Secure Coding Contracts in the North West

Secure Code Development
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Secure Coding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secure Coding over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 136 144
Rank change year-on-year +21 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing Secure Coding 5 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.036% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.042% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £360 - £375
25th Percentile £363 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £484 £438 £563
90th Percentile £554 - £612
England median daily rate £650 £650 £575
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Secure Coding 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 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Secure Coding
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Secure Coding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Secure Coding in the North West

Secure Coding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secure Coding in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Secure Coding in the North West

Secure Coding
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secure Coding in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secure Coding in the North West

Secure Coding
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 Secure Coding within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 3 £363 - 14
Manchester - 2 £600 - 14
Secure Coding
England

Secure Coding
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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (40.00%) Data Vault
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Active Listening
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
2 1 (20.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef