Intrusion Detection Contract Job Trends in the North West

Intrusion Detection
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 109 125
Rank change year-on-year -33 +16 +47
Contract jobs citing Intrusion Detection 7 14 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.28% 0.65% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.97% 4.29% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £382 - £486
25th Percentile £410 £513 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £525 £627
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.27% +25.40%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £629
90th Percentile £640 - £675
England median daily rate £475 £550 £627
% change year-on-year -13.64% -12.28% +3.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

Intrusion Detection falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 355 326 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.18% 15.04% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 170 316
10th Percentile £170 £180 £302
25th Percentile £331 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% -7.85% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £626
90th Percentile £678 £641 £672
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.76 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £22.01 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%
75th Percentile £69.00 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £52.14 £49.38
England median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -17.07% -26.39% +23.78%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Intrusion Detection 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 Intrusion Detection.

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

Intrusion Detection
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the North West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Intrusion Detection in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Intrusion Detection
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 Intrusion Detection within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Cheshire - 7 £420 -
Intrusion Detection
England

Intrusion Detection
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 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) Network Security
2 5 (71.43%) Internet
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Network Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Network Security Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (71.43%) SIEM
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Network Design
3 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
4 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (14.29%) ITSM
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (57.14%) CCNP
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) CCNA CyberOps
4 1 (14.29%) CCSA
4 1 (14.29%) CCSE
4 1 (14.29%) Check Point Certification
4 1 (14.29%) CISSP
4 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 7 (100.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint