Financial Institution Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Financial Institution
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 4 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.56% 5.56% -
As % of the General category 2.17% 8.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £394 £309 -
25th Percentile £482 £326 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.33% - -
75th Percentile £587 £490 -
90th Percentile £601 £496 -
Cheshire median daily rate £550 £413 £625
% change year-on-year +33.33% -34.00% +21.36%

All General Skills
Knutsford

Financial Institution falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 184 68 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 71.88% 62.96% 60.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 59 58
10th Percentile £313 £315 £413
25th Percentile £358 £356 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £360 £545
Median % change year-on-year +23.19% -33.94% +15.59%
75th Percentile £539 £498 £586
90th Percentile £627 £598 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £499 £505
% change year-on-year -10.33% -1.29% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year -28.59% +35.54% +46.92%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Financial Institution job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Financial Institution.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in Knutsford over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in Knutsford

Financial Institution
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Snyk
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Innovation
3 1 (25.00%) Gantt Chart
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Records Management
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Veracode