Degree Contracts in Cheshire

Academic Degree
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 12 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Degree 58 55 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.84% 10.70% 11.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 48.33% 39.29% 49.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 19 32
10th Percentile £158 £382 £272
25th Percentile £259 £400 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £447
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +0.61% -0.61%
75th Percentile £619 £549 £627
90th Percentile £689 £638 £634
North West median daily rate £510 £486 £425
% change year-on-year +4.94% +14.35% -9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £16.53 £42.53 £21.38
25th Percentile £20.33 £46.31 £24.81
Median hourly rate £26.66 £52.75 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.46% +78.81% -
75th Percentile - £59.31 £31.00
90th Percentile - £63.18 £36.75
North West median hourly rate £26.52 £40.59 £31.00
% change year-on-year -34.66% +30.94% -34.34%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 120 140 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 22.43% 27.24% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 76 66
10th Percentile £158 £325 £243
25th Percentile £390 £422 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £531 £488
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% +8.97% +9.30%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £593
90th Percentile £680 £678 £632
North West median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile - £36.00 £14.79
25th Percentile - £37.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £40.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +42.86% -8.00%
75th Percentile £26.66 £59.31 £31.00
90th Percentile - £66.38 £45.75
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £40.59 £40.01
% change year-on-year -60.43% +1.45% +11.14%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
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 Degree within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Warrington +3 14 £165 -73.60% 53
Macclesfield -10 14 £525 +23.53% 6
Knutsford +5 12 £676 +52.77% 10
Chester +8 4 £436 -12.90% 33
Crewe +5 2 £538 - 12
Ellesmere Port - 1 £130 - 4
Northwich - 1 £110 - 4
Degree
North West

Degree
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 1 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.72%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) AWS
1 6 (10.34%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) GCP
3 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.72%) Collibra
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.72%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) BGP
1 4 (6.90%) MPLS
1 4 (6.90%) OSPF
1 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
1 4 (6.90%) Value-Added Service
1 4 (6.90%) VLAN
1 4 (6.90%) VPN
1 4 (6.90%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.72%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) Data Lake
2 4 (6.90%) Big Data
2 4 (6.90%) Metadata
3 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
3 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.72%) Essbase
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.72%) Power BI
5 1 (1.72%) PowerPivot
5 1 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 16 (27.59%) Pharmaceutical
2 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.52%) Finance
5 6 (10.34%) Banking
6 5 (8.62%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (8.62%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.90%) Legal
8 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.45%) Automotive
9 2 (3.45%) German Language
9 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.45%) Publishing
10 1 (1.72%) Billing
10 1 (1.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Analyst
2 9 (15.52%) Business Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Author
3 8 (13.79%) Technical Author
4 6 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Data Manager
6 4 (6.90%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Security Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Security Project Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) Data Governance Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Data Governance Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Governance Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Security Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Analytics Manager
8 2 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) SAP Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.90%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.45%) Life Science
3 2 (3.45%) SCADA
3 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.72%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (39.66%) Computer Science
2 18 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (24.14%) Decision-Making
4 13 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (20.69%) SDLC
6 10 (17.24%) Agile
7 9 (15.52%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (15.52%) Data Governance
7 9 (15.52%) Data Management
8 8 (13.79%) Change Management
8 8 (13.79%) Content Strategy
8 8 (13.79%) Data Strategy
9 7 (12.07%) Data Protection
9 7 (12.07%) Data Science
9 7 (12.07%) Project Management
9 7 (12.07%) Requirements Engineering
9 7 (12.07%) Roadmaps
10 6 (10.34%) Pricing Strategy
10 6 (10.34%) Threat Management
10 6 (10.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) SQL
2 2 (3.45%) C
2 2 (3.45%) C++
2 2 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (1.72%) Bash
3 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.72%) Groovy
3 1 (1.72%) Java
3 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (18.97%) Master's Degree
3 7 (12.07%) CISSP
4 6 (10.34%) CISA
4 6 (10.34%) CISM
4 6 (10.34%) MBA
5 5 (8.62%) IIBA
6 4 (6.90%) CCIE
6 4 (6.90%) CCNP
6 4 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.90%) VCAP
7 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
8 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
8 2 (3.45%) PhD
9 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) GDPR
2 7 (12.07%) Data Quality
3 5 (8.62%) Good Clinical Practice
3 5 (8.62%) GxP
4 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (3.45%) NIST
5 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.45%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.24%) ServiceNow
3 6 (10.34%) SAP
4 4 (6.90%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (6.90%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.45%) Databricks
5 2 (3.45%) Teradata
6 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.72%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.72%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.72%) Symantec
6 1 (1.72%) Trillium
6 1 (1.72%) Zscaler