Vulnerability Remediation Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Vulnerability Remediation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 52 60
Rank change year-on-year -20 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.75% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £518 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £400 £567
Median % change year-on-year +60.75% -29.45% -
75th Percentile £712 - -
90th Percentile £743 - -
North West median daily rate £625 £215 £400
% change year-on-year +190.70% -46.25% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Vulnerability Remediation 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 586 392 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.72% 93.78% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 246 309
10th Percentile £310 £298 £278
25th Percentile £358 £356 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% -3.90% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £646 £614
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 36
10th Percentile £14.89 £19.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £24.18 £16.73
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +50.87% +1.23%
75th Percentile £40.75 £83.31 £38.50
90th Percentile £80.58 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £22.98
% change year-on-year +41.69% +38.24% -38.57%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Vulnerability Remediation job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in Cheshire over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in Cheshire

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 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 - 4 £678 - 5
Ellesmere Port - 1 £325 -
Vulnerability Remediation
North West

Vulnerability Remediation
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 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Apigee
2 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Application Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JWT
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (40.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) OWASP
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) API Integration
2 2 (40.00%) API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) SABSA
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) GIAC
3 2 (40.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) CEH
4 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (20.00%) MCSA
4 1 (20.00%) MCSE
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
1 1 (20.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (20.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable
2 1 (20.00%) Veracode