Cyber Intelligence Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cyber Intelligence
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Cyber Intelligence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 121 128
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +51
Contract jobs citing Cyber Intelligence 1 2 16
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.046% 0.083% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.099% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £530 £520
25th Percentile £538 £552 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £603 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +4.78% -28.13%
75th Percentile £613 £652 £800
90th Percentile - £673 -
England median daily rate £612 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -2.16% +8.70% -17.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Cyber Intelligence falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,943 2,013 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.52% 83.60% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,106 1,708
10th Percentile £268 £297 £270
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £681 £669 £675
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 110 167
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.48 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.30 £28.75 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +28.79% +41.63%
75th Percentile £47.12 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £73.66 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Cyber Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Cyber Intelligence job vacancy trend in the North West

Cyber Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Cyber Intelligence
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 Cyber Intelligence within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 October 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 - 1 £575 - 2
Cyber Intelligence
England

Cyber Intelligence
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk