Cyber Essentials Contracts in the North West

Cyber Essentials
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Cyber Essentials skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 145 175
Rank change year-on-year +15 +30 -38
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 7 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.26% 0.23% 0.025%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.51% 1.54% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £313 £324 -
25th Percentile £319 £331 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £401 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -27.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £489 £575
90th Percentile £660 £503 -
England median daily rate £515 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

Cyber Essentials is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance 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 quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 464 456 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.31% 14.69% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 292 396
10th Percentile £325 £300 £213
25th Percentile £425 £390 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £464
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.43% +3.06%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £594
90th Percentile £694 £650 £674
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 31 34
10th Percentile - £28.70 £10.35
25th Percentile £10.95 £30.54 £11.75
Median hourly rate £12.84 £39.60 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -67.58% +116.99% +21.67%
75th Percentile £26.66 £48.76 £35.31
90th Percentile £43.75 £80.00 £57.05
England median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -40.21% +36.36% +30.95%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the North West

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the North West

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in the North West

Cyber Essentials
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 Essentials within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +23 6 £375 -18.92% 9
Merseyside - 1 £650 - 2
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Intranet
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Security Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (57.14%) Information Security
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 3 (42.86%) Business Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Information Management
2 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Go
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (42.86%) IASME
2 3 (42.86%) NIST
3 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft