AlgoSec Contract Job Trends in the North of England

AlgoSec
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England citing AlgoSec products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AlgoSec over the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within AlgoSec.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	251	-	161
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing AlgoSec	9	0	2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England	0.12%	-	0.050%
As % of the Vendors category	0.30%	-	0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	4	0	2
10^th Percentile	£421	-	-
25^th Percentile	£434	-	£500
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£451	-	£525
75^th Percentile	£467	-	£550
90^th Percentile	£487	-	-
England median daily rate	£478	£450	£525
% change year-on-year	+6.22%	-14.29%	+5.00%

All Vendors
North of England

AlgoSec falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing vendor products and services in the North of England.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing vendor products and services	2,994	2,090	1,689
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England	39.18%	47.46%	42.53%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,758	1,375	906
10^th Percentile	£295	£275	£300
25^th Percentile	£400	£375	£408
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£475	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£583	£575	£581
90^th Percentile	£650	£685	£675
England median daily rate	£524	£510	£525
% change year-on-year	+2.75%	-2.86%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	247	128	76
10^th Percentile	£13.37	£15.00	£15.35
25^th Percentile	£15.39	£18.87	£21.05
Median hourly rate	£24.19	£25.15	£35.36
Median % change year-on-year	-3.80%	-28.89%	+17.87%
75^th Percentile	£55.25	£63.40	£46.18
90^th Percentile	£70.00	£81.25	£52.89
England median hourly rate	£25.00	£25.08	£35.36
% change year-on-year	-0.30%	-29.09%	-19.45%

AlgoSec Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AlgoSec relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

AlgoSec Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AlgoSec.

AlgoSec Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AlgoSec within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 October 2026. 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
North West	-	9	£451	-	2
AlgoSec England

AlgoSec Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AlgoSec also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region citing AlgoSec.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Firewall	100.0%	9
1	Network Security	100.0%	9
3	CCNP	77.8%	7
3	Cisco Certification	77.8%	7
3	CISSP	77.8%	7
6	Zero Trust	66.7%	6
7	Risk Assessment	55.6%	5
7	Security Operations	55.6%	5
7	Stakeholder Management	55.6%	5
10	Compliance Management	44.4%	4
10	ITIL	44.4%	4
10	Network Segmentation	44.4%	4
10	Risk Analysis	44.4%	4
10	Security Management	44.4%	4
10	Service Management	44.4%	4
16	Ansible	33.3%	3
16	AWS	33.3%	3
16	Bash	33.3%	3
16	CCIE	33.3%	3
16	CCIE Security	33.3%	3
16	CCSP	33.3%	3
16	Change Management	33.3%	3
16	CheckPoint	33.3%	3
16	Configuration Management	33.3%	3
16	Infrastructure Engineering	33.3%	3
16	ISO/IEC 27001	33.3%	3
16	Migration	33.3%	3
16	NIST	33.3%	3
16	Operational Resilience	33.3%	3
16	Palo Alto	33.3%	3

AlgoSec Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Vendors

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CheckPoint	33.3%	3
1	Palo Alto	33.3%	3
3	Cisco	22.2%	2
3	Fortinet	22.2%	2
5	Blue Coat	11.1%	1
5	Microsoft	11.1%	1
5	Symantec	11.1%	1