Information Security Contracts in Knutsford

Information Security (InfoSec)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 28 8
Rank change year-on-year -20 -20 +25
Contract jobs citing Information Security 3 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 1.12% 4.12% 13.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 4.52% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 10
10th Percentile £286 £511 £523
25th Percentile £312 £521 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £850 £593
Median % change year-on-year -57.35% +43.31% -6.00%
75th Percentile £496 £950 £593
90th Percentile £572 £970 £595
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £650 £586
% change year-on-year -34.62% +10.92% +6.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Information 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 257 155 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.25% 91.18% 83.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 134 54
10th Percentile £309 £326 £442
25th Percentile £358 £389 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £461 £565
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -18.36% +15.31%
75th Percentile £490 £551 £593
90th Percentile £537 £632 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £437 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -5.00% +11.11%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Knutsford

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Knutsford

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Knutsford over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Knutsford

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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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Attestation
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM