Threat Intelligence Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Threat Intelligence
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Threat Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Threat Intelligence 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.43% - 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £566 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £712 - £567
75th Percentile £737 - -
90th Percentile £753 - -
North West median daily rate £580 - £800
% change year-on-year - - +32.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Threat Intelligence 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 613 400 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.33% 95.24% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 258 309
10th Percentile £313 £300 £305
25th Percentile £367 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £560
90th Percentile £653 £638 £616
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 34 34
10th Percentile £14.49 £19.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.36 £24.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +50.87% -4.13%
75th Percentile £37.08 £83.31 £38.00
90th Percentile £60.63 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.88 £23.53
% change year-on-year +41.15% +35.49% -36.92%

Threat Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Threat Intelligence job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Threat Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat Intelligence in Cheshire over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Threat Intelligence in Cheshire

Threat Intelligence
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 Intelligence within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 March 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 - 3 £712 - 1
Threat Intelligence
North West

Threat Intelligence
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%) Apigee
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure API Management
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JWT
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth2
1 2 (66.67%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) SABSA
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) GIAC
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) GCIA
3 1 (33.33%) GCIH
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Suricata
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto