Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Cloud Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Knutsford is £368, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 23 35
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 6 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.31% 3.54% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 3.81% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £360 - £400
25th Percentile £363 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £640 £401
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% +59.50% -34.76%
75th Percentile £385 - £403
90th Percentile £395 - £403
Cheshire median daily rate £368 £640 £510
% change year-on-year -42.50% +25.49% +10.27%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Knutsford with a recognized job title 236 105 110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 92.92% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 91 85
10th Percentile £313 £335 £401
25th Percentile £358 £356 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £378 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -30.00% +4.85%
75th Percentile £492 £498 £582
90th Percentile £617 £600 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £468 £500
% change year-on-year -3.90% -6.35% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £24.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.54% +7.51% +19.55%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 17 February 2026, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (50.00%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) JIRA
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Node.js
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) Perl
4 2 (33.33%) Ruby
4 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon MSK
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Acquisition
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow