PSD2 Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring PSD2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing PSD2 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.55% 1.13% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.00% 5.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £415 £308 -
25th Percentile £419 £316 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £331 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.87% - -
75th Percentile £500 £344 -
90th Percentile - £351 -
Cheshire median daily rate £496 £331 -
% change year-on-year +50.08% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Knutsford

PSD2 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 70 37 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 25.55% 20.90% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 30 1
10th Percentile £356 £309 -
25th Percentile £375 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £406 £300
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% +35.42% +10.29%
75th Percentile £500 £565 -
90th Percentile £554 £695 -
Cheshire median daily rate £462 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.55% -4.76% +40.00%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PSD2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

PSD2 job vacancy trend in Knutsford

PSD2
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing PSD2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing PSD2

PSD2
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Banking
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) JMS
1 7 (100.00%) REST
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
1 7 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) SDLC
4 4 (57.14%) Integration Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) ISO 20022
1 7 (100.00%) QA
1 7 (100.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle