Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 882 953 1186
Rank change year-on-year +71 +233 -339
Permanent jobs citing CCSA 14 17 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.016% 0.030%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.051% 0.050% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 40
10th Percentile £52,000 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year - +1.96% +21.43%
75th Percentile £75,625 £88,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £103,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,422 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.76% +5.57% +10.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCSA is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,286 34,290 41,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.76% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 15,306 18,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

CCSA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCSA.

Salary trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCSA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCSA within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +112 14 £65,000 -0.76% 2
UK excluding London +15 9 £55,000 -0.76% 2
Work from Home +90 8 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Midlands - 8 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands - 8 £55,000 - 1
London +128 5 £70,000 -20.00%
Yorkshire +91 1 £45,000 -28.00%
North of England +48 1 £45,000 -26.53% 1

CCSA
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) SD-WAN
1 10 (71.43%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (57.14%) Wireless
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (21.43%) Firewall
3 3 (21.43%) Network Security
4 2 (14.29%) BGP
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (14.29%) LAN
4 2 (14.29%) MPLS
4 2 (14.29%) WAN
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (7.14%) VPN
General
1 10 (71.43%) Retail
2 8 (57.14%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Advertising
3 2 (14.29%) Games
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Senior
2 11 (78.57%) Network Engineer
3 10 (71.43%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Technical Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Driving Licence
2 2 (14.29%) Digital Media
3 1 (7.14%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Project Delivery
2 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 8 (57.14%) Programme Management
2 8 (57.14%) Service Management
3 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 2 (14.29%) Change Control
4 2 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) Information Security
4 2 (14.29%) Information Security Management
4 2 (14.29%) Network Design
4 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) Security Management
4 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) CCNP
1 12 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (64.29%) CCNA
2 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
3 8 (57.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (14.29%) CCIE
4 2 (14.29%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 2 (14.29%) CISA
4 2 (14.29%) CISM
4 2 (14.29%) CISSP
4 2 (14.29%) GIAC
4 2 (14.29%) SANS
5 1 (7.14%) CCSE
5 1 (7.14%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 8 (57.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (14.29%) GRC
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) CheckPoint
1 12 (85.71%) Cisco
2 6 (42.86%) Meraki
3 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.14%) F5