Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Public Cloud
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 24 17
Rank change year-on-year -26 -7 +13
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 1 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.34% 3.95% 5.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% 9.38% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - £371 -
25th Percentile £363 £391 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £537 £514
Median % change year-on-year -30.17% +4.58% -9.12%
75th Percentile £388 - £582
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £538 £537 £523
% change year-on-year +0.09% +2.78% +1.46%

All Generic Skills
Knutsford

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 131 64 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 44.86% 42.11% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 61 25
10th Percentile £313 £356 £360
25th Percentile £394 £358 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £402 £489
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% -17.79% -13.45%
75th Percentile £544 £497 £582
90th Percentile £623 £537 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £472 £500
% change year-on-year -4.66% -5.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £36.70 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +12.92% -10.96% +30.45%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIA
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki