CCSP Contracts in England

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 602 744
Rank change year-on-year +78 +142 -146
Contract jobs citing CCSP 19 46 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.091% 0.055%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 24
10th Percentile £284 £528 £538
25th Percentile £428 £591 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £641
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +13.15% +28.15%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £675
90th Percentile £739 £813 £768
UK median daily rate £550 £725 £631
% change year-on-year -24.14% +14.90% +20.19%
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 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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,662 13,994 15,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.73% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,158 9,370 10,062
10th Percentile £300 £330 £318
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 986 748 694
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.15 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.13 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% +39.73% -3.75%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.25 £55.96
90th Percentile £76.12 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.62
% change year-on-year -25.93% +29.75% +6.94%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +81 8 £550 -26.67% 10
South East - 5 £600 - 4
North of England +25 1 £600 +23.46% 1
Midlands +24 1 £750 +7.14% 1
West Midlands +24 1 £750 +7.14% 1
Yorkshire +23 1 £600 +54.84%
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 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (10.53%) IaaS
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
1 3 (15.79%) Internet
1 3 (15.79%) Network Security
2 2 (10.53%) Broadband
2 2 (10.53%) SNMP
2 2 (10.53%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) BGP
3 1 (5.26%) DHCP
3 1 (5.26%) EIGRP
3 1 (5.26%) FTP
3 1 (5.26%) HTTP
3 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.26%) OSPF
3 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.26%) tcpdump
3 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Legal
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Architect
1 4 (21.05%) Information Officer
1 4 (21.05%) Information Security Officer
1 4 (21.05%) Security Architect
1 4 (21.05%) Security Officer
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Security Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Security Manager
3 2 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Incident Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
1 5 (26.32%) Operational Technology
2 4 (21.05%) IoT
3 3 (15.79%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
4 2 (10.53%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (5.26%) BBC
5 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Information Security
2 10 (52.63%) Cloud Security
2 10 (52.63%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (42.11%) SABSA
4 7 (36.84%) Risk Management
5 6 (31.58%) Security Architecture
5 6 (31.58%) SIEM
6 4 (21.05%) Ethical Hacking
6 4 (21.05%) Incident Response
6 4 (21.05%) TOGAF
7 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
8 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity
8 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (10.53%) Malware Analysis
8 2 (10.53%) Presales
8 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
8 2 (10.53%) Remediation Plan
8 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
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 11 (57.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 10 (52.63%) CISM
5 9 (47.37%) CCNP
6 7 (36.84%) CCNA
6 7 (36.84%) CCSK
6 7 (36.84%) CEH
6 7 (36.84%) CISA
7 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
8 4 (21.05%) Degree
9 3 (15.79%) CRISC
10 2 (10.53%) CCIE Security
10 2 (10.53%) CCIE Service Provider
10 2 (10.53%) CISMP
10 2 (10.53%) CSSLP
10 2 (10.53%) GIAC
10 2 (10.53%) ISSEP
10 2 (10.53%) SANS
10 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (42.11%) NIST
2 5 (26.32%) GRC
2 5 (26.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (15.79%) NIST 800
4 2 (10.53%) COBIT
4 2 (10.53%) GDPR
5 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
5 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
5 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 8 (42.11%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) McAfee