Cyber Threat Contracts in Manchester

Cyber Threats
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 94 111
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 +16
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 6 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.67% 0.28% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 1.08% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £448 £515 -
25th Percentile £483 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +44.44% -37.93%
75th Percentile £620 £731 -
90th Percentile £649 £765 -
North West median daily rate £492 £746 £486
% change year-on-year -34.01% +53.42% -32.97%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Cyber Threat 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 260 372 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 29.12% 26.27% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 251 397
10th Percentile £203 £300 £320
25th Percentile £377 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £686 £725 £675
North West median daily rate £456 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -7.98% -1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 33 25
10th Percentile £24.25 £13.10 £16.85
25th Percentile £27.75 £15.92 £21.25
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.06% -27.86% +133.33%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.80 £25.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.02% -27.86% +75.00%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in Manchester

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in Manchester

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in Manchester

Cyber Threat
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) tcpdump
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) NestJS
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) MISP
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (50.00%) Data Management
3 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Identity
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (16.67%) OWASP
4 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) OpenVAS
1 1 (16.67%) QRadar
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Thycotic
2 2 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
3 1 (16.67%) Carbon Black
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Imperva
3 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Ping Identity
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) Rapid7
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk