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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Banking 56 39 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 25.93% 25.49% 15.00%
As % of the General category 45.53% 39.39% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 35 17
10th Percentile £314 £375 £469
25th Percentile £355 £413 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £566
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -21.38% +16.70%
75th Percentile £447 £504 £595
90th Percentile £537 £572 £629
Cheshire median daily rate £400 £476 £565
% change year-on-year -16.01% -15.71% +16.49%

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 123 99 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 56.94% 64.71% 51.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 86 53
10th Percentile £320 £359 £334
25th Percentile £358 £394 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £483 £566
Median % change year-on-year -16.81% -14.62% +16.22%
75th Percentile £492 £575 £638
90th Percentile £537 £629 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.70%

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

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in Knutsford over the 6 months to 13 June 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 7 (12.50%) Confluence
2 6 (10.71%) CICS
3 3 (5.36%) WebSphere
4 2 (3.57%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.79%) Apache
5 1 (1.79%) JBoss
5 1 (1.79%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.21%) AWS
2 3 (5.36%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.79%) Azure
3 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.79%) GCP
3 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) DB2
2 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.57%) Easytrieve
2 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.79%) MySQL
3 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Jenkins
1 10 (17.86%) JIRA
2 7 (12.50%) Git
3 5 (8.93%) Gradle
3 5 (8.93%) Selenium
4 4 (7.14%) Xcode
5 2 (3.57%) SOAtest
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.79%) Gerrit
6 1 (1.79%) JUnit
6 1 (1.79%) Maven
6 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 20 (35.71%) Finance
2 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Legal
5 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.36%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.36%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.57%) General Ledger
7 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Architect
2 12 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) Analyst
3 11 (19.64%) Developer
4 9 (16.07%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.93%) iOS Developer
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Designer
6 4 (7.14%) Payments Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Banking Project Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Test Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Consultant
8 2 (3.57%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Payments Project Manager
8 2 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) HTML
2 7 (12.50%) CSS
3 5 (8.93%) Web Services
4 4 (7.14%) REST
5 3 (5.36%) React
5 3 (5.36%) Spring
5 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.57%) J2EE
6 2 (3.57%) jQuery
6 2 (3.57%) JSON
6 2 (3.57%) Kafka
6 2 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (3.57%) RESTful
6 2 (3.57%) XML
7 1 (1.79%) CSS3
7 1 (1.79%) lodash
7 1 (1.79%) RAML
7 1 (1.79%) React Native
7 1 (1.79%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 6 (10.71%) Mobile App
3 5 (8.93%) Mobile Banking
3 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.93%) VSAM
4 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Apple iOS
2 5 (8.93%) Android
3 4 (7.14%) Unix
4 2 (3.57%) zOS
5 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Agile
2 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (21.43%) Migration
4 10 (17.86%) Scrum
5 8 (14.29%) Change Management
5 8 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
5 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 7 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 7 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (12.50%) Microservices
6 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 7 (12.50%) User Stories
7 6 (10.71%) Process Improvement
7 6 (10.71%) Project Management
8 5 (8.93%) Data Migration
8 5 (8.93%) DevOps
8 5 (8.93%) Front End Development
8 5 (8.93%) iOS Development
8 5 (8.93%) SDLC
8 5 (8.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.36%) Java
2 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.93%) COBOL
3 5 (8.93%) JCL
3 5 (8.93%) Python
4 4 (7.14%) C
4 4 (7.14%) C++
4 4 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 4 (7.14%) Objective-C
4 4 (7.14%) Ruby
4 4 (7.14%) Scala
4 4 (7.14%) Swift
5 3 (5.36%) REXX
6 2 (3.57%) Apex Code
6 2 (3.57%) SQL
7 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.79%) CBAP
4 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.79%) CSPO
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.79%) PMP
4 1 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) COREP
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) FINREP
2 2 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.79%) GRC
3 1 (1.79%) PSD2
3 1 (1.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Ansible
2 2 (3.57%) HP ALM
2 2 (3.57%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) Grafana
3 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) Oracle
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) Ab Initio
3 2 (3.57%) HP
3 2 (3.57%) Informatica
3 2 (3.57%) Parasoft
3 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.79%) VMware