Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the North West

Security Monitoring
England > North West

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 127 109
Rank change year-on-year -37 -18 +18
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 10 3 15
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.26% 0.14% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.15% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 10
10th Percentile £425 - £502
25th Percentile £490 £575 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £544
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +10.29% -4.14%
75th Percentile £556 £625 £573
90th Percentile £636 - £576
England median daily rate £560 £541 £538
% change year-on-year +3.46% +0.60% -6.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Security Monitoring 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 3,134 1,959 2,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.73% 88.72% 84.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,825 1,273 1,207
10th Percentile £276 £282 £309
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.25% -9.30% -
75th Percentile £599 £575 £588
90th Percentile £676 £665 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 124 170
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.72 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.25 £27.00 £34.61
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% -21.98% -1.13%
75th Percentile £72.73 £53.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.63 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Security Monitoring 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 Security Monitoring.

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

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the North West over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Monitoring in the North West

Security Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Security Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
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 Monitoring within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 August 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 -2 5 £536 -10.67% 5
Manchester -31 5 £513 - 9
Security Monitoring
England

Security Monitoring
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 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (30.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) SIEM
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 5 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (40.00%) SOAR
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) Change Management
6 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (30.00%) DevOps
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) RBAC
6 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (30.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) Bicep
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) GCFA
3 2 (20.00%) GCIH
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) Cribl.io
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (20.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) Snow