Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Knutsford is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £407 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - -
75th Percentile £429 - -
90th Percentile £434 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £415 - -

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 155 258 155
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 91.49% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 247 130
10th Percentile £357 £309 £339
25th Percentile £408 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £444
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -4.28% -24.23%
75th Percentile £512 £488 £550
90th Percentile £605 £529 £638
Cheshire median daily rate £473 £446 £463
% change year-on-year +6.06% -3.68% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £15.73 - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.91 £29.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.71% -15.00% +6.06%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Knutsford

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2026, Cloud Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) DataOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL