Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Security Posture
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -33 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 3 20 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.09% 11.30% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.65% 27.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 0
10th Percentile £502 £502 -
25th Percentile £536 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £556 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% - -
75th Percentile £630 £712 -
90th Percentile £639 £788 -
Cheshire median daily rate £542 £556 £613
% change year-on-year -2.61% -9.18% -8.58%

All Generic Skills
Knutsford

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 113 72 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 41.24% 40.68% 56.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 59 39
10th Percentile £314 £355 £495
25th Percentile £360 £401 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £505 £567
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% -10.93% +14.55%
75th Percentile £500 £599 £590
90th Percentile £585 £702 £600
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -10.60% -6.54% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year -33.83% +9.91% +1.01%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Knutsford over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in Knutsford

Security Posture
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Log Correlation
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Ticket Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (66.67%) MCSA
1 2 (66.67%) MCSE
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CASB
1 2 (66.67%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CyberArk
1 2 (66.67%) Remedy
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
1 2 (66.67%) Tenable
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft