linkerd Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

linkerd
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring linkerd 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 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing linkerd 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.30% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £651 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £651 £750 -
% change year-on-year -13.20% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

linkerd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 127 69 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.21% 15.90% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 44 55
10th Percentile £328 £234 £360
25th Percentile £358 £343 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £403 £510
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -21.08% +15.91%
75th Percentile £493 £528 £581
90th Percentile £627 £579 £586
North West median daily rate £458 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.58% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile - £21.05 £16.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.49
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +36.46% -58.55%
75th Percentile £16.50 £64.17 -
90th Percentile - £82.50 £17.74
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £33.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +63.74% -27.26% +8.66%

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing linkerd within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 2 £651 -
linkerd
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk