Cloud Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cloud Security Posture
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 54 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% 0.78% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 2.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £595 £501 -
25th Percentile £598 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £510 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% - -
75th Percentile £637 £520 -
90th Percentile £642 £523 -
North West median daily rate £612 £510 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Cloud Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 233 191 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.24% 37.38% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 108 100
10th Percentile £255 £343 £437
25th Percentile £358 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -5.66% +7.07%
75th Percentile £519 £556 £583
90th Percentile £638 £651 £615
North West median daily rate £450 £482 £505
% change year-on-year -6.64% -4.59% +2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 5
10th Percentile - £18.72 £14.42
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +9.91% +1.01%
75th Percentile £31.50 £50.84 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £81.50 £65.00
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% -23.53% +95.13%

Cloud Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Cloud Security Posture job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cloud Security Posture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cloud Security Posture

Cloud Security Posture
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 Cloud Security Posture within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 2025. 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 -14 2 £617 +20.93% 1
Cloud Security Posture
North West

Cloud Security Posture
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Log Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Ticket Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) MCSA
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) CASB
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable