CCSP Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing CCSP 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.20% - 0.085%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.76% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
North West median daily rate £600 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +33.74%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

CCSP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 527 283 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.13% 28.08% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 182 141
10th Percentile £367 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +1.01% -4.12%
75th Percentile £638 £621 £600
90th Percentile £738 £715 £683
North West median daily rate £519 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.83% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 26 21
10th Percentile £18.19 £20.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £28.69 £22.16 £25.35
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.58 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.48% -18.36% +41.41%
75th Percentile £43.96 £50.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £66.66 £67.50 £93.00
North West median hourly rate £43.56 £28.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +53.80% -37.06% -2.56%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCSP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

CCSP job vacancy trend in Manchester

CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CCSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CCSP

CCSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (75.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (50.00%) OWASP
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (50.00%) CCIE
3 2 (50.00%) CCIE Security
3 2 (50.00%) CCNP
3 2 (50.00%) CEH
3 2 (50.00%) CISM
3 2 (50.00%) OSCP
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) CCIE Service Provider
4 1 (25.00%) CCSA
4 1 (25.00%) CCSE
4 1 (25.00%) GCIA
4 1 (25.00%) GCIH
4 1 (25.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (50.00%) COBIT
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) AlgoSec
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto