Microsoft Contracts in Knutsford

Microsoft
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, 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 the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 23 4
Rank change year-on-year +8 -19 +28
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft 43 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 15.52% 7.39% 18.42%
As % of the Vendors category 31.16% 21.31% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 12 9
10th Percentile £332 £377 £565
25th Percentile £364 £391 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £529 £565
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% -6.37% +102.87%
75th Percentile £480 £570 £586
90th Percentile £500 £576 £587
Cheshire median daily rate £428 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -17.79% +15.56% +10.57%

All Vendors
Knutsford

Microsoft 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 138 61 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 49.82% 34.66% 55.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 56 31
10th Percentile £310 £390 £500
25th Percentile £358 £413 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £519 £565
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% -8.19% +2.73%
75th Percentile £488 £576 £592
90th Percentile £518 £620 £593
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £524 £500
% change year-on-year -14.08% +4.75% +5.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Knutsford over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Knutsford

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Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Microsoft

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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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (16.28%) JBoss
2 5 (11.63%) Apache
2 5 (11.63%) Confluence
3 3 (6.98%) IIS
3 3 (6.98%) iPlanet
3 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.98%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.98%) WebSphere
3 3 (6.98%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (2.33%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) OpenShift
3 5 (11.63%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.98%) OneDrive
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub
6 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.33%) npm
7 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Kerberos
2 2 (4.65%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) ATM
3 1 (2.33%) DHCP
3 1 (2.33%) DMZ
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.65%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) DB2
3 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Git
2 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
3 9 (20.93%) JIRA
4 6 (13.95%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (9.30%) CA Release Automation
5 4 (9.30%) JUnit
6 3 (6.98%) GitLab
6 3 (6.98%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
7 2 (4.65%) Gradle
7 2 (4.65%) Maven
8 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.33%) Gerrit
8 1 (2.33%) Grunt
8 1 (2.33%) gulp
8 1 (2.33%) Selenium
8 1 (2.33%) Subversion
8 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (58.14%) Finance
2 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (16.28%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Publishing
6 1 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) Analyst
2 6 (13.95%) Architect
3 4 (9.30%) Business Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Security Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Build Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) REST
2 5 (11.63%) Spring Boot
3 4 (9.30%) LDAP
3 4 (9.30%) OAuth
3 4 (9.30%) React
3 4 (9.30%) RESTful
3 4 (9.30%) SAML
3 4 (9.30%) Spring
4 3 (6.98%) CSS
4 3 (6.98%) HTML
4 3 (6.98%) Kafka
4 3 (6.98%) OpenID
4 3 (6.98%) SOAP
4 3 (6.98%) Web Services
5 2 (4.65%) CSS3
5 2 (4.65%) HTML5
5 2 (4.65%) jQuery
5 2 (4.65%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (4.65%) SailPoint
6 1 (2.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) PACS
3 1 (2.33%) PKI
3 1 (2.33%) PMI
3 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Windows
3 5 (11.63%) Unix
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) DevOps
2 10 (23.26%) Agile
3 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
4 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.95%) Cloud Security
5 6 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (13.95%) Microservices
5 6 (13.95%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (11.63%) Change Management
6 5 (11.63%) ITSM
6 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.63%) Migration
6 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
6 5 (11.63%) Scrum
6 5 (11.63%) SDLC
6 5 (11.63%) TDD
7 4 (9.30%) DevSecOps
7 4 (9.30%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) Java
2 8 (18.60%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
4 4 (9.30%) Python
5 3 (6.98%) Groovy
5 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.33%) Perl
7 1 (2.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CBAP
4 1 (2.33%) CISA
4 1 (2.33%) CISM
4 1 (2.33%) CISSP
4 1 (2.33%) GSEC
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.65%) QA
4 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (2.33%) ISO 8583
4 1 (2.33%) NIST
4 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.63%) Docker
3 3 (6.98%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Progress Chef
2 3 (6.98%) CA Single Sign-On
2 3 (6.98%) CA Wily
2 3 (6.98%) Tivoli
3 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) QRadar
4 1 (2.33%) Ansible
4 1 (2.33%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle
2 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
2 6 (13.95%) Splunk
3 4 (9.30%) AppDynamics
3 4 (9.30%) IBM
4 3 (6.98%) Broadcom
5 2 (4.65%) ArcSight
5 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.33%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.33%) Dell
6 1 (2.33%) Okta
6 1 (2.33%) Perforce
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat