Cisco Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cisco Security Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cisco Security Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Security Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.100% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £551 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 932 1,124 1,596
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.69% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 699 1,157
10th Percentile £301 £348 £285
25th Percentile £388 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £654 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 36 59
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.77 £15.72
25th Percentile £14.20 £20.94 £16.85
Median hourly rate £21.10 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.55% +98.72% +11.43%
75th Percentile £32.20 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £83.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £24.62 £37.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -33.46% +8.82% +45.36%

Cisco Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Cisco Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Security Engineer in Manchester

Cisco Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cisco Security Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cisco Security Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Cisco Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 6 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Cisco Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Cisco Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management

Cisco Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet