McAfee Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

McAfee
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of McAfee products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited McAfee over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, 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 McAfee (formerly Intel Security).

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 48 55
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +15
Contract jobs citing McAfee 13 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.97% 0.90% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 3.22% 1.73% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £443 £516 -
25th Percentile - £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £556 £538
90th Percentile - £568 -
North West median daily rate £450 £550 £421
% change year-on-year -18.18% +30.72% -1.69%

All Vendors
Cheshire

McAfee 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 404 231 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 61.31% 52.26% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 124 144
10th Percentile £275 £325 £265
25th Percentile £360 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% -2.62% +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £554
90th Percentile £716 £668 £586
North West median daily rate £465 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -7.00% -1.96% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 18
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.61 £16.96
25th Percentile £15.62 £16.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £21.00 £23.05 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -32.22% +142.86%
75th Percentile £31.50 £26.89 £35.56
90th Percentile £73.85 £81.75 £38.08
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +69.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

McAfee job vacancy trend in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing McAfee

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing McAfee

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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 McAfee within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Chester -3 8 £500 -9.09%
Warrington - 5 £450 -
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North West

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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 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) BIG-IP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) HTTP
1 4 (30.77%) SSL
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
1 4 (30.77%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Fiddler
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Network Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Administrator
3 4 (30.77%) Junior
3 4 (30.77%) Junior Network Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
1 5 (38.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Load Balancing
2 5 (38.46%) Application Security
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Security Operations
2 5 (38.46%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (30.77%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
3 4 (30.77%) Malware Detection/Protection
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Norton AntiVirus
1 5 (38.46%) SCCM
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Blue Coat
1 8 (61.54%) F5
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Symantec