Semantic Kernel Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Semantic Kernel
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Semantic Kernel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Kernel 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £590 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £610 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £600 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

Semantic Kernel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 107 134 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.50% 25.38% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 107 57
10th Percentile £350 £319 £295
25th Percentile £383 £358 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £385 £438
Median % change year-on-year +20.13% -12.00% -20.45%
75th Percentile £615 £458 £489
90th Percentile £675 £543 £593
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £34.00 -
25th Percentile - £40.00 £10.75
Median hourly rate - £51.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year - +343.48% -
75th Percentile - £61.00 £12.25
90th Percentile - £66.40 -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £47.31
% change year-on-year +7.14% +47.98% +16.54%

Semantic Kernel
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 Semantic Kernel within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 June 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 - 1 £600 -
Semantic Kernel
North West

Semantic Kernel
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft