Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Microsoft Certification
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 47 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.88% 1.49% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.33% 6.06% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £641 £452 -
25th Percentile £642 £459 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £539 £510
Median % change year-on-year +21.37% +5.74% -
75th Percentile £679 £622 £515
90th Percentile £686 £636 -
Cheshire median daily rate £655 £539 £510
% change year-on-year +21.37% +5.74% -2.86%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Knutsford

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 86 66 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 37.89% 24.63% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 65 31
10th Percentile £402 £306 £365
25th Percentile £425 £350 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £438 £530
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% -17.45% -0.93%
75th Percentile £620 £511 £568
90th Percentile £643 £543 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £447 £513
% change year-on-year +11.86% -12.78% +2.50%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
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 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) MCSA
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable