Problem-Solving Contracts in Cheshire

Problem Solving
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 49 59 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.16% 11.48% 12.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.94% 12.69% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 32
10th Percentile £300 £330 £207
25th Percentile £356 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +19.32%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £631
90th Percentile £635 £620 £634
North West median daily rate £488 £475 £453
% change year-on-year +2.63% +4.97% +13.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £14.00 - £22.63
25th Percentile £27.63 £23.15 £23.94
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.33 £29.45
Median % change year-on-year +67.82% -14.01% +38.59%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.75 £40.35
90th Percentile - - £50.63
North West median hourly rate £11.20 £34.05 £23.39
% change year-on-year -67.12% +45.55% +82.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 448 465 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.74% 90.47% 87.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 303 269
10th Percentile £309 £301 £204
25th Percentile £391 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +11.11% +3.87%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £538
90th Percentile £638 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 29 32
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.95 £9.93
25th Percentile £16.79 £22.53 £12.72
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.54 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% +40.22% -12.88%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile - £40.00 £57.13
North West median hourly rate £26.46 £35.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year -24.41% +53.85% +30.34%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cheshire

Problem-Solving
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 Problem-Solving 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
Chester +11 9 £725 +26.09% 23
Knutsford -7 7 £400 -27.27% 6
Macclesfield -12 7 £550 +22.22% 5
Warrington +1 6 £338 +2.27% 39
Wilmslow -1 2 £381 +21.03% 3
Crewe -1 2 £500 - 7
Winsford - 2 - - 1
Northwich - 1 - - 6
Problem-Solving
North West

Problem-Solving
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 (8.16%) IBM Notes
2 2 (4.08%) Mule
3 1 (2.04%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.41%) AWS
2 8 (16.33%) Power Platform
3 7 (14.29%) Azure
4 4 (8.16%) GCP
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.04%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.04%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) VPN
2 4 (8.16%) BGP
2 4 (8.16%) MPLS
2 4 (8.16%) OSPF
2 4 (8.16%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.16%) Value-Added Service
2 4 (8.16%) VLAN
2 4 (8.16%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.04%) Firewall
3 1 (2.04%) LAN
3 1 (2.04%) WAN
3 1 (2.04%) Wireless
3 1 (2.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) Power BI
2 4 (8.16%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.12%) Big Data
3 3 (6.12%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.04%) Power Query
5 1 (2.04%) PowerPivot
5 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.08%) Liquibase
2 2 (4.08%) Log4j
2 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (51.02%) Social Skills
3 12 (24.49%) Finance
4 8 (16.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (12.24%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (12.24%) Manufacturing
6 4 (8.16%) Banking
6 4 (8.16%) Legal
7 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.04%) Automotive
8 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Front Office
8 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Law
8 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 5 (10.20%) Analyst
2 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 5 (10.20%) Support Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) Data Manager
3 4 (8.16%) Developer
3 4 (8.16%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) Deployment Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) IT Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) IT Support
4 3 (6.12%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) Product Manager
5 2 (4.08%) Analytics Manager
5 2 (4.08%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) AWS Developer
5 2 (4.08%) Data Analytics Manager
5 2 (4.08%) Service Desk Agent
5 2 (4.08%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) Hibernate
1 2 (4.08%) Kafka
1 2 (4.08%) Middleware
1 2 (4.08%) REST
1 2 (4.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Life Science
1 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.16%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.08%) Derivative
4 2 (4.08%) Equities
4 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Agile
2 13 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (24.49%) Project Management
4 10 (20.41%) Computer Science
5 9 (18.37%) Analytics
5 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (18.37%) Process Improvement
6 8 (16.33%) Decision-Making
7 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (14.29%) Customer Service
8 6 (12.24%) Change Management
8 6 (12.24%) Data Modelling
8 6 (12.24%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 6 (12.24%) ETL
8 6 (12.24%) Risk Management
8 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
8 6 (12.24%) SDLC
8 6 (12.24%) Test Scripting
9 5 (10.20%) Data Extraction
9 5 (10.20%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) SQL
2 3 (6.12%) Java
3 2 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (4.08%) Python
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.04%) Scala
4 1 (2.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (36.73%) Degree
2 6 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.16%) CCIE
3 4 (8.16%) CCNP
3 4 (8.16%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (8.16%) VCAP
4 2 (4.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) CISSP
5 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.04%) PMP
5 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) GAMP
1 5 (10.20%) GxP
2 4 (8.16%) QA
3 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (4.08%) NIST
4 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.04%) GDPR
5 1 (2.04%) PMO
5 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) SCCM
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (8.16%) Lotus
2 4 (8.16%) SolarWinds
3 3 (6.12%) Databricks
3 3 (6.12%) Teradata
4 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco
5 1 (2.04%) Meraki
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.04%) SAP
5 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.04%) Symantec
5 1 (2.04%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (2.04%) Veeam
5 1 (2.04%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) Zscaler