CASB Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring CASB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 66 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 -19 -
Contract jobs citing CASB 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.51% 0.34% 0.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.60% 2.13% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £644 £595 £501
25th Percentile £646 £598 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £617 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% +20.93% -
75th Percentile £651 £637 £520
90th Percentile £652 £642 £523
North West median daily rate £630 £612 £510
% change year-on-year +2.86% +20.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

CASB falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 111 94 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.21% 15.82% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 77 33
10th Percentile £313 £230 £300
25th Percentile £404 £313 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £393 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.90% -17.26% -15.93%
75th Percentile £621 £500 £534
90th Percentile £653 £647 £620
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £17.16
25th Percentile £34.49 £81.75 -
Median hourly rate £35.82 £83.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -57.10% +371.22% -2.66%
75th Percentile £37.16 £85.25 -
90th Percentile - - £17.75
North West median hourly rate £64.58 £63.40 £22.61
% change year-on-year +1.86% +180.41% -46.80%

CASB
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

CASB job vacancy trend in Cheshire

CASB
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CASB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CASB

CASB
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 CASB within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 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 +6 3 £648 +5.07% 2
Warrington - 1 - -
CASB
North West

CASB
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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) IPv6
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) GCFA
2 1 (25.00%) GCIH
2 1 (25.00%) MCSA
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Cribl.io
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler