Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 892 936 1219
Rank change year-on-year +44 +283 -337
Permanent jobs citing CCSA 15 11 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.012% 0.025%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.054% 0.034% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 36
10th Percentile £51,000 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £71,250 £88,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £103,750 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +6.60%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,927 31,974 45,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.61% 33.78% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,249 14,434 19,201
10th Percentile £28,668 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,503 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

CCSA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCSA.

Salary trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCSA over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCSA 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +42 14 £65,000 -15.03% 5
UK excluding London -29 10 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Work from Home +48 9 £55,000 -26.67% 3
Midlands - 8 £55,000 -
West Midlands - 8 £55,000 -
London +114 4 £70,000 -24.32% 2
Yorkshire +60 1 £45,000 -26.53%
North of England +30 1 £45,000 -26.53% 3
South East - 1 - -

CCSA
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) SD-WAN
2 10 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (53.33%) Wireless
4 5 (33.33%) Firewall
4 5 (33.33%) Network Security
5 4 (26.67%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (20.00%) BGP
6 3 (20.00%) MPLS
6 3 (20.00%) WAN
7 2 (13.33%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (13.33%) LAN
7 2 (13.33%) VPN
8 1 (6.67%) DMVPN
8 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
8 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (6.67%) OSPF
8 1 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (66.67%) Retail
2 8 (53.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Advertising
3 2 (13.33%) Games
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Senior
2 11 (73.33%) Network Engineer
3 10 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Network Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Network Security Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Security Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Security Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Technical Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Security Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Driving Licence
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Media
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 9 (60.00%) ITIL
3 8 (53.33%) Programme Management
3 8 (53.33%) Service Management
4 3 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
5 2 (13.33%) Change Control
5 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Information Security
5 2 (13.33%) Information Security Management
5 2 (13.33%) ISMS
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Network Design
5 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) CCNP
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (66.67%) CCNA
2 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (53.33%) AWS Certification
5 3 (20.00%) CCIE
5 3 (20.00%) CCSE
5 3 (20.00%) CISSP
6 2 (13.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 2 (13.33%) CISA
6 2 (13.33%) CISM
6 2 (13.33%) GIAC
6 2 (13.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 8 (53.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (13.33%) GRC
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) CheckPoint
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) Meraki
3 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (13.33%) Aruba
4 2 (13.33%) F5
4 2 (13.33%) Juniper
4 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.67%) Blue Coat
5 1 (6.67%) McAfee
5 1 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) Zscaler