Secure Coding Contracts in Cheshire

Secure Code Development
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding 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 55 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.67% - 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £359 - £515
25th Percentile £361 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £557
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.47%
75th Percentile £366 - £563
90th Percentile £367 - -
North West median daily rate £368 £425 £525
% change year-on-year -13.41% -19.05% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Secure Coding falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in Cheshire

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in Cheshire

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding 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 - 3 £363 - 8
Secure Coding
North West

Secure Coding
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 1 (33.33%) CICS
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef