PSD2 Contracts in Cheshire

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring PSD2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PSD2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PSD2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.22% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 - -
North West median daily rate £478 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cheshire

PSD2 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 61 115 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.59% 22.82% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 62 51
10th Percentile £281 £304 £213
25th Percentile £358 £407 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £525
90th Percentile £662 £580 £640
North West median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 7
10th Percentile £37.60 £16.79 -
25th Percentile £49.75 £17.72 £30.54
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.66 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +162.57% -23.83% -30.00%
75th Percentile £77.63 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £82.20 - £47.80
North West median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing PSD2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for PSD2 in Cheshire

PSD2
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 PSD2 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 1 £268 -
PSD2
North West

PSD2
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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Business Process Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Economics
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CBAP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR