Cloud Security Contracts in Knutsford

Cloud Security
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring Cloud Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 27 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 +12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security 10 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 3.95% 3.83% 6.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 4.09% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 4
10th Percentile £394 £502 -
25th Percentile £435 £505 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -11.02% -6.50%
75th Percentile £515 £638 £657
90th Percentile £618 £728 £719
Cheshire median daily rate £510 £543 £565
% change year-on-year -6.01% -3.98% -10.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Cloud Security 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 242 171 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.65% 93.44% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 148 84
10th Percentile £314 £343 £510
25th Percentile £358 £390 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £464 £568
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -18.31% +17.48%
75th Percentile £492 £575 £614
90th Percentile £537 £618 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £440 £478 £518
% change year-on-year -7.95% -7.72% +15.11%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Cloud Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security in Knutsford

Cloud Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Security in Knutsford

Cloud Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security in Knutsford over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security in Knutsford

Cloud Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (30.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Acquisition
2 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) High Availability
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Resource Allocation
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (20.00%) MCSA
2 2 (20.00%) MCSE
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) CASB
1 2 (20.00%) Nessus
1 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (20.00%) ForgeRock
2 2 (20.00%) Remedy
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Tenable