Internet Contracts in Cheshire

Internet
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Internet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Internet over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 53 45
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +17
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Internet 8 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.27% 0.40% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.00% 3.03% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £398 £205 -
25th Percentile £450 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £225 £463
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -51.35% +11.45%
75th Percentile £600 £238 £603
90th Percentile £690 £245 £631
North West median daily rate £475 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +18.75% -30.43% +36.90%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cheshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 100 66 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.87% 13.20% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 27 51
10th Percentile £318 £200 £350
25th Percentile £375 £374 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £588
90th Percentile £688 £765 £611
North West median daily rate £447 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -13.20% +8.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £48.56 £16.50
% change year-on-year +36.94% +194.30% -48.14%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Internet in Cheshire

Internet
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Internet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Internet

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in Cheshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in Cheshire

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Internet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Internet

Internet
DemandTrendContract 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 Internet within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chester -7 1 £600 +166.67% 1
Knutsford - 1 - -
Macclesfield - 1 £375 - 4
Internet
North West

Internet
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
1 7 (87.50%) Network Security
2 6 (75.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (12.50%) ATM
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (12.50%) DMZ
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) DWDM
3 1 (12.50%) IPsec
3 1 (12.50%) L2TP
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) Multicast
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Network Security Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 6 (75.00%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (37.50%) Network Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Network Design
3 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) ITSM
5 1 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (12.50%) B2B
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (12.50%) Product Management
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (75.00%) CCNP
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) CCIE
4 1 (12.50%) CCNA CyberOps
4 1 (12.50%) CCSA
4 1 (12.50%) CCSE
4 1 (12.50%) Check Point Certification
4 1 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 6 (75.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) McAfee
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk