Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Microsoft Azure Certification
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.55% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 - -
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £618 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Knutsford

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 120 24 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 38.22% 20.17% 22.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 22 28
10th Percentile £331 £351 £391
25th Percentile £358 £368 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £467 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -9.98% +17.90%
75th Percentile £559 £573 £632
90th Percentile £635 £600 £700
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +6.74%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Knutsford over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Knutsford

Azure Certification
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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) GCP
3 5 (62.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
4 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (37.50%) API Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 3 (37.50%) GitOps
3 3 (37.50%) Secrets Management
3 3 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) RBAC
4 2 (25.00%) Runbook
4 2 (25.00%) SIEM
4 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) CISSP
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (12.50%) IBM Certification
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Argo
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (25.00%) Istio
4 2 (25.00%) linkerd
5 1 (12.50%) Ansible
5 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) VMware