Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Security Engineer
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Security Engineer daily rate in Knutsford is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Security Engineer 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.86% 0.89% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.13% 0.94% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £558 - -
25th Percentile £595 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £640 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - -
75th Percentile £634 - -
90th Percentile £639 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £620 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +12.73% +4.76% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Knutsford with a recognized job title 224 106 89
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 94.64% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 91 68
10th Percentile £313 £323 £441
25th Percentile £358 £356 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £390 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -27.78% +9.31%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £581
90th Percentile £579 £638 £591
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.43 £24.00 £30.37
% change year-on-year -6.54% -20.97% +84.06%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Knutsford

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 26 January 2026, Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (85.71%) CISSP
3 5 (71.43%) CISM
3 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
3 5 (71.43%) Cribl.io
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) Fluentd
3 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 5 (71.43%) GitLab
3 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (71.43%) NIST
3 5 (71.43%) Splunk
4 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Observability
4 4 (57.14%) Risk Analysis
4 4 (57.14%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
5 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
5 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (28.57%) Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (28.57%) Checkmarx

Security Engineer Skill Set
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 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Snyk
2 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) Risk Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
5 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Application Security
6 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (14.29%) SDLC
6 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) CISSP
2 5 (71.43%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cribl.io
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Checkmarx
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Veracode