Public Sector Contracts in Cheshire

Public Sector
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 25 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 29 35 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.62% 6.60% 9.59%
As % of the General category 8.98% 11.08% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 46
10th Percentile £310 £330 £361
25th Percentile £352 £490 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £540 £489
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% +10.49% -1.46%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £613
90th Percentile £616 £565 £632
North West median daily rate £525 £523 £500
% change year-on-year +0.38% +4.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% - -
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -25.93% +30.12%

All General Skills
Cheshire

Public Sector is in the General Skills 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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 323 316 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 62.60% 59.62% 58.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 208 184
10th Percentile £311 £280 £202
25th Percentile £401 £400 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £460
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +4.31%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 25
10th Percentile £16.57 £14.40 £9.90
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.60 £11.21
Median hourly rate £26.66 £29.26 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +27.22% +28.49%
75th Percentile £37.25 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £38.51 £52.25
North West median hourly rate £17.86 £26.00 £23.95
% change year-on-year -31.31% +8.58% +6.53%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Cheshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Cheshire

Public Sector
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 Public Sector within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 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 +19 17 £403 -28.76% 2
Warrington +4 10 £475 -13.64% 7
Public Sector
North West

Public Sector
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 2 (6.90%) Mule
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.45%) AutoCAD
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Revit
2 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Sage X3
2 1 (3.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (3.45%) Apigee
3 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.45%) Kong
3 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
1 1 (3.45%) Big Data
1 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.45%) Impala
1 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
1 1 (3.45%) OLAP
1 1 (3.45%) OLTP
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
1 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
1 2 (6.90%) Liquibase
1 2 (6.90%) Log4j
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Front Office
5 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Military
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Architect
2 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
3 2 (6.90%) Accountant
3 2 (6.90%) Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Change Manager
3 2 (6.90%) Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) ForgeRock Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Systems Accountant
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) React Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Kafka
1 3 (10.34%) Web Services
2 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
2 2 (6.90%) LDAP
2 2 (6.90%) OAuth
2 2 (6.90%) OpenID
2 2 (6.90%) REST
2 2 (6.90%) SAML
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Camel
3 1 (3.45%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (3.45%) J2EE
3 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.45%) React Native
3 1 (3.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.45%) DataPower
2 1 (3.45%) Digital Media
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.45%) Insider Threat
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Android
1 2 (6.90%) Unix
2 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (17.24%) Project Management
3 4 (13.79%) Agile
3 4 (13.79%) DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
4 3 (10.34%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (10.34%) PRINCE2
4 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
4 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (6.90%) Analytics
5 2 (6.90%) Identity Management
5 2 (6.90%) Information Security
5 2 (6.90%) Open Source
5 2 (6.90%) Programme Management
5 2 (6.90%) Scrum
5 2 (6.90%) SDLC
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (6.90%) Time Management
5 2 (6.90%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Java
2 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Ruby
3 1 (3.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) ISO17020
1 1 (3.45%) PMO
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) CFEngine
3 1 (3.45%) PowerBroker
3 1 (3.45%) Puppet
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) ForgeRock
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle
1 2 (6.90%) Sage
2 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.45%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) IBM
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.45%) Splunk
2 1 (3.45%) TSYS