DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Development Operations Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Knutsford is £358, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 34 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 -16 -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 11 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 3.91% 1.20% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.28% 1.27% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £305 £351 -
25th Percentile £314 £352 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £353 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% - -
75th Percentile £474 £355 -
90th Percentile £480 £355 -
Cheshire median daily rate £358 £448 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 257 157 48
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 94.01% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 131 36
10th Percentile £309 £341 £492
25th Percentile £358 £375 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £444 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -24.23% +18.98%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £595
90th Percentile £530 £638 £609
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £465 £489
% change year-on-year -3.87% -4.91% +8.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £29.75 £35.00 £33.54
% change year-on-year -15.00% +4.35% +45.16%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer 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 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Knutsford

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) AppDynamics
2 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
2 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
3 8 (72.73%) Apache
3 8 (72.73%) OAuth
4 7 (63.64%) Git
4 7 (63.64%) Splunk
4 7 (63.64%) Progress Chef
4 7 (63.64%) OpenShift
4 7 (63.64%) Docker
4 7 (63.64%) JBoss
4 7 (63.64%) Windows
4 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
4 7 (63.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (54.55%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (54.55%) Bitbucket Server
5 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
6 5 (45.45%) Groovy
6 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (45.45%) CA Wily
6 5 (45.45%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 5 (45.45%) OpenID
6 5 (45.45%) Oracle Database
6 5 (45.45%) Broadcom
6 5 (45.45%) Kibana
6 5 (45.45%) SAML
6 5 (45.45%) iPlanet

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (72.73%) Apache
2 7 (63.64%) JBoss
3 5 (45.45%) IIS
3 5 (45.45%) iPlanet
3 5 (45.45%) WebSphere
3 5 (45.45%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (27.27%) nginx
4 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) OpenShift
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (27.27%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle Database
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
3 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
2 7 (63.64%) Git
2 7 (63.64%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (54.55%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (54.55%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
5 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (9.09%) Pylint
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) OAuth
2 5 (45.45%) LDAP
2 5 (45.45%) OpenID
2 5 (45.45%) SAML
3 3 (27.27%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 1 (9.09%) LangChain
5 1 (9.09%) LangGraph
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (45.45%) Unix
3 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Secrets Management
5 3 (27.27%) Service Catalogue
5 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Change Management
6 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
6 2 (18.18%) Runbook
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Groovy
1 5 (45.45%) Shell Script
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 5 (45.45%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Progress Chef
2 5 (45.45%) CA Single Sign-On
2 5 (45.45%) CA Wily
2 5 (45.45%) Kibana
2 5 (45.45%) Tivoli
3 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (27.27%) Terraform
4 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) AppDynamics
2 7 (63.64%) Splunk
3 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 5 (45.45%) Broadcom
4 5 (45.45%) IBM
4 5 (45.45%) Oracle
5 2 (18.18%) Cloudera
5 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
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