Cyberattack Contracts in the North West

Cyberattack
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyberattack over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 159 169
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 -33
Contract jobs citing Cyberattack 5 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.19% 0.098% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 0.30% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile - £515 £400
25th Percentile £425 £538 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £430
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +33.72% -23.04%
75th Percentile £631 £613 £623
90th Percentile £725 £635 £800
England median daily rate £650 £613 £563
% change year-on-year +6.12% +8.89% -3.43%

All Generic Skills
North West

Cyberattack is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 1,001 1,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.77% 32.65% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 653 1,098
10th Percentile £283 £304 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +21.48%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £663
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 40 65
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.85 £11.42
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.25 £12.51
Median hourly rate £25.25 £31.49 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +57.45% +11.73%
75th Percentile £40.63 £66.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £56.48
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.09%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the North West

Cyberattack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cyberattack in the North West

Cyberattack
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyberattack in the North West over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyberattack in the North West

Cyberattack
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 Cyberattack within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Manchester - 4 £450 - 3
Cheshire -2 1 £775 +34.78% 1
Cyberattack
England

Cyberattack
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (40.00%) Insider Threat
3 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (40.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) OWASP
4 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (20.00%) NCSC
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) IBM