Process Improvement Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Process Improvement
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Process Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -25 - -
Contract jobs citing Process Improvement 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.75% 2.63% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 2.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £319 £284 -
25th Percentile £329 £309 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% - -
75th Percentile £402 £353 -
90th Percentile £407 £355 -
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £353 £350
% change year-on-year +41.64% +0.86% +7.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Process Improvement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 245 109 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.08% 95.61% 96.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 91 92
10th Percentile £313 £350 £402
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £390 £545
Median % change year-on-year +6.03% -28.44% +10.10%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £586
90th Percentile £587 £638 £627
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £475 £505
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.94% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £27.39 £25.14
% change year-on-year -16.56% +8.95% +29.50%

Process Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Process Improvement job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Process Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Process Improvement

Process Improvement
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 4 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Finance Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) PMI
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Resource Allocation
2 4 (57.14%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) Customer Acquisition
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Digital Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Fintech
4 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 2 (28.57%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Change
4 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (28.57%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
1 2 (28.57%) MBA
1 2 (28.57%) PMI Certification
1 2 (28.57%) PMP
1 2 (28.57%) SAFe Agilist
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Basel III
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality