Security Operations Contracts in Manchester

Security Operations (SecOps)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 100 117
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 -27
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 5 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.34% 0.97% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.06% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 29
10th Percentile £448 £450 £475
25th Percentile £481 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -3.45% +70.59%
75th Percentile £650 £925 £763
90th Percentile £665 £1,470 -
North West median daily rate £625 £606 £670
% change year-on-year +3.14% -9.55% +57.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Security Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,295 1,705 2,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.26% 91.72% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 1,254 1,817
10th Percentile £325 £318 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 58 49
10th Percentile £12.42 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.40 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +141.29% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.89 £25.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Manchester

Security Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Security Operations in Manchester

Security Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Operations in Manchester

Security Operations
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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) SAML
2 1 (20.00%) Ajax
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (20.00%) GIAC
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Carbon Black
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow