Developer Contracts in Cheshire

Developer
North West > Cheshire

The median Developer daily rate in Cheshire is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 34 17
Rank change year-on-year +23 -17 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 57 16 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.11% 3.95% 10.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.00% 4.46% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 12 48
10th Percentile £308 £331 £392
25th Percentile £323 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £481 £609
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% -20.94% +48.20%
75th Percentile £488 £540 £630
90th Percentile £548 £564 £632
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.50
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £33.13
90th Percentile - - £34.25
North West median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +51.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 475 359 542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 88.64% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 232 352
10th Percentile £324 £252 £222
25th Percentile £382 £417 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £571 £566 £550
90th Percentile £645 £606 £631
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 26
10th Percentile £13.49 £16.68 £12.61
25th Percentile £15.36 £20.07 £15.54
Median hourly rate £22.09 £33.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -33.06% +51.52% +14.63%
75th Percentile £35.00 £36.13 £31.63
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.00 £35.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% +25.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Cheshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Cheshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Cheshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Cheshire

Developer
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 Developer 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 +7 26 £353 -34.63% 2
Macclesfield +9 6 £513 +0.49%
Chester - 6 £565 - 7
Warrington +12 5 £275 -38.89% 10
Developer
North West

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 18 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 16 (28.07%) Java
2 16 (28.07%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (24.56%) Mobile App
4 13 (22.81%) HTML
4 13 (22.81%) CSS
4 13 (22.81%) Finance
4 13 (22.81%) RESTful
5 11 (19.30%) Spring
5 11 (19.30%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (19.30%) Banking
5 11 (19.30%) SQL
5 11 (19.30%) Spring Boot
6 10 (17.54%) React
6 10 (17.54%) Low Latency
6 10 (17.54%) AngularJS
6 10 (17.54%) OO
6 10 (17.54%) Software Testing
6 10 (17.54%) Java EE
6 10 (17.54%) Design Patterns
7 9 (15.79%) Apple iOS
7 9 (15.79%) Node.js
7 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
8 8 (14.04%) MySQL
8 8 (14.04%) Publishing
8 8 (14.04%) AWS
8 8 (14.04%) Android
9 7 (12.28%) Visualisation
9 7 (12.28%) Data Visualisation
9 7 (12.28%) Agile

Developer Skill Set
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 6 (10.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (3.51%) Apache
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 5 (8.77%) Photoshop
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.75%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.04%) AWS
2 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.26%) Azure
3 3 (5.26%) SAP Fieldglass
3 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
3 3 (5.26%) Veeva
4 2 (3.51%) GCP
4 2 (3.51%) GitHub
4 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
4 2 (3.51%) Serverless
5 1 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.75%) Firebase
5 1 (1.75%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) MySQL
2 7 (12.28%) Power BI
3 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.51%) Spotfire
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) JIRA
2 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.51%) Babel
3 2 (3.51%) CircleCI
3 2 (3.51%) ESLint
3 2 (3.51%) Git
3 2 (3.51%) GitLab
3 2 (3.51%) webpack
4 1 (1.75%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.75%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.75%) git-flow
4 1 (1.75%) Moq
4 1 (1.75%) Postman
4 1 (1.75%) Selenium
4 1 (1.75%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.75%) tSQLt
4 1 (1.75%) XCTest
4 1 (1.75%) XCUITest
General
1 13 (22.81%) Finance
2 11 (19.30%) Banking
3 8 (14.04%) Publishing
4 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
5 6 (10.53%) Marketing
6 4 (7.02%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.75%) Advertising
8 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) CSS
1 13 (22.81%) HTML
1 13 (22.81%) RESTful
2 11 (19.30%) Spring
2 11 (19.30%) Spring Boot
3 10 (17.54%) AngularJS
3 10 (17.54%) Java EE
3 10 (17.54%) React
4 9 (15.79%) Node.js
5 6 (10.53%) React Native
6 5 (8.77%) HTML5
7 4 (7.02%) Angular 2
7 4 (7.02%) CSS3
7 4 (7.02%) jQuery
7 4 (7.02%) NestJS
7 4 (7.02%) Symfony
8 3 (5.26%) Sass
8 3 (5.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (3.51%) OAuth
9 2 (3.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.77%) Mobile Banking
2 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.51%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.75%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Apple iOS
2 8 (14.04%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (19.30%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (17.54%) Design Patterns
3 10 (17.54%) Low Latency
3 10 (17.54%) OO
3 10 (17.54%) Software Testing
4 7 (12.28%) Agile
4 7 (12.28%) API Development
4 7 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (12.28%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (12.28%) iOS Development
4 7 (12.28%) Visualisation
5 6 (10.53%) Analytics
5 6 (10.53%) Content Writing
5 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (10.53%) Data Modelling
5 6 (10.53%) Matrix Organization
5 6 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (8.77%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.58%) JavaScript
2 16 (28.07%) Java
3 11 (19.30%) SQL
4 5 (8.77%) PL/SQL
4 5 (8.77%) Python
4 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.02%) C#
5 4 (7.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (7.02%) PHP
6 3 (5.26%) Swift
7 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.51%) VBA
8 1 (1.75%) Go
8 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.75%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 4 (7.02%) Degree
2 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.77%) GxP
3 3 (5.26%) GDPR
3 3 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.75%) PSD2
5 1 (1.75%) QA
5 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) Adobe
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle
3 3 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.51%) Google
4 2 (3.51%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.75%) New Relic
5 1 (1.75%) PayPal