Developer Contracts in Cheshire

Developer
North West > Cheshire

The median Developer daily rate in Cheshire is £338 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 48 66 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.97% 12.84% 10.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.39% 14.04% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 56 42
10th Percentile £286 £407 £315
25th Percentile £299 £491 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £550 £470
Median % change year-on-year -38.64% +17.15% +11.12%
75th Percentile £398 £586 £556
90th Percentile £497 £638 £631
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +24.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
North West median hourly rate £81.50 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +141.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 511 470 514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.51% 91.44% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 316 285
10th Percentile £282 £288 £184
25th Percentile £375 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 26 30
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.13 £12.48
25th Percentile £16.40 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £25.57 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +14.18% +5.36%
75th Percentile £40.88 £35.00 £33.51
90th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £59.18
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.54 £23.22
% change year-on-year +7.71% +31.51% +29.37%

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 May 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 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
Knutsford -5 22 £350 -36.45%
Warrington +5 5 £513 -4.65% 8
Chester +9 2 £413 -19.51% 19
Wilmslow -2 1 £363 +3.57% 2
Winsford - 1 £288 -
Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 (37.50%) Java
2 12 (25.00%) SQL
3 11 (22.92%) .NET
3 11 (22.92%) Finance
4 10 (20.83%) C#
4 10 (20.83%) OO
4 10 (20.83%) Android
5 9 (18.75%) API Development
5 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
6 8 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 8 (16.67%) REST
6 8 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 8 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 8 (16.67%) CSS
7 7 (14.58%) HTML
7 7 (14.58%) Java EE
7 7 (14.58%) Banking
7 7 (14.58%) Spring
7 7 (14.58%) RESTful
7 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
7 7 (14.58%) Spring Boot
7 7 (14.58%) Mobile App
7 7 (14.58%) Low Latency
8 6 (12.50%) Android Development
8 6 (12.50%) SDLC
8 6 (12.50%) AWS
8 6 (12.50%) Apple iOS

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 4 (8.33%) Mule
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
2 2 (4.17%) IIS
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.08%) SAS
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Maximo
2 1 (2.08%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) Azure
3 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.25%) SAP Fieldglass
4 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) MySQL
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
1 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.08%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) Essbase
3 1 (2.08%) Impala
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.08%) Power Query
3 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.08%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Liquibase
1 4 (8.33%) Log4j
2 3 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) Mockito
3 2 (4.17%) Git
3 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.08%) ESLint
General
1 11 (22.92%) Finance
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Banking
3 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Advertising
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) .NET
2 8 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 8 (16.67%) CSS
2 8 (16.67%) REST
3 7 (14.58%) HTML
3 7 (14.58%) Java EE
3 7 (14.58%) RESTful
3 7 (14.58%) Spring
3 7 (14.58%) Spring Boot
4 5 (10.42%) React
4 5 (10.42%) React Native
4 5 (10.42%) Web Services
4 5 (10.42%) XML
5 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.33%) Entity Framework
5 4 (8.33%) Hibernate
5 4 (8.33%) Kafka
6 3 (6.25%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.25%) Android Jetpack
6 3 (6.25%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.33%) NHS
2 4 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Android
2 6 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 5 (10.42%) Unix
4 1 (2.08%) Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.83%) OO
2 9 (18.75%) API Development
3 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 8 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 7 (14.58%) Low Latency
5 6 (12.50%) Agile
5 6 (12.50%) Android Development
5 6 (12.50%) SDLC
6 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.42%) Microservices
7 4 (8.33%) Open Source
7 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.33%) Unit Testing
7 4 (8.33%) User Experience
7 4 (8.33%) UX Design
8 3 (6.25%) OOD
8 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.25%) Validation
8 3 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Java
2 12 (25.00%) SQL
3 10 (20.83%) C#
4 8 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.42%) Python
6 3 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (6.25%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.17%) Perl
7 2 (4.17%) PHP
8 1 (2.08%) Bicep
8 1 (2.08%) Groovy
8 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.08%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) HL7
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) Ansible
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) IBM
2 2 (4.17%) Nintex
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle
2 2 (4.17%) Pega
2 2 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (2.08%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.08%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.08%) VMware