Vulnerability Assessment Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Vulnerability Assessment
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 50 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 11 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.60% 0.78% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 0.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £433 £501 -
25th Percentile £475 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £510 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.57% - -
75th Percentile £645 £520 -
90th Percentile £671 £523 -
North West median daily rate £625 £505 £406
% change year-on-year +23.76% +24.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Vulnerability Assessment 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 617 444 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.68% 86.72% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 272 236
10th Percentile £268 £325 £313
25th Percentile £358 £382 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% -4.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £566 £575
90th Percentile £688 £649 £611
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 27
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.60
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +48.24% +46.92%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.75 £35.39
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.27
% change year-on-year -37.63% +14.35% +35.10%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in Cheshire

Vulnerability Assessment
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 Vulnerability Assessment within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 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 -10 6 £637 +24.80% 2
Macclesfield - 1 £375 -
Vulnerability Assessment
North West

Vulnerability Assessment
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 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) Internet
2 3 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (27.27%) Network Security
3 2 (18.18%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) SSL
3 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Security Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Security Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Security Solutions Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) CMDB
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (54.55%) Security Architecture
2 6 (54.55%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) AI
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 4 (36.36%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (36.36%) Data Privacy
4 4 (36.36%) Generative AI
4 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
5 3 (27.27%) Network Design
5 3 (27.27%) SIEM
5 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Risk Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Ticket Management
6 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) CISSP
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 2 (18.18%) CISM
3 2 (18.18%) MCSA
3 2 (18.18%) MCSE
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (9.09%) CCNA CyberOps
4 1 (9.09%) CCSA
4 1 (9.09%) CCSE
4 1 (9.09%) Check Point Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) CASB
1 2 (18.18%) Fluentd
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Splunk
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
2 3 (27.27%) Zscaler
3 2 (18.18%) Cribl.io
3 2 (18.18%) CyberArk
3 2 (18.18%) Remedy
3 2 (18.18%) Tenable
4 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft