Vulnerability Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Vulnerability Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 46 49
Rank change year-on-year -23 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 8 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.16% 1.89% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 2.14% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 2
10th Percentile - £460 -
25th Percentile - £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -11.50% +21.07%
75th Percentile £622 £676 -
90th Percentile £658 £788 -
North West median daily rate £501 £518 £565
% change year-on-year -3.27% -8.47% +13.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Vulnerability Management 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 609 421 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.65% 88.45% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 249 216
10th Percentile £268 £325 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £569 £553
90th Percentile £688 £638 £593
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 25 22
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £17.14
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £24.81
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -2.52% +58.40%
75th Percentile £40.00 £35.00 £35.56
90th Percentile £71.65 £64.00 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.80 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.31% -8.45% +47.92%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Cheshire over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in Cheshire

Vulnerability Management
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 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
Warrington -6 5 £450 +12.50% 1
Knutsford -28 2 £617 +17.48%
Vulnerability Management
North West

Vulnerability Management
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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cloud Security
2 5 (62.50%) Application Security
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
2 5 (62.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Log Correlation
3 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Ticket Management
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Database Security
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (25.00%) MCSA
2 2 (25.00%) MCSE
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Norton AntiVirus
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM
2 2 (25.00%) CASB
2 2 (25.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) McAfee
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 5 (62.50%) Symantec
2 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (25.00%) Remedy
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Tenable