Public Sector Contracts in Knutsford

Public Sector
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 7 29
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 -26
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 10 20 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 6.85% 18.52% 5.26%
As % of the General category 13.16% 32.26% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 8
10th Percentile £347 £311 £440
25th Percentile £355 £372 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £447 £565
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -20.84% +15.66%
75th Percentile £515 £582 £594
90th Percentile £555 £586 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £419 £451 £540
% change year-on-year -6.99% -16.57% +10.77%

All General Skills
Knutsford

Public Sector 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 76 62 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 52.05% 57.41% 51.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 57 68
10th Percentile £317 £342 £325
25th Percentile £358 £393 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £478 £517
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% -7.55% +11.31%
75th Percentile £491 £582 £624
90th Percentile £543 £614 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Knutsford

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Knutsford

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Knutsford

Public Sector
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 1 (10.00%) CICS
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Major Incident Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Change Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) CSS3
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
2 1 (10.00%) JDBC
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) CMDB
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
1 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (10.00%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (10.00%) Focus Group
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Ping Identity