Degree Contracts in Cheshire

Academic Degree
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 75 48 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.64% 9.49% 11.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.82% 36.64% 49.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 17 33
10th Percentile £158 £363 £275
25th Percentile £405 £400 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £630
90th Percentile £689 £649 £634
North West median daily rate £525 £486 £425
% change year-on-year +8.02% +14.35% -10.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £16.53 £42.53 £21.38
25th Percentile £20.33 £46.31 £24.81
Median hourly rate £26.66 £52.75 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.46% +78.81% -
75th Percentile - £59.31 £31.00
90th Percentile - £63.18 £36.75
North West median hourly rate £26.59 £40.59 £31.00
% change year-on-year -34.49% +30.94% -29.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 132 131 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.00% 25.89% 23.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 73 66
10th Percentile £158 £325 £243
25th Percentile £392 £413 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +8.00% +11.61%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £593
90th Percentile £680 £679 £632
North West median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile - £36.00 £15.05
25th Percentile - £37.00 £20.19
Median hourly rate £14.00 £40.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +40.35% -6.36%
75th Percentile £26.66 £59.31 £31.00
90th Percentile - £66.38 £44.13
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £40.58 £40.01
% change year-on-year -60.43% +1.43% +20.45%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Cheshire over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Cheshire over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Cheshire

Degree
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 Degree within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +12 24 £550 +25.00% 7
Macclesfield -8 14 £525 +27.27% 7
Warrington +3 13 £165 -73.60% 44
Chester +8 6 £436 -12.90% 35
Crewe +4 2 £538 - 14
Ellesmere Port - 1 £130 - 4
Northwich - 1 £110 - 3
Degree
North West

Degree
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 7 (9.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (18.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.33%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.67%) AWS
2 13 (17.33%) Azure
3 5 (6.67%) SaaS
4 4 (5.33%) GCP
5 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.33%) Collibra
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.33%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) BGP
1 4 (5.33%) MPLS
1 4 (5.33%) OSPF
1 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
1 4 (5.33%) Value-Added Service
1 4 (5.33%) VLAN
1 4 (5.33%) VPN
1 4 (5.33%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.33%) Big Data
2 4 (5.33%) Metadata
3 3 (4.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.33%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.33%) Essbase
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.33%) Power BI
5 1 (1.33%) PowerPivot
5 1 (1.33%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Bitbucket
1 7 (9.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (34.67%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (33.33%) Finance
3 16 (21.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 9 (12.00%) Banking
6 5 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.67%) Publishing
7 4 (5.33%) Legal
8 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.67%) Automotive
9 2 (2.67%) German Language
9 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.67%) Local Government
9 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.33%) Billing
10 1 (1.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (14.67%) Analyst
1 11 (14.67%) Consultant
2 9 (12.00%) Business Analyst
3 8 (10.67%) Author
3 8 (10.67%) Technical Author
4 5 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (6.67%) Data Manager
4 5 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 5 (6.67%) Security Consultant
4 5 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Security Manager
5 4 (5.33%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Architect
6 3 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Data Governance Analyst
6 3 (4.00%) Data Governance Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Integration Consultant
6 3 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.33%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.33%) Reference Data
3 4 (5.33%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.00%) Cyberattack
4 3 (4.00%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Life Science
5 2 (2.67%) SCADA
6 1 (1.33%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.67%) Windows
2 7 (9.33%) Unix
3 4 (5.33%) Linux
4 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (49.33%) Computer Science
2 24 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (29.33%) Change Management
4 21 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 14 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (17.33%) SDLC
7 13 (17.33%) Test Automation
8 10 (13.33%) Agile
9 9 (12.00%) Data Governance
9 9 (12.00%) Data Management
9 9 (12.00%) Data Protection
9 9 (12.00%) Security Monitoring
10 8 (10.67%) Content Strategy
10 8 (10.67%) Data Strategy
10 8 (10.67%) Roadmaps
11 7 (9.33%) Business Case
11 7 (9.33%) Cloud Security
11 7 (9.33%) Data Science
11 7 (9.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.33%) SQL
2 2 (2.67%) C
2 2 (2.67%) C++
2 2 (2.67%) Python
3 1 (1.33%) Bash
3 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.33%) Groovy
3 1 (1.33%) Java
3 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (14.67%) Master's Degree
3 8 (10.67%) CISSP
4 6 (8.00%) CISA
4 6 (8.00%) CISM
4 6 (8.00%) MBA
5 5 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.67%) IIBA
6 4 (5.33%) CCIE
6 4 (5.33%) CCNP
6 4 (5.33%) VCAP
7 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.67%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.67%) HND
8 2 (2.67%) PhD
9 1 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) GDPR
2 7 (9.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.33%) NIST
3 5 (6.67%) Good Clinical Practice
3 5 (6.67%) GxP
4 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (4.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (9.33%) Docker
2 3 (4.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 22 (29.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.67%) ServiceNow
3 7 (9.33%) Atlassian
4 6 (8.00%) SAP
4 6 (8.00%) Tanium
5 4 (5.33%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (5.33%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.33%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.33%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.67%) Databricks
6 2 (2.67%) Teradata
7 1 (1.33%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.33%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.33%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.33%) Intel
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle
7 1 (1.33%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.33%) Symantec
7 1 (1.33%) Trillium