CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CASP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 714 849
Rank change year-on-year +130 +135 -176
Contract jobs citing CASP 2 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.012% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £600 £560 -
25th Percentile £600 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £625 -
90th Percentile £600 £640 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 -
% change year-on-year 0.00% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CASP 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 13,441 16,510 19,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.78% 27.21% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,296 11,020 12,707
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £499
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.21% +10.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,053 874 783
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.03
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +35.92% -0.25%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.93 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £49.88 £31.00
% change year-on-year -19.80% +60.89% -13.89%

CASP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CASP in the UK

CASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CASP in the UK

CASP
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CASP within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +115 2 £600 0.00% 7
UK excluding London +70 2 £600 0.00% 3
Midlands - 2 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £600 - 1

CASP
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) GCED
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) GSEC
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) TippingPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Trend Micro