Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Azure AKS 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 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.76% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £651 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £651 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Knutsford

Azure AKS 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 133 46 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 50.38% 42.99% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 39 34
10th Percentile £350 £320 £424
25th Percentile £360 £356 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £370 £495
Median % change year-on-year +22.84% -25.25% -9.67%
75th Percentile £576 £493 £538
90th Percentile £637 £608 £582
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +9.09% -13.16% -4.04%
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 AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Azure AKS
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 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 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%) linkerd
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk