Senior Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Senior Security Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior Security Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.65% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £593 - -
North West median daily rate £569 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +13.75% -15.61% -24.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 698 535 519
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 90.99% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 392 356
10th Percentile £313 £308 £297
25th Percentile £402 £358 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.90% -9.58% -6.31%
75th Percentile £588 £537 £575
90th Percentile £650 £640 £634
North West median daily rate £485 £450 £478
% change year-on-year +7.78% -5.81% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 30 36
10th Percentile £15.93 £12.82 £13.49
25th Percentile £17.25 £29.58 £15.69
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -6.57% +14.60%
75th Percentile £83.75 £49.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £86.00 -
North West median hourly rate £48.40 £29.27 £29.50
% change year-on-year +65.36% -0.78% +7.86%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Senior Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Senior Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Senior Security Engineer
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 Senior Security Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 July 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 £563 -
Senior Security Engineer
North West

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 11 July 2026, Senior Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) OWASP
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) CISSP
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Akamai
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Bash
4 2 (40.00%) Bot Management
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (40.00%) DDoS Mitigation
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) Docker
4 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) Google
4 2 (40.00%) HTTP
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (40.00%) Security Analytics

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Akamai
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (20.00%) IBM Watson
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LangChain
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) OWASP
1 4 (80.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Bot Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (40.00%) DDoS Mitigation
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Security Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Varonis