Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Security Monitoring
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 87 78
Rank change year-on-year -27 -9 +27
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.25% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.11% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
North West median daily rate £513 - £544
% change year-on-year - - -1.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Security Monitoring 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 1,639 888 1,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.45% 89.88% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 577 585
10th Percentile £313 £307 £313
25th Percentile £417 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £471 £498
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -5.33% -0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £594
90th Percentile £700 £678 £688
North West median daily rate £500 £453 £490
% change year-on-year +10.38% -7.46% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 66 34
10th Percentile £19.60 £15.28 £15.94
25th Percentile £32.73 £19.07 £22.84
Median hourly rate £57.50 £22.63 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +154.09% -41.60% +106.67%
75th Percentile £73.75 £35.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £77.35 £64.38 £87.45
North West median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +86.08% -40.82% +21.43%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in Manchester

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Security Monitoring
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Police
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Forensics
4 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (40.00%) SOAR
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (40.00%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) GCFA
2 2 (40.00%) GCIH
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) CASB
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cribl.io
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Google