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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 1 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 -13
Contract jobs citing Finance 68 61 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 26.05% 37.65% 6.10%
As % of the General category 43.31% 55.45% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 52 3
10th Percentile £317 £371 £582
25th Percentile £358 £400 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £489 £644
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% -24.07% +43.11%
75th Percentile £480 £546 £702
90th Percentile £634 £585 £737
Cheshire median daily rate £452 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -10.89% -7.73% +21.95%

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 157 110 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 60.15% 67.90% 46.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 94 34
10th Percentile £313 £359 £400
25th Percentile £358 £400 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £461 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.99% -18.36% +15.31%
75th Percentile £489 £538 £593
90th Percentile £541 £620 £610
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%

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

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Knutsford over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Knutsford

Finance
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 10 (14.71%) Confluence
2 4 (5.88%) JBoss
2 4 (5.88%) Tomcat
2 4 (5.88%) WebSphere
3 3 (4.41%) CICS
3 3 (4.41%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.47%) Apache
4 1 (1.47%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) InVision
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.94%) UserZoom
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.59%) AWS
2 4 (5.88%) SaaS
3 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.47%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) Firewall
2 2 (2.94%) DNS
2 2 (2.94%) SSL
2 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.47%) ATM
3 1 (1.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) DB2
2 3 (4.41%) Hadoop
2 3 (4.41%) Impala
3 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.47%) MySQL
4 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.47%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (20.59%) JIRA
2 6 (8.82%) Git
3 5 (7.35%) Bitbucket
4 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.94%) Axure RP
5 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.94%) GitLab
5 2 (2.94%) JUnit
5 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.47%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (1.47%) Maven
6 1 (1.47%) Mockito
6 1 (1.47%) Selenium
6 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (38.24%) Banking
2 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Legal
5 4 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.94%) Publishing
8 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (13.24%) Analyst
1 9 (13.24%) Developer
1 9 (13.24%) Project Manager
2 8 (11.76%) Architect
3 7 (10.29%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (8.82%) Business Analyst
4 6 (8.82%) Scrum Master
5 4 (5.88%) Banking Project Manager
5 4 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (5.88%) Payments Project Manager
6 3 (4.41%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Payments Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Cloud Consultant
7 2 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 2 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) REST
1 6 (8.82%) Spring Boot
1 6 (8.82%) Web Services
2 5 (7.35%) CSS
2 5 (7.35%) HTML
3 4 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (5.88%) RAML
3 4 (5.88%) SOAP
3 4 (5.88%) Spring
3 4 (5.88%) WSDL
4 3 (4.41%) Kafka
4 3 (4.41%) React
5 2 (2.94%) EJB
5 2 (2.94%) J2EE
5 2 (2.94%) JSP
5 2 (2.94%) LDAP
5 2 (2.94%) Node.js
5 2 (2.94%) RESTful
5 2 (2.94%) Servlets
5 2 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.35%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.41%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) VSAM
6 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Windows
3 3 (4.41%) Unix
4 2 (2.94%) Android
4 2 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.18%) Agile
2 14 (20.59%) Migration
3 12 (17.65%) Change Management
3 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (17.65%) SDLC
4 11 (16.18%) DevOps
4 11 (16.18%) Scrum
4 11 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (13.24%) Project Management
7 8 (11.76%) Analytics
7 8 (11.76%) ITIL
7 8 (11.76%) Microservices
8 7 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (10.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 7 (10.29%) Project Delivery
9 6 (8.82%) Architectural Design
9 6 (8.82%) Backlog Management
9 6 (8.82%) CI/CD
9 6 (8.82%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.59%) Java
2 11 (16.18%) SQL
3 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.82%) Python
5 3 (4.41%) R
6 2 (2.94%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.94%) COBOL
6 2 (2.94%) JCL
7 1 (1.47%) Perl
7 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.47%) REXX
Qualifications
1 8 (11.76%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) CISSP
3 2 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.94%) MCSA
3 2 (2.94%) MCSE
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.47%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) CBAP
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) CSPO
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.47%) PMP
4 1 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) GDPR
1 3 (4.41%) QA
1 3 (4.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.94%) GRC
3 1 (1.47%) Basel III
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.41%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) Ansible
3 2 (2.94%) CASB
3 2 (2.94%) Kibana
3 2 (2.94%) Nessus
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.47%) Grafana
4 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.35%) Oracle
3 5 (7.35%) Splunk
4 4 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.94%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.94%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.94%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.94%) Remedy
5 2 (2.94%) Tenable
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco
6 1 (1.47%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.47%) Ribbon
6 1 (1.47%) Veracode
6 1 (1.47%) VMware