Forcepoint Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Forcepoint
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of Forcepoint products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Forcepoint over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Forcepoint, LLC (formerly Websense).

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Forcepoint 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.28% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £626 - -
25th Percentile £626 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 - -
75th Percentile £626 - -
90th Percentile £626 - -
North West median daily rate £627 - -

All Vendors
Cheshire

Forcepoint falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 304 253 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 42.70% 51.95% 47.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 173 157
10th Percentile £341 £316 £260
25th Percentile £403 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £593 £550 £606
90th Percentile £653 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 19 12
10th Percentile - £12.82 £11.00
25th Percentile £29.99 £15.91 £13.25
Median hourly rate £32.23 £50.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.55% +185.67% -21.18%
75th Percentile £60.23 £86.00 £17.73
90th Percentile £75.69 - £25.77
North West median hourly rate £31.36 £31.88 £16.06
% change year-on-year -1.64% +98.51% -46.47%

Forcepoint
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Forcepoint job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Forcepoint
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Forcepoint

Forcepoint
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Forcepoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Forcepoint

Forcepoint
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 Forcepoint within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
Warrington - 2 £626 -
Forcepoint
North West

Forcepoint
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%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper