DevSecOps Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

DevSecOps
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring DevSecOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 25 29
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -
Contract jobs citing DevSecOps 12 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 5.04% 2.33% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 2.46% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £348 - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 - £538
90th Percentile £660 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £486 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -11.64% +4.76% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

DevSecOps 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 232 122 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.48% 94.57% 96.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 100 62
10th Percentile £310 £321 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% -23.81% +12.18%
75th Percentile £488 £518 £582
90th Percentile £577 £638 £587
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £24.81
% change year-on-year -4.16% -2.52% +83.00%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

DevSecOps job vacancy trend in Knutsford

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing DevSecOps

DevSecOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Knutsford over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevSecOps in Knutsford

DevSecOps
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 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (16.67%) Datadog
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (16.67%) CircleCI
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Snyk
2 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Architect
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) AI
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 4 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 4 (33.33%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Change Control
5 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Checkmarx
2 2 (16.67%) Veracode
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow