DevOps Specialist Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Development Operations Specialist
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Development Operations Specialist daily rate in Knutsford is £302, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Specialist 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £251 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £302 - -
75th Percentile £380 - -
90th Percentile £396 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £302 - -

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 222 120 75
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 93.02% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 100 54
10th Percentile £310 £321 £414
25th Percentile £358 £356 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £395 £498
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% -20.60% +4.74%
75th Percentile £488 £508 £577
90th Percentile £565 £638 £586
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £474 £500
% change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £24.33 £22.09 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.12% -33.06% +74.51%

DevOps Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

DevOps Specialist job vacancy trend in Knutsford

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, DevOps Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JBoss
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Kibana
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift

DevOps Specialist 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 2 (66.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (66.67%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Kibana
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft