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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PSD2 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.53% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £331 -
% change year-on-year +28.59% - -

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 6 2 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 4.58% 3.13% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £343 - £263
25th Percentile £388 - £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - £431
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.46%
75th Percentile £456 - £448
90th Percentile £490 - £450
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.60% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £29.20
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +64.71% +164.47%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £24.18 £26.66
% change year-on-year - -9.30% +65.90%

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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Payments Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Payments Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) BPMN
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) KYC
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (50.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes