Software Engineering Contracts in Cheshire

Software Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 9 18 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.59% 3.25% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 3.81% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 3
10th Percentile £346 - -
25th Percentile £359 £505 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £572 £680
Median % change year-on-year -24.37% -15.81% +18.26%
75th Percentile £492 £614 £682
90th Percentile £551 - £683
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
North West median hourly rate £74.50 £48.00 £43.39
% change year-on-year +55.21% +10.64% -33.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Software Engineering 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 531 472 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 93.82% 85.20% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 316 292
10th Percentile £313 £311 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £476 £522
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -8.68% +15.89%
75th Percentile £537 £578 £588
90th Percentile £639 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £453 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.43% -1.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 32 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.72 £22.53
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +17.06% +40.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £30.88 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year +2.93% -1.77% +26.72%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 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 -16 8 £391 -32.18% 18
Wilmslow - 1 £675 - 8
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Datadog
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) JDBC
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 3 (33.33%) OpenID
1 3 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) CSS3
3 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) Playwright
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) PKI
2 3 (33.33%) Taxonomies
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 5 (55.56%) Coaching
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) API Integration
4 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 3 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) Open Source
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) API Development
5 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
5 2 (22.22%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) ForgeRock
1 3 (33.33%) Ping Identity
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle