Resource Allocation Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Resource Allocation
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Resource Allocation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Resource Allocation 10 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.79% 1.87% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 1.92% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £326 £330 -
25th Percentile £341 £342 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £363 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% - -
75th Percentile £415 £386 -
90th Percentile £433 £398 -
Cheshire median daily rate £399 £405 -
% change year-on-year -1.48% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Resource Allocation 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 254 104 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.21% 97.20% 96.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 91 90
10th Percentile £320 £341 £401
25th Percentile £358 £356 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £378 £545
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% -30.64% +9.00%
75th Percentile £539 £498 £586
90th Percentile £631 £600 £627
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £474 £500
% change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £25.14
% change year-on-year -29.69% +29.30% +29.50%

Resource Allocation
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Resource Allocation job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Resource Allocation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Resource Allocation

Resource Allocation
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Resource Allocation in Knutsford over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Resource Allocation in Knutsford

Resource Allocation
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 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (30.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Retail Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Finance Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) PMI
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Change Management
1 6 (60.00%) Process Improvement
1 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Acquisition
3 3 (30.00%) Fintech
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Kanban
3 3 (30.00%) Lean Six Sigma
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (30.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Six Sigma
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
1 3 (30.00%) MBA
1 3 (30.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (30.00%) PMP
1 3 (30.00%) SAFe Agilist
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Basel III
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) PMO