Statistics Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Statistics
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Statistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 57 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Statistics 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% 0.87% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £487 -
25th Percentile £463 £489 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% - -
75th Percentile £488 £574 -
90th Percentile - £590 -
North West median daily rate £420 £550 £493
% change year-on-year -23.64% +11.56% -14.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Statistics 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 594 445 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.35% 97.16% 83.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 307 275
10th Percentile £322 £319 £300
25th Percentile £393 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £447 £489
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -8.59% +1.88%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £652 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 30
10th Percentile £13.47 £17.80 £13.70
25th Percentile £18.50 £27.19 £16.61
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +38.78% -12.70%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.63 £42.31
90th Percentile - £86.00 £44.13
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £24.15
% change year-on-year +69.23% +34.60% -32.93%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Statistics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Statistics job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Statistics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Statistics

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Statistics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Statistics

Statistics
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 Statistics within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. 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 - 1 £475 -
Statistics
North West

Statistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes