Vulnerability Management Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Vulnerability Management
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.78% - 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% - 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 - £567
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.71%
75th Percentile £621 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £484 £400 £567
% change year-on-year +21.00% -29.45% +15.01%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Vulnerability Management 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 312 113 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.30% 96.58% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 103 99
10th Percentile £343 £318 £361
25th Percentile £393 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £381 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.42% -23.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £499 £582
90th Percentile £653 £600 £625
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £471 £500
% change year-on-year -4.51% -5.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £25.14
% change year-on-year -27.69% +29.30% +8.57%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Vulnerability Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Knutsford over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in Knutsford

Vulnerability Management
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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure AI
2 2 (22.22%) IBM Watson
2 2 (22.22%) Vertex AI
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Network Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LangChain
1 2 (22.22%) PyTorch
1 2 (22.22%) scikit-learn
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 3 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) OWASP
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 3 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) Data Security
4 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CISSP
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 2 (22.22%) CISA
3 2 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (22.22%) CRISC
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) CEH
4 1 (11.11%) CISM
4 1 (11.11%) GIAC
4 1 (11.11%) GSEC
4 1 (11.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (11.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (11.11%) MCSA
4 1 (11.11%) MCSE
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
4 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) GRC
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) SLA
3 1 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) CASB
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) CyberArk
1 2 (22.22%) Google
1 2 (22.22%) IBM
1 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
1 2 (22.22%) Tenable
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Qualys
2 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy
2 1 (11.11%) Zscaler