Senior Contracts in Cheshire

Senior
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior daily rate in Cheshire is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 38 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -4
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior 25 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.97% 3.40% 3.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.45% 3.59% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 10
10th Percentile £428 £400 £348
25th Percentile £500 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +54.32% -10.00% -18.18%
75th Percentile £715 £511 £566
90th Percentile £738 £723 £586
North West median daily rate £505 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -2.41% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £42.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.47% -15.00% +78.57%
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £60.75 £42.91 £40.00
% change year-on-year +41.58% +7.28% -42.07%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 562 474 375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.21% 94.80% 86.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 311 234
10th Percentile £270 £311 £239
25th Percentile £358 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £570 £586
90th Percentile £652 £640 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.47 £14.70
25th Percentile £18.12 £13.49 £22.31
Median hourly rate £30.99 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +14.20% +40.71%
75th Percentile £37.19 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £56.90 £47.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -28.14% +14.60% +35.73%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Cheshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cheshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Cheshire

Senior
DemandTrendContract 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 Senior within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -9 10 £511 +27.66% 4
Macclesfield +4 4 £600 +33.33%
Chester -4 3 £625 - 12
Warrington -3 1 - - 37
Crewe - 1 - - 3
Senior
North West

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 21 August 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 16 (64.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (40.00%) Finance
5 9 (36.00%) Python
5 9 (36.00%) Degree
6 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
7 7 (28.00%) SDLC
7 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (24.00%) Business Analysis
8 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
8 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow
8 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (24.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (24.00%) Generative AI
9 5 (20.00%) LLM
9 5 (20.00%) Algorithms
9 5 (20.00%) Docker
9 5 (20.00%) DevOps
9 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
9 5 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (20.00%) Azure
9 5 (20.00%) AWS
9 5 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
9 5 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
9 5 (20.00%) Service Management

Senior Skill Set
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 (4.00%) Camunda
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (12.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.00%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) AWS
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 3 (12.00%) Azure AI
2 3 (12.00%) GCP
2 3 (12.00%) Google Gemini
2 3 (12.00%) Smartsheet
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) BGP
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) NX-OS
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (16.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (12.00%) Banking
6 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (12.00%) Legal
7 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (4.00%) Automotive
8 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (12.00%) Streamlit
1 3 (12.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.00%) CSS
2 1 (4.00%) CSS3
2 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) HTML5
2 1 (4.00%) jBPM
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) Middleware
2 1 (4.00%) Node.js
2 1 (4.00%) OLE
2 1 (4.00%) React
2 1 (4.00%) Spring
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (16.00%) CMDB
3 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) PMI
3 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.00%) Cyberattack
5 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.00%) Insider Threat
5 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (28.00%) SDLC
5 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (24.00%) Business Analysis
6 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (24.00%) Decision-Making
6 6 (24.00%) Generative AI
6 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
7 5 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
7 5 (20.00%) DevOps
7 5 (20.00%) LLM
7 5 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
7 5 (20.00%) Service Management
7 5 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
2 2 (8.00%) Scala
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) Perl
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) R
3 1 (4.00%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (12.00%) PMP
3 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CCDP
4 1 (4.00%) CCNP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CISSP
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) P3O
1 3 (12.00%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (12.00%) Planview
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco
3 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (8.00%) Infoblox
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Adobe
4 1 (4.00%) Ariba
4 1 (4.00%) F5
4 1 (4.00%) Meraki
4 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.00%) Ribbon
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) TIBCO