Platform Specialist Contracts in Knutsford

Platform Specialist
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Platform Specialist daily rate in Knutsford is £373, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 0.41% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £339 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 - -
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £373 - -

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 223 168 111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.02% 94.92% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 147 90
10th Percentile £314 £350 £506
25th Percentile £358 £389 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £451 £565
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% -20.27% +15.66%
75th Percentile £492 £576 £610
90th Percentile £537 £619 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £437 £475 £507
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.31% +13.93%

Platform Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Platform Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Platform Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Docker

Platform Specialist Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (100.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk