Cybersecurity Contracts in Manchester

Cybersecurity
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 36 86
Rank change year-on-year -23 +50 -28
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 39 85 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.67% 4.85% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 5.35% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 65 54
10th Percentile £320 £435 £408
25th Percentile £425 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £763
90th Percentile £755 £800 -
North West median daily rate £570 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
North West median hourly rate £35.95 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.80% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Cybersecurity 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,249 1,588 2,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.49% 90.54% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 1,176 1,806
10th Percentile £325 £315 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £588
90th Percentile £693 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 50 51
10th Percentile £12.47 £15.61 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.66 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +21.62% +13.99%
75th Percentile £59.38 £38.44 £45.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
% change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Manchester

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £325 -
Oldham - 1 £350 - 1
Cybersecurity
North West

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (23.08%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
4 5 (12.82%) SaaS
5 4 (10.26%) IaaS
5 4 (10.26%) PaaS
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.69%) Serverless
6 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) Network Security
2 3 (7.69%) Intranet
3 2 (5.13%) Firewall
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.56%) NAS
4 1 (2.56%) SAN
4 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 3 (7.69%) DynamoDB
1 3 (7.69%) MySQL
1 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Git
1 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.56%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Automotive
2 4 (10.26%) Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Analyst
1 8 (20.51%) Architect
2 7 (17.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 7 (17.95%) Security Analyst
2 7 (17.95%) Security Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Consultant
3 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Security Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Security Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Risk Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Technologist
7 1 (2.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Security Posture
2 4 (10.26%) Cyberattack
3 3 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.13%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.56%) Clustering
5 1 (2.56%) CMDB
5 1 (2.56%) PKI
5 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
1 5 (12.82%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Information Security
2 8 (20.51%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.95%) Risk Management
4 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 6 (15.38%) Remediation Plan
5 5 (12.82%) Agile
5 5 (12.82%) Data Protection
5 5 (12.82%) DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) OWASP
5 5 (12.82%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (12.82%) SIEM
6 4 (10.26%) Application Security
6 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (10.26%) Identity Management
6 4 (10.26%) Problem Management
6 4 (10.26%) Project Management
6 4 (10.26%) SDLC
6 4 (10.26%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Bash
1 4 (10.26%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (10.26%) Python
1 4 (10.26%) SQL
2 3 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) CISSP
2 7 (17.95%) CISM
3 5 (12.82%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) GIAC
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (43.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (15.38%) NIST
2 6 (15.38%) QA
3 5 (12.82%) PCI DSS
4 4 (10.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (10.26%) GRC
5 3 (7.69%) IASME
5 3 (7.69%) ISO 22301
6 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (2.56%) GDPR
6 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.26%) Docker
3 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) HP Fortify
2 3 (7.69%) Ansible
2 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) Nmap
3 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.56%) systemd
3 1 (2.56%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) CyberArk
3 4 (10.26%) Salesforce
4 3 (7.69%) Rapid7
4 3 (7.69%) Splunk
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco
5 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
5 2 (5.13%) Sophos
6 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.56%) Carbon Black
6 1 (2.56%) Citrix
6 1 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.56%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.56%) HP
6 1 (2.56%) Meraki
6 1 (2.56%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.56%) Tanium
6 1 (2.56%) Veeam
6 1 (2.56%) VMware