AlgoSec Contract Job Trends in Manchester

AlgoSec
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester citing 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 30 October 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 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	127	-	81
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing AlgoSec	7	0	2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester	0.34%	-	0.17%
As % of the Vendors category	0.92%	-	0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	2
10^th Percentile	£421	-	-
25^th Percentile	£434	-	£500
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£463	-	£525
75^th Percentile	£484	-	£550
90^th Percentile	£494	-	-
North West median daily rate	£451	-	£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 citing vendor products and services in Manchester.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing vendor products and services	765	514	484
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester	37.12%	47.81%	41.90%
Number of daily rates quoted	445	346	275
10^th Percentile	£275	£307	£363
25^th Percentile	£402	£400	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£492	£454	£495
Median % change year-on-year	+8.48%	-8.33%	+4.21%
75^th Percentile	£575	£612	£579
90^th Percentile	£650	£706	£675
North West median daily rate	£500	£471	£500
% change year-on-year	+6.16%	-5.80%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	75	42	18
10^th Percentile	£18.65	£16.37	£15.89
25^th Percentile	£24.19	£19.07	£23.63
Median hourly rate	£33.50	£22.41	£31.75
Median % change year-on-year	+49.50%	-29.43%	+79.18%
75^th Percentile	£65.00	£31.40	£41.56
90^th Percentile	£77.00	£32.93	£64.13
North West median hourly rate	£25.36	£25.15	£35.36
% change year-on-year	+0.86%	-28.89%	+1.03%

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 Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AlgoSec also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region citing AlgoSec.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Firewall	100.0%	7
1	Network Security	100.0%	7
3	CCNP	85.7%	6
3	Cisco Certification	85.7%	6
3	CISSP	85.7%	6
6	Risk Assessment	71.4%	5
6	Zero Trust	71.4%	5
8	Change Management	42.9%	3
8	Network Segmentation	42.9%	3
8	Security Operations	42.9%	3
8	Stakeholder Management	42.9%	3
12	AWS	28.6%	2
12	CCIE	28.6%	2
12	CCIE Security	28.6%	2
12	CCSP	28.6%	2
12	Change Control	28.6%	2
12	CheckPoint	28.6%	2
12	Compliance Management	28.6%	2
12	ISO/IEC 27001	28.6%	2
12	ITIL	28.6%	2
12	Migration	28.6%	2
12	NIST	28.6%	2
12	Palo Alto	28.6%	2
12	PCI DSS	28.6%	2
12	Problem-Solving	28.6%	2
12	Risk Analysis	28.6%	2
12	Security Management	28.6%	2
12	Service Management	28.6%	2
29	(ISC)2 CCSP	14.3%	1
29	Ansible	14.3%	1

AlgoSec Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Vendors

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CheckPoint	28.6%	2
1	Palo Alto	28.6%	2
3	Blue Coat	14.3%	1
3	Cisco	14.3%	1
3	Fortinet	14.3%	1
3	Symantec	14.3%	1