Degree Contracts in Cheshire

Academic Degree
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Degree 61 59 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.18% 10.95% 11.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.00% 37.58% 47.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 30
10th Percentile £65 £400 £262
25th Percentile £158 £413 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% +4.71% -9.33%
75th Percentile £619 £487 £593
90th Percentile £689 £628 £632
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £16.53 £42.53 £14.83
25th Percentile £20.33 £46.31 £20.19
Median hourly rate £26.66 £52.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.46% +100.95% -
75th Percentile - £59.31 £30.25
90th Percentile - £63.18 £31.00
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £34.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year -23.51% -6.12% -16.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 122 157 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.35% 29.13% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 98 66
10th Percentile £128 £292 £243
25th Percentile £334 £372 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +9.59% +1.39%
75th Percentile £538 £572 £575
90th Percentile £676 £659 £631
North West median daily rate £513 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -1.25% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile - - £14.38
25th Percentile - £36.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £40.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +42.86% -8.00%
75th Percentile £26.66 £65.75 £31.00
90th Percentile - £66.50 £51.75
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -57.17% -5.61% -7.61%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
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 Degree within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +7 13 £165 -73.60% 61
Macclesfield -17 13 £410 -8.89% 11
Knutsford +7 11 £676 +53.64% 3
Daresbury - 7 £65 -
Chester +6 6 £436 -12.90% 27
Northwich - 1 £110 - 7
Ellesmere Port - 1 £130 - 4
Degree
North West

Degree
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 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (1.64%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (36.07%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.92%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Primavera
2 2 (3.28%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.64%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.84%) AWS
2 4 (6.56%) Azure
3 3 (4.92%) GCP
3 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.64%) Collibra
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.64%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) PPP
2 3 (4.92%) BGP
2 3 (4.92%) MPLS
2 3 (4.92%) OSPF
2 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.92%) Value-Added Service
2 3 (4.92%) VLAN
2 3 (4.92%) VPN
2 3 (4.92%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.64%) Broadband
3 1 (1.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) Big Data
1 4 (6.56%) Data Lake
1 4 (6.56%) Metadata
2 3 (4.92%) Power BI
2 3 (4.92%) RDBMS
2 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.64%) Ataccama
4 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.64%) Essbase
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.64%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.95%) Pharmaceutical
3 11 (18.03%) Finance
4 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.84%) Manufacturing
6 5 (8.20%) Banking
7 3 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Legal
8 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.28%) Publishing
9 1 (1.64%) Billing
9 1 (1.64%) French Language
9 1 (1.64%) German Language
9 1 (1.64%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Analyst
2 9 (14.75%) Business Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) Author
3 8 (13.11%) Technical Author
4 6 (9.84%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Consultant
5 4 (6.56%) Data Manager
5 4 (6.56%) Security Consultant
5 4 (6.56%) Security Manager
5 4 (6.56%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (4.92%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Data Governance Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Data Governance Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Governance Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.28%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (3.28%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.28%) Life Science
3 2 (3.28%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.28%) SCADA
4 1 (1.64%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Robotics
4 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
1 2 (3.28%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) Decision-Making
2 19 (31.15%) Computer Science
2 19 (31.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (21.31%) SDLC
4 12 (19.67%) Agile
4 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (18.03%) Risk Management
6 9 (14.75%) Data Governance
7 8 (13.11%) Content Strategy
7 8 (13.11%) Data Strategy
7 8 (13.11%) Scrum
7 8 (13.11%) Sprint Planning
7 8 (13.11%) Sprint Retrospective
7 8 (13.11%) Sprint Review
7 8 (13.11%) User Stories
8 7 (11.48%) Asset Management
8 7 (11.48%) Backlog Management
8 7 (11.48%) Change Management
8 7 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (11.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.20%) SQL
2 4 (6.56%) Python
3 1 (1.64%) Bash
3 1 (1.64%) Groovy
3 1 (1.64%) Java
3 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.64%) Julia
3 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (19.67%) Master's Degree
3 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
4 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
5 7 (11.48%) CISSP
6 6 (9.84%) CISA
6 6 (9.84%) CISM
6 6 (9.84%) MBA
7 5 (8.20%) IIBA
8 3 (4.92%) CCIE
8 3 (4.92%) CCNP
8 3 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.92%) VCAP
9 2 (3.28%) DBS Check
9 2 (3.28%) PhD
10 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) GDPR
2 6 (9.84%) Data Quality
3 5 (8.20%) Good Clinical Practice
3 5 (8.20%) GxP
4 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (4.92%) NIST
5 3 (4.92%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.28%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.03%) ServiceNow
3 7 (11.48%) SAP
4 3 (4.92%) Databricks
4 3 (4.92%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (4.92%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.28%) Teradata
6 1 (1.64%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.64%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.64%) Google
6 1 (1.64%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle
6 1 (1.64%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.64%) Symantec
6 1 (1.64%) Trillium
6 1 (1.64%) Zscaler