Cyber Kill Chain Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cyber Kill Chain
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Kill Chain in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Kill Chain over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Cyber Kill Chain 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.25%
75th Percentile - - £788
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £344 - £763
% change year-on-year - - +30.12%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Cyber Kill Chain 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 219 163 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.11% 33.89% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 123 101
10th Percentile £322 £283 £297
25th Percentile £385 £358 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £456 £489
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -6.75% +8.67%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £560
90th Percentile £645 £625 £638
North West median daily rate £465 £452 £494
% change year-on-year +2.99% -8.56% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 17
10th Percentile £22.16 £29.34 £14.15
25th Percentile £31.51 £29.52 £17.72
Median hourly rate £72.07 £29.80 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +141.83% -18.36% +30.45%
75th Percentile £111.15 £49.90 £43.75
90th Percentile - £61.96 -
North West median hourly rate £53.89 £29.27 £25.25
% change year-on-year +84.10% +15.92% -9.76%

Cyber Kill Chain
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Cyber Kill Chain job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cyber Kill Chain
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cyber Kill Chain.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Cyber Kill Chain

Cyber Kill Chain
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 Cyber Kill Chain 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 -
Cyber Kill Chain
North West

Cyber Kill Chain
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 Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
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