Security Management Contracts in the North West

Security Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Security Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 132 157
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +1
Contract jobs citing Security Management 6 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.30% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £455 £458 £375
25th Percentile £500 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £643 £588
90th Percentile £725 £742 £705
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Security Management 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 1,774 2,370 2,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.14% 86.37% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 1,513 2,045
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 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 246 142
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.36 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £21.56 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% -38.41% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.66 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.51 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Management in the North West

Security Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Security Management in the North West

Security Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Management in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Management in the North West

Security Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Security Management in the North West

Security Management
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 Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +15 5 £675 +17.39% 7
Cheshire - 1 - - 3
Security Management
England

Security Management
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports Writer
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Report Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Report Writer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Password Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (33.33%) CCSP
1 2 (33.33%) CEH
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) COBIT
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Aruba
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
1 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
1 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds