Virtual Team Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Virtual Team (including Distributed Team, Remote Team, Dispersed Team)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Virtual Team in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Team over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 44 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 -9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Team 4 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.55% 1.59% 2.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.20% 4.04% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £478 - £320
25th Percentile £484 £384 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £449 £336
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +33.83% -24.78%
75th Percentile £500 £520 £420
90th Percentile £504 £530 £546
Cheshire median daily rate £494 £384 £475
% change year-on-year +28.65% -19.16% -1.04%

All Generic Skills
Knutsford

Virtual Team falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 125 99 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 48.45% 39.44% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 93 54
10th Percentile £351 £338 £349
25th Percentile £394 £358 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £415 £489
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% -15.13% -15.03%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £563
90th Percentile £623 £539 £623
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £447 £483
% change year-on-year +6.26% -7.41% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £36.70 £43.25 £36.50
% change year-on-year -15.14% +18.49% +7.38%

Virtual Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Virtual Team job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Virtual Team
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Virtual Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Virtual Team

Virtual Team
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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Finance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Optimisation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) HPUX
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Solaris
1 2 (50.00%) SUSE
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) SAFe Practitioner
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (50.00%) RHCE
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat