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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 149 153
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 -19
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 4 17 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.53% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 1.58% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 20
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 £486 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -24.14% +14.85%
75th Percentile £563 £586 £763
90th Percentile - £628 £770
England median daily rate £590 £623 £610
% change year-on-year -5.22% +2.05% +10.91%

All Generic Skills
North West

Cyber Threat is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 732 1,078 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.68% 33.91% 34.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 722 1,069
10th Percentile £294 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £588
90th Percentile £672 £680 £673
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 45 63
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.25 £12.27
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +51.24% +3.35%
75th Percentile £42.19 £65.00 £39.14
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.19
England median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +34.13% -16.66% +2.08%

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
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 1 May 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 +23 3 £525 +16.67% 11
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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) IBM