Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Security Architecture
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £588 - -
25th Percentile £602 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £632 - -
75th Percentile £677 - -
90th Percentile £737 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £643 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Security Architecture 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 232 117 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.48% 94.35% 96.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 96 62
10th Percentile £310 £325 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% -23.81% +12.18%
75th Percentile £488 £528 £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%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Security Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Security Architecture

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in Knutsford

Security Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Attestation
4 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Records Management
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISM
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Fluentd
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cribl.io
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft