Impact Assessments Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Impact Assessments
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Impact Assessments skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 45 60
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing Impact Assessments 17 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.39% 2.10% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.20% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 1
10th Percentile £322 £356 -
25th Percentile £363 £374 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% -5.00% +37.93%
75th Percentile £456 £513 £525
90th Percentile £488 £538 -
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Impact Assessments 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 634 409 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.04% 95.34% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 266 300
10th Percentile £313 £298 £311
25th Percentile £368 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -5.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £561
90th Percentile £653 £639 £625
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 32
10th Percentile £13.88 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.44 £24.18 £16.41
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £25.14
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +29.30% +8.57%
75th Percentile £43.00 £77.50 £38.50
90th Percentile £85.80 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.86
% change year-on-year +40.63% +34.14% -36.39%

Impact Assessments
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Impact Assessments job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Impact Assessments
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Impact Assessments.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Impact Assessments

Impact Assessments
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Impact Assessments in Cheshire over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Impact Assessments in Cheshire

Impact Assessments
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 Impact Assessments within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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 -25 5 £322 -9.55% 2
Warrington 0 4 £475 -
Alderley Edge - 1 £400 -
Chester - 1 - -
Impact Assessments
North West

Impact Assessments
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) GCP
1 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 8 (47.06%) Banking
2 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Analyst
2 12 (70.59%) Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Change Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Transformation Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Change Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
1 8 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (35.29%) User Stories
3 5 (29.41%) Business Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) Change Management
4 4 (23.53%) Customer Experience
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Wireframes
5 3 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (17.65%) Backlog Refinement
5 3 (17.65%) Critical Success Factor
5 3 (17.65%) Epics
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Map
6 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
6 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow