Security Analytics Contract Job Trends in the North West

Security Analytics
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Security Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Analytics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.036% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £529 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £596 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £630 £635 -
% change year-on-year -0.79% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Security Analytics 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 2,415 1,836 2,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.34% 89.00% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 1,113 1,579
10th Percentile £215 £275 £304
25th Percentile £358 £385 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 106 232
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.07 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.93 £23.11 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.23% +21.69% -30.67%
75th Percentile £63.50 £55.76 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.30 £79.04 £55.01
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

Security Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Security Analytics job vacancy trend in the North West

Security Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Security Analytics
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 Security Analytics within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Cheshire - 1 £563 - 1
Security Analytics
England

Security Analytics
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%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Bot Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python