Agile Contracts in Knutsford

Agile Software Development
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 59 21 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 34.10% 18.58% 31.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 34.71% 20.39% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 19 41
10th Percentile £326 £347 £440
25th Percentile £358 £391 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% -19.09% +14.11%
75th Percentile £492 £597 £575
90th Percentile £526 £614 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £439 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -13.64% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Agile 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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 170 103 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 98.27% 91.15% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 95 107
10th Percentile £337 £353 £407
25th Percentile £358 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.53%
75th Percentile £492 £606 £606
90th Percentile £537 £669 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -8.59% -0.20% +6.52%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Knutsford

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Knutsford

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Knutsford over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Knutsford

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 16 (27.12%) Confluence
2 4 (6.78%) WebSphere
3 3 (5.08%) CICS
4 2 (3.39%) JBoss
4 2 (3.39%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.39%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.69%) Appian
5 1 (1.69%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (8.47%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.39%) InVision
2 2 (3.39%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.25%) AWS
2 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (8.47%) Serverless
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) DB2
2 4 (6.78%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.69%) MySQL
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 18 (30.51%) JIRA
2 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.17%) Selenium
4 4 (6.78%) Git
4 4 (6.78%) JUnit
5 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.39%) Axure RP
6 2 (3.39%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.39%) Gradle
6 2 (3.39%) HP UFT
6 2 (3.39%) IntelliJ
6 2 (3.39%) Maven
6 2 (3.39%) NetBeans
6 2 (3.39%) SOAtest
6 2 (3.39%) Subversion
7 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.69%) Toad
General
1 14 (23.73%) Finance
2 13 (22.03%) Banking
3 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.17%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.78%) Legal
6 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.39%) General Ledger
7 2 (3.39%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Analyst
1 12 (20.34%) Business Analyst
2 8 (13.56%) Architect
3 7 (11.86%) Scrum Master
3 7 (11.86%) Senior
4 6 (10.17%) Engineering Manager
4 6 (10.17%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.17%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (10.17%) Senior Business Analyst
4 6 (10.17%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 6 (10.17%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Banking Project Manager
6 3 (5.08%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Lead
6 3 (5.08%) Payments Project Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Java Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) Kafka
2 7 (11.86%) Spring Boot
2 7 (11.86%) Web Services
3 6 (10.17%) HTML
3 6 (10.17%) J2EE
3 6 (10.17%) RESTful
4 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.47%) CSS
4 5 (8.47%) SOAP
4 5 (8.47%) Spring
5 4 (6.78%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (6.78%) React
5 4 (6.78%) REST
6 3 (5.08%) HTML5
6 3 (5.08%) JDBC
6 3 (5.08%) JSON
6 3 (5.08%) Node.js
6 3 (5.08%) OAuth
6 3 (5.08%) OpenID
6 3 (5.08%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.86%) CMDB
3 4 (6.78%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.08%) PKI
4 3 (5.08%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.08%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.39%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.39%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (3.39%) VSAM
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Unix
2 3 (5.08%) Android
2 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.85%) Scrum
2 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (27.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (27.12%) Microservices
3 16 (27.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (23.73%) Decision-Making
4 14 (23.73%) SDLC
5 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
5 12 (20.34%) Coaching
6 10 (16.95%) DevOps
6 10 (16.95%) Project Management
7 9 (15.25%) Budget Control
7 9 (15.25%) Business Analysis
7 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
7 9 (15.25%) Test Strategy
8 8 (13.56%) Process Improvement
8 8 (13.56%) Risk Management
8 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (13.56%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 31 (52.54%) Java
2 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.47%) SQL
4 2 (3.39%) COBOL
4 2 (3.39%) JCL
4 2 (3.39%) REXX
5 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.69%) Python
5 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.69%) CBAP
3 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) GRC
3 1 (1.69%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (11.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
1 3 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.39%) Puppet
3 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) ServiceNow
2 6 (10.17%) Oracle
3 4 (6.78%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (5.08%) ForgeRock
4 3 (5.08%) Ping Identity
5 2 (3.39%) Ab Initio
5 2 (3.39%) Informatica
5 2 (3.39%) Parasoft
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.69%) TIBCO