Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Software Engineering
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 29 25
Rank change year-on-year -29 -4 +23
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 2 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.74% 3.80% 6.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 4.00% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £324 £311 £455
25th Percentile £337 £328 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £356 £487
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -26.90% -
75th Percentile £380 £453 £488
90th Percentile £393 £511 £543
Cheshire median daily rate £464 £475 £481
% change year-on-year -2.42% -1.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £42.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Software Engineering 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 259 150 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.93% 94.94% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 121 64
10th Percentile £310 £323 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £422 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% -19.62% +7.72%
75th Percentile £489 £550 £582
90th Percentile £578 £638 £592
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.60% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £27.39 £26.00
% change year-on-year -16.56% +5.33% +66.03%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Applications Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google