Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Lead Development Operations
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in Knutsford is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.36% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £460 - £425

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Knutsford with a recognized job title 260 167 82
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 93.82% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 138 60
10th Percentile £310 £328 £418
25th Percentile £358 £356 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £415 £537
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -22.65% +9.49%
75th Percentile £492 £549 £593
90th Percentile £551 £654 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.09 £33.00
% change year-on-year +8.65% -33.06% +51.52%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, Lead DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Lead DevOps Skill Set
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%) AWS CloudFormation
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform