Data Security Contracts in Manchester

Data Security
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 79 114
Rank change year-on-year +18 +35 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Security 18 17 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.94% 1.12% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.29% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 3
10th Percentile £193 £428 £464
25th Percentile £260 £463 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £688
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -23.64% +7.42%
75th Percentile £525 £663 £716
90th Percentile £670 £710 £721
North West median daily rate £504 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +0.80% +17.65% -32.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Manchester

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Security in Manchester

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Manchester

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in Manchester

Data Security
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 Data Security within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bury - 4 £205 - 3
Data Security
North West

Data Security
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 3 (16.67%) SAS
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) CMS
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (5.56%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (22.22%) GitHub
2 4 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) Akamai
5 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) 2G
1 4 (22.22%) 3G
1 4 (22.22%) 4G
1 4 (22.22%) 5G
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (16.67%) Big Data
2 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.11%) Data Mining
3 2 (11.11%) Data Vault
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) HBase
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Pentaho
4 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) ERwin
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Postman
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) SAS Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Risk Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (22.22%) OAuth
2 4 (22.22%) OAuth2
2 4 (22.22%) OpenID
2 4 (22.22%) SAML
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) IoT
1 4 (22.22%) Smartphone
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Android
1 4 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Analytics
2 8 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (33.33%) ETL
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 4 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 4 (22.22%) Digital Twin
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
5 4 (22.22%) RBAC
5 4 (22.22%) Time Management
5 4 (22.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (5.56%) GRC
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Dell
2 1 (5.56%) F5
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Informatica
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Zscaler