Senior Contracts in Knutsford

Senior
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Senior daily rate in Knutsford is £511, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 5.48% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £407 - -
25th Percentile £433 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 - -
75th Percentile £572 - -
90th Percentile £638 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £588 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +17.50% +11.11% -6.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Knutsford with a recognized job title 125 105 138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.62% 97.22% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 97 111
10th Percentile £330 £356 £415
25th Percentile £358 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.28%
75th Percentile £492 £582 £620
90th Percentile £537 £619 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Knutsford

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Knutsford

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Knutsford

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) CMDB
3 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Service Management
3 5 (62.50%) ITSM
3 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
3 5 (62.50%) Focus Group
4 4 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
4 4 (50.00%) Degree
4 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Identification
4 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (50.00%) Business Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (37.50%) MS Visio
5 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
5 3 (37.50%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Kafka
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Observability
6 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring

Senior Skill Set
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 (12.50%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (37.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS3
2 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) jBPM
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) CMDB
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (87.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Focus Group
3 5 (62.50%) ITSM
3 5 (62.50%) Service Management
3 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Business Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
4 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Identification
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (25.00%) Observability
6 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) TIBCO