Lead Contracts in Cheshire

Leader
North West > Cheshire

The median Leader daily rate in Cheshire is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 36 30
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 27 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.39% 4.82% 4.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.76% 5.41% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 13
10th Percentile £436 £456 £363
25th Percentile £463 £494 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £568 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +33.53% -8.11%
75th Percentile £610 £678 £428
90th Percentile £660 £688 £530
North West median daily rate £590 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 469 481 503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 89.24% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 331 284
10th Percentile £276 £263 £190
25th Percentile £383 £394 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £631 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £18.82 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £27.98 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.20% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead in Cheshire

Lead
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 Lead 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
Crewe +13 9 £590 +9.16% 2
Warrington +9 6 £475 +26.67% 11
Macclesfield -13 5 £668 +44.32% 2
Knutsford +9 4 £450 -23.14%
Northwich - 1 - -
Lead
North West

Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Lead in the job title.

1 11 (40.74%) SQL
2 10 (37.04%) SQL Server
3 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (29.63%) Siemens
4 8 (29.63%) Configuration Management
4 8 (29.63%) Workflow
4 8 (29.63%) PLM
4 8 (29.63%) Teamcenter
4 8 (29.63%) CATIA
4 8 (29.63%) DELMIA
5 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) Project Management
5 6 (22.22%) AWS
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Serverless
6 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (14.81%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (14.81%) QA
8 3 (11.11%) JIRA
8 3 (11.11%) Finance
8 3 (11.11%) SAP
8 3 (11.11%) ITIL
8 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (11.11%) Public Sector

Lead Skill Set
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 8 (29.63%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 8 (29.63%) DELMIA
1 8 (29.63%) Teamcenter
2 3 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Serverless
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (11.11%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DMZ
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Git
General
1 4 (14.81%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Automotive
3 1 (3.70%) Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
1 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
1 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
1 2 (7.41%) Entity Framework
1 2 (7.41%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (29.63%) Configuration Management
2 8 (29.63%) PLM
2 8 (29.63%) Workflow
3 6 (22.22%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) Project Management
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 3 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 3 (11.11%) ITIL
5 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) OO
6 2 (7.41%) OOD
6 2 (7.41%) Pair Programming
6 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
6 2 (7.41%) TDD
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) Siemens
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) Ariba
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow