MVC Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Model-View-Controller (MVC)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring MVC skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 55 38
Rank change year-on-year -13 -17 +26
Contract jobs citing MVC 5 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.80% 0.39% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.45% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £304 - £425
25th Percentile - - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £580
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -30.97% +41.34%
75th Percentile £370 - £586
90th Percentile £389 - £589
North West median daily rate £375 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

MVC 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 575 440 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.71% 86.44% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 278 199
10th Percentile £305 £328 £275
25th Percentile £358 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% -4.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £645
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.31 £22.44
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £34.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £36.18
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% +15.21% +57.30%

MVC
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for MVC in Cheshire

MVC
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing MVC

MVC
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MVC in Cheshire over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MVC in Cheshire

MVC
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing MVC

MVC
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 MVC within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Knutsford - 5 £358 -
MVC
North West

MVC
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 3 (60.00%) JBoss
1 3 (60.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Gradle
2 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) JUnit
2 4 (80.00%) Maven
3 2 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) HP UFT
3 2 (40.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
3 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
4 1 (20.00%) Hudson
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Billing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Developer in Test
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring MVC
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (60.00%) REST
3 3 (60.00%) SOAP
3 3 (60.00%) Web Services
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (40.00%) CSS
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) J2EE
4 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) Kafka
4 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (40.00%) Spring Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
5 1 (20.00%) JSP
5 1 (20.00%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (20.00%) SDET
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft