Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Data Discovery
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Data Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £621 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +12.91% +15.79% +5.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Data Discovery 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 248 105 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.75% 97.22% 96.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 91 90
10th Percentile £313 £350 £401
25th Percentile £358 £356 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £378 £545
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -30.64% +9.00%
75th Percentile £500 £498 £586
90th Percentile £621 £600 £627
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.18 £32.25 £25.14
% change year-on-year -28.14% +28.31% +29.50%

Data Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk