PSD2 Contract Job Trends in Chester

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring PSD2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PSD2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.80% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £331 -
% change year-on-year +35.25% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 6.40% 11.27% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £375 £557 -
25th Percentile £481 £565 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £577 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% +35.76% +41.67%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £438
90th Percentile £663 £603 -
Cheshire median daily rate £449 £496 £525
% change year-on-year -9.60% -5.50% +52.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £17.14
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.66%
75th Percentile - - £17.45
90th Percentile - - £17.63
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.00 £23.14 £18.90
% change year-on-year +38.32% +22.44% +17.58%

PSD2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes