Threat Analysis Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Threat Analysis
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Threat Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - 101
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Threat Analysis 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.15% - 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £538 - -
25th Percentile £551 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £587 - £450
75th Percentile £609 - £475
90th Percentile £614 - -
North West median daily rate £615 - £450

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Threat Analysis 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 1,216 932 1,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.18% 91.19% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 604 964
10th Percentile £306 £294 £313
25th Percentile £381 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £571 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £667
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 32 72
10th Percentile £17.91 £15.92 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.75 £13.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £32.50 £25.10
Median % change year-on-year +63.08% +29.51% -35.65%
75th Percentile £66.25 £34.56 £51.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £27.48
% change year-on-year +42.23% +15.14% -26.72%

Threat Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Threat Analysis job vacancy trend in Manchester

Threat Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Threat Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Threat Analysis

Threat Analysis
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Watson
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft