Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Security Monitoring
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 68 40
Rank change year-on-year -2 -28 -1
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 5 1 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.62% 0.16% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.18% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile £379 - £502
25th Percentile £430 £575 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £544
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +10.29% -7.17%
75th Percentile £633 £625 £573
90th Percentile £668 - £576
North West median daily rate £513 £600 £544
% change year-on-year -14.58% +10.29% -4.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Security Monitoring 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 686 566 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.22% 92.03% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 431 282
10th Percentile £313 £310 £311
25th Percentile £408 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.92% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £582 £520 £568
90th Percentile £649 £645 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +10.25% -9.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 19 17
10th Percentile £14.90 - £11.15
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £16.25
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -8.57% +14.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £44.38 £43.75
90th Percentile - £57.05 £47.50
North West median hourly rate £45.25 £27.00 £34.61
% change year-on-year +67.59% -21.98% -1.13%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in Cheshire over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in Cheshire

Security Monitoring
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 Monitoring within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 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 - 5 £536 - 4
Security Monitoring
North West

Security Monitoring
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 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (40.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 2 (40.00%) SOAR
4 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Snow