Cybersecurity Contracts in the North West

Cybersecurity
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 46 102
Rank change year-on-year -18 +56 -28
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 76 138 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.75% 4.32% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 4.77% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 90 70
10th Percentile £380 £406 £421
25th Percentile £506 £466 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £725 £649 £763
90th Percentile £756 £775 £763
England median daily rate £582 £601 £570
% change year-on-year -3.08% +5.35% +11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.48 £20.00 -
Median hourly rate £35.95 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.78% - -
75th Percentile £38.43 £25.00 -
90th Percentile - £29.50 -
England median hourly rate £83.63 £67.50 £50.56
% change year-on-year +23.90% +33.50% +6.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 -21 42 £550 -2.87% 83
Cheshire -2 18 £570 -7.32% 55
Lancashire +6 5 £745 +35.45% 48
Cumbria -34 4 £610 +18.16% 10
Merseyside +12 1 - - 8
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (9.21%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.95%) Azure
2 11 (14.47%) AWS
3 7 (9.21%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (6.58%) Entra ID
4 5 (6.58%) IaaS
4 5 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.58%) PaaS
4 5 (6.58%) SaaS
5 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.95%) Serverless
6 3 (3.95%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.63%) GitHub
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Firewall
2 5 (6.58%) Network Security
3 3 (3.95%) Intranet
4 2 (2.63%) DMZ
4 2 (2.63%) VPN
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.32%) NAS
5 1 (1.32%) SAN
5 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
1 3 (3.95%) DynamoDB
1 3 (3.95%) MySQL
1 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) JIRA
2 4 (5.26%) Git
3 3 (3.95%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.32%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.32%) GitLab
4 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.74%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.84%) Finance
4 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.58%) Banking
6 4 (5.26%) Police
7 3 (3.95%) Retail
8 2 (2.63%) Automotive
9 1 (1.32%) German Language
9 1 (1.32%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.32%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (26.32%) Analyst
2 15 (19.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 10 (13.16%) Consultant
4 8 (10.53%) Architect
4 8 (10.53%) Security Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) Test Analyst
5 6 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 6 (7.89%) Security Architect
6 5 (6.58%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.58%) Security Manager
6 5 (6.58%) Security Project Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
7 4 (5.26%) Programme Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Security Consultant
8 3 (3.95%) Data Consultant
8 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Consultant
8 3 (3.95%) Senior
8 3 (3.95%) Site Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Security Posture
2 5 (6.58%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.95%) Cyberattack
4 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.63%) Insider Threat
4 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.63%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.32%) Clustering
5 1 (1.32%) CMDB
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.32%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Linux
1 6 (7.89%) Windows
2 1 (1.32%) Kali Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.58%) Information Security
2 17 (22.37%) Data Protection
3 15 (19.74%) Risk Management
4 14 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (17.11%) IT Strategy
6 12 (15.79%) Agile
6 12 (15.79%) Business Strategy
6 12 (15.79%) Cyber Resilience
6 12 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (14.47%) Business Continuity
7 11 (14.47%) Project Management
8 10 (13.16%) Decision-Making
8 10 (13.16%) Mentoring
8 10 (13.16%) Roadmaps
9 9 (11.84%) Incident Response
9 9 (11.84%) Use Case
10 8 (10.53%) DevOps
10 8 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
10 8 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.89%) Python
2 4 (5.26%) Bash
2 4 (5.26%) Go
2 4 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (5.26%) SQL
3 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.32%) C
4 1 (1.32%) C++
4 1 (1.32%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) CISSP
1 18 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.05%) CISM
3 14 (18.42%) SC Cleared
4 10 (13.16%) Degree
5 6 (7.89%) CISA
5 6 (7.89%) Master's Degree
5 6 (7.89%) MBA
6 5 (6.58%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.32%) CRISC
8 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.32%) GIAC
8 1 (1.32%) OSCP
8 1 (1.32%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (28.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (25.00%) NIST
3 6 (7.89%) PCI DSS
3 6 (7.89%) QA
4 4 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (5.26%) GDPR
4 4 (5.26%) GRC
5 3 (3.95%) IASME
5 3 (3.95%) ISO 22301
5 3 (3.95%) NCSC
6 2 (2.63%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.32%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.95%) Docker
3 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.26%) Terraform
2 3 (3.95%) Ansible
2 3 (3.95%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.32%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (1.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.58%) CyberArk
2 5 (6.58%) Rapid7
3 4 (5.26%) Cadence
3 4 (5.26%) Sophos
4 3 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.95%) Splunk
5 2 (2.63%) CA
5 2 (2.63%) Cisco
5 2 (2.63%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.32%) Citrix
6 1 (1.32%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.32%) Dell
6 1 (1.32%) HP
6 1 (1.32%) Meraki
6 1 (1.32%) NetIQ
6 1 (1.32%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.32%) Veeam
6 1 (1.32%) VMware