Azure Contracts in Knutsford

Microsoft Azure
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 11 6
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Azure 9 14 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 6.16% 12.96% 22.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.36% 41.18% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 26
10th Percentile £356 £445 £520
25th Percentile £431 £482 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £495 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -12.48% +7.62%
75th Percentile £503 £582 £589
90th Percentile £671 - £634
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £492 £563
% change year-on-year -13.57% -12.66% +18.53%

All Cloud Skills
Knutsford

Azure 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 55 34 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 37.67% 31.48% 51.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 31 68
10th Percentile £356 £311 £417
25th Percentile £362 £416 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £493 £528 £575
90th Percentile £617 £582 £632
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +21.21%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Knutsford

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Knutsford

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Knutsford

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (33.33%) OneDrive
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) BGP
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) MPLS
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) OSPF
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Hudson
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) ETL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS3
1 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) HTML5
1 1 (11.11%) JAX-WS
1 1 (11.11%) JMS
1 1 (11.11%) jQuery
1 1 (11.11%) JSP
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Servlets
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring MVC
1 1 (11.11%) Struts
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Protection
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
4 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIE
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) IBM