Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Knutsford

Infrastructure Automation
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 2.74% 3.70% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 4.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £552 £454 -
25th Percentile £575 £459 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £481 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.94% - -
75th Percentile £638 £487 -
90th Percentile - £487 -
Cheshire median daily rate £625 £487 £463
% change year-on-year +28.34% +5.30% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Infrastructure Automation 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 143 98 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.95% 90.74% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 90 115
10th Percentile £341 £362 £342
25th Percentile £358 £401 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -7.95% +19.05%
75th Percentile £492 £598 £621
90th Percentile £537 £627 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Knutsford

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Knutsford

Infrastructure Automation
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware