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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 100 101
Rank change year-on-year -18 +1 +67
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cyber Threat 13 23 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.59% 0.94% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 3.55% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 32
10th Percentile £472 £528 -
25th Percentile £498 £550 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £695 £586
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +18.70% -22.96%
75th Percentile £627 £788 £615
90th Percentile £701 - £628
England median daily rate £550 £668 £600
% change year-on-year -17.66% +11.33% -3.61%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 733 647 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.03% 26.53% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 402 567
10th Percentile £301 £301 £257
25th Percentile £378 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £592
90th Percentile £650 £735 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 29 35
10th Percentile £22.14 £11.25 £16.10
25th Percentile £26.88 £16.85 £16.85
Median hourly rate £43.86 £31.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.47% -22.50% +100.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £57.50 £48.09
90th Percentile £77.63 £93.90 £68.80
England median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -35.90% +16.28% +65.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the North West

Cyber Threat
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +7 7 £575 -25.81% 15
Cheshire -37 3 £500 -27.01% 2
Cumbria - 2 £508 - 1
Merseyside - 1 - - 1
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 (46.15%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
3 1 (7.69%) tcpdump
3 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Security Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Security Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Response Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
1 1 (7.69%) NestJS
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
1 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (7.69%) MISP
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (30.77%) SIEM
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
3 3 (23.08%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (23.08%) Data Management
3 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
3 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Forensic Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 2 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Threat Detection
4 2 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Nessus
2 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
2 2 (15.38%) QRadar
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) OpenVAS
3 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 3 (23.08%) Qualys
1 3 (23.08%) Thycotic
2 2 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (15.38%) ForgeRock
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Tanium
3 1 (7.69%) ArcSight
3 1 (7.69%) Carbon Black
3 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Imperva
3 1 (7.69%) LogRhythm
3 1 (7.69%) Ping Identity
3 1 (7.69%) Rapid7
3 1 (7.69%) Siemens