SIEM Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring SIEM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing SIEM 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.70% 0.93% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 0.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £550 - -
25th Percentile £585 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £640 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £623 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £615 £600 -
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

SIEM 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 249 104 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.14% 97.20% 96.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 90 90
10th Percentile £316 £349 £401
25th Percentile £358 £356 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £380 £545
Median % change year-on-year +14.95% -30.37% +9.00%
75th Percentile £524 £499 £586
90th Percentile £622 £601 £627
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £25.14
% change year-on-year -29.69% +29.30% +29.50%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Knutsford

SIEM
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing SIEM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing SIEM

SIEM
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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure AI
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (28.57%) IBM Watson
3 2 (28.57%) Vertex AI
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) LangChain
1 4 (57.14%) PyTorch
1 4 (57.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
3 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) OWASP
2 4 (57.14%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Data Security
2 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
2 4 (57.14%) Generative AI
2 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 4 (57.14%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 4 (57.14%) Security Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CISSP
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk