CISA Contract Job Trends in Manchester

ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for CISA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 80 103
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 +39
Contract jobs citing CISA 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.20% 0.085% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 0.35% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £275
25th Percentile £454 - £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 - £360
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile £461 - £443
90th Percentile - - £476
North West median daily rate £458 - £486
% change year-on-year - - -19.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

CISA 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 285 284 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.50% 24.25% 23.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 141 286
10th Percentile £306 £294 £228
25th Percentile £412 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year - -3.15% -3.95%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £634
90th Percentile £715 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 21 19
10th Percentile £20.00 £16.85 £15.74
25th Percentile £22.16 £25.35 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.58 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.77% +23.33% -32.58%
75th Percentile £50.31 £62.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £100.00 £64.25
North West median hourly rate £27.38 £45.59 £45.88
% change year-on-year -39.95% -0.63% +20.74%

CISA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

CISA job vacancy trend in Manchester

CISA
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CISA

CISA
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk