Threat Detection Contracts in Cheshire

Threat Detection
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Threat Detection 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.31% - 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £623
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £625
75th Percentile - - £628
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £625 - £625
% change year-on-year - - -21.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Threat Detection 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 581 429 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.50% 84.95% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 283 212
10th Percentile £310 £323 £308
25th Percentile £358 £392 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £478 £522
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% -8.34% +15.89%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £588
90th Percentile £646 £650 £644
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 32
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.15
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £36.75 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £35.75
North West median hourly rate £26.08 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.26% +1.03% +60.70%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in Cheshire

Threat Detection
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Threat Detection
DemandTrendContract 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 Detection within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington - 2 - -
Threat Detection
North West

Threat Detection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Military
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft