Internet Job Trends in Cheshire

Internet
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Internet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 56 51
Rank change year-on-year +47 -5 +58
Permanent jobs citing Internet 502 7 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 39.90% 1.17% 2.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 89.32% 8.86% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 11
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,650 £43,750
25th Percentile £28,063 £25,750 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £30,000 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -60.35% +8.10%
75th Percentile £33,250 £88,750 £82,548
90th Percentile - £132,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £30,500 £42,500 £47,250
% change year-on-year -28.24% -10.05% -27.31%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 562 79 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 44.67% 13.23% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 56 53 68
10th Percentile - £31,050 £27,050
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £42,500 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% -0.58% +14.00%
75th Percentile £34,000 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £45,000 £56,750 £79,014
North West median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% +5.56%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Internet job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Internet
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Internet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Internet

Internet
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington - 94 - - 3
Wilmslow - 16 £31,500 -
Macclesfield - 16 £30,000 - 3
Lymm +3 14 - -
Northwich - 14 - -
Knutsford 0 13 - -
Daresbury - 13 - -
Alderley Edge - 12 - -
Internet
North West

Internet
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.40%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 496 (98.80%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (0.40%) AWS
2 2 (0.40%) Azure
2 2 (0.40%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Git
General
1 500 (99.60%) Social Skills
2 496 (98.80%) Banking
2 496 (98.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (0.80%) Finance
3 4 (0.80%) Retail
4 2 (0.40%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 379 (75.50%) Lecturer
2 4 (0.80%) Account Executive
3 2 (0.40%) Administrator
3 2 (0.40%) Trainee
3 2 (0.40%) Trainee Administrator
3 2 (0.40%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.40%) CSS
1 2 (0.40%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 500 (99.60%) IoT
2 4 (0.80%) Driving Licence
2 4 (0.80%) Machine to Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (99.20%) Web Development
2 496 (98.80%) AI
2 496 (98.80%) Cybersecurity
2 496 (98.80%) Machine Learning
2 496 (98.80%) User Experience
3 4 (0.80%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.40%) JavaScript
1 2 (0.40%) Python
1 2 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 496 (98.80%) Degree
1 496 (98.80%) Master's Degree
1 496 (98.80%) PhD
1 496 (98.80%) Postgraduate
2 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
2 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft