Threat Analysis Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Threat Analysis
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Threat Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Analysis 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £452 - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £622 - -
North West median daily rate £615 - £450

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Threat Analysis 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 583 399 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.33% 92.36% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 237 301
10th Percentile £302 £294 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £560
90th Percentile £668 £638 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.08 £24.05 £17.29
Median hourly rate £23.18 £32.25 £25.14
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +28.31% +29.50%
75th Percentile £43.00 £83.88 £39.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £27.48
% change year-on-year +42.23% +15.14% -26.72%

Threat Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Threat Analysis job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Threat Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Threat Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Threat Analysis

Threat Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Analysis in Cheshire over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Analysis in Cheshire

Threat Analysis
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 Threat Analysis within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 February 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 £618 - 4
Warrington - 1 £425 -
Threat Analysis
North West

Threat Analysis
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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Watson
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LangChain
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Data Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) McAfee
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Symantec