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 in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 -18
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 21 36 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.68% 7.14% 5.66%
As % of the General category 6.71% 11.50% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 24
10th Percentile £319 £310 £324
25th Percentile £351 £363 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £451 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.99% -16.57% +10.77%
75th Percentile £484 £575 £565
90th Percentile £531 £582 £628
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £16.01 £16.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.08% -20.00% +12.30%

All General Skills
Cheshire

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 313 313 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 69.71% 62.10% 58.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 200 205
10th Percentile £325 £276 £219
25th Percentile £388 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £580 £563 £566
90th Percentile £688 £627 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 19
10th Percentile £19.00 £16.57 £14.65
25th Percentile £27.20 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.58 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.22% -19.52% +45.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £37.25 £33.95
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £36.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 -12 10 £465 +3.97% 3
Warrington -6 9 £363 -23.63% 5
Crewe - 1 - -
Macclesfield - 1 £395 - 1
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 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.52%) IIS
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) CICS
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
2 2 (9.52%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DHCP
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) DB2
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Banking
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Administrator
3 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) VMWare Administrator
3 2 (9.52%) Wintel Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Incident Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Kronos Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Operational Change Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Information Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) PySpark
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) CSS3
2 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) HTML5
2 1 (4.76%) JDBC
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.76%) OpenID
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
2 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) CMDB
2 1 (4.76%) Industry 4.0
2 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 1 (4.76%) NHS
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
1 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) ITSM
4 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
4 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) CRM
5 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) ETL
6 2 (9.52%) High Availability
6 2 (9.52%) Identity Management
6 2 (9.52%) Resource Management
6 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Python
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Java
2 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (90.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) WSUS
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.52%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (9.52%) vCenter Server
2 2 (9.52%) vMotion
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.76%) HP ALM
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) MOM
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) ForgeRock
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) Kronos
4 1 (4.76%) Ping Identity
4 1 (4.76%) Rockwell
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Siemens