Cloud Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Security Posture
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Security Posture 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.37% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £544 - -
25th Percentile £610 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £639 - -
90th Percentile £650 - -
North West median daily rate £625 - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Cloud Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 447 352 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.43% 34.27% 25.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 213 294
10th Percentile £219 £203 £277
25th Percentile £351 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £550
90th Percentile £625 £700 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 25
10th Percentile £19.75 £20.05 £12.57
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.25 £14.22
Median hourly rate £51.25 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.69% +25.00% -50.48%
75th Percentile £70.94 £33.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £76.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £28.37 £26.66
% change year-on-year +60.27% +6.40% -23.83%

Cloud Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Cloud Security Posture job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cloud Security Posture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cloud Security Posture

Cloud Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Security Posture in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Security Posture in Manchester

Cloud Security Posture
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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) SSL
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Snyk
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Log Correlation
3 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Ticket Management
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (20.00%) Application Security
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
1 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (60.00%) MCSA
1 3 (60.00%) MCSE
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) CASB
1 3 (60.00%) Nessus
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) CyberArk
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
1 3 (60.00%) Tenable
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
3 1 (20.00%) Veracode