Boundary Protection Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Boundary Protection
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Boundary Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Boundary Protection 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £640 - -
25th Percentile £642 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile £653 - -
North West median daily rate £648 £663 -
% change year-on-year -2.19% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Boundary Protection 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 670 548 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 86.12% 92.10% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 411 302
10th Percentile £339 £313 £311
25th Percentile £413 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £521 £575
90th Percentile £653 £645 £638
North West median daily rate £491 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +9.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 21 23
10th Percentile £14.27 - £11.60
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £16.52
Median hourly rate £35.82 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -8.57% +14.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £50.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.60 £70.00 £46.75
North West median hourly rate £56.44 £28.75 £27.75
% change year-on-year +96.31% +3.60% -5.29%

Boundary Protection
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 Boundary Protection within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 July 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 - 2 £648 -
Boundary Protection
North West

Boundary Protection
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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft