Rapid7 Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of Rapid7 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid7 over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 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 Rapid7 LLC.

 6 months to
31 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 - 193
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Contract jobs citing Rapid7 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.16% - 0.040%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% - 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £416 - £635
25th Percentile £487 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.37%
75th Percentile £530 - £750
90th Percentile £534 - £765
England median daily rate £449 £534 £650
% change year-on-year -15.84% -17.92% +20.93%

All Vendors
North of England

Rapid7 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 requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,327 1,648 2,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 46.27% 48.90% 45.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,525 970 1,428
10th Percentile £244 £243 £229
25th Percentile £363 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +0.51% -2.75%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £577
90th Percentile £678 £672 £669
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 64 146
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.30 £11.79
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £14.01
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £19.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +66.33% -15.81%
75th Percentile £57.11 £46.18 £42.78
90th Percentile £69.38 £86.00 £46.53
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% -1.64% -6.15%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rapid7 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Rapid7 job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Rapid7.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Rapid7

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rapid7 in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Rapid7 in the North of England

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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 Rapid7 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 January 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		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Yorkshire - 7 £510 - 1
North West - 1 £330 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
1 3 (37.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Security Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) SIEM
1 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
2 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (37.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) SOAR
4 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Inventory Management
4 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (37.50%) GCIA
1 3 (37.50%) GCIH
1 3 (37.50%) GIAC
1 3 (37.50%) SSCP
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 3 (37.50%) NIST 800
2 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Tenable
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
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