Release Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Release Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Release Engineer daily rate in Knutsford is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Release Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.34% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £447 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 268 106 123
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.93% 89.08% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 96 104
10th Percentile £323 £315 £358
25th Percentile £361 £356 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £369 £492
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -25.06% -10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £505 £580
90th Percentile £654 £595 £605
Cheshire median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £35.20 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.09% +60.00% +10.00%

Release Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 14 March 2026, Release Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Release Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Objectives and Key Results
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) QA

Release Engineer Skill Set
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 DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Train
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Weighted Shortest Job First
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) QA