Network Segmentation Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Network Segmentation
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Network Segmentation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Segmentation 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 7.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 - -
75th Percentile £662 - -
90th Percentile £690 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £514 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Network Segmentation 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 202 275 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 91.82% 96.49% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 264 132
10th Percentile £364 £310 £356
25th Percentile £415 £358 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £410 £448
Median % change year-on-year +10.85% -8.38% -23.63%
75th Percentile £548 £488 £552
90th Percentile £653 £520 £640
Cheshire median daily rate £474 £430 £476
% change year-on-year +10.23% -9.71% -4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £17.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +101.80% -49.29% +14.60%

Network Segmentation
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Segmentation in Knutsford over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Segmentation in Knutsford

Network Segmentation
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 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) IaaS
3 2 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
2 10 (62.50%) Network Security
3 9 (56.25%) VPN
4 3 (18.75%) SD-WAN
4 3 (18.75%) WAN
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Network Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Zero Trust
2 7 (43.75%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (43.75%) Operational Stability
3 6 (37.50%) Cyber Resilience
3 6 (37.50%) Security Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) Principle of Least Privilege
4 5 (31.25%) Validation
5 4 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (25.00%) Change Management
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (25.00%) High Availability
5 4 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
6 3 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (12.50%) Network Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Network Design
7 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) RBAC
7 2 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) CCNP
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CCIE
3 1 (6.25%) CCIE Security
3 1 (6.25%) CCSA
3 1 (6.25%) CCSE
3 1 (6.25%) CCSP
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) GCIA
3 1 (6.25%) GCIH
3 1 (6.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) NCSC
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.25%) AlgoSec