Security Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Security Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Security Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 66 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 -19 -
Contract jobs citing Security Management 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.25% 0.49% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.53% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £492 - -
25th Percentile £495 £315 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £330 £513
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -35.61% -
75th Percentile £506 £345 £544
90th Percentile £509 - £557
North West median daily rate £575 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +21.05% -7.32% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Security Management 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 687 566 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.34% 92.03% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 431 281
10th Percentile £313 £310 £311
25th Percentile £408 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £582 £520 £569
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +10.25% -9.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 20 16
10th Percentile £14.90 - £13.50
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £30.31
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -8.57% +14.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £49.06 £43.75
90th Percentile - £71.53 £47.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £27.19 £34.21
% change year-on-year +65.52% -20.53% -2.26%

Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Security Management job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Security Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Security Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Security Management

Security Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Security Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Security Management

Security Management
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 Security Management within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 August 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 - 2 £501 - 1
Security Management
North West

Security Management
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISA
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CRISC
1 2 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (100.00%) PMP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GRC
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 2 (100.00%) NIST