Performance Metrics Contracts in Cheshire

Performance Metrics
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Performance Metrics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Metrics 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 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £426 - -
North West median daily rate £325 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -18.75% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Performance Metrics 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 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in Cheshire

Performance Metrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Metrics in Cheshire

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in Cheshire

Performance Metrics
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 Performance Metrics 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
Chester - 5 £325 - 2
Knutsford - 4 £362 -
Performance Metrics
North West

Performance Metrics
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 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) LAN
1 5 (50.00%) WAN
1 5 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (50.00%) Wireless
1 5 (50.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) CMDB
1 5 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 5 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 5 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
1 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Acquisition
2 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) High Availability
2 4 (40.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) Use Case
3 1 (10.00%) User Stories
3 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) CCNA
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CBAP
3 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (10.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) PSD2
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco