Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Cybersecurity
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 10 15 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 4.17% 12.30% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 12.93% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 0
10th Percentile £406 £497 -
25th Percentile £458 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £568 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.42% - -
75th Percentile £489 £700 -
90th Percentile £645 £788 -
Cheshire median daily rate £465 £559 £573
% change year-on-year -16.78% -2.40% +27.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Cybersecurity 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 234 116 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.50% 95.08% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 95 62
10th Percentile £310 £347 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -23.81% +12.18%
75th Percentile £488 £531 £582
90th Percentile £577 £638 £587
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £482 £500
% change year-on-year -7.26% -3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £21.84
% change year-on-year -4.16% +10.71% +61.12%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Knutsford over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Knutsford

Cybersecurity
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 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Security Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (40.00%) AI
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
5 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CISM
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) CISA
3 1 (10.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) QRadar
2 1 (10.00%) Fluentd
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk
3 2 (20.00%) ArcSight
4 1 (10.00%) Cribl.io