Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Senior Development Operations Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Knutsford is £453, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £427 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - -
75th Percentile £486 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £453 - -

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 233 100 110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.02% 92.59% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 88 85
10th Percentile £313 £320 £401
25th Percentile £358 £356 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £374 £540
Median % change year-on-year +16.31% -30.74% +2.66%
75th Percentile £532 £505 £582
90th Percentile £621 £603 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £468 £500
% change year-on-year -3.90% -6.35% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £30.90 £22.50
% change year-on-year -26.05% +37.33% +12.50%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford

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

For the 6 months to 26 February 2026, Senior DevOps 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 3 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 3 (100.00%) CA Release Automation
1 3 (100.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 3 (100.00%) CA Wily
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Groovy
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) iPlanet
1 3 (100.00%) JBoss
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 3 (100.00%) LDAP
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database

Senior DevOps 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) iPlanet
1 3 (100.00%) JBoss
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 3 (100.00%) CA Release Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) LDAP
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Groovy
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 3 (100.00%) CA Wily
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk