(ISC)2 CCSP Contracts

(ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (ISC2 CCSP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for (ISC)2 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 535 580 732
Rank change year-on-year +45 +152 -51
Contract jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP 40 102 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% 0.67% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 46 62
10th Percentile £525 £425 £501
25th Percentile £600 £600 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £760 £750 £763
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £725 £631
% change year-on-year -10.34% +14.90% +14.73%
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

(ISC)2 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%

(ISC)2 CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing (ISC)2 CCSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP.

Daily rate trend for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP.

Hourly rate trend for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing (ISC)2 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 +22 30 £708 +1.07% 29
London +49 21 £715 +2.14% 15
Work from Home +75 11 £688 -8.33% 15
UK excluding London +27 10 £650 -10.34% 15
South East +15 6 £625 -3.85% 7
Midlands +11 2 £750 - 2
West Midlands +4 2 £750 -
North of England +21 1 - - 3
North West +19 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 2

(ISC)2 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) IIS
1 2 (5.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.50%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) IaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) Firewall
2 4 (10.00%) DNS
2 4 (10.00%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) NGFW
3 2 (5.00%) SNMP
4 1 (2.50%) 4G
4 1 (2.50%) 5G
4 1 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) DB2
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.50%) French Language
4 1 (2.50%) German Language
4 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Architect
2 16 (40.00%) Security Architect
3 6 (15.00%) Consultant
4 5 (12.50%) Security Consultant
4 5 (12.50%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Security Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Information Officer
5 4 (10.00%) Information Security Officer
5 4 (10.00%) Security Officer
6 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Security Manager
7 2 (5.00%) IT Architect
7 2 (5.00%) IT Security Architect
7 2 (5.00%) IT Security Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Security Risk Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) .NET
1 2 (5.00%) EJB
1 2 (5.00%) J2EE
1 2 (5.00%) JSP
1 2 (5.00%) LDAP
1 2 (5.00%) Servlets
1 2 (5.00%) Web Services
1 2 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Management Information System
2 6 (15.00%) Security Posture
3 5 (12.50%) Operational Technology
4 4 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (7.50%) IoT
6 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (5.00%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (5.00%) PKI
7 1 (2.50%) BBC
7 1 (2.50%) Cyberattack
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (45.00%) Information Security
2 18 (45.00%) SABSA
3 16 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 12 (30.00%) Risk Management
4 12 (30.00%) Security Architecture
5 8 (20.00%) TOGAF
6 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
7 6 (15.00%) Data Protection
7 6 (15.00%) DevOps
8 5 (12.50%) Agile
8 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 5 (12.50%) Security Management
8 5 (12.50%) Use Case
9 4 (10.00%) Coaching
9 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 4 (10.00%) Security Operations
10 3 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (7.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) Java
1 2 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (87.50%) CISSP
3 19 (47.50%) CISM
4 15 (37.50%) CCSK
5 13 (32.50%) CCSP
6 12 (30.00%) CISA
7 11 (27.50%) CRISC
8 9 (22.50%) Degree
9 8 (20.00%) CEH
10 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
11 6 (15.00%) GIAC
11 6 (15.00%) SANS
12 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
13 4 (10.00%) CCNP
13 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
14 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
14 3 (7.50%) CISMP
14 3 (7.50%) CSSLP
14 3 (7.50%) GCIH
15 2 (5.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (40.00%) NIST
2 14 (35.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (20.00%) NIST 800
4 6 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (12.50%) GRC
6 4 (10.00%) COBIT
7 3 (7.50%) GDPR
7 3 (7.50%) PCI DSS
8 2 (5.00%) ISO 31000
9 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.50%) Citrix
4 1 (2.50%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.50%) VMware