NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in Manchester

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.050% - 0.083%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.30% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £477
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.12%
75th Percentile - - £491
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £775 £575 £477
% change year-on-year +34.78% +20.55% -22.12%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

NIST 800 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 328 149 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.42% 14.65% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 111 99
10th Percentile £327 £319 £391
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £730 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £458 £489
% change year-on-year +9.29% -6.44% -1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 4 3
10th Percentile £21.08 £27.31 £28.80
25th Percentile £27.16 £49.13 £29.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £67.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +125.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.94 £77.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £84.10 £84.25 £61.00
North West median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £11.07
% change year-on-year +2.40% +464.46% -68.81%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST 800 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in Manchester

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing NIST 800.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing NIST 800

NIST 800
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 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Audit Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) IT Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) IT Risk Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior IT Audit Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior IT Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CRISC
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ITGC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST