Technical Leader Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Technical Lead
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Technical Lead daily rate in Knutsford is £599, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.74% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £568 - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 - -
75th Percentile £620 - -
90th Percentile £626 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £599 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -4.24% +21.95% -

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 246 90 124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.45% 92.78% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 80 99
10th Percentile £318 £316 £391
25th Percentile £358 £356 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £369 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.30% -26.30% -9.09%
75th Percentile £569 £505 £580
90th Percentile £630 £601 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £456 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.11% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year -28.59% +43.82% +7.23%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Technical Leader job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Knutsford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Leader job vacancies in Knutsford

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 3 March 2026, Technical Leader 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 Technical Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership

Technical Leader 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Zscaler