AI Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

AI
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing AI 30 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 12.61% 6.20% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.93% 6.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 30 8 0
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £406 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £419 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% - -
75th Percentile £480 £493 -
90th Percentile £496 £508 -
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -10.01% -5.81% +17.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

AI 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 232 122 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.48% 94.57% 96.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 100 62
10th Percentile £310 £321 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% -23.81% +12.18%
75th Percentile £488 £518 £582
90th Percentile £577 £638 £587
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £24.81
% change year-on-year -4.16% -2.52% +83.00%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

AI job vacancy trend in Knutsford

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing AI

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Knutsford over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Knutsford

AI
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 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) GitHub
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (13.33%) Azure
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (16.67%) Big Data
3 4 (13.33%) MySQL
3 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) GitLab
2 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (26.67%) Git
4 6 (20.00%) JIRA
5 5 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 5 (16.67%) JUnit
5 5 (16.67%) MLflow
6 2 (6.67%) Pylint
General
1 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
1 9 (30.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Security Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.67%) Governance Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Programme Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) RESTful
2 9 (30.00%) Spring
2 9 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (20.00%) PySpark
4 5 (16.67%) Flask
4 5 (16.67%) HTML
4 5 (16.67%) Kafka
4 5 (16.67%) React
4 5 (16.67%) REST
5 4 (13.33%) Hibernate
5 4 (13.33%) Spring MVC
5 4 (13.33%) Spring Security
6 2 (6.67%) LangChain
6 2 (6.67%) LangGraph
6 2 (6.67%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) PKI
2 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (46.67%) Agile
3 12 (40.00%) Generative AI
4 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
5 9 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 9 (30.00%) Microservices
5 9 (30.00%) Scrum
5 9 (30.00%) TDD
6 8 (26.67%) LLM
6 8 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (23.33%) MLOps
7 7 (23.33%) SDLC
8 6 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (20.00%) DevOps
9 5 (16.67%) Cloud Security
9 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 5 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 8 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (10.00%) CISSP
4 2 (6.67%) CISM
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) BC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) CBAP
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Cribl.io
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) IBM
3 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk