Developer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Developer
North West > Cheshire

The median Developer daily rate in Cheshire is £370, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 13 37
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 72 54 18
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 10.48% 10.91% 4.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.76% 12.11% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 33 14
10th Percentile £313 £308 £425
25th Percentile £351 £323 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £375 £487
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -23.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £445 £525 £532
90th Percentile £479 £551 £540
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £487
% change year-on-year -5.56% -7.60% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £86.00 -
North West median hourly rate £60.69 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -6.63% -13.33% +92.31%

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 612 446 334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.08% 90.10% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 260 217
10th Percentile £270 £323 £259
25th Percentile £358 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £551 £567 £550
90th Percentile £688 £641 £593
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 25 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.49 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.90 £15.36 £20.07
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.09 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +8.65% -34.14% +65.63%
75th Percentile £36.06 £35.00 £35.56
90th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £43.50
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.07% -17.14% +75.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Developer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Cheshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Cheshire

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies 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 24 November 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 +3 62 £370 +4.96% 2
Warrington -14 4 £410 - 6
Chester -12 2 £475 -15.90% 6
Crewe - 2 £355 - 8
Developer
North West

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 24 November 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 42 (58.33%) Git
2 40 (55.56%) Java
3 35 (48.61%) Agile
4 31 (43.06%) Spring Boot
5 30 (41.67%) CI/CD
6 28 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (38.89%) Spring
7 27 (37.50%) REST
8 26 (36.11%) JIRA
9 25 (34.72%) Test Automation
10 23 (31.94%) Microservices
10 23 (31.94%) React
10 23 (31.94%) TDD
11 22 (30.56%) JavaScript
11 22 (30.56%) Jenkins
12 21 (29.17%) AWS
12 21 (29.17%) SQL
13 20 (27.78%) Unit Testing
14 19 (26.39%) DevOps
15 18 (25.00%) CSS
15 18 (25.00%) HTML
15 18 (25.00%) Oracle
16 16 (22.22%) Docker
16 16 (22.22%) GitHub
16 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
16 16 (22.22%) QA
16 16 (22.22%) RESTful
16 16 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
17 15 (20.83%) Azure
18 14 (19.44%) Accessibility

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 6 (8.33%) Confluence
3 5 (6.94%) JBoss
4 4 (5.56%) Apache
5 3 (4.17%) nginx
6 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) AWS
2 16 (22.22%) GitHub
3 15 (20.83%) Azure
4 8 (11.11%) npm
5 5 (6.94%) OpenShift
6 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.56%) Figma
6 4 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.17%) Apigee
7 3 (4.17%) GCP
8 2 (2.78%) Azure API Management
8 2 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.39%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) HTTP
1 3 (4.17%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) MySQL
1 6 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.78%) Big Data
3 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.78%) Power BI
3 2 (2.78%) Power Query
4 1 (1.39%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.39%) DataStage
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (58.33%) Git
2 26 (36.11%) JIRA
3 22 (30.56%) Jenkins
4 14 (19.44%) JUnit
5 13 (18.06%) GitLab
5 13 (18.06%) Gradle
6 9 (12.50%) Cucumber
6 9 (12.50%) Cypress.io
6 9 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 9 (12.50%) Xcode
7 8 (11.11%) Maven
7 8 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (8.33%) Grunt
8 6 (8.33%) gulp
9 4 (5.56%) Storybook
10 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (4.17%) ESLint
10 3 (4.17%) Gerrit
10 3 (4.17%) Postman
10 3 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 22 (30.56%) Banking
2 20 (27.78%) Finance
3 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Publishing
7 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (43.06%) Spring Boot
2 28 (38.89%) Spring
3 27 (37.50%) REST
4 23 (31.94%) React
5 18 (25.00%) CSS
5 18 (25.00%) HTML
6 16 (22.22%) RESTful
7 13 (18.06%) Jest
7 13 (18.06%) React Native
8 12 (16.67%) Redux
9 11 (15.28%) Node.js
10 10 (13.89%) Hibernate
11 9 (12.50%) JMS
11 9 (12.50%) JSON
12 7 (9.72%) CSS3
12 7 (9.72%) HTML5
12 7 (9.72%) Kafka
12 7 (9.72%) OAuth
13 6 (8.33%) LESS
13 6 (8.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Mobile App
2 9 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 8 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.56%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Blog
6 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.67%) Android
2 11 (15.28%) Apple iOS
3 6 (8.33%) Unix
4 5 (6.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) Agile
2 30 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 28 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (34.72%) Test Automation
5 23 (31.94%) Microservices
5 23 (31.94%) TDD
6 20 (27.78%) Unit Testing
7 19 (26.39%) DevOps
8 16 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (19.44%) Code Quality
9 14 (19.44%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (18.06%) Containerisation
10 13 (18.06%) Scrum
11 11 (15.28%) Front End Development
11 11 (15.28%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (15.28%) SDLC
12 10 (13.89%) AI
13 9 (12.50%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 9 (12.50%) Design Patterns
13 9 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (55.56%) Java
2 22 (30.56%) JavaScript
3 21 (29.17%) SQL
4 9 (12.50%) Python
4 9 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.56%) C
6 4 (5.56%) C++
6 4 (5.56%) Kotlin
6 4 (5.56%) Objective-C
6 4 (5.56%) Ruby
6 4 (5.56%) Scala
6 4 (5.56%) Swift
7 3 (4.17%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.39%) C#
8 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) Degree
2 9 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.22%) QA
2 14 (19.44%) Accessibility
3 9 (12.50%) ISO 20022
3 9 (12.50%) PSD2
3 9 (12.50%) SEPA
4 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (25.00%) Oracle
2 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.33%) Perforce
4 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.17%) Splunk
5 3 (4.17%) Veracode
5 3 (4.17%) Xamarin
6 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.39%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.39%) Cognos
7 1 (1.39%) Informatica
7 1 (1.39%) Sage
7 1 (1.39%) SAP