Windows Contracts in Knutsford

Microsoft Windows
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 9 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 6.16% 10.19% 14.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.62% 47.83% 59.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 18
10th Percentile £386 £461 £324
25th Percentile - £487 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £566 £563
Median % change year-on-year -30.57% +0.62% +13.87%
75th Percentile £503 £582 £569
90th Percentile £628 £582 £650
Cheshire median daily rate £389 £313 £325
% change year-on-year +24.56% -3.85% -

All Operating Systems
Knutsford

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 26 23 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 17.81% 21.30% 24.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 31
10th Percentile £357 £321 £322
25th Percentile £358 £445 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £481 £515
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% -6.60% +4.25%
75th Percentile £492 £574 £566
90th Percentile £520 £582 £630
Cheshire median daily rate £389 £390 £326
% change year-on-year -0.19% +19.63% -18.50%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Knutsford

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Knutsford

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Knutsford

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Knutsford.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Knutsford

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) JBoss
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DMZ
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 6 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 5 (55.56%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (55.56%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (55.56%) TeamCity
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Build Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Build Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Code Quality
3 5 (55.56%) Build Automation
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (55.56%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) Runbook
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
6 1 (11.11%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Perl
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Ruby
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 6 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 5 (55.56%) Kibana
3 1 (11.11%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Splunk
2 5 (55.56%) AppDynamics
2 5 (55.56%) Red Hat
3 3 (33.33%) Cloudera
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
5 1 (11.11%) Dell