Public Sector Contracts in Cheshire

Public Sector
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 32 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 -6
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 37 30 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.34% 5.55% 10.79%
As % of the General category 11.86% 9.65% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 49
10th Percentile £311 £324 £356
25th Percentile £366 £455 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £540 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% +10.77% -9.72%
75th Percentile £563 £565 £630
90th Percentile £582 £628 £632
North West median daily rate £525 £525 £494
% change year-on-year - +6.28% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 £12.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £17.81
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.30% -12.05%

All General Skills
Cheshire

Public Sector is in the General Skills 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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 312 311 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 61.90% 57.49% 59.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 206 181
10th Percentile £293 £215 £206
25th Percentile £394 £353 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +1.35%
75th Percentile £564 £566 £538
90th Percentile £628 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £469
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +10.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 20
10th Percentile £16.57 £13.95 £10.58
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.07 £12.33
Median hourly rate £24.58 £29.26 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% +28.62% +27.09%
75th Percentile £37.25 £33.42 £31.44
90th Percentile £43.75 £35.50 £59.18
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £25.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -30.51% +27.50% -11.11%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
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 Public Sector within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 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 +21 21 £451 -20.27% 2
Warrington +12 14 £475 +7.95% 8
Public Sector
North West

Public Sector
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 2 (5.41%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.70%) Revit
1 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) GitHub
3 2 (5.41%) SaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.70%) Rubrik
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DSL
2 2 (5.41%) DMZ
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) JIRA
2 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Liquibase
3 2 (5.41%) Log4j
4 1 (2.70%) Git
4 1 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.70%) TestDirector
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Front Office
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Military
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Developer
2 4 (10.81%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Lead
3 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Accountant
4 2 (5.41%) Architect
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Change Manager
4 2 (5.41%) ForgeRock Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Systems Accountant
5 1 (2.70%) Document Controller
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (2.70%) Scrum Master
5 1 (2.70%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Django
1 2 (5.41%) FastAPI
1 2 (5.41%) Flask
1 2 (5.41%) Hibernate
1 2 (5.41%) Kafka
1 2 (5.41%) LDAP
1 2 (5.41%) OAuth
1 2 (5.41%) OpenID
1 2 (5.41%) REST
1 2 (5.41%) SAML
1 2 (5.41%) Web Services
2 1 (2.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
1 4 (10.81%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.70%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.70%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Windows
2 6 (16.22%) Unix
3 5 (13.51%) Linux
4 2 (5.41%) Android
5 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (18.92%) Agile
2 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
2 7 (18.92%) DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) Information Security
3 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
4 5 (13.51%) Project Management
4 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (10.81%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (10.81%) Scrum
5 4 (10.81%) Server Building
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (8.11%) Cyber Resilience
6 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
6 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
6 3 (8.11%) Open Source
6 3 (8.11%) Process Improvement
6 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) Python
1 4 (10.81%) Ruby
2 3 (8.11%) Java
3 1 (2.70%) C
3 1 (2.70%) C++
3 1 (2.70%) Go
3 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.70%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 1 (2.70%) ISO17020
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
2 1 (2.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Progress Chef
2 6 (16.22%) Ansible
3 4 (10.81%) CFEngine
3 4 (10.81%) PowerBroker
3 4 (10.81%) Puppet
4 3 (8.11%) Terraform
5 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Atlassian
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) ForgeRock
3 2 (5.41%) Sage
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) Splunk