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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 -8
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 23 29 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.82% 5.63% 6.60%
As % of the General category 6.99% 9.01% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 25
10th Percentile £313 £310 £330
25th Percentile £350 £352 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £414 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -23.38% +10.77%
75th Percentile £473 £525 £563
90th Percentile £524 £616 £565
North West median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.13
25th Percentile - - £18.44
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year - -46.67% -
75th Percentile - - £33.44
90th Percentile - - £37.38
North West median hourly rate £13.92 £16.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -13.00% -20.00% -25.93%

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 329 322 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 68.97% 62.52% 59.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 208 208
10th Percentile £320 £311 £280
25th Percentile £380 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £580 £576 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 22 24
10th Percentile £14.41 £16.57 £14.40
25th Percentile £24.92 £17.72 £21.60
Median hourly rate £32.95 £26.66 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +23.59% -8.89% +27.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £37.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £38.51
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.86 £26.00
% change year-on-year +60.97% -31.31% +8.58%

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 21 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 21 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 -17 12 £438 +8.70% 3
Warrington -4 10 £325 -31.58% 8
Macclesfield - 1 £395 -
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 (13.04%) IIS
1 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.35%) CICS
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
2 2 (8.70%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DHCP
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (13.04%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) DB2
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Service Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Wintel Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Security Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Change Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Incident Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Information Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Major Incident Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) CSS3
2 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) HTML5
2 1 (4.35%) JDBC
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.35%) OpenID
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) SOAP
2 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) CMDB
2 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
1 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) ITIL
3 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (17.39%) ITSM
4 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (13.04%) CRM
5 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (13.04%) ETL
5 3 (13.04%) High Availability
5 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
5 3 (13.04%) Resource Management
5 3 (13.04%) SDLC
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (8.70%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Python
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (91.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) WSUS
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) NetApp OnCommand
2 3 (13.04%) vCenter Server
2 3 (13.04%) vMotion
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.35%) HP ALM
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) Kronos
4 1 (4.35%) Ping Identity