Blue Team Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Blue Teaming
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Blue Team skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 - -
North West median daily rate £700 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Blue Team falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 590 466 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 86.51% 96.88% 83.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 330 284
10th Percentile £325 £313 £302
25th Percentile £400 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £447 £483
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -7.50% -3.35%
75th Percentile £582 £539 £580
90th Percentile £653 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 25 32
10th Percentile £13.47 £14.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.01 £23.48 £16.73
Median hourly rate £35.82 £37.00 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +20.01% +0.95%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.25 £39.44
90th Percentile - £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +71.88% +23.08% -25.75%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Blue Team job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Blue Team
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Blue Team.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Blue Team

Blue Team
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 Blue Team within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. 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
Knutsford - 1 £344 -
Blue Team
North West

Blue Team
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google