Network Security Contracts in Manchester

Network Security
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 97 98
Rank change year-on-year +23 +1 -17
Contract jobs citing Network Security 27 19 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.76% 1.00% 1.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.98% 8.12% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 20
10th Percentile £493 £403 £411
25th Percentile £550 £475 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +44.93%
75th Percentile £756 £575 £641
90th Percentile £775 £679 £688
North West median daily rate £650 £510 £625
% change year-on-year +27.45% -18.40% +36.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
North West median hourly rate - £52.13 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -25.53% +16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 208 234 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.57% 12.36% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 178 203
10th Percentile £268 £313 £173
25th Percentile £350 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £464
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +7.76% +23.73%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £619
90th Percentile £850 £666 £638
North West median daily rate £490 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 8
10th Percentile £14.29 £15.00 £11.05
25th Percentile - £18.50 £15.01
Median hourly rate £17.72 £20.71 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +16.65% -67.73%
75th Percentile £100.00 £28.75 £20.32
90th Percentile £102.40 £32.50 £37.47
North West median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -63.16%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Manchester

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Security in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Manchester

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) IaaS
3 3 (11.11%) PaaS
3 3 (11.11%) SaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.41%) Wireless
4 1 (3.70%) DNS
4 1 (3.70%) InfiniBand
4 1 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
General
1 2 (7.41%) Aviation
1 2 (7.41%) Finance
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Banking
2 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Architect
2 9 (33.33%) Senior
3 8 (29.63%) Security Architect
4 7 (25.93%) Network Engineer
5 6 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Network Architect
6 5 (18.52%) Network Security Architect
7 4 (14.81%) AWS Consultant
7 4 (14.81%) Cisco Architect
7 4 (14.81%) Cisco Network Architect
7 4 (14.81%) Cisco Security Architect
7 4 (14.81%) Consultant
7 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 4 (14.81%) DevOps Consultant
7 4 (14.81%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (14.81%) Senior DevOps Consultant
8 3 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (11.11%) Security Engineer
8 3 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) DevOps
1 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
4 3 (11.11%) Architectural Design
4 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 3 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 3 (11.11%) Information Security
4 3 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 3 (11.11%) TOGAF
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Security
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (3.70%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (3.70%) Observability
6 1 (3.70%) Project Delivery
6 1 (3.70%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) CCNP
1 8 (29.63%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (25.93%) CISSP
3 6 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 6 (22.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) CCIE
5 4 (14.81%) CCIE Security
6 3 (11.11%) CCNA
6 3 (11.11%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) GRC
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Cisco
2 2 (7.41%) Darktrace
2 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
2 2 (7.41%) Rapid7
2 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.70%) Aruba
3 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk