SC Cleared Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.87% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £535 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 - -
75th Percentile £604 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £510 £388 £448
% change year-on-year +31.61% -13.41% -12.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Knutsford

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 88 65 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 38.26% 24.16% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 64 31
10th Percentile £402 £306 £365
25th Percentile £434 £350 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £438 £530
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -17.45% -0.93%
75th Percentile £617 £511 £568
90th Percentile £643 £544 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £438 £513
% change year-on-year +14.29% -14.63% -1.06%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Knutsford

SC Cleared
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing SC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) GCFA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft