IBM Watson Contract Job Trends in Chester

IBM Watson
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring IBM Watson skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Watson 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.65% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £579 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Chester

IBM Watson falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 30 2 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 19.61% 2.99% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 4
10th Percentile £290 - £215
25th Percentile - - £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £271
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.45%
75th Percentile £550 - £307
90th Percentile - - £318
Cheshire median daily rate £479 £413 £453
% change year-on-year +16.03% -8.84% -10.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.50 £12.82 £17.72
% change year-on-year +36.51% -27.65% -21.14%

IBM Watson
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM Watson relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

IBM Watson job vacancy trend in Chester

IBM Watson
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) SevOne
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware