AlgoSec Contract Job Trends in Manchester

AlgoSec
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring knowledge or experience of AlgoSec products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AlgoSec over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within AlgoSec.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AlgoSec 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.10% - 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.26% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
75th Percentile - - £550
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £478 - £525

All Vendors
Manchester

AlgoSec falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 775 495 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 39.46% 49.06% 37.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 313 286
10th Percentile £275 £311 £356
25th Percentile £376 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £612 £602
90th Percentile £660 £702 £675
North West median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 32 21
10th Percentile £22.63 £13.00 £15.63
25th Percentile £24.19 £19.02 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.05% -28.02% +74.94%
75th Percentile £69.25 £23.67 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.75 £59.55 £97.50
North West median hourly rate £29.00 £27.38 £16.06
% change year-on-year +5.94% +70.45% -51.33%

AlgoSec
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AlgoSec relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

AlgoSec job vacancy trend in Manchester

AlgoSec
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE Security
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE Service Provider
2 1 (50.00%) CCSA
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto