Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Infrastructure Engineering
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.06% 1.68% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.75% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £343 £501
25th Percentile £313 £406 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +1.45% +47.86%
75th Percentile £403 £656 £533
90th Percentile £443 £728 £536
Cheshire median daily rate £325 £375 £500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -25.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Infrastructure Engineering 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 272 171 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.45% 95.53% 96.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 140 66
10th Percentile £311 £339 £450
25th Percentile £358 £359 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £428 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -20.83% +10.20%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £593
90th Percentile £537 £645 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £443 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% -4.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £23.07
% change year-on-year -46.09% +51.71% +43.56%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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%) Confluence
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) iPlanet
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SSH
2 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) CA Wily
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Gemalto
2 2 (66.67%) Thales
3 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
3 1 (33.33%) Broadcom
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk