Forcepoint Contract Job Trends in the North West

Forcepoint
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Forcepoint products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Forcepoint over the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Forcepoint, LLC (formerly Websense).

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Forcepoint 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.080% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -13.46%

All Vendors
North West

Forcepoint falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,251 1,045 1,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 51.40% 45.00% 47.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 548 843
10th Percentile £267 £325 £231
25th Percentile £363 £412 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £581 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 57 90
10th Percentile £16.13 £16.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% +72.15%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £71.91 £55.09
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -24.24% -26.26% +72.12%

Forcepoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Forcepoint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Forcepoint job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Forcepoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Forcepoint

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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 Forcepoint within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Merseyside - 1 - -
Forcepoint
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto