SBOM Contract Job Trends in the North West

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring SBOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SBOM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.037% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 - -
England median daily rate £476 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

SBOM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,365 1,867 2,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.82% 88.65% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 1,115 1,624
10th Percentile £213 £265 £307
25th Percentile £358 £380 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £570 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 99 218
10th Percentile £16.15 £16.21 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.85 £22.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £31.52 £29.22
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% +7.87% -22.08%
75th Percentile £61.25 £55.59 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.18 £75.30 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

SBOM
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 SBOM within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 February 2026. 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 - 1 £476 -
SBOM
England

SBOM
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI