The first table below looks at the demand for CCSP in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CCSP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
Rank 655 552 702
Rank change year-on-year
-103 +150
Permanent jobs citing CCSP 208 378 179
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.192% 0.313% 0.144%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.696% 1.128% 0.550%
Number of salaries quoted 159 343 126
Average salary £43,250 £45,000 £52,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.88% -13.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £36,000 £37,200
10% offered a salary of more than £70,200 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -15.00%
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29882 33504 32557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.65% 27.76% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24050 28534 27195
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%

CCSP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CCSP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

CCSP Jobs Demand Trend

CCSP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CCSP within the UK.

CCSP Salary Trend

CCSP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CCSP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

CCSP Salary Histogram

CCSP
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCSP within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -129 186 £45,000 -
South East -108 60 £45,000 -
London +19 56 £55,000 -4.34%
City of London -14 32 £55,000 -8.33%
Yorkshire +3 25 £32,500 -18.75%
West Yorkshire -3 25 £32,500 -18.75%
Leeds +2 24 £37,500 -18.91%
Berkshire -55 21 £40,000 -5.88%
West Midlands -5 20 £40,000 -33.33%
Kent -2 17 £40,000 -2.43%
Birmingham -5 16 £40,000 -20.00%
Buckinghamshire -7 14 £52,500 +23.52%
Milton Keynes -11 12 £52,500 +31.25%
East of England 0 11 £52,500 +50.00%
Scotland +9 9 £35,000 -2.77%
South West +2 8 £47,500 +5.55%
Bedfordshire -7 8 £40,000 -20.00%
Reading -15 8 £40,000 -15.78%
Surrey -32 8 £50,000 +12.35%
North West 0 7 £45,000 +12.50%
Dorking -11 7 £50,000 +31.57%
Bracknell -21 7 £37,500 +7.14%
Gloucestershire - 7 £47,500 -
North Yorkshire +1 6 £32,500 -38.09%
Manchester -22 6 £45,000 +12.50%
Harrogate - 6 £32,500 -
West Malling - 6 £40,000 -
Glasgow - 5 £35,000 -
South Yorkshire +17 4 £32,500 -38.09%
Sheffield +9 4 £32,500 -38.09%

CCSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing CCSP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited CCSP.

1 482 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 437 (90.66%) Cisco
3 373 (77.39%) CCNP
4 285 (59.13%) Firewall
5 260 (53.94%) CCIE
6 254 (52.70%) Network Security
7 245 (50.83%) CheckPoint
8 233 (48.34%) Cisco ASA
9 205 (42.53%) CCNA
10 182 (37.76%) MPLS
11 174 (36.10%) Cisco PIX
12 162 (33.61%) Juniper
13 158 (32.78%) WAN
14 149 (30.91%) VPN
15 147 (30.50%) CCIP
16 137 (28.42%) BGP
17 132 (27.39%) Wireless
18 119 (24.69%) F5
19 118 (24.48%) FWSM
20 107 (22.20%) CCSA
21 105 (21.78%) CCSE
22 103 (21.37%) OSPF
23 100 (20.75%) EIGRP
24 99 (20.54%) Network Design
25 94 (19.50%) Cisco Nexus
26 81 (16.80%) CCDP
27 80 (16.60%) LAN
28 78 (16.18%) Unified Communications
29 72 (14.94%) Finance
30 66 (13.69%) CISSP

CCSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing CCSP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited CCSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (0.830%) CSS
2 3 (0.622%) ASP
2 3 (0.622%) ASP.NET
2 3 (0.622%) .NET
3 2 (0.415%) Web Services
3 2 (0.415%) XML
Application Platforms
1 13 (2.697%) MS Exchange
2 12 (2.490%) IIS
3 8 (1.660%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (1.245%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (1.245%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (1.245%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.830%) Windows Azure
5 4 (0.830%) SAS
6 3 (0.622%) Exchange Server 2000
7 2 (0.415%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.207%) Lync
Applications
1 25 (5.187%) MS Excel
2 11 (2.282%) MS Office
3 7 (1.452%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 285 (59.13%) Firewall
2 254 (52.70%) Network Security
3 233 (48.34%) Cisco ASA
4 182 (37.76%) MPLS
5 174 (36.10%) Cisco PIX
6 158 (32.78%) WAN
7 149 (30.91%) VPN
8 137 (28.42%) BGP
9 132 (27.39%) Wireless
10 118 (24.48%) FWSM
11 103 (21.37%) OSPF
12 100 (20.75%) EIGRP
13 94 (19.50%) Cisco Nexus
14 80 (16.60%) LAN
15 78 (16.18%) Unified Communications
16 55 (11.41%) TCP/IP
17 48 (9.959%) VoIP
18 40 (8.299%) VLAN
19 32 (6.639%) SSL
20 27 (5.602%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.660%) SQL Server 2008
1 8 (1.660%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.245%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (0.415%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (0.415%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.207%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 72 (14.94%) Finance
2 24 (4.979%) Telecoms
3 23 (4.772%) Banking
4 8 (1.660%) Marketing
5 2 (0.415%) Legal
5 2 (0.415%) Games
6 1 (0.207%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.207%) Electronics
6 1 (0.207%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.207%) Military
6 1 (0.207%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 228 (47.30%) Network Engineer
2 98 (20.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 97 (20.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 95 (19.71%) Security Engineer
5 90 (18.67%) Consultant
6 77 (15.98%) Support Engineer
7 58 (12.03%) Network Security Engineer
8 54 (11.20%) 2nd Line Support
8 54 (11.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 54 (11.20%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
9 53 (11.00%) Network Consultant
10 40 (8.299%) Senior Network Engineer
11 39 (8.091%) Analyst
12 38 (7.884%) Architect
13 35 (7.261%) Network Analyst
14 29 (6.017%) Security Analyst
15 27 (5.602%) Cisco Consultant
16 25 (5.187%) Network Security Analyst
17 24 (4.979%) Security Specialist
18 20 (4.149%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.772%) Management Information System
2 13 (2.697%) PKI
3 7 (1.452%) SaaS
4 6 (1.245%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.037%) Computer Science
6 3 (0.622%) Cryptography
6 3 (0.622%) Statistics
7 2 (0.415%) Online Games
8 1 (0.207%) SecurID
8 1 (0.207%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.261%) Windows
2 33 (6.846%) Linux
3 14 (2.905%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (2.697%) UNIX
5 12 (2.490%) Windows Server 2008
6 9 (1.867%) Solaris
7 6 (1.245%) Windows 7
7 6 (1.245%) Windows Vista
8 5 (1.037%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.415%) Windows 2000 Server
9 2 (0.415%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (20.54%) Network Design
2 42 (8.714%) ITIL
3 29 (6.017%) Network Management
4 17 (3.527%) Load Balancing
5 15 (3.112%) Penetration Testing
5 15 (3.112%) Information Security
6 14 (2.905%) E-Commerce
7 13 (2.697%) Incident Management
7 13 (2.697%) Service Delivery
7 13 (2.697%) Change Management
8 12 (2.490%) Information Management
9 11 (2.282%) Change Control
10 10 (2.075%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (2.075%) Data Security
10 10 (2.075%) Security Management
10 10 (2.075%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 8 (1.660%) Network Architecture
11 8 (1.660%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (1.660%) Risk Assessment
12 7 (1.452%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (1.867%) Python
1 9 (1.867%) Perl
2 8 (1.660%) Ruby
3 3 (0.622%) SQL
4 2 (0.415%) PHP
5 1 (0.207%) C
5 1 (0.207%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 482 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 373 (77.39%) CCNP
3 260 (53.94%) CCIE
4 205 (42.53%) CCNA
5 147 (30.50%) CCIP
6 107 (22.20%) CCSA
7 105 (21.78%) CCSE
8 81 (16.80%) CCDP
9 66 (13.69%) CISSP
10 57 (11.83%) CCVP
11 44 (9.129%) JNCIA
12 34 (7.054%) JNCIS
13 27 (5.602%) CEH
14 23 (4.772%) CCDE
15 21 (4.357%) Security Cleared
16 20 (4.149%) Degree
17 19 (3.942%) Microsoft Certification
17 19 (3.942%) CCDA
18 17 (3.527%) MCSE
19 13 (2.697%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.564%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (3.527%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.490%) SLA
4 10 (2.075%) ISO 9000
5 6 (1.245%) QA
6 4 (0.830%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.415%) COBIT
System Software
1 33 (6.846%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.697%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.697%) Forefront TMG
2 13 (2.697%) UAG
3 5 (1.037%) ProxySG
