Developer Contracts in Knutsford

Developer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Developer daily rate in Knutsford is £357, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 13 17 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 8.90% 15.74% 26.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.40% 16.19% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 38
10th Percentile £328 £310 £440
25th Percentile £349 £311 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £321 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.39% -41.73% +14.11%
75th Percentile £490 £459 £575
90th Percentile £526 £487 £620
Cheshire median daily rate £410 £320 £550
% change year-on-year +28.13% -41.82% +19.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Knutsford with a recognized job title 125 105 138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.62% 97.22% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 97 111
10th Percentile £330 £356 £415
25th Percentile £358 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.28%
75th Percentile £492 £582 £620
90th Percentile £537 £619 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Knutsford

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Knutsford

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Knutsford

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) SQL
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) PySpark
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 3 (23.08%) CyberArk
3 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) ETL
3 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
3 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) Spring
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) HTML5
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse

Developer Skill Set
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 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Camunda
1 1 (7.69%) CICS
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) DB2
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Gradle
3 1 (7.69%) HP UFT
3 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) NetBeans
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) Subversion
3 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.69%) Toad
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) PySpark
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
1 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
2 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) CSS3
2 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) HTML5
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) J2EE
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Integration
3 1 (7.69%) Spring MVC
3 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (23.08%) ETL
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) API Development
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) SDLC
3 2 (15.38%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Multithreading
4 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) COBOL
4 1 (7.69%) JCL
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) CyberArk
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) TIBCO
155 Developer jobs in Cheshire