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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 653 816
Rank change year-on-year +93 +163 -134
Contract jobs citing CCSP 20 61 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.11% 0.050%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.40% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 39 30
10th Percentile £410 £486 £537
25th Percentile £513 £493 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £631
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.94% +14.73%
75th Percentile - £750 £675
90th Percentile £743 £813 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £486 £630
% change year-on-year +23.46% -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 12,749 15,437 18,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.88% 27.21% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,944 10,294 12,630
10th Percentile £309 £335 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £740 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,074 755 770
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.91 £21.24 £19.93
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +27.14%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.56 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.53 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £52.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.47% +48.94% +9.38%

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 26 May 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 11 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 26 May 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 +68 17 £600 -14.29% 18
London +71 8 £550 -26.67% 10
UK excluding London +42 8 £600 +23.46% 16
Work from Home +86 7 £600 -20.00% 11
South East - 4 £600 - 6
Midlands +22 1 £750 - 1
North of England +22 1 £600 +23.46% 2
West Midlands +9 1 £750 -
Scotland - 1 - - 4
South West - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £600 - 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) IaaS
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) DNS
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
1 5 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (10.00%) NGFW
2 2 (10.00%) SNMP
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) BGP
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (5.00%) FTP
3 1 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (5.00%) Internet
3 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.00%) OSPF
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) tcpdump
3 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
1 5 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Information Officer
2 4 (20.00%) Information Security Officer
2 4 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Security Officer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Information Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 5 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 4 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (15.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.00%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (10.00%) IoT
5 1 (5.00%) BBC
5 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Information Security
2 10 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 10 (50.00%) SABSA
3 9 (45.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (30.00%) Security Architecture
4 6 (30.00%) SIEM
5 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 4 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (20.00%) TOGAF
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.00%) DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) ITIL
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
8 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (10.00%) Presales
8 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 2 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Perl
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (80.00%) CISSP
3 12 (60.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 9 (45.00%) CCNP
5 8 (40.00%) CISM
6 7 (35.00%) CCNA
6 7 (35.00%) CCSK
6 7 (35.00%) CEH
7 5 (25.00%) CISA
7 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
8 3 (15.00%) Degree
9 2 (10.00%) CCIE
9 2 (10.00%) CCIE Security
9 2 (10.00%) CCIE Service Provider
9 2 (10.00%) CSSLP
9 2 (10.00%) GIAC
9 2 (10.00%) ISSEP
9 2 (10.00%) SANS
9 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
10 1 (5.00%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (30.00%) NIST
3 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (15.00%) GRC
4 3 (15.00%) NIST 800
5 2 (10.00%) GDPR
6 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) QRadar
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (5.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) McAfee
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto