TrustSec Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cisco TrustSec
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring TrustSec skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing TrustSec 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.013% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.079% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £475 £588 -
% change year-on-year -19.15% - -

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

TrustSec falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,259 726 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.98% 18.25% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 484 338
10th Percentile £313 £263 £244
25th Percentile £403 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.80% -5.95%
75th Percentile £588 £552 £565
90th Percentile £651 £642 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 11 8
10th Percentile £47.24 £36.00 £28.53
25th Percentile £62.50 £62.33 £42.01
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% +37.29% +8.02%
75th Percentile - £84.88 £46.82
90th Percentile £72.50 £95.00 £65.33
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +22.94% +43.42% -23.26%

TrustSec
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

TrustSec job vacancy trend in the North of England

TrustSec
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

TrustSec
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 TrustSec within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 August 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 - 1 - - 1
TrustSec
England

TrustSec
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) FactoryTalk
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Modbus
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens
1 1 (100.00%) Wonderware