Performance Metrics Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Performance Metrics
North West > Cheshire

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 47 47
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 6 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.88% 1.48% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.72% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £327 £431 £571
25th Percentile £329 £475 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £376 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year -28.38% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £450 £538 £709
90th Percentile £468 £544 £734
North West median daily rate £400 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -23.81% -4.55% +1.38%

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 615 466 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.04% 85.98% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 285 202
10th Percentile £277 £325 £265
25th Percentile £358 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £571 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 17 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.70
25th Percentile £14.83 £21.05 £17.44
Median hourly rate £18.31 £35.00 £24.81
Median % change year-on-year -47.69% +41.10% +54.36%
75th Percentile £37.56 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £72.88 £45.25 £37.03
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £34.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +18.60% +46.49%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Metrics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Performance Metrics job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Performance Metrics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Performance Metrics

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics in Cheshire over the 6 months to 9 October 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 9 October 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 -15 5 £395 -2.35%
Chester - 1 £325 - 1
Performance Metrics
North West

Performance Metrics
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) ATM
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PACS
1 2 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Acquisition
1 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (50.00%) High Availability
1 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Fintech
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Management
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco