Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Security Posture
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 80 98
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 +32
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.61% 0.27% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 0.81% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £408 - £335
25th Percentile £525 - £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £396
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +51.42% -20.75%
75th Percentile £613 - £442
90th Percentile £628 - £455
North West median daily rate £575 £563 £443
% change year-on-year +2.22% +27.12% -32.31%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 372 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.99% 33.97% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 201 327
10th Percentile £300 £264 £225
25th Percentile £360 £360 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £575
90th Percentile £650 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £489 £513
% change year-on-year -7.98% -4.59% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £28.69
25th Percentile £19.75 £28.19 £35.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.13
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.64% -17.86%
75th Percentile £55.00 £39.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £61.50 £79.13
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.75 £41.87
% change year-on-year +43.18% -24.16% +56.97%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Manchester

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in Manchester

Security Posture
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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) 802.11
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Snyk
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Application Security Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Applications Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Incident Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Incident Response Lead
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Senior
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (28.57%) Application Security
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Log Correlation
3 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
3 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (14.29%) MCSA
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GRC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) CASB
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Nessus
1 1 (14.29%) QRadar
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Checkmarx
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Rapid7
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy
3 1 (14.29%) Tenable
3 1 (14.29%) Veracode