Security Operations Contract Job Trends in Chester

Security Operations (SecOps)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.78% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £463 £626 £567
% change year-on-year -26.12% +10.41% -12.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

Security Operations 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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 66 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 69.77% 98.51% 76.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 25 15
10th Percentile £205 £325 £249
25th Percentile £411 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £681
90th Percentile £745 £733 £738
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £460 £500
% change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 9
10th Percentile £21.75 £19.00 £36.72
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.10 £40.00
Median hourly rate £29.72 £50.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.56% +17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £49.56 £86.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.23 - £44.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £33.40 £26.66
% change year-on-year -3.52% +25.28% -9.22%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Chester

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk