Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 26 February 2020

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 26 February 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Problem-Solving
North West > Cheshire
6 months to
26 Feb 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 22 29 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 54 73 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.43% 6.11% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 7.14% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 40 47
Cheshire median daily rate £400 £399 £375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +0.38% +6.27% -11.24%
10th Percentile £128 £263 £205
90th Percentile £591 £588 £510
North West median daily rate £418 £405 £375
% change year-on-year +3.09% +8.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
Cheshire median hourly rate £53.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +51.43% - -
North West median hourly rate £44.00 £22.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -26.67% -26.15%

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 612 1,022 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.18% 85.59% 86.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 642 800
Cheshire median daily rate £415 £400 £420
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% +5.00%
10th Percentile £243 £263 £250
90th Percentile £600 £575 £625
North West median daily rate £425 £425 £410
% change year-on-year - +3.66% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 45 42
Cheshire median hourly rate £50.00 £17.60 £19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +184.09% -7.37% -7.32%
10th Percentile £17.43 £17.43 £10.79
90th Percentile £53.75 £46.50 £38.75
North West median hourly rate £27.42 £25.00 £24.78
% change year-on-year +9.66% +0.89% -4.22%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 February 2020.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 February 2020.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
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 Problem-Solving within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 February 2020. 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
Job
Vacancies
Chester +9 19 £488 +2.63% 15
Warrington +4 8 £209 -30.42% 15
Crewe +13 6 £375 +7.14% 10
Macclesfield +3 4 £625 +8.70% 5
Wilmslow +2 4 £500 +11.11% 11
Knutsford -6 2 - - 3
Nantwich - 2 £185 -
Runcorn - 1 - - 4
Congleton - 1 - -
Problem-Solving
North West

For the 6 months to 26 February 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Problem-Solving also mentioned the following skills 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 with a requirement for Problem-Solving.

1 24 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (37.04%) SQL
3 16 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (27.78%) Windows
5 12 (22.22%) Finance
6 11 (20.37%) Active Directory
7 10 (18.52%) Power BI
7 10 (18.52%) Power Platform
8 9 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 9 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (16.67%) Analytics
9 8 (14.81%) REST
9 8 (14.81%) Open Source
9 8 (14.81%) Data Analysis
9 8 (14.81%) SOAP
10 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
10 7 (12.96%) Project Management
10 7 (12.96%) Workflow
10 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (12.96%) Degree
10 7 (12.96%) JSON
10 7 (12.96%) Windows 10
11 6 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
11 6 (11.11%) Decision-Making
11 6 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
11 6 (11.11%) Git (software)
11 6 (11.11%) Office 365
11 6 (11.11%) Firewall
11 6 (11.11%) Management Information System
11 6 (11.11%) SOA

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring IT Skills in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.41%) Apache ServiceMix
1 4 (7.41%) Apache Spark
1 4 (7.41%) JBoss
1 4 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.56%) IIS
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.85%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.85%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.52%) Power Platform
2 6 (11.11%) Office 365
3 3 (5.56%) Azure
3 3 (5.56%) Azure Active Directory
3 3 (5.56%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.85%) G Suite
5 1 (1.85%) GitHub
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Firewall
2 4 (7.41%) FTP
2 4 (7.41%) HTTP
2 4 (7.41%) Skype
3 2 (3.70%) DHCP
3 2 (3.70%) DNS
3 2 (3.70%) VoIP
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (1.85%) LAN
4 1 (1.85%) MPLS
4 1 (1.85%) Network Security
4 1 (1.85%) SAN
4 1 (1.85%) VPN
4 1 (1.85%) WAN
4 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) Power BI
2 9 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 5 (9.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (7.41%) Hadoop
5 4 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Git (software)
2 3 (5.56%) JIRA
2 3 (5.56%) Selenium
3 2 (3.70%) JMeter
3 2 (3.70%) Postman
3 2 (3.70%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.85%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.85%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.85%) MSI
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.85%) Subversion
4 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (7.41%) Banking
3 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Legal
5 1 (1.85%) Local Government
5 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Developer
2 6 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) 1st Line Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) 1st Line Support
3 4 (7.41%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Analyst
3 4 (7.41%) Data Scientist
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Developer
4 3 (5.56%) Architect
4 3 (5.56%) Build Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Designer
4 3 (5.56%) First Line Help Desk Support
4 3 (5.56%) Help Desk Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Help Desk Support
4 3 (5.56%) Help Desk Support Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Interface Designer
4 3 (5.56%) Support Officer
4 3 (5.56%) Tester
5 2 (3.70%) Integration Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) REST
1 8 (14.81%) SOAP
2 7 (12.96%) JSON
3 5 (9.26%) Middleware
3 5 (9.26%) Web Services
3 5 (9.26%) XML
4 4 (7.41%) .NET
4 4 (7.41%) EDI
5 2 (3.70%) HTML
5 2 (3.70%) RESTful
5 2 (3.70%) XML Schema
5 2 (3.70%) XSD
6 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.85%) ActiveX
6 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.85%) COM+
6 1 (1.85%) DCOM
6 1 (1.85%) React
6 1 (1.85%) Spring
6 1 (1.85%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (9.26%) PKI
4 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.70%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.85%) Clustering
6 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Mashup
6 1 (1.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.85%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.85%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.85%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 15 (27.78%) Windows
2 7 (12.96%) Windows 10
3 5 (9.26%) Windows 7
3 5 (9.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.85%) Android
5 1 (1.85%) Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (16.67%) Analytics
2 9 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 8 (14.81%) Data Analysis
3 8 (14.81%) Open Source
4 7 (12.96%) Project Management
4 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (12.96%) Workflow
5 6 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 6 (11.11%) ITIL
5 6 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
5 6 (11.11%) SOA
6 5 (9.26%) CRM
6 5 (9.26%) Data Science
6 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (9.26%) OO
6 5 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (9.26%) Technical Debt
7 4 (7.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.04%) SQL
2 5 (9.26%) Java
2 5 (9.26%) R
3 4 (7.41%) ActionScript
3 4 (7.41%) ActionScript 2.0
3 4 (7.41%) Python
4 3 (5.56%) C#
4 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.85%) Apple Swift
5 1 (1.85%) Groovy
5 1 (1.85%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.85%) VB
5 1 (1.85%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Degree
2 3 (5.56%) ISTQB
2 3 (5.56%) PhD
3 2 (3.70%) ISEB
4 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.85%) CCSP
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CISM
4 1 (1.85%) CISSP
4 1 (1.85%) HND
4 1 (1.85%) IISP
4 1 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) SLA
2 4 (7.41%) PMO
3 3 (5.56%) RMADS
4 2 (3.70%) QA
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.85%) GDPR
5 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (20.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.56%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) SCCM
2 1 (1.85%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Oracle
2 4 (7.41%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.56%) McAfee
3 3 (5.56%) Tableau
3 3 (5.56%) Talend
3 3 (5.56%) Wyse
4 2 (3.70%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (1.85%) Brocade
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) ProCurve
5 1 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) Sophos
5 1 (1.85%) Teradata
5 1 (1.85%) Varonis
5 1 (1.85%) Veeam
5 1 (1.85%) VMware