Cyber Threat Contracts in the North West

Cyber Threats
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 135 149
Rank change year-on-year +19 +14 +4
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 9 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.15% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 0.54% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 11
10th Percentile £397 - -
25th Percentile £458 £488 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -4.55% -24.14%
75th Percentile £542 £563 £586
90th Percentile £618 - £628
England median daily rate £539 £590 £623
% change year-on-year -8.69% -5.22% +2.05%

All Generic Skills
North West

Cyber Threat 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 561 735 1,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.51% 26.79% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 488 722
10th Percentile £203 £294 £300
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £582 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £680
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 77 45
10th Percentile £22.67 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.80 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £38.57 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.91 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +12.43% +34.13% -16.72%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the North West

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the North West

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the North West

Cyber Threat
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 Threat within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +18 5 £663 +26.19% 11
Cheshire - 3 £492 - 6
Merseyside - 1 - - 3
Cyber Threat
England

Cyber Threat
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) HTTP
3 1 (11.11%) tcpdump
3 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Security Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) MISP
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (44.44%) SIEM
2 3 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (33.33%) Data Management
2 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 2 (22.22%) Forensic Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) ISMS
4 1 (11.11%) OWASP
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Ruby
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Nessus
2 1 (11.11%) OpenVAS
2 1 (11.11%) QRadar
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Thycotic
2 2 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (22.22%) ForgeRock
3 1 (11.11%) ArcSight
3 1 (11.11%) Carbon Black
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Imperva
3 1 (11.11%) LogRhythm
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Qualys
3 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
3 1 (11.11%) Siemens
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk