Smoke Testing Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Smoke Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £564 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 - -
75th Percentile £591 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £577 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Smoke Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 259 94 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.28% 96.91% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 82 99
10th Percentile £323 £318 £400
25th Percentile £358 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £378 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.25% -28.00% -0.38%
75th Percentile £551 £499 £583
90th Percentile £634 £600 £625
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year -29.69% +37.65% +18.05%

Smoke Testing
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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler