Cyber Threat Contracts in the North West

Cyber Threats
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Threat 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 129 139 157
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 -20
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 7 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.26% 0.75% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 2.30% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 22
10th Percentile £556 - -
25th Percentile £659 - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £746 £486 £725
Median % change year-on-year +53.42% -32.97% +14.85%
75th Percentile £788 £585 £764
90th Percentile - £607 £800
England median daily rate £584 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
North West

Cyber Threat 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%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in the North West

Cyber Threat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Threat in the North West

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in the North West

Cyber Threat
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 Cyber Threat 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 +21 4 £650 +44.44% 9
Cheshire -9 2 £746 +27.24% 5
Cyber Threat
England

Cyber Threat
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 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyberattack
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Batch Processing
3 2 (28.57%) Data Encryption
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Key Management
3 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike