Security Posture Contracts in Manchester

Security Posture
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Posture over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 111 138
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 -
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 6 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.39% 0.32% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 0.95% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £450 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £613 £150
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +308.33% -
75th Percentile £535 £645 £360
90th Percentile £571 £687 £483
North West median daily rate £590 £654 £150
% change year-on-year -9.75% +335.83% -77.96%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Security Posture is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 419 630 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.33% 33.21% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 436 768
10th Percentile £300 £320 £226
25th Percentile £406 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +8.33%
75th Percentile £585 £630 £588
90th Percentile £725 £686 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +23.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 31 33
10th Percentile £13.08 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.82 £20.74 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.25 £35.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.86% +141.38% -17.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.50 £19.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £22.85
North West median hourly rate £25.25 £27.84 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.30% +50.49% +3.35%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in Manchester

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in Manchester

Security Posture
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 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technologist
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (33.33%) Insider Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Advanced Persistent Threat
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Biotechnology
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) OWASP
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (33.33%) CISM
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) Darktrace
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (16.67%) Sophos
3 1 (16.67%) VMware