CCSP Contracts

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 622 792
Rank change year-on-year +66 +170 -91
Contract jobs citing CCSP 19 60 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.11% 0.053%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.39% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 38 32
10th Percentile £405 £486 £534
25th Percentile £497 £490 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £631
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +10.94% +14.73%
75th Percentile £666 £750 £675
90th Percentile £746 £813 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £486 £630
% change year-on-year +28.60% -22.86% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCSP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCSP.

Daily rate trend for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCSP.

Hourly rate trend for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England +45 16 £600 -14.29% 18
UK excluding London +25 8 £625 +28.60% 12
London +66 7 £550 -26.67% 11
Work from Home +81 6 £650 -13.33% 12
South East - 5 £600 - 4
Midlands +17 1 £750 -
West Midlands +8 1 £750 -
Scotland - 1 - - 4
South West - 1 - -

CCSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) IaaS
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Network Security
2 5 (26.32%) DNS
2 5 (26.32%) Firewall
3 2 (10.53%) NGFW
3 2 (10.53%) SNMP
3 2 (10.53%) VPN
4 1 (5.26%) 4G
4 1 (5.26%) 5G
4 1 (5.26%) BGP
4 1 (5.26%) DHCP
4 1 (5.26%) EIGRP
4 1 (5.26%) FTP
4 1 (5.26%) HTTP
4 1 (5.26%) Internet
4 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.26%) OSPF
4 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.26%) tcpdump
4 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
3 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Architect
1 6 (31.58%) Security Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Information Officer
2 4 (21.05%) Information Security Officer
2 4 (21.05%) Security Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Security Officer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Information Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Operational Technology
2 4 (21.05%) Security Posture
3 3 (15.79%) IoT
3 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.79%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.53%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (5.26%) BBC
5 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (5.26%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Cloud Security
1 11 (57.89%) Information Security
2 10 (52.63%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (52.63%) SABSA
3 7 (36.84%) Security Architecture
4 6 (31.58%) SIEM
5 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
6 4 (21.05%) Ethical Hacking
6 4 (21.05%) Incident Response
6 4 (21.05%) TOGAF
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.79%) DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (15.79%) ITIL
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
8 2 (10.53%) Malware Analysis
8 2 (10.53%) Statistics
8 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Perl
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (78.95%) CISSP
3 13 (68.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (36.84%) CCNP
4 7 (36.84%) CCSK
4 7 (36.84%) CEH
5 6 (31.58%) CISM
6 5 (26.32%) CCNA
6 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
7 3 (15.79%) CISA
7 3 (15.79%) Degree
8 2 (10.53%) GIAC
8 2 (10.53%) ISSEP
8 2 (10.53%) SANS
8 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
9 1 (5.26%) CCFP
9 1 (5.26%) ECIH
9 1 (5.26%) ECSA
9 1 (5.26%) GAWN
9 1 (5.26%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (31.58%) NIST
3 5 (26.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (15.79%) GRC
4 3 (15.79%) NIST 800
5 2 (10.53%) GDPR
6 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (5.26%) COBIT
6 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
6 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (5.26%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) QRadar
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (5.26%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
3 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) McAfee
3 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto