Boundary Protection Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Boundary Protection
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Boundary Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Boundary Protection 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.80% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £640 - -
25th Percentile £642 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile £653 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £648 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Boundary Protection 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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 234 255 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 93.98% 96.23% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 241 143
10th Percentile £364 £313 £333
25th Percentile £416 £358 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £402 £460
Median % change year-on-year +20.15% -12.61% -18.58%
75th Percentile £611 £490 £565
90th Percentile £662 £537 £620
Cheshire median daily rate £485 £440 £475
% change year-on-year +10.23% -7.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.94% -8.57% +14.60%

Boundary Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft