Intrusion Detection Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Intrusion Detection
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.73% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £505 - -
90th Percentile £594 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £463 -
% change year-on-year -5.30% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Knutsford

Intrusion Detection falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 19 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 32.03% 7.06% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 17 10
10th Percentile £361 £305 £463
25th Percentile £417 £358 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -7.09% -12.76%
75th Percentile £613 £492 £722
90th Percentile £653 £546 £788
Cheshire median daily rate £496 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.42% -5.00% -9.09%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Intrusion Detection job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Intrusion Detection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection in Knutsford over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in Knutsford

Intrusion Detection
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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Team
3 1 (25.00%) Compliance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) GCIA
1 2 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE Security
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) CCSA
2 1 (25.00%) CCSE
2 1 (25.00%) CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Suricata
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) AlgoSec
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Google