Cyber Defence Contracts in the North West

Cyber Defence
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 153 165
Rank change year-on-year +20 +12 -23
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 3 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 0.093% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.28% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £783 £725
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% +101.39%
75th Percentile - - £763
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £645 £735 £725
% change year-on-year -12.30% +1.44% +31.82%

All Generic Skills
North West

Cyber Defence 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 the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 740 1,085 1,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.69% 33.70% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 726 1,056
10th Percentile £289 £291 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +24.35%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £586
90th Percentile £672 £675 £671
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 64
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.68 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.22 £12.39
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +49.23% +4.75%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £38.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.01
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +0.88%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cyber Defence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in the North West

Cyber Defence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Defence in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Defence in the North West

Cyber Defence
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +14 3 - -
Cyber Defence
England

Cyber Defence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Ethical Hacker
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Purple Team
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) OSCP
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform