Banking Contracts in Knutsford

Banking
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking 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 5 4 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -11
Contract jobs citing Banking 33 26 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 22.60% 24.07% 11.84%
As % of the General category 43.42% 41.94% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 17
10th Percentile £268 £391 £409
25th Percentile £343 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £445 £564
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% -21.10% +21.42%
75th Percentile £447 £498 £566
90th Percentile £492 £569 £629
Cheshire median daily rate £404 £489 £518
% change year-on-year -17.48% -5.60% +10.21%

All General Skills
Knutsford

Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 76 62 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 52.05% 57.41% 51.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 57 68
10th Percentile £317 £342 £325
25th Percentile £358 £393 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £478 £517
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% -7.55% +11.31%
75th Percentile £491 £582 £624
90th Percentile £543 £614 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Knutsford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Banking in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in Knutsford

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Banking in Knutsford.

Hourly rate trend for Banking in Knutsford

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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 6 (18.18%) CICS
2 3 (9.09%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.03%) Azure
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) DB2
2 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.06%) Easytrieve
2 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Selenium
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) SOAtest
4 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 14 (42.42%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Legal
4 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 3 (9.09%) Retail Banking
6 2 (6.06%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Analyst
1 9 (27.27%) Architect
1 9 (27.27%) Business Analyst
2 7 (21.21%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Architect
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Solution Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Banking Project Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Designer
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Mainframe Designer
5 2 (6.06%) Payments Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Test Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Tester
6 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Payments Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Payments Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Web Services
2 3 (9.09%) HTML
2 3 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.06%) CSS
3 2 (6.06%) J2EE
3 2 (6.06%) JSON
3 2 (6.06%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) React
3 2 (6.06%) RESTful
3 2 (6.06%) Spring
3 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.06%) XML
4 1 (3.03%) DOM
4 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.03%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.03%) HTML5
4 1 (3.03%) jQuery
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Mainframe
2 5 (15.15%) VSAM
3 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Blockchain
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Unix
2 2 (6.06%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (27.27%) Agile
3 8 (24.24%) Migration
4 7 (21.21%) Change Management
4 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
5 6 (18.18%) User Stories
6 5 (15.15%) Business Analysis
6 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (15.15%) SDLC
6 5 (15.15%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (12.12%) BPR
7 4 (12.12%) Business Case
7 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (12.12%) Microservices
7 4 (12.12%) Process Improvement
8 3 (9.09%) Analytics
8 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 3 (9.09%) DevOps
8 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 3 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Java
2 5 (15.15%) COBOL
2 5 (15.15%) JCL
3 3 (9.09%) REXX
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) Python
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) CBAP
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.03%) PMP
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) COREP
2 2 (6.06%) FINREP
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.03%) GRC
3 1 (3.03%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Ansible
2 2 (6.06%) HP ALM
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (6.06%) Ab Initio
2 2 (6.06%) HP
2 2 (6.06%) Informatica
2 2 (6.06%) Parasoft
2 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.03%) IBM
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) VMware