Security Posture Contracts in the North West

Security Posture
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture 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 107 126 143
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 +28
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 13 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 1.48% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile £475 £425 £450
25th Percentile £499 £500 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £590 £654
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -9.75% +335.83%
75th Percentile £645 £819 £670
90th Percentile £701 £988 £675
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 - -
Median hourly rate £28.75 - -
75th Percentile £30.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.75 - -

All Generic Skills
North West

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Posture in the North West

Security Posture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Security Posture in the North West

Security Posture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Posture in the North West

Security Posture
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 Posture 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
Lancashire +6 5 - - 6
Manchester +13 4 £582 +1.13% 16
Cheshire +3 4 £593 - 3
Security Posture
England

Security Posture
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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) MPLS
2 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DB2
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 7 (53.85%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Automotive
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Administrator
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Database Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
1 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Budget Management
2 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
2 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
2 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (15.38%) RBAC
4 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
4 2 (15.38%) SIEM
4 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Use Case
5 1 (7.69%) Data Entry
5 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.69%) OWASP
5 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
5 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) Ruby
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Aruba
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Cloudera
3 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Imperva
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) Ping Identity
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds