Data Structures Contracts in Cheshire

Data Structures
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures 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 50 43 59
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 8 15 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.78% 2.98% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.06% 9.62% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 2
10th Percentile £318 - £405
25th Percentile £377 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.12% +26.47% -32.54%
75th Percentile £659 £550 £438
90th Percentile £694 - £445
North West median daily rate £500 £538 £450
% change year-on-year -6.98% +19.44% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Data Structures falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 158 156 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.19% 30.95% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 143
10th Percentile £314 £297 £263
25th Percentile £358 £425 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +13.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £553 £567 £580
90th Percentile £636 £606 £648
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 7
10th Percentile £29.46 £14.15 £21.89
25th Percentile £29.80 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +30.45% +47.26%
75th Percentile £33.75 £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile £55.50 - £66.25
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in Cheshire

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in Cheshire

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Cheshire

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in Cheshire

Data Structures
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 Structures 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 - 3 £368 -
Macclesfield +5 2 £688 +27.91% 2
Wilmslow - 1 - - 1
Alderley Edge - 1 £575 -
Data Structures
North West

Data Structures
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 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Bigtable
1 3 (37.50%) Data Vault
2 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) ER Studio
1 3 (37.50%) ERwin
2 2 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Gradle
2 2 (25.00%) HP UFT
2 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) NetBeans
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modeller
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Associate Director
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Architect
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (25.00%) J2EE
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Integration
1 2 (25.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) Ajax
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Data Design
3 3 (37.50%) Data Mapping
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) API Development
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Information Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) MVC
4 2 (25.00%) Ontologies
4 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (25.00%) Supply Chain Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
1 3 (37.50%) IDERA
2 2 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Ariba