Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.70% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £465 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile £692 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £469 £475
% change year-on-year -4.64% -1.32% -7.32%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Knutsford

Azure DevOps 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 153 48 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 47.22% 41.03% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 43 41
10th Percentile £350 £351 £393
25th Percentile £402 £358 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £391 £489
Median % change year-on-year +25.83% -20.04% -11.09%
75th Percentile £617 £496 £538
90th Percentile £675 £635 £582
Cheshire median daily rate £461 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +8.38% -10.53% -7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £19.00 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year -21.42% +36.46% -16.43%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Knutsford over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Knutsford

Azure DevOps
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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) GitHub
3 6 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (41.67%) AWS
5 4 (33.33%) GCP
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Engagement Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Release Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Release Train Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) API Integration
4 4 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 4 (33.33%) GitOps
4 4 (33.33%) Secrets Management
4 4 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) SDLC
5 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CCIE
2 2 (16.67%) CCNP
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (8.33%) PMP
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Argo
2 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Istio
3 2 (16.67%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Zscaler