Information Security Contracts in Cheshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 42 37
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -8
Contract jobs citing Information Security 11 20 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.18% 3.70% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 4.04% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 15
10th Percentile £488 £497 £338
25th Percentile £525 £522 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £566 £560
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% +1.03% +7.43%
75th Percentile £630 £597 £631
90th Percentile £635 £630 £632
North West median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.72 - -
North West median hourly rate £26.84 £83.40 -
% change year-on-year -67.82% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Information Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 425 495 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.33% 91.50% 85.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 334 257
10th Percentile £278 £266 £216
25th Percentile £400 £386 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +7.19% +2.97%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £635 £654 £632
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 25
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.97 £11.29
25th Percentile £16.61 £22.97 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +24.65% -23.95%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.90
90th Percentile £44.13 £38.80 £61.30
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Cheshire

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Cheshire

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Cheshire

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Cheshire

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington +12 5 £475 +137.50% 2
Knutsford -1 3 £625 +8.13%
Macclesfield - 2 - -
Information Security
North West

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DMZ
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
1 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
3 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) Security Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 2 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Security Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Management Information System
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
2 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Risk Management
3 4 (36.36%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 4 (36.36%) SDLC
3 4 (36.36%) Software Deployment
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (27.27%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
4 3 (27.27%) Cyber Resilience
4 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) Information Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C
1 1 (9.09%) C++
1 1 (9.09%) Go
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
4 2 (18.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (27.27%) NIST
2 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
3 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
1 2 (18.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Apple
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Teradata