Knowledge Transfer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Knowledge Transfer
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Knowledge Transfer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 58 53
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.44% 0.44% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.45% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £352 £614 £441
25th Percentile £412 £616 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £626 £582
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% +7.47% -
75th Percentile £537 £635 -
90th Percentile £553 £636 -
North West median daily rate £525 £625 £582
% change year-on-year -16.00% +7.39% +16.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Knowledge Transfer falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 596 444 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.65% 97.16% 84.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 306 278
10th Percentile £319 £319 £280
25th Percentile £393 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -8.40% +2.74%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £652 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 30
10th Percentile £13.47 £17.80 £13.70
25th Percentile £18.50 £27.19 £16.61
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +38.78% -12.70%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.63 £42.31
90th Percentile - £86.00 £44.13
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £24.15
% change year-on-year +69.23% +34.60% -32.93%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Knowledge Transfer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Knowledge Transfer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Knowledge Transfer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Transfer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in Cheshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Knowledge Transfer.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Knowledge Transfer

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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 Knowledge Transfer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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 -20 2 £537 -14.13% 1
Warrington - 1 £325 - 2
Knowledge Transfer
North West

Knowledge Transfer
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CRISC
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GRC
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow