Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Security Posture
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 33 53
Rank change year-on-year -42 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 4 22 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.57% 4.35% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.72% 11.64% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 2
10th Percentile £398 £502 £564
25th Percentile £451 £525 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £556 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -9.18% -8.58%
75th Percentile £622 £712 £672
90th Percentile £636 £788 £681
North West median daily rate £563 £563 £521
% change year-on-year - +7.91% -18.24%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 233 189 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.19% 37.35% 40.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 106 101
10th Percentile £251 £339 £438
25th Percentile £358 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -6.54% +8.08%
75th Percentile £520 £562 £583
90th Percentile £638 £658 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -7.69% -4.88% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 5
10th Percentile - £18.72 £14.42
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +9.91% +1.01%
75th Percentile £31.50 £50.84 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £81.50 £65.00
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% -23.53% +95.13%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Cheshire over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in Cheshire

Security Posture
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 Posture within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 November 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
Knutsford -33 3 £604 +8.49% 3
Macclesfield - 1 £375 -
Security Posture
North West

Security Posture
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 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Log Correlation
2 2 (50.00%) Ticket Management
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
1 3 (75.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (50.00%) MCSA
2 2 (50.00%) MCSE
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA CyberOps
3 1 (25.00%) CCSA
3 1 (25.00%) CCSE
3 1 (25.00%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CASB
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (50.00%) Remedy
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
1 2 (50.00%) Tenable
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler