Cybersecurity Contracts in Manchester

Cybersecurity
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 39 90
Rank change year-on-year -20 +51 -34
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 42 87 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.74% 4.59% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 4.99% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 66 46
10th Percentile £316 £434 £500
25th Percentile £425 £501 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £566 £640
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -11.52% +20.75%
75th Percentile £731 £681 £763
90th Percentile £771 £779 -
North West median daily rate £570 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
North West median hourly rate £35.95 £22.50 -
% change year-on-year +59.78% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,743 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.88% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,278 1,823
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £658 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +144.59% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 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
Oldham - 1 £350 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £325 - 2
Cybersecurity
North West

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (21.43%) AWS
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
4 5 (11.90%) IaaS
4 5 (11.90%) PaaS
4 5 (11.90%) SaaS
5 4 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.14%) Serverless
6 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
1 4 (9.52%) Network Security
2 3 (7.14%) Intranet
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.38%) NAS
3 1 (2.38%) SAN
3 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 3 (7.14%) MySQL
1 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
1 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.38%) Burp Suite
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
3 4 (9.52%) Police
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Retail
5 2 (4.76%) Automotive
5 2 (4.76%) Finance
6 1 (2.38%) German Language
6 1 (2.38%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Analyst
1 8 (19.05%) Consultant
2 7 (16.67%) Architect
2 7 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 5 (11.90%) Security Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 3 (7.14%) Data Consultant
4 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Consultant
4 3 (7.14%) Lead
4 3 (7.14%) Security Consultant
4 3 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Senior
4 3 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Risk Consultant
5 2 (4.76%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.14%) Cyberattack
2 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.76%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Kali Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Information Security
2 9 (21.43%) Data Protection
2 9 (21.43%) Risk Management
3 8 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (19.05%) Incident Response
3 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
4 6 (14.29%) SIEM
5 5 (11.90%) Agile
5 5 (11.90%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (11.90%) TOGAF
6 4 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (9.52%) Identity Management
6 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (9.52%) IT Strategy
6 4 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 4 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (9.52%) Project Management
6 4 (9.52%) Security Management
6 4 (9.52%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) Python
2 4 (9.52%) Bash
2 4 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (9.52%) SQL
3 3 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) CISSP
2 10 (23.81%) CISM
3 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (11.90%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.38%) Degree
7 1 (2.38%) GIAC
7 1 (2.38%) OSCP
7 1 (2.38%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (16.67%) NIST
3 6 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 6 (14.29%) QA
4 4 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (9.52%) GDPR
4 4 (9.52%) GRC
5 3 (7.14%) IASME
5 3 (7.14%) ISO 22301
5 3 (7.14%) NCSC
6 2 (4.76%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 3 (7.14%) Ansible
2 3 (7.14%) HP Fortify
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) CyberArk
2 5 (11.90%) Rapid7
3 4 (9.52%) Sophos
4 3 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 3 (7.14%) Splunk
5 2 (4.76%) Cisco
5 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.38%) Carbon Black
6 1 (2.38%) Citrix
6 1 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.38%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.38%) HP
6 1 (2.38%) Meraki
6 1 (2.38%) NetIQ
6 1 (2.38%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (2.38%) Veeam
6 1 (2.38%) VMware