Google Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Google
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring knowledge or experience of Google products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google over the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Google.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google 13 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 5.91% - 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 11.61% - 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £452 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 - £350
75th Percentile £630 - -
90th Percentile £643 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £453 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -27.93%

All Vendors
Knutsford

Google falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 112 144 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 50.91% 50.35% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 140 49
10th Percentile £375 £310 £387
25th Percentile £415 £350 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £423 £533
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -20.73% -9.04%
75th Percentile £582 £488 £586
90th Percentile £653 £514 £718
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £443 £530
% change year-on-year +7.34% -16.51% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £26.75 £15.29 £17.00
% change year-on-year +75.01% -10.09% -24.55%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Google job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in Knutsford over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google in Knutsford

Google
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 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (92.31%) AWS
3 11 (84.62%) GCP
4 8 (61.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (38.46%) AWS KMS
5 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
6 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (30.77%) Serverless
6 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (15.38%) Azure AI
7 2 (15.38%) IBM Watson
7 2 (15.38%) Vertex AI
8 1 (7.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Security Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (46.15%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (15.38%) LangChain
3 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
3 2 (15.38%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Cloud Native
1 10 (76.92%) Management Information System
1 10 (76.92%) Security Posture
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.69%) Cyberattack
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.69%) CentOS
3 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
1 11 (84.62%) SIEM
2 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 10 (76.92%) Cloud Security
2 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 10 (76.92%) Scrum
3 9 (69.23%) Change Management
4 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Automation
4 8 (61.54%) Load Balancing
5 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (46.15%) DevSecOps
6 6 (46.15%) Product Roadmap
6 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
6 6 (46.15%) SDLC
6 6 (46.15%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (38.46%) Incident Response
7 5 (38.46%) Key Management
7 5 (38.46%) Security Monitoring
8 4 (30.77%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 9 (69.23%) Bash
2 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
3 8 (61.54%) Java
4 4 (30.77%) Bicep
5 1 (7.69%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) CISSP
2 10 (76.92%) AWS Certification
2 10 (76.92%) Degree
3 9 (69.23%) Azure Certification
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (7.69%) BC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (7.69%) CISM
5 1 (7.69%) GIAC
5 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
1 8 (61.54%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) QRadar
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Thales