Containerisation Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Containerization
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Containerisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 35 27
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Containerisation 27 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 9.68% 2.27% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.11% 2.38% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 4 1
10th Percentile £310 £345 -
25th Percentile £360 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -14.38% -
75th Percentile £500 £464 £538
90th Percentile £592 £480 -
Cheshire median daily rate £448 £455 £550
% change year-on-year -1.65% -17.27% +29.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Containerisation 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 267 168 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.70% 95.45% 96.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 137 69
10th Percentile £310 £336 £450
25th Percentile £358 £360 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £430 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -19.32% +8.78%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £586
90th Percentile £576 £685 £595
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £496 £525
% change year-on-year -10.20% -5.50% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.43 £27.39 £22.53
% change year-on-year -18.09% +21.55% +61.04%

Containerisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Containerisation job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Containerisation
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Containerisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Containerisation

Containerisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Containerisation in Knutsford over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Containerisation in Knutsford

Containerisation
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 3 (11.11%) Apache
1 3 (11.11%) IIS
1 3 (11.11%) iPlanet
1 3 (11.11%) JBoss
1 3 (11.11%) WebSphere
1 3 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) AWS
2 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 14 (51.85%) OpenShift
3 8 (29.63%) GCP
4 7 (25.93%) IaaS
4 7 (25.93%) PaaS
4 7 (25.93%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) Kerberos
2 3 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) JIRA
3 4 (14.81%) GitLab
4 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 10 (37.04%) Banking
3 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
1 6 (22.22%) Lead
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Payments Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Monitoring Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Product Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Product Owner
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) Spring
1 10 (37.04%) Spring Boot
2 7 (25.93%) AngularJS
2 7 (25.93%) Node.js
2 7 (25.93%) REST
3 6 (22.22%) JMS
4 3 (11.11%) Kafka
4 3 (11.11%) LDAP
4 3 (11.11%) OAuth
4 3 (11.11%) OpenID
4 3 (11.11%) SAML
5 1 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 7 (25.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Linux
1 10 (37.04%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 13 (48.15%) DevOps
3 11 (40.74%) Observability
4 10 (37.04%) Agile
5 7 (25.93%) ETL
5 7 (25.93%) Microservices
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.93%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (22.22%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 5 (18.52%) SDLC
8 4 (14.81%) Integration Testing
8 4 (14.81%) Logical Data Model
8 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
8 4 (14.81%) Risk Analysis
8 4 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
8 4 (14.81%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (14.81%) UML
8 4 (14.81%) Unit Testing
8 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Java
2 7 (25.93%) PHP
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) Groovy
4 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (14.81%) CISM
2 4 (14.81%) CISSP
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) CBAP
4 2 (7.41%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) ISO 20022
2 7 (25.93%) SEPA
3 6 (22.22%) PCI DSS
3 6 (22.22%) PSD2
3 6 (22.22%) QA
4 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (14.81%) NIST
5 2 (7.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (74.07%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 17 (62.96%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Grafana
3 4 (14.81%) Fluentd
4 3 (11.11%) CA Single Sign-On
4 3 (11.11%) CA Wily
4 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 3 (11.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Oracle
2 10 (37.04%) AppDynamics
3 7 (25.93%) Splunk
4 5 (18.52%) IBM
4 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
5 4 (14.81%) Cribl.io
5 4 (14.81%) Google
6 3 (11.11%) Broadcom
7 2 (7.41%) IBM Sterling