Finance Contracts in Knutsford

Financial
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance 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 6 1 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Finance 31 30 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 21.23% 27.78% 19.08%
As % of the General category 40.79% 48.39% 36.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 25
10th Percentile £317 £390 £415
25th Percentile £355 £432 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.49% +9.89% -1.59%
75th Percentile £422 £583 £566
90th Percentile £517 £614 £663
Cheshire median daily rate £465 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -15.45% +14.61% +6.64%

All General Skills
Knutsford

Finance 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%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Knutsford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Knutsford

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance 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 4 (12.90%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) CICS
2 3 (9.68%) Tomcat
2 3 (9.68%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.45%) JBoss
3 2 (6.45%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.23%) Apache
4 1 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) InVision
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.45%) UserZoom
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
2 2 (6.45%) SaaS
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.23%) AWS KMS
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) ATM
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) DB2
2 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 3 (9.68%) Bitbucket
2 3 (9.68%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) Axure RP
3 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) Selenium
General
1 14 (45.16%) Banking
2 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Legal
4 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Financial Institution
6 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.23%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.23%) Marketing
8 1 (3.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Project Manager
2 4 (12.90%) Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Scrum Master
2 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Banking Project Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Payments Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Architect
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Java Scrum Master
4 2 (6.45%) Tester
5 1 (3.23%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Incident Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Major Incident Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) CSS
1 3 (9.68%) HTML
1 3 (9.68%) REST
1 3 (9.68%) Spring
1 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
1 3 (9.68%) Web Services
2 2 (6.45%) EJB
2 2 (6.45%) J2EE
2 2 (6.45%) JSP
2 2 (6.45%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) RAML
2 2 (6.45%) Servlets
2 2 (6.45%) SOAP
2 2 (6.45%) WSDL
3 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.23%) CSS3
3 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Mainframe
2 3 (9.68%) Private Cloud
2 3 (9.68%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) VSAM
4 1 (3.23%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Android
2 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Agile
2 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (16.13%) Analytics
4 5 (16.13%) Scrum
4 5 (16.13%) SDLC
5 4 (12.90%) Architectural Design
5 4 (12.90%) Backlog Management
5 4 (12.90%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (12.90%) Budget Control
5 4 (12.90%) Change Management
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (12.90%) Microservices
5 4 (12.90%) Project Management
5 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
6 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
6 3 (9.68%) Conflict Resolution
6 3 (9.68%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Java
2 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
2 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 2 (6.45%) COBOL
3 2 (6.45%) JCL
4 1 (3.23%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) REXX
4 1 (3.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.23%) CBAP
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) PMP
4 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) GRC
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
2 1 (3.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) HP ALM
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Kibana
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle
2 2 (6.45%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (6.45%) HP
2 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.23%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.23%) Ping Identity
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.23%) VMware