - - £52.75
75th Percentile - - £59.31
90th Percentile - - £63.18
North West median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year - +4.27% -18.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Computer Science 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%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Cheshire

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Cheshire

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Cheshire

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Cheshire

Computer Science
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 Computer Science 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
Crewe - 5 - - 5
Knutsford -2 3 £475 -7.32% 3
Warrington -9 3 £166 +0.76% 10
Alderley Edge - 2 - -
Macclesfield +14 1 £675 +22.73% 1
Chester -6 1 £700 -3.45% 6
Computer Science
North West

Computer Science
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 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (41.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
2 2 (11.76%) BGP
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) MPLS
2 2 (11.76%) Network Security
2 2 (11.76%) OSPF
2 2 (11.76%) VLAN
3 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Metadata
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Automotive
2 6 (35.29%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (11.76%) Analyst
1 2 (11.76%) Architect
1 2 (11.76%) Designer
1 2 (11.76%) Developer
1 2 (11.76%) Network Designer
1 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
1 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (11.76%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (5.88%) Associate Director
2 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
2 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (5.88%) IT Support
2 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Payments Architect
2 1 (5.88%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.88%) SAP Architect
2 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ADO
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) CSS3
2 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) HTML5
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) Vue
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (35.29%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) CMDB
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) Roadmaps
4 7 (41.18%) Analytics
4 7 (41.18%) API Integration
4 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
4 7 (41.18%) ERP
4 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
5 6 (35.29%) Agile Project Management
5 6 (35.29%) Decision-Making
5 6 (35.29%) Lean Manufacturing
5 6 (35.29%) Operations Management
5 6 (35.29%) PLM
5 6 (35.29%) Presales
5 6 (35.29%) Product Roadmap
5 6 (35.29%) Project Management
5 6 (35.29%) Quality Management
5 6 (35.29%) Supply Chain Management
5 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (35.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Degree
2 12 (70.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (52.94%) Master's Degree
4 5 (29.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (11.76%) CCIE
5 2 (11.76%) CCNP
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (11.76%) JNCIE
5 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) A+ Certification
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) MOM
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) SAP
2 6 (35.29%) Rockwell
2 6 (35.29%) Siemens
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) F5
3 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Ariba
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Remedy
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow