Vulnerability Management Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Vulnerability Management Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Vulnerability Management Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £643, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Management Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 - -
North West median daily rate £643 - -

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 608 394 472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 88.74% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 234 314
10th Percentile £313 £291 £265
25th Percentile £359 £356 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -6.35% +5.26%
75th Percentile £579 £559 £558
90th Percentile £688 £644 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £473 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 24 43
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.55 £14.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.53 £17.43
Median hourly rate £22.85 £26.71 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% +18.71% +12.50%
75th Percentile £33.73 £86.00 £37.63
90th Percentile £84.45 - £43.75
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £30.10 £26.39
% change year-on-year +41.81% +14.06% -9.93%

Vulnerability Management 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 Vulnerability Management Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 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 - 1 £643 -
Vulnerability Management Engineer
North West

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 18 February 2026, Vulnerability Management 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 Vulnerability Management Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Log Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Ticket Management
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Management 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Log Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Ticket Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable