Platform Engineering Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Platform Engineering
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Platform Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 48 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.23% 1.43% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £390 £320 -
25th Percentile £392 £332 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £409 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - -
75th Percentile £405 £454 -
90th Percentile £405 £462 -
Cheshire median daily rate £400 £445 -
% change year-on-year -10.22% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Platform 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 144 269 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 88.34% 96.42% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 258 131
10th Percentile £356 £309 £349
25th Percentile £402 £358 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £422 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.92% -5.17% -24.06%
75th Percentile £515 £488 £550
90th Percentile £610 £537 £640
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £446 £475
% change year-on-year +6.51% -6.21% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate £14.90 - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £17.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +101.80% -49.29% +14.60%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Platform Engineering job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Platform 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance