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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 8 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Degree 58 63 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.18% 12.26% 8.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 49.15% 51.64% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 21
10th Percentile £213 £65 £400
25th Percentile £328 £158 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +6.88% +3.53%
75th Percentile £580 £585 £485
90th Percentile £672 £689 £550
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £24.08 £16.53 £42.53
25th Percentile £24.19 £20.33 £46.31
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.66 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +21.91% -49.46% +111.00%
75th Percentile £33.75 - £59.31
90th Percentile - - £63.18
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £29.00
% change year-on-year +23.15% -9.00% -26.58%

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 118 122 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.85% 23.74% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 87 98
10th Percentile £230 £158 £246
25th Percentile £325 £390 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £450 £448
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +0.56% -3.24%
75th Percentile £550 £539 £550
90th Percentile £592 £653 £680
North West median daily rate £480 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £24.13 - -
25th Percentile £29.49 £14.00 £36.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £20.33 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.86% -49.18% +29.03%
75th Percentile £85.44 £26.66 £65.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £35.83 £66.50
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 0 16 £469 -25.56% 6
Chester -4 10 £325 -25.37% 21
Macclesfield +10 9 £580 +16.00% 2
Warrington -10 7 £188 +13.64% 37
Crewe - 7 £588 - 2
Widnes - 3 - - 2
Alderley Edge - 2 - - 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 8 (13.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 4 (6.90%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.72%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (6.90%) MS Visio
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.72%) InVision
5 1 (1.72%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (22.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.90%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.17%) AWS
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (5.17%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.45%) Serverless
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.72%) GCP
7 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Skype
2 5 (8.62%) VPN
3 4 (6.90%) WAN
3 4 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (6.90%) Wireless
4 3 (5.17%) LAN
4 3 (5.17%) WLAN
5 2 (3.45%) DNS
6 1 (1.72%) BGP
6 1 (1.72%) DMZ
6 1 (1.72%) DWDM
6 1 (1.72%) Firewall
6 1 (1.72%) Internet
6 1 (1.72%) Intranet
6 1 (1.72%) IPsec
6 1 (1.72%) L2TP
6 1 (1.72%) MPLS
6 1 (1.72%) OSPF
6 1 (1.72%) SSL
6 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
2 5 (8.62%) Power BI
3 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.72%) Metadata
3 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) Axure RP
3 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.72%) git-flow
3 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.72%) tSQLt
General
1 33 (56.90%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Manufacturing
3 13 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (22.41%) Finance
4 9 (15.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (13.79%) Banking
6 6 (10.34%) Automotive
6 6 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.45%) Legal
8 2 (3.45%) Marketing
8 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Publishing
9 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Analyst
2 8 (13.79%) Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Service Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (10.34%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) Senior
6 4 (6.90%) Data Analytics Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Service Desk Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Lead
8 2 (3.45%) SAP Administrator
8 2 (3.45%) SAP Financial Specialist
8 2 (3.45%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) ADO
1 2 (3.45%) CSS
1 2 (3.45%) HTML
1 2 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (1.72%) .NET
2 1 (1.72%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.72%) CSS3
2 1 (1.72%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.72%) HTML5
2 1 (1.72%) Middleware
2 1 (1.72%) Node.js
2 1 (1.72%) PySpark
2 1 (1.72%) React
2 1 (1.72%) RESTful
2 1 (1.72%) Vue
2 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) CMDB
1 8 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.34%) Industry 4.0
2 6 (10.34%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.90%) Life Science
4 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.72%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.72%) Social Media
6 1 (1.72%) Tandem
6 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
2 4 (6.90%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.45%) Android
3 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (32.76%) Agile
3 18 (31.03%) Computer Science
4 15 (25.86%) Analytics
5 12 (20.69%) Data Modelling
5 12 (20.69%) Decision-Making
5 12 (20.69%) ITSM
6 11 (18.97%) Roadmaps
7 10 (17.24%) ITIL
7 10 (17.24%) Mentoring
8 9 (15.52%) Project Management
8 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (15.52%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (13.79%) API Integration
9 8 (13.79%) Quality Management
10 7 (12.07%) ERP
10 7 (12.07%) Lean Manufacturing
10 7 (12.07%) Process Improvement
10 7 (12.07%) Supply Chain Management
10 7 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.90%) Python
3 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.45%) Bash
4 2 (3.45%) Java
4 2 (3.45%) SQL
5 1 (1.72%) Perl
5 1 (1.72%) Ruby
5 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.72%) VB
5 1 (1.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (18.97%) Master's Degree
3 8 (13.79%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (8.62%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.17%) CCNA
7 2 (3.45%) CISSP
8 1 (1.72%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.72%) CCIE
8 1 (1.72%) CCNP
8 1 (1.72%) CISM
8 1 (1.72%) MCP
8 1 (1.72%) MCSA
8 1 (1.72%) MCSE
8 1 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) SLA
2 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.45%) NIST
3 2 (3.45%) PMO
3 2 (3.45%) QA
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.72%) NCSC
4 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.72%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) MOM
2 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.72%) SCCM
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (25.86%) SAP
2 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.07%) Cisco
4 6 (10.34%) Rockwell
4 6 (10.34%) Siemens
5 5 (8.62%) Ariba
5 5 (8.62%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.90%) Remedy
7 3 (5.17%) Citrix
8 2 (3.45%) Anaplan
8 2 (3.45%) Google
8 2 (3.45%) Hyperion
8 2 (3.45%) McAfee
8 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.72%) Arista
9 1 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.72%) Splunk
9 1 (1.72%) Symantec
9 1 (1.72%) VMware