CCSP Contracts in England

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 580 754
Rank change year-on-year +45 +174 -114
Contract jobs citing CCSP 15 56 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.12% 0.047%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.44% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 38 21
10th Percentile £391 £486 £534
25th Percentile £516 £499 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £630
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +11.11% +22.57%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £675
90th Percentile £720 £813 £744
UK median daily rate £550 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,463 12,852 15,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 27.32% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 8,593 10,289
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,006 655 691
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £70.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSP in England

CCSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CCSP in England

CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSP in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCSP in England

CCSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CCSP in England

CCSP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSP within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +55 7 £550 -26.67% 7
South East - 5 £600 - 5
South West - 1 - - 1
CCSP
UK

CCSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (13.33%) IaaS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) SNMP
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) 4G
3 1 (6.67%) 5G
3 1 (6.67%) BGP
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (6.67%) FTP
3 1 (6.67%) HTTP
3 1 (6.67%) Internet
3 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (6.67%) OSPF
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) tcpdump
3 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Information Officer
1 4 (26.67%) Information Security Officer
1 4 (26.67%) Security Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Security Officer
2 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Incident Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Information Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Information Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Operational Technology
2 3 (20.00%) IoT
2 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (6.67%) BBC
4 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (6.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (60.00%) Information Security
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Security
2 8 (53.33%) SABSA
3 7 (46.67%) Security Architecture
4 6 (40.00%) SIEM
5 4 (26.67%) Ethical Hacking
5 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
5 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
5 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
6 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
7 2 (13.33%) Adaptive Security
7 2 (13.33%) Application Security
7 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (13.33%) Malware Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Presales
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Perl
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (73.33%) CISSP
3 9 (60.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (46.67%) CCNP
4 7 (46.67%) CCSK
4 7 (46.67%) CEH
5 6 (40.00%) CISM
6 5 (33.33%) CCNA
6 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
7 3 (20.00%) CISA
8 2 (13.33%) GIAC
8 2 (13.33%) ISSEP
8 2 (13.33%) SANS
8 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
9 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
9 1 (6.67%) ECIH
9 1 (6.67%) ECSA
9 1 (6.67%) GAWN
9 1 (6.67%) GCFE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (40.00%) NIST
3 5 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (20.00%) GRC
4 3 (20.00%) NIST 800
5 2 (13.33%) GDPR
6 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (6.67%) COBIT
6 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) QRadar
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (6.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) McAfee