Data Security Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Security
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 72 97
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Security 9 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.90% 0.69% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.80% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £306 £183 £513
25th Percentile £344 £231 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £325 £598
Median % change year-on-year +62.69% -45.61% +14.90%
75th Percentile £600 £431 £649
90th Percentile £650 £488 £680
North West median daily rate £475 £600 £486
% change year-on-year -20.83% +23.46% -6.54%

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 896 1,006 1,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.87% 87.18% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 583 1,070
10th Percentile £306 £313 £270
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £594 £594
90th Percentile £678 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £452 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.38% -2.50% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 34 61
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.94 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.97 £22.84 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +103.95% -5.61%
75th Percentile £35.50 £64.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.25 £87.45 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +50.21%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Data Security job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Security

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in Manchester

Data Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Data Security

Data Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) dbt
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Akamai
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
1 2 (22.22%) Data Mining
1 2 (22.22%) Data Vault
1 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Risk Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Apex Code
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) GRC
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce