Checkmarx Contract Job Trends in the North West

Checkmarx
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Checkmarx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Checkmarx over the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, 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 Checkmarx.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 122 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Checkmarx 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.045% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.097% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £596 - -
25th Percentile £605 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £639 - -
England median daily rate £500 £553 £475
% change year-on-year -9.50% +16.32% -26.92%

All Vendors
North West

Checkmarx 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,276 1,035 1,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 52.04% 46.06% 47.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 559 826
10th Percentile £250 £309 £235
25th Percentile £363 £406 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 54 90
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.60 £24.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% -4.41% +70.00%
75th Percentile £55.85 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.66 £55.09
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
% change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%

Checkmarx
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Checkmarx job vacancy trend in the North West

Checkmarx
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Checkmarx.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Checkmarx

Checkmarx
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Checkmarx within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 December 2025. 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
Manchester -7 2 £632 - 1
Cheshire - 2 £610 - 2
Checkmarx
England

Checkmarx
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Snyk
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) OSCP
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Veracode
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft