Cybersecurity Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Cybersecurity Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.87% 0.94% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.01% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £342 - -
25th Percentile £390 £480 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% - -
75th Percentile £518 £560 -
90th Percentile £585 - -
North West median daily rate £458 £532 £775
% change year-on-year -13.92% -31.42% +40.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 612 496 360
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.21% 93.23% 87.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 288 224
10th Percentile £274 £317 £265
25th Percentile £358 £375 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £470 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -5.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £572 £575
90th Percentile £688 £645 £606
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.49 £16.80
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.36 £20.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.09 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% -27.67% +40.22%
75th Percentile £36.06 £35.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.54
% change year-on-year -28.14% +4.35% +45.83%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cybersecurity Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in Cheshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Cybersecurity Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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 -12 4 £456 -15.20% 2
Warrington - 2 - -
Cybersecurity Engineer
North West

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) ArcSight
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (33.33%) CISM
4 2 (33.33%) CISSP
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (33.33%) JSON
4 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (33.33%) Log Analytics

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Military
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Log Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (33.33%) SOAR
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CISM
2 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CISA
3 1 (16.67%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (33.33%) QRadar
2 1 (16.67%) Fluentd
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (33.33%) ArcSight
3 2 (33.33%) LogRhythm
4 1 (16.67%) Cribl.io