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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 11 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Degree 62 47 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.09% 11.60% 7.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.41% 51.65% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 27
10th Percentile £356 £454 £413
25th Percentile £484 £489 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £523 £630
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -17.06% +39.38%
75th Percentile £575 £550 -
90th Percentile £617 £581 £632
North West median daily rate £533 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +12.21% -3.06% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £19.73 -
25th Percentile - £23.44 £37.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.04 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.11% -24.90% +97.78%
75th Percentile - £44.31 £42.50
90th Percentile - £62.72 -
North West median hourly rate £40.33 £40.59 £25.81
% change year-on-year -0.65% +57.26% -32.28%

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 123 91 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.98% 22.47% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 50 95
10th Percentile £356 £424 £294
25th Percentile £425 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +5.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £630
90th Percentile £640 £675 £633
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £21.38 £15.87
25th Percentile - £27.65 £20.59
Median hourly rate £24.00 £37.04 £26.11
Median % change year-on-year -35.21% +41.89% -12.91%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £32.38
90th Percentile - £60.00 £38.45
North West median hourly rate £38.66 £46.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.28% +15.45% +95.60%

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 October 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
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 October 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
Knutsford -1 30 £538 +6.53% 5
Macclesfield +4 6 £550 +0.92% 3
Warrington +8 3 £225 - 32
Chester -1 3 - - 6
Crewe -4 3 £550 +10.00% 7
Ellesmere Port - 2 - - 1
Wilmslow - 1 - - 2
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 11 (17.74%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.61%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Chatbot
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.61%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.10%) Azure
2 20 (32.26%) AWS
3 8 (12.90%) SaaS
4 7 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.45%) GCP
5 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.23%) Serverless
6 2 (3.23%) Veeva
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.61%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.61%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) VPN
2 2 (3.23%) Firewall
2 2 (3.23%) MPLS
3 1 (1.61%) BGP
3 1 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.61%) Intranet
3 1 (1.61%) LAN
3 1 (1.61%) OSPF
3 1 (1.61%) SSH
3 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.61%) Value-Added Service
3 1 (1.61%) VLAN
3 1 (1.61%) WAN
3 1 (1.61%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.45%) Power BI
3 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (17.74%) JIRA
2 10 (16.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.61%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) git-flow
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) Moq
3 1 (1.61%) Postman
3 1 (1.61%) Selenium
3 1 (1.61%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.61%) tSQLt
3 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (53.23%) Analytical Skills
1 33 (53.23%) Finance
2 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.06%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (8.06%) Publishing
5 4 (6.45%) Banking
5 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Automotive
6 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) German Language
7 2 (3.23%) Local Government
7 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.61%) Front Office
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Consultant
2 8 (12.90%) Security Engineer
3 5 (8.06%) Security Consultant
4 4 (6.45%) Developer
5 3 (4.84%) Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Integration Consultant
5 3 (4.84%) SaaS Consultant
5 3 (4.84%) Senior
5 3 (4.84%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Analytics Manager
6 2 (3.23%) Applications Consultant
6 2 (3.23%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Data Analytics Manager
6 2 (3.23%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Digital Transformation
6 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) .NET
1 2 (3.23%) PyTorch
1 2 (3.23%) REST
1 2 (3.23%) scikit-learn
1 2 (3.23%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (1.61%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.61%) PySpark
2 1 (1.61%) Swagger
2 1 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (9.68%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.68%) Public Cloud
2 6 (9.68%) Security Posture
3 4 (6.45%) Cyberattack
3 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.84%) Life Science
4 3 (4.84%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.61%) Replication
6 1 (1.61%) Social Media
6 1 (1.61%) Tandem
6 1 (1.61%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.81%) Windows
2 11 (17.74%) Unix
3 5 (8.06%) Linux
4 3 (4.84%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (56.45%) Computer Science
2 26 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (38.71%) Change Management
4 23 (37.10%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (30.65%) Test Automation
6 12 (19.35%) Agile
7 11 (17.74%) Observability
8 10 (16.13%) Security Monitoring
8 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (14.52%) Project Management
9 9 (14.52%) Roadmaps
10 8 (12.90%) Analytics
10 8 (12.90%) Project Delivery
10 8 (12.90%) SIEM
11 6 (9.68%) Data Management
11 6 (9.68%) Data Science
11 6 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (9.68%) Matrix Organization
11 6 (9.68%) Risk Management
11 6 (9.68%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.06%) Java
1 5 (8.06%) Python
1 5 (8.06%) SQL
2 3 (4.84%) C++
2 3 (4.84%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.23%) C
3 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.23%) R
4 1 (1.61%) Bash
4 1 (1.61%) C#
4 1 (1.61%) Go
4 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.61%) Ruby
4 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.06%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.45%) CISSP
4 4 (6.45%) DBS Check
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.23%) HND
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.61%) CCIE
7 1 (1.61%) CCNP
7 1 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (1.61%) CISM
7 1 (1.61%) MCITP
7 1 (1.61%) MCSE
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) NIST
2 6 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.45%) GxP
3 4 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.23%) QA
5 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.61%) PMO
5 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Docker
2 6 (9.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.45%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.61%) SCCM
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) Atlassian
3 9 (14.52%) Tanium
4 6 (9.68%) Salesforce
4 6 (9.68%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.45%) Zscaler
6 3 (4.84%) Oracle
6 3 (4.84%) SAP
7 2 (3.23%) Google
8 1 (1.61%) Cisco
8 1 (1.61%) Dell
8 1 (1.61%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.61%) IBM
8 1 (1.61%) Intel
8 1 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.61%) NetApp
8 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.61%) Splunk
8 1 (1.61%) Veeam