Network Security Contracts in Manchester

Network Security
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Security over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 68 91
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing Network Security 24 29 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.55% 1.99% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.97% 14.80% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 13
10th Percentile £363 £491 £365
25th Percentile £375 £531 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £625 £510
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +22.55% -14.34%
75th Percentile £508 £750 £575
90th Percentile £647 £775 £663
North West median daily rate £476 £655 £486
% change year-on-year -27.29% +34.77% -16.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

Network Security falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 89 196 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 9.44% 13.48% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 156 151
10th Percentile £193 £213 £300
25th Percentile £358 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +2.43%
75th Percentile £500 £750 £575
90th Percentile £633 £850 £663
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - £18.90 £14.50
25th Percentile - £29.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate - £41.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +117.11% +4.11%
75th Percentile - £62.56 £24.97
90th Percentile - £87.43 £31.25
North West median hourly rate £47.37 £45.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year +3.25% +66.84% +42.86%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security in Manchester

Network Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security in Manchester

Network Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security in Manchester

Network Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Security in Manchester

Network 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 Network Security within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Wigan +5 3 £375 -16.67%
Stockport - 1 £500 -
Network Security
North West

Network 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 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (25.00%) IaaS
4 4 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Akamai
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) Firewall
2 6 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (25.00%) WAN
3 5 (20.83%) VPN
4 4 (16.67%) DWDM
4 4 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 4 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 3 (12.50%) LAN
5 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (8.33%) BGP
6 2 (8.33%) EIGRP
6 2 (8.33%) Internet
6 2 (8.33%) MPLS
6 2 (8.33%) OSPF
6 2 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.33%) Wireless
7 1 (4.17%) DHCP
7 1 (4.17%) DNS
7 1 (4.17%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Legal
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) NOC Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Security Support Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Security Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) FMCG
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
3 5 (20.83%) Linux
4 1 (4.17%) CentOS
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (37.50%) Project Delivery
4 8 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (33.33%) High Availability
5 7 (29.17%) Change Management
5 7 (29.17%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 6 (25.00%) Analytics
6 6 (25.00%) Business Continuity
6 6 (25.00%) Information Security
6 6 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (20.83%) BCP
7 5 (20.83%) Business Continuity Planning
7 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
7 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) Line Management
7 5 (20.83%) Web Operations
8 4 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 4 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.83%) CCNA
3 4 (16.67%) CCNP
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) CCIE
5 1 (4.17%) CISM
5 1 (4.17%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) GRC
3 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
1 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Nagios
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (29.17%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco
4 4 (16.67%) Meraki
5 3 (12.50%) HP
5 3 (12.50%) Thycotic
6 2 (8.33%) Aruba
7 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
7 1 (4.17%) Dell
7 1 (4.17%) F5
7 1 (4.17%) Google
7 1 (4.17%) IBM
7 1 (4.17%) Imperva
7 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds