Cyberattack Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cyberattack
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 121 129
Rank change year-on-year -44 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 1 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.029% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.095% 0.69% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £689 £425
25th Percentile - £696 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £717 £504
Median % change year-on-year -52.04% +42.38% -12.39%
75th Percentile - £766 £539
90th Percentile - £789 £666
England median daily rate £625 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.12% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
North West

Cyberattack falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,054 579 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.38% 28.98% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 408 447
10th Percentile £322 £250 £297
25th Percentile £400 £362 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £585
90th Percentile £650 £650 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 34 76
10th Percentile £21.00 £23.36 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.49 £26.88 £15.00
Median hourly rate £44.48 £38.05 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.91% +50.67% -8.18%
75th Percentile £76.00 £64.69 £39.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.38 £57.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £33.91 £36.50
% change year-on-year +25.33% -7.10% +62.33%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Cyberattack job vacancy trend in the North West

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Cyberattack
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 Cyberattack within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Cheshire -12 1 £344 -54.77%
Cyberattack
England

Cyberattack
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google