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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 119 154
Rank change year-on-year 0 +35 -12
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 16 31 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.57% 1.03% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 3.21% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 27
10th Percentile £507 - -
25th Percentile £523 £486 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -21.72% +24.46%
75th Percentile £734 £593 £783
90th Percentile £788 £626 £807
England median daily rate £590 £600 £663
% change year-on-year -1.67% -9.43% +20.45%

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 695 967 1,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.89% 32.10% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 633 1,075
10th Percentile £292 £295 £210
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +16.71%
75th Percentile £581 £606 £588
90th Percentile £690 £675 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 39 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.11 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +42.86% +7.24%
75th Percentile £39.06 £58.18 £27.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £67.60 £61.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

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 21 June 2024.

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 21 June 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
Cheshire -12 11 £550 -7.29% 3
Manchester +13 5 £650 +44.44% 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Security Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) Integration Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) SaaS Consultant
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Data Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Middleware Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 6 (37.50%) Cyberattack
3 5 (31.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (18.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) zOS
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (43.75%) Risk Management
3 6 (37.50%) Change Management
3 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 6 (37.50%) Data Security
3 6 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
3 6 (37.50%) Product Strategy
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) SIEM
3 6 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 5 (31.25%) Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) Observability
5 4 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (18.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.25%) CISM
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Salesforce
2 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) F5
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.25%) Intel