Tenable Contract Job Trends in the North West

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England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Tenable products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tenable over the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Tenable Holdings, Inc.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 118 139
Rank change year-on-year -31 +21 +15
Contract jobs citing Tenable 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.25% 0.096% 0.072%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £610 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% +23.08% -49.51%
75th Percentile £641 - £338
90th Percentile £649 - -
England median daily rate £475 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% -20.70%

All Vendors
North West

Tenable falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,298 1,081 1,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 45.98% 51.95% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 653 742
10th Percentile £213 £250 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% - +3.15%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £582
90th Percentile £686 £672 £674
England median daily rate £508 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 50 131
10th Percentile £15.84 £20.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £21.06 £25.26 £15.50
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +83.41% -47.50%
75th Percentile £61.33 £60.00 £32.16
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% +19.23% -21.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Tenable 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 Tenable.

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

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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 Tenable within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester -12 6 £620 - 1
Cheshire -21 1 £643 +60.75%
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England

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 4 (57.14%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security Posture
1 5 (71.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Unix
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
1 5 (71.43%) Identity Management
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
1 5 (71.43%) Log Correlation
1 5 (71.43%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Ticket Management
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Management
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 4 (57.14%) Validation
2 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CISSP
1 5 (71.43%) CompTIA Security+
1 5 (71.43%) MCSA
1 5 (71.43%) MCSE
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Nessus
2 5 (71.43%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) CyberArk
1 5 (71.43%) Remedy
2 4 (57.14%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow