Azure Blueprints Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Azure Blueprints skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.88% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £618 - -
25th Percentile £626 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - -
75th Percentile £645 - -
90th Percentile £673 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £630 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Knutsford

Azure Blueprints 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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 75 130 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 35.21% 45.94% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 124 40
10th Percentile £374 £313 £348
25th Percentile £417 £358 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £385 £390
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% -1.41% -30.54%
75th Percentile £577 £458 £489
90th Percentile £652 £492 £569
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £393 £445
% change year-on-year +27.23% -11.69% -8.72%

Azure Blueprints
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 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 4 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Key Management
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Bicep
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat