Deep Packet Inspection Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Deep Packet Inspection
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Deep Packet Inspection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Deep Packet Inspection 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Deep Packet Inspection 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 563 411 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.97% 89.93% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 241 239
10th Percentile £268 £313 £265
25th Percentile £356 £363 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -4.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £686 £650 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 23 25
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +2.41% +52.32%
75th Percentile £40.00 £33.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £71.65 £84.30 £42.25
North West median hourly rate £33.75 £30.95 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.05% -22.63% +54.98%

Deep Packet Inspection
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 1 (100.00%) 802.11
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Escalation Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco