Configuration Management Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Configuration Management
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Configuration Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 43 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Configuration Management 7 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.04% 2.97% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 3.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 0
10th Percentile £474 £383 -
25th Percentile £503 £384 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% - -
75th Percentile £611 £488 -
90th Percentile £652 £492 -
Cheshire median daily rate £531 £475 £590
% change year-on-year +11.68% -19.49% +45.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Configuration Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 259 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 93.91% 96.28% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 247 134
10th Percentile £365 £309 £326
25th Percentile £417 £358 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £405 £461
Median % change year-on-year +18.77% -12.20% -18.36%
75th Percentile £601 £489 £551
90th Percentile £653 £537 £632
Cheshire median daily rate £484 £435 £475
% change year-on-year +11.33% -8.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.70% -8.57% +14.60%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Configuration Management job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Configuration Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Configuration Management

Configuration Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Configuration Management in Knutsford over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Configuration Management in Knutsford

Configuration Management
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 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (14.29%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Security
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) SIEM
3 4 (57.14%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
4 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
4 3 (42.86%) Runbook
4 3 (42.86%) SOAR
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Detection
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Change Management
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (42.86%) Search Processing Language
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Bicep
3 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CISSP
2 4 (57.14%) GCIH
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
3 3 (42.86%) GCFA
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
5 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (14.29%) CCIE
5 1 (14.29%) CCNP
5 1 (14.29%) CCSA
5 1 (14.29%) CCSE
5 1 (14.29%) CCSP
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (14.29%) GCIA
5 1 (14.29%) GIAC
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (14.29%) RHCE
5 1 (14.29%) RHCSA
5 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) PCI DSS
2 3 (42.86%) GDPR
2 3 (42.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Progress Chef
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
3 3 (42.86%) CASB
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Cribl.io
2 3 (42.86%) Splunk
3 2 (28.57%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) AlgoSec
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto