Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Technical Leadership
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.20% 2.91% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 3.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £418 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - -
75th Percentile £465 £638 -
90th Percentile £510 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £443 £638 £488
% change year-on-year -30.59% +30.77% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Technical Leadership 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 221 99 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.36% 96.12% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 83 68
10th Percentile £310 £342 £450
25th Percentile £355 £356 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £390 £529
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -26.28% +14.75%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £583
90th Percentile £568 £638 £617
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £26.00
% change year-on-year -5.50% -7.00% +61.79%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Payments Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google