IBM Watson Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

IBM Watson
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring IBM Watson skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Watson 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £490 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

IBM Watson falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 228 134 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.03% 30.18% 36.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 88 128
10th Percentile £314 £297 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -10.53% -1.02%
75th Percentile £500 £553 £527
90th Percentile £612 £638 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £470 £488
% change year-on-year -4.26% -3.59% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 16
10th Percentile - £21.05 £17.26
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.31 £24.18 £19.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% +21.75% -53.54%
75th Percentile £19.13 £64.17 £43.75
90th Percentile £26.48 £82.50 -
North West median hourly rate £46.48 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year +92.22% +34.33% -64.00%

IBM Watson
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

IBM Watson job vacancy trend in Cheshire

IBM Watson
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing IBM Watson.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing IBM Watson

IBM Watson
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Core Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) SevOne
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware