Problem-Solving Contracts in Cheshire

Problem Solving
North West > Cheshire

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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 52 68 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.38% 12.83% 11.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.29% 14.08% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 43 30
10th Percentile £300 £200 £205
25th Percentile £396 £378 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £445 £510
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -12.75% +3.03%
75th Percentile £583 £581 £630
90th Percentile £633 £634 £632
North West median daily rate £493 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +9.56% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £14.00 - £25.78
25th Percentile £27.63 £23.15 £28.83
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.33 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year +67.82% -25.29% -9.60%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.75 £46.33
90th Percentile - - £53.78
North West median hourly rate £11.20 £27.50 £19.62
% change year-on-year -59.29% +40.15% +15.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 483 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.43% 91.13% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 328 263
10th Percentile £277 £275 £214
25th Percentile £400 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £637 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.06 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -27.06%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £39.20 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 0 13 £582 +25.19% 3
Chester +8 8 £725 +20.83% 32
Warrington +1 8 £375 +87.50% 36
Macclesfield -16 5 £538 +19.44% 13
Crewe +4 2 £500 - 7
Wilmslow -3 2 £381 +21.03% 7
Winsford - 2 - - 3
Problem-Solving
North West

Problem-Solving
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 (7.69%) IBM Notes
2 2 (3.85%) Mule
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) AWS
2 15 (28.85%) Azure
3 8 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.77%) GCP
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.92%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) DSL
2 6 (11.54%) VPN
3 3 (5.77%) BGP
3 3 (5.77%) Firewall
3 3 (5.77%) MPLS
3 3 (5.77%) OSPF
3 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.77%) Value-Added Service
3 3 (5.77%) VLAN
3 3 (5.77%) Wireshark
4 2 (3.85%) DMZ
5 1 (1.92%) LAN
5 1 (1.92%) WAN
5 1 (1.92%) Wireless
5 1 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Power BI
2 3 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.77%) Big Data
2 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.92%) Power Query
4 1 (1.92%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) JIRA
2 10 (19.23%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.85%) Liquibase
3 2 (3.85%) Log4j
3 2 (3.85%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.92%) Git
4 1 (1.92%) GitLab
General
1 35 (67.31%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (63.46%) Social Skills
3 18 (34.62%) Finance
4 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.54%) Manufacturing
6 5 (9.62%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (7.69%) Banking
7 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (5.77%) Legal
9 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.92%) Automotive
10 1 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.92%) Front Office
10 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (13.46%) Windows Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) Project Manager
3 5 (9.62%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Analyst
4 4 (7.69%) Consultant
4 4 (7.69%) Developer
5 3 (5.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Data Manager
5 3 (5.77%) IT Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) IT Support
5 3 (5.77%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Security Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Principal Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) Hibernate
1 2 (3.85%) Kafka
1 2 (3.85%) Middleware
1 2 (3.85%) REST
1 2 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Virtual Team
2 7 (13.46%) Public Cloud
3 5 (9.62%) Life Science
3 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.85%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.92%) FMCG
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Windows
2 9 (17.31%) Linux
3 7 (13.46%) Unix
4 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.00%) Agile
2 11 (21.15%) Project Management
3 10 (19.23%) CI/CD
3 10 (19.23%) Project Delivery
3 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (15.38%) Analytics
4 8 (15.38%) DevOps
4 8 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
4 8 (15.38%) Process Improvement
5 7 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (13.46%) Customer Service
5 7 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (13.46%) SDLC
5 7 (13.46%) Server Building
6 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
6 6 (11.54%) Decision-Making
6 6 (11.54%) Information Security
6 6 (11.54%) Risk Management
6 6 (11.54%) Scrum
6 6 (11.54%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) SQL
2 7 (13.46%) Ruby
3 4 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (5.77%) Python
5 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.92%) Bash
6 1 (1.92%) C
6 1 (1.92%) C++
6 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.92%) Go
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.77%) CCIE
3 3 (5.77%) CCNP
3 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) VCAP
4 2 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CISSP
5 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) GAMP
1 5 (9.62%) GxP
2 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (5.77%) NIST
3 3 (5.77%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.77%) QA
4 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Ansible
1 7 (13.46%) CFEngine
1 7 (13.46%) PowerBroker
1 7 (13.46%) Progress Chef
1 7 (13.46%) Puppet
2 2 (3.85%) SCCM
3 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Atlassian
3 4 (7.69%) Databricks
3 4 (7.69%) Lotus
4 3 (5.77%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (5.77%) SAP
4 3 (5.77%) SolarWinds
4 3 (5.77%) Teradata
5 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) Meraki
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle
6 1 (1.92%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.92%) Symantec
6 1 (1.92%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (1.92%) Veeam
6 1 (1.92%) VMware
6 1 (1.92%) Zscaler