Onboarding Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Onboarding
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 4.31% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £357 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £447 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -40.30%

All Generic Skills
Knutsford

Onboarding 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 117 50 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 45.88% 43.86% 42.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 43 38
10th Percentile £313 - £495
25th Percentile £362 £356 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £405 £560
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -27.77% +20.04%
75th Percentile £492 £589 £586
90th Percentile £553 £640 £617
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £473 £525
% change year-on-year -5.40% -10.00% +12.18%
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% +57.67%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Onboarding job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Onboarding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in Knutsford over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Knutsford

Onboarding
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 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DocumentDB
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Support Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Product Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Product Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
1 4 (36.36%) Microservices
1 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (36.36%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (27.27%) Cutover Planning
2 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Validation
3 2 (18.18%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Fintech
3 2 (18.18%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (18.18%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) UML
3 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) CBAP
2 1 (9.09%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO 20022
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) PMO
2 1 (9.09%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) IBM Sterling