Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Data Strategy
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 48 56
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.51% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £413 -
25th Percentile - £431 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -22.22%
75th Percentile - £531 £563
90th Percentile - £558 -
North West median daily rate £575 £625 £725
% change year-on-year -8.00% -13.79% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Data Strategy 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 582 394 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.72% 88.94% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 228 237
10th Percentile £268 £309 £265
25th Percentile £358 £370 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £527 £575 £550
90th Percentile £686 £643 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +10.71% +61.12%
75th Percentile £40.00 £33.75 £35.19
90th Percentile £70.55 £84.30 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Data Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Data Strategy

Data Strategy
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 Data Strategy within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Macclesfield - 1 - -
Data Strategy
North West

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Conceptual Models
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GMP