Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Red Hat
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, 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 Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 21 35
Rank change year-on-year -32 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 1 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.39% 5.31% 1.69%
As % of the Vendors category 0.75% 13.64% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 £391 £586
Median % change year-on-year +58.82% -33.28% +13.79%
Cheshire median daily rate £496 £391 £566
% change year-on-year +26.73% -30.86% +20.32%

All Vendors
Knutsford

Red Hat 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 133 44 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 51.95% 38.94% 44.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 38 40
10th Percentile £317 £343 £536
25th Percentile £358 £360 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £447 £583
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -23.33% +10.63%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £626
90th Percentile £634 £640 £691
Cheshire median daily rate £470 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £20.00 £42.25 £17.72
% change year-on-year -52.66% +138.43% +10.27%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Red Hat

Red Hat
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%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
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%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google