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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 51 58 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.64% 11.46% 12.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.54% 12.69% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 33
10th Percentile £300 £330 £210
25th Percentile £359 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +19.05%
75th Percentile £559 £588 £631
90th Percentile £633 £620 £634
North West median daily rate £488 £480 £458
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.92% +14.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £14.00 - £22.63
25th Percentile £27.63 £23.15 £23.94
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.33 £29.45
Median % change year-on-year +67.82% -14.01% +38.59%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.75 £40.35
90th Percentile - - £50.63
North West median hourly rate £11.20 £34.05 £25.00
% change year-on-year -67.12% +36.18% +71.70%

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 442 457 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.55% 90.32% 87.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 299 272
10th Percentile £308 £288 £205
25th Percentile £390 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £514 £451
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +13.97% +3.44%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £550
90th Percentile £638 £665 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 29 33
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.95 £9.96
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.53 £12.73
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.54 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% +40.22% +2.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile - £40.00 £55.50
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £23.39
% change year-on-year -17.88% +40.56% +29.12%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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
Chester +11 9 £725 +26.09% 19
Knutsford -4 9 £405 -28.70% 4
Macclesfield -10 7 £550 +22.22% 6
Warrington -2 5 £338 +2.27% 35
Wilmslow -1 2 £381 +21.03% 3
Crewe -2 2 £500 - 6
Winsford - 2 - - 1
Northwich - 1 - - 6
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 (7.84%) IBM Notes
2 2 (3.92%) Mule
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) AWS
2 9 (17.65%) Azure
3 8 (15.69%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.84%) GCP
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.96%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.96%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) VPN
2 4 (7.84%) BGP
2 4 (7.84%) MPLS
2 4 (7.84%) OSPF
2 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.84%) Value-Added Service
2 4 (7.84%) VLAN
2 4 (7.84%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.96%) Firewall
3 1 (1.96%) LAN
3 1 (1.96%) WAN
3 1 (1.96%) Wireless
3 1 (1.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) Power BI
2 4 (7.84%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (5.88%) Big Data
3 3 (5.88%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.96%) Power Query
5 1 (1.96%) PowerPivot
5 1 (1.96%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.92%) Liquibase
2 2 (3.92%) Log4j
2 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 31 (60.78%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (49.02%) Social Skills
3 15 (29.41%) Finance
4 8 (15.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (11.76%) Manufacturing
6 5 (9.80%) Banking
7 4 (7.84%) Legal
8 2 (3.92%) Publishing
9 1 (1.96%) Automotive
9 1 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Front Office
9 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.96%) Law
9 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (11.76%) Project Manager
2 5 (9.80%) Analyst
2 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 5 (9.80%) Support Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) Data Manager
3 4 (7.84%) Developer
3 4 (7.84%) Network Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Consultant
4 3 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) IT Support
4 3 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Product Manager
5 2 (3.92%) Analytics Manager
5 2 (3.92%) AWS Developer
5 2 (3.92%) Product Owner
5 2 (3.92%) Service Desk Agent
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Hibernate
1 2 (3.92%) Kafka
1 2 (3.92%) Middleware
1 2 (3.92%) REST
1 2 (3.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Life Science
1 6 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.84%) Reference Data
3 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.92%) Derivative
4 2 (3.92%) Equities
4 2 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Windows
2 4 (7.84%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.96%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Agile
2 13 (25.49%) Computer Science
2 13 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (23.53%) Project Management
4 9 (17.65%) Analytics
4 9 (17.65%) Change Management
4 9 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (17.65%) Process Improvement
5 8 (15.69%) Decision-Making
6 7 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (13.73%) Customer Service
7 6 (11.76%) Data Modelling
7 6 (11.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 6 (11.76%) ETL
7 6 (11.76%) Risk Management
7 6 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 6 (11.76%) SDLC
7 6 (11.76%) Test Scripting
8 5 (9.80%) FMEA
8 5 (9.80%) Smart Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) SQL
2 3 (5.88%) Java
3 2 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.92%) Python
4 1 (1.96%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.96%) Scala
4 1 (1.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (39.22%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.84%) CCIE
3 4 (7.84%) CCNP
3 4 (7.84%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (7.84%) VCAP
4 2 (3.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) CISSP
5 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.96%) PMP
5 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) GAMP
1 5 (9.80%) GxP
2 4 (7.84%) QA
3 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (3.92%) NIST
4 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.96%) GDPR
5 1 (1.96%) PMO
5 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) SCCM
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (7.84%) Lotus
2 4 (7.84%) SolarWinds
3 3 (5.88%) Databricks
3 3 (5.88%) Teradata
3 3 (5.88%) Zscaler
4 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.92%) Tanium
5 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) Meraki
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.96%) SAP
5 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) Symantec
5 1 (1.96%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (1.96%) Veeam
5 1 (1.96%) VMware