Firmware Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Firmware
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Firmware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.32% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £550 £473 -
% change year-on-year +16.40% - -

All System Software Skills
Knutsford

Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 63 20 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 20.06% 16.81% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 17 5
10th Percentile £358 £359 -
25th Percentile £415 £367 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £391 £540
Median % change year-on-year +28.52% -27.59% -1.82%
75th Percentile £639 £393 -
90th Percentile £654 £484 £556
Cheshire median daily rate £449 £391 £375
% change year-on-year +14.83% +4.27% -18.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year -33.83% +36.46% -44.55%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Firmware
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIA
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki