Customer Requirements Contracts in Cheshire

Customer Requirements
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Customer Requirements skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Customer Requirements over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 54 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 12 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.69% 0.79% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 0.93% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £501 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £122 £600
Median % change year-on-year +365.69% -79.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 - £619
90th Percentile - - £653
North West median daily rate £568 £302 £600
% change year-on-year +88.13% -49.67% +31.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £47.75 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.72 -
Median % change year-on-year +182.17% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £62.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +92.31% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Customer Requirements 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 433 428 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.09% 84.42% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 288 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £497 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +4.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £632 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £29.30 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £42.25 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +58.48% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.81 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £21.56 £35.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% -38.41% +70.82%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in Cheshire

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in Cheshire

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in Cheshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in Cheshire

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in Cheshire

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Requirements in Cheshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Requirements in Cheshire

Customer Requirements
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 Customer Requirements within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 5 - - 2
Knutsford - 3 £497 - 4
Crewe - 3 £625 -
Warrington - 1 - - 3
Customer Requirements
North West

Customer Requirements
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP MM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP PP
1 1 (8.33%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Functional Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Wintel Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (8.33%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Change Management
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing Engineering
1 5 (41.67%) Migration
1 5 (41.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Active Listening
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Business Change Management
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Product Management
2 4 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (25.00%) ITSM
3 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Identification
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) VB
1 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) MCP
2 1 (8.33%) MCSA
2 1 (8.33%) MCSE
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) BitLocker
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) McAfee
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Symantec
3 1 (8.33%) VMware