Fiddler Contract Job Trends in the North West

Fiddler
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Fiddler skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 - 140
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Fiddler 16 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.65% - 0.037%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.28% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £350
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £543 - -
England median daily rate £450 £500 £638
% change year-on-year -10.00% -21.57% +59.38%

All Development Application Skills
North West

Fiddler falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 374 261 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.31% 11.24% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 151 277
10th Percentile £313 £315 £350
25th Percentile £358 £361 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £600
90th Percentile £635 £638 £647
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 36
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £42.23 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £63.40 £47.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +33.47% +2.86% +2.62%
75th Percentile £72.21 £53.13 £67.19
90th Percentile £81.50 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

Fiddler
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fiddler relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Fiddler job vacancy trend in the North West

Fiddler
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Fiddler.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Fiddler

Fiddler
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fiddler within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 November 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
Merseyside - 11 - -
Cheshire - 5 £475 - 1
Fiddler
England

Fiddler
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 14 (87.50%) BIG-IP
2 14 (87.50%) DNS
2 14 (87.50%) HTTP
2 14 (87.50%) SSL
2 14 (87.50%) TCP/IP
3 11 (68.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 11 (68.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (31.25%) DMZ
General
1 11 (68.75%) Banking
1 11 (68.75%) Investment Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 10 (62.50%) Web Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) IP Network Engineer
4 6 (37.50%) Junior
4 6 (37.50%) Junior Network Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Malware Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Management Information System
2 5 (31.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Load Balancing
2 10 (62.50%) Data Loss Prevention
2 10 (62.50%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 5 (31.25%) Migration
3 5 (31.25%) Network Segmentation
4 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) Digital Forensics
5 2 (12.50%) Event Correlation
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 2 (12.50%) Malware Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Firmware
1 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Blue Coat
1 14 (87.50%) F5
1 14 (87.50%) McAfee
2 11 (68.75%) NetApp
3 10 (62.50%) VMware