Degree Contracts in Cheshire

Academic Degree
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Degree 63 72 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.77% 13.28% 9.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.06% 57.60% 35.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 51 18
10th Percentile £317 £158 £372
25th Percentile £352 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +13.26% -21.65%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £582
90th Percentile £600 £638 £643
North West median daily rate £456 £525 £486
% change year-on-year -13.24% +8.02% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £30.50 - £42.53
25th Percentile £31.25 - £46.31
Median hourly rate £32.50 - £52.75
75th Percentile £34.00 - £59.31
90th Percentile £35.65 - £63.18
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £36.18 £33.85
% change year-on-year -10.18% +6.89% +21.98%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 143 125 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.44% 23.06% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 86 72
10th Percentile £304 £191 £325
25th Percentile £356 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -2.62% +1.94%
75th Percentile £537 £573 £585
90th Percentile £616 £638 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £28.06 - -
25th Percentile £30.63 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £14.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -73.46% +88.39%
75th Percentile £35.38 - £66.06
90th Percentile £56.15 - £66.63
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £17.78 £40.59
% change year-on-year +68.71% -56.19% +11.98%

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 15 July 2025.

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
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 15 July 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
Knutsford -16 24 £452 -17.91% 6
Chester 0 8 £325 -31.58% 20
Macclesfield +1 7 £580 +7.91% 5
Crewe +5 4 £550 - 7
Warrington -9 4 £166 +0.76% 35
Widnes - 3 - - 2
Alderley Edge - 2 - - 1
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 5 (7.94%) Confluence
1 5 (7.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (9.52%) MS Visio
3 5 (7.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.59%) InVision
5 1 (1.59%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (7.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.22%) Azure
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.35%) AWS
3 4 (6.35%) GCP
3 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.76%) OneDrive
4 3 (4.76%) SaaS
5 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) Firewall
2 7 (11.11%) Network Security
2 7 (11.11%) VPN
3 6 (9.52%) WAN
3 6 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (9.52%) Wireless
4 5 (7.94%) BGP
4 5 (7.94%) LAN
4 5 (7.94%) MPLS
4 5 (7.94%) OSPF
4 5 (7.94%) WLAN
5 4 (6.35%) VLAN
6 2 (3.17%) DNS
6 2 (3.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.59%) DWDM
7 1 (1.59%) IPsec
7 1 (1.59%) L2TP
7 1 (1.59%) SSH
7 1 (1.59%) SSL
7 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (9.52%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.59%) Metadata
3 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.59%) MySQL
3 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) Git
3 1 (1.59%) Axure RP
3 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.75%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (28.57%) Finance
4 7 (11.11%) Banking
4 7 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Publishing
8 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Legal
9 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.59%) Automotive
10 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Marketing
10 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (20.63%) Analyst
2 10 (15.87%) Architect
3 9 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) Network Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Senior
6 5 (7.94%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (6.35%) Designer
7 4 (6.35%) Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Network Designer
7 4 (6.35%) Solutions Designer
8 3 (4.76%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Service Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) CSS
1 5 (7.94%) HTML
2 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
2 4 (6.35%) REST
2 4 (6.35%) Web Services
3 3 (4.76%) LDAP
3 3 (4.76%) SOAP
4 2 (3.17%) ADO
5 1 (1.59%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.59%) CSS3
5 1 (1.59%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.59%) HTML5
5 1 (1.59%) JSON
5 1 (1.59%) Middleware
5 1 (1.59%) Node.js
5 1 (1.59%) React
5 1 (1.59%) RESTful
5 1 (1.59%) Vue
5 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.98%) Management Information System
2 10 (15.87%) CMDB
3 5 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.94%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (7.94%) Virtual Team
4 4 (6.35%) Life Science
5 2 (3.17%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.59%) Tandem
6 1 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Android
2 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.59%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.68%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 19 (30.16%) Agile
4 18 (28.57%) ITSM
5 17 (26.98%) ITIL
6 14 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (19.05%) Service Management
8 11 (17.46%) Analytics
9 9 (14.29%) Business Analysis
9 9 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 8 (12.70%) Change Management
10 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (12.70%) DevOps
10 8 (12.70%) Service Catalogue
11 7 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (11.11%) Service Design
11 7 (11.11%) Use Case
11 7 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (9.52%) Decision-Making
12 6 (9.52%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.35%) Java
3 3 (4.76%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (1.59%) Bash
4 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (20.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (15.87%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (14.29%) Master's Degree
4 5 (7.94%) CCIE
4 5 (7.94%) CCNA
4 5 (7.94%) CCNP
4 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.35%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (6.35%) JNCIE
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.17%) CBAP
6 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.59%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PMP
7 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) PMO
2 2 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) Basel III
3 1 (1.59%) COBIT
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) GRC
3 1 (1.59%) NIST
3 1 (1.59%) PSD2
3 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.59%) Ansible
3 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) Cisco
1 13 (20.63%) ServiceNow
2 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.94%) Fortinet
3 5 (7.94%) SAP
4 4 (6.35%) Ariba
4 4 (6.35%) F5
5 2 (3.17%) Anaplan
5 2 (3.17%) Hyperion
5 2 (3.17%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.17%) Remedy
5 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.17%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.59%) Arista
6 1 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.59%) Citrix
6 1 (1.59%) IBM
6 1 (1.59%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.59%) McAfee
6 1 (1.59%) Splunk