JCE Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Java Cryptography Extension (JCE)
North West > Cheshire

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCE 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £613 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

JCE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 126 70 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.10% 16.79% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 59 38
10th Percentile £350 £313 £296
25th Percentile £358 £357 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £402 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.72% -17.62% -9.63%
75th Percentile £539 £558 £515
90th Percentile £645 £638 £569
North West median daily rate £467 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £71.25 -
25th Percentile - £73.13 £10.75
Median hourly rate - £77.50 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year - +573.91% -
75th Percentile - £83.13 £12.25
90th Percentile - £85.75 -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +3.32% +46.71% +2.62%

JCE
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Java SE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode