CCSP Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CCSP 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.23% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 £713 £600
% change year-on-year -12.28% +18.75% -7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,166 761 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.65% 34.26% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 756 440 394
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -1.19% -2.69%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £605
90th Percentile £688 £716 £724
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 74 83
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.85 £10.95
25th Percentile £28.50 £20.26 £11.07
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.64 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +43.50% +33.92% -46.18%
75th Percentile £66.66 £58.50 £52.20
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.06 £77.29
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £48.56
% change year-on-year +108.75% -48.21% -11.71%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

CCSP job vacancy trend in the North West

CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CCSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CCSP

CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSP in the North West over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCSP in the North West

CCSP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CCSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CCSP

CCSP
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 CCSP within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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 - 5 £500 - 6
Merseyside - 3 £600 - 1
Cheshire - 1 £456 - 1
CCSP
England

CCSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Azure AI
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Information Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Information Security Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Security Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 6 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 6 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 5 (55.56%) Security Management
3 4 (44.44%) AI
3 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 3 (33.33%) Information Security
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) OWASP
4 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) SABSA
4 3 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (100.00%) CISSP
2 8 (88.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
4 3 (33.33%) CCIE
4 3 (33.33%) CCIE Security
4 3 (33.33%) CCNP
4 3 (33.33%) CEH
4 3 (33.33%) CISM
4 3 (33.33%) OSCP
5 2 (22.22%) CCSA
5 2 (22.22%) CCSE
5 2 (22.22%) GCIA
5 2 (22.22%) GCIH
5 2 (22.22%) GIAC
6 1 (11.11%) CCIE Service Provider
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) NIST
1 6 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 3 (33.33%) COBIT
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) AlgoSec
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
3 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet