Validation Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Validation
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Validation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +24
Contract jobs citing Validation 23 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 7.72% 5.88% 8.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.04% 6.09% 8.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 10
10th Percentile £351 £361 £399
25th Percentile £358 £367 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £381 £570
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -33.16% +42.50%
75th Percentile £483 £386 £580
90th Percentile £682 £397 -
Cheshire median daily rate £420 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -23.64% -3.51% +42.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Validation 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 286 115 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.97% 96.64% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 103 104
10th Percentile £329 £317 £366
25th Percentile £366 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £381 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -23.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £579 £499 £582
90th Percentile £652 £600 £624
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £21.84
% change year-on-year -30.65% +50.87% -4.13%

Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Validation job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Validation
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Validation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Validation

Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Validation in Knutsford over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Validation in Knutsford

Validation
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 4 (17.39%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Apigee
2 5 (21.74%) Kong
3 4 (17.39%) Azure
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) Network Security
2 3 (13.04%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) SSL
3 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Postman
2 4 (17.39%) JIRA
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (30.43%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Analyst
2 10 (43.48%) Business Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Payments Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Payments Business Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Technical Business Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Support Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Governance Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Compliance Manager
6 1 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Digital Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) JSON
1 10 (43.48%) REST
1 10 (43.48%) SOAP
1 10 (43.48%) Swagger
1 10 (43.48%) XML
2 5 (21.74%) JWT
2 5 (21.74%) OAuth
2 5 (21.74%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Digital Wallet
2 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
3 3 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Workshop Facilitation
2 10 (43.48%) Integration Patterns
2 10 (43.48%) Requirements Gathering
2 10 (43.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (39.13%) Agile
3 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Computer Science
3 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (34.78%) Business Analysis
5 6 (26.09%) DevOps
6 5 (21.74%) API Design
6 5 (21.74%) API Integration
6 5 (21.74%) API Testing
6 5 (21.74%) Business Process Analysis
6 5 (21.74%) GAP Analysis
6 5 (21.74%) Microservices
6 5 (21.74%) Runbook
6 5 (21.74%) System Integration Testing
6 5 (21.74%) Use Case
6 5 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) CCNA
3 3 (13.04%) CCNP
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CISSP
4 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.35%) MCSA
4 1 (4.35%) MCSE
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) PCI DSS
1 5 (21.74%) PSD2
2 3 (13.04%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) CASB
1 1 (4.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) MuleSoft
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Tanium
3 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) Remedy
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Tenable