Windows Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Microsoft Windows
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 19 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -18 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 28 10 41
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 12.23% 8.13% 47.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.87% 71.43% 80.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 30
10th Percentile £305 £471 £461
25th Percentile £313 £501 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £532 £560
Median % change year-on-year -31.33% -5.09% +60.00%
75th Percentile £474 £624 £585
90th Percentile £495 £704 £599
Cheshire median daily rate £335 £488 £510
% change year-on-year -31.28% -4.41% +45.71%

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 46 14 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 20.09% 11.38% 59.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 12 37
10th Percentile £305 £356 £470
25th Percentile £313 £452 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £521 £533
Median % change year-on-year -29.21% -2.20% +25.41%
75th Percentile £445 £592 £582
90th Percentile £491 £681 £591
Cheshire median daily rate £361 £474 £495
% change year-on-year -23.88% -4.29% +34.69%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Knutsford over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Knutsford

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Windows

Windows
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 13 (46.43%) JBoss
2 10 (35.71%) Apache
3 9 (32.14%) IIS
3 9 (32.14%) WebSphere
4 8 (28.57%) Confluence
4 8 (28.57%) iPlanet
4 8 (28.57%) SharePoint
4 8 (28.57%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) OpenShift
2 12 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) IaaS
3 5 (17.86%) PaaS
3 5 (17.86%) SaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) Kerberos
1 8 (28.57%) SSH
2 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) SSL
3 2 (7.14%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Oracle Database
1 8 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.71%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Git
1 12 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 11 (39.29%) Bitbucket Server
2 11 (39.29%) CA Release Automation
3 10 (35.71%) JIRA
3 10 (35.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (10.71%) SonarQube
4 3 (10.71%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (42.86%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Analyst
2 7 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Platform Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) LDAP
2 9 (32.14%) OAuth
2 9 (32.14%) OpenID
2 9 (32.14%) SAML
3 5 (17.86%) AngularJS
3 5 (17.86%) Node.js
4 3 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.57%) Kafka
5 1 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Tandem
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (71.43%) Linux
2 17 (60.71%) Unix
3 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) DevOps
2 11 (39.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) ITIL
4 9 (32.14%) Change Management
5 8 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 8 (28.57%) Cryptography
5 8 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 8 (28.57%) Information Security
6 7 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (25.00%) Observability
6 7 (25.00%) Release Management
7 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 6 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (21.43%) Problem Management
8 5 (17.86%) ETL
8 5 (17.86%) Key Management
9 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
9 4 (14.29%) Project Management
9 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) Groovy
3 7 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (17.86%) PHP
5 3 (10.71%) Perl
6 2 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Certification
2 5 (17.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) CISSP
5 2 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (7.14%) MCSA
5 2 (7.14%) MCSE
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.57%) CISM
System Software
1 16 (57.14%) Docker
2 13 (46.43%) Active Directory
3 7 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Progress Chef
2 9 (32.14%) CA Single Sign-On
3 8 (28.57%) CA Wily
3 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 7 (25.00%) Tivoli
5 5 (17.86%) Grafana
6 4 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (10.71%) Kibana
8 2 (7.14%) CASB
8 2 (7.14%) Nessus
9 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) IBM
2 16 (57.14%) AppDynamics
3 14 (50.00%) Oracle
4 13 (46.43%) Splunk
5 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
6 9 (32.14%) Broadcom
7 6 (21.43%) Gemalto
7 6 (21.43%) Thales
8 3 (10.71%) Cloudera
8 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
9 2 (7.14%) CyberArk
9 2 (7.14%) Remedy
9 2 (7.14%) Tenable