DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Development Operations Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Knutsford is £399, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 29 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 14 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 5.47% 1.97% 4.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.88% 2.16% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 1
10th Percentile £307 £311 -
25th Percentile £322 £328 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £356 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -38.09% -
75th Percentile £477 - £588
90th Percentile £488 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £391 £356 £525
% change year-on-year +9.90% -32.19% +0.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 238 139 76
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 91.45% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 115 55
10th Percentile £310 £323 £415
25th Percentile £358 £356 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £489 £538 £581
90th Percentile £578 £623 £586
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -7.55% -2.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.50 £22.09 £28.31
% change year-on-year +6.38% -21.96% +48.97%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Knutsford

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Knutsford over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Knutsford

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, DevOps 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 DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (85.71%) AWS
3 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
4 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
5 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 7 (50.00%) AppDynamics
5 7 (50.00%) Docker
5 7 (50.00%) Git
5 7 (50.00%) JBoss
5 7 (50.00%) Linux
5 7 (50.00%) OpenShift
5 7 (50.00%) Progress Chef
5 7 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (50.00%) Splunk
5 7 (50.00%) Windows
6 6 (42.86%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (42.86%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
7 5 (35.71%) Apache
7 5 (35.71%) Broadcom
7 5 (35.71%) CA Single Sign-On
7 5 (35.71%) CA Wily
7 5 (35.71%) Groovy
7 5 (35.71%) IBM
7 5 (35.71%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (35.71%) IIS
7 5 (35.71%) iPlanet
7 5 (35.71%) Kerberos
7 5 (35.71%) LDAP
7 5 (35.71%) OAuth

DevOps 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 7 (50.00%) JBoss
2 5 (35.71%) Apache
2 5 (35.71%) IIS
2 5 (35.71%) iPlanet
2 5 (35.71%) WebSphere
2 5 (35.71%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Datadog
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle Database
2 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 7 (50.00%) Git
2 7 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (42.86%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (42.86%) CA Release Automation
4 4 (28.57%) GitLab
5 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
5 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
6 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (7.14%) JIRA
6 1 (7.14%) Pylint
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) LDAP
1 5 (35.71%) OAuth
1 5 (35.71%) OpenID
1 5 (35.71%) SAML
2 4 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) LangChain
4 1 (7.14%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Unix
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (35.71%) Task Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (28.57%) High Availability
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Change Control
5 3 (21.43%) Change Management
5 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
6 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Customer Acquisition
6 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 2 (14.29%) Observability
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Groovy
1 5 (35.71%) Python
1 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (35.71%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 5 (35.71%) CA Single Sign-On
2 5 (35.71%) CA Wily
2 5 (35.71%) Tivoli
3 4 (28.57%) Terraform
4 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (14.29%) Ansible
5 2 (14.29%) Grafana
5 2 (14.29%) Kibana
5 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 7 (50.00%) Splunk
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (35.71%) Broadcom
3 5 (35.71%) IBM
3 5 (35.71%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) Cloudera
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat