Azure AI Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Azure AI Platform
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Azure AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.39% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £621 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Knutsford

Azure AI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 126 46 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 48.65% 42.59% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 38 34
10th Percentile £350 £331 £424
25th Percentile £358 £356 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £373 £495
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -24.75% -6.11%
75th Percentile £539 £495 £538
90th Percentile £630 £611 £582
Cheshire median daily rate £435 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +2.35% -10.53% -1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £19.86
% change year-on-year -33.83% +21.75% -53.54%

Azure 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Watson
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM