Master's Degree Contracts in Cheshire

Master's Degree
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 46 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 -7
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 13 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.90% 2.38% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.08% 9.76% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 3
10th Percentile £412 £539 -
25th Percentile £463 £635 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £676 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% +69.00% -
75th Percentile - £725 £425
90th Percentile - - £440
North West median daily rate £580 £676 £648
% change year-on-year -14.20% +4.32% +36.42%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

Master's Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 129 123 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.73% 24.40% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 83 96
10th Percentile £230 £132 £283
25th Percentile £325 £344 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -10.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £522 £538 £575
90th Percentile £582 £672 £665
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £28.43 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - £36.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £14.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -65.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £85.63 £26.66 £65.75
90th Percentile £86.00 - £66.50
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree in Cheshire

Master's Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in Cheshire

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in Cheshire

Master's Degree
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 Master's Degree within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Crewe - 5 - - 2
Macclesfield +15 4 £580 +7.91%
Knutsford -9 2 £413 -40.04% 1
Master's Degree
North West

Master's Degree
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 10 (76.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 4 (30.77%) Snowflake
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) BGP
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) MPLS
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
1 2 (15.38%) OSPF
1 2 (15.38%) VLAN
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Data Lake
1 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 10 (76.92%) Manufacturing
2 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 6 (46.15%) Automotive
4 5 (38.46%) Finance
5 4 (30.77%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
7 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Designer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Designer
2 2 (15.38%) SAP Financial Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.69%) CSS
1 1 (7.69%) CSS3
1 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
1 1 (7.69%) HTML5
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
1 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (46.15%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 4 (30.77%) Life Science
3 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Analytics
1 10 (76.92%) Data Modelling
2 9 (69.23%) Computer Science
3 8 (61.54%) Quality Management
3 8 (61.54%) Roadmaps
4 7 (53.85%) Agile
4 7 (53.85%) Mentoring
4 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (46.15%) Agile Project Management
5 6 (46.15%) API Integration
5 6 (46.15%) ERP
5 6 (46.15%) Lean Manufacturing
5 6 (46.15%) Operations Management
5 6 (46.15%) PLM
5 6 (46.15%) Presales
5 6 (46.15%) Product Roadmap
5 6 (46.15%) Project Management
5 6 (46.15%) Supply Chain Management
5 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (46.15%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (69.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (38.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (15.38%) CCIE
4 2 (15.38%) CCNP
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (15.38%) JNCIE
4 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) MOM
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) SAP
2 6 (46.15%) Rockwell
2 6 (46.15%) Siemens
3 4 (30.77%) Ariba
4 2 (15.38%) Anaplan
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) F5
4 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
4 2 (15.38%) Hyperion
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle