Enterprise Software Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Enterprise Application Software
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Software in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Software over the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Software 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.59% 0.88% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.54% 2.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £236 - -
25th Percentile £261 £402 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 £405 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% - -
75th Percentile £434 £407 -
90th Percentile £442 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £274 £190 -
% change year-on-year +44.21% - -

All Generic Skills
Knutsford

Enterprise Software falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 113 48 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 45.02% 42.11% 47.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 42 38
10th Percentile £313 £356 £495
25th Percentile £371 £357 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £447 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -20.18% +19.66%
75th Percentile £493 £599 £586
90th Percentile £558 £681 £617
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £486 £525
% change year-on-year -8.02% -7.43% +11.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £29.23 £36.50
% change year-on-year -45.26% -19.92% +82.50%

Enterprise Software
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Software relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Enterprise Software job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Enterprise Software.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Software in Knutsford over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Software in Knutsford

Enterprise Software
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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) DocumentDB
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) React Native
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) API Design
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Veracode