Cybersecurity Contracts in the North West

Cybersecurity
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 33 93
Rank change year-on-year -27 +60 -25
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 80 163 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.92% 5.38% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 5.99% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 103 83
10th Percentile £401 £406 £377
25th Percentile £482 £469 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £725 £648 £763
90th Percentile £785 £773 -
England median daily rate £589 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -2.64% +5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £22.50 -
25th Percentile £33.48 - -
Median hourly rate £35.95 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.80% - -
75th Percentile £38.43 £36.25 -
90th Percentile - £61.70 -
England median hourly rate £83.41 £73.99 £35.50
% change year-on-year +12.73% +108.42% -29.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,330 2,719 3,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.10% 89.71% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 1,906 2,612
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 143 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.66%
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.59 £52.67
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in the North West

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester -29 34 £550 -4.35% 71
Cheshire -6 27 £570 -8.06% 41
Lancashire +10 6 £740 +92.21% 24
Cumbria -29 6 £531 +9.16% 4
Merseyside +6 1 - - 9
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.75%) Azure
2 9 (11.25%) AWS
3 7 (8.75%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.00%) IaaS
5 4 (5.00%) PaaS
5 4 (5.00%) SaaS
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.75%) Serverless
6 3 (3.75%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) Network Security
2 3 (3.75%) Intranet
3 2 (2.50%) Firewall
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.25%) NAS
4 1 (1.25%) SAN
4 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
1 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
1 3 (3.75%) MySQL
1 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.50%) Burp Suite
General
1 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.50%) Finance
3 8 (10.00%) Automotive
4 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Banking
6 4 (5.00%) German Language
7 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Retail
8 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Electronics
9 1 (1.25%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Analyst
2 15 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 11 (13.75%) Architect
4 10 (12.50%) Security Architect
5 8 (10.00%) Security Analyst
5 8 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Test Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Senior
7 6 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 6 (7.50%) Security Manager
8 5 (6.25%) Consultant
8 5 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Project Manager
8 5 (6.25%) Security Project Manager
9 4 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (5.00%) Programme Manager
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 3 (3.75%) Implementation Specialist
10 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Security Posture
2 7 (8.75%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (6.25%) Cyberattack
4 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.75%) PKI
6 2 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.50%) Insider Threat
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Clustering
7 1 (1.25%) CMDB
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.25%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.50%) Information Security
2 15 (18.75%) Risk Management
3 14 (17.50%) Project Management
4 13 (16.25%) Decision-Making
4 13 (16.25%) Roadmaps
5 12 (15.00%) Business Strategy
5 12 (15.00%) Data Protection
5 12 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (15.00%) IT Strategy
5 12 (15.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 11 (13.75%) Business Continuity
6 11 (13.75%) Cloud Security
7 10 (12.50%) Agile
8 9 (11.25%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (10.00%) Cyber Resilience
9 8 (10.00%) DevOps
9 8 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
9 8 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.00%) Use Case
9 8 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.25%) Python
2 4 (5.00%) Bash
2 4 (5.00%) C
2 4 (5.00%) C++
2 4 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (5.00%) SQL
3 3 (3.75%) Go
4 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) CISSP
2 13 (16.25%) CISM
3 12 (15.00%) Degree
4 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
5 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 6 (7.50%) CISA
6 6 (7.50%) Master's Degree
6 6 (7.50%) MBA
7 5 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.25%) CRISC
8 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.25%) GIAC
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.25%) OSCP
8 1 (1.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (22.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 18 (22.50%) NIST
2 6 (7.50%) PCI DSS
2 6 (7.50%) QA
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (5.00%) GRC
4 3 (3.75%) IASME
4 3 (3.75%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.25%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) Docker
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 4 (5.00%) HP Fortify
1 4 (5.00%) Terraform
1 4 (5.00%) VxRail
2 3 (3.75%) Ansible
2 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Nmap
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 4 (5.00%) Cadence
3 4 (5.00%) Citrix
4 3 (3.75%) Rapid7
4 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.75%) Splunk
5 2 (2.50%) CA
5 2 (2.50%) Cisco
5 2 (2.50%) Dell
5 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.50%) Sophos
5 2 (2.50%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.25%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.25%) HP
6 1 (1.25%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.25%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Veeam
6 1 (1.25%) VMware