4 3 (0.622%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.622%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.207%) NFS
5 1 (0.207%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.207%) Snort
5 1 (0.207%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.207%) XenApp
5 1 (0.207%) XenServer
5 1 (0.207%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.207%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (2.905%) CiscoWorks
2 13 (2.697%) SolarWinds Orion
3 10 (2.075%) Cacti
3 10 (2.075%) OpenView
4 6 (1.245%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.830%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (0.415%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.207%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (0.207%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 437 (90.66%) Cisco
2 245 (50.83%) CheckPoint
3 162 (33.61%) Juniper
4 119 (24.69%) F5
5 56 (11.62%) Microsoft
6 49 (10.17%) VMware
7 29 (6.017%) HP
8 25 (5.187%) Blue Coat
9 24 (4.979%) Twitter
10 20 (4.149%) Fortinet
11 16 (3.320%) Nokia
12 15 (3.112%) Citrix
13 11 (2.282%) SolarWinds
14 10 (2.075%) IronPort
15 9 (1.867%) Reuters
15 9 (1.867%) Bloomberg
15 9 (1.867%) Riverbed
16 8 (1.660%) Symantec
17 7 (1.452%) Avaya
18 6 (1.245%) Brocade
Gloucestershire
Roc Search, Senior Network Engineer, Cisco, CCNP, CCSP, Security, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Permanent, Gloucestershire, Birmingham, Manchester, up to £45k) Roc Search are currently looking to recruit a Senior...
Roc Search
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
You: As a Principle Network Consultant you will be certified to CCNP/CCSP level although CCIE R&S/Security will be hugely beneficial, as will experience working within...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
You: As a Principle Network Consultant you will be certified to CCNP/CCSP level although CCIE R&S/Security will be hugely beneficial, as will experience working within...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
You: As a Principle Network Consultant you will be certified to CCNP/CCSP level although CCIE R&S/Security will be hugely beneficial, as will experience working within...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
East London
You: As a Principle Network Consultant you will be certified to CCNP/CCSP level although CCIE R&S/Security will be hugely beneficial, as will experience working within...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Network Engineer - Cisco / Checkpoint... CCNP/CCSP qualified... Strong knowledge of Cisco... Strong firewall experience, specifically Checkpoint. WAN/LAN Routing. Cisco Load Balancers. Understanding of MPLS Concepts... Cisco Call...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £Excellent Salary + Benefits + On-Call
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Key Skills/ Experience Required: - CCNP/CCSP certifications - BGP Routing - TCP/IP - Checkpoint / ASA Firewalls - Strong Communication (verbal/written) - Problem Solving Capability - ITIL certification (Desirable) - Cisco Call Manager (VOIP)(...
Northern Recruitment Group
Salary: £Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Their flexible, integrated communications services encompass IP and mobile telephony, converged networks, unified communications, contact centres and document solutions. Due to rapid growth they're currently looking for...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Their flexible, integrated communications services encompass IP and mobile telephony, converged networks, unified communications, contact centres and document solutions. Due to rapid growth they're currently looking for...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Their flexible, integrated communications services encompass IP and mobile telephony, converged networks, unified communications, contact centres and document solutions. Due to rapid growth they're currently looking for...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £26 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
You must have excellent network security experience of working in a large corporate or data centre/service delivery environment... The suitable candidate must be SC cleared or be...
Monarch Recruitment
Salary: £40000 to £50000 per annum - Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
You will have experience of taking ownership of solutions and delivering large corporate, telco or banking networks, and will ideally be Cisco qualified... Key skills: Cisco Switches Routers...
CACI Network Services
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum Bonus, benefits and training
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Think Sky, a FTSE TOP 30 and the UK's favourite triple play provider- TV, broadband and telephony... 1 choice in entertainment and communications.Sky Network Services (SNS)...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: competitive
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
You will have a CCSP and preferably a CCNP qualification or equivalent. You must be Security Check eligible... Firewall capabilities and limitations... BGP, IS-IS. IP, MPLS and...
Sky
Salary: competitive
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Our client, a market leading organisation based in Leeds, is looking for a Network Security Analyst who understands the importance of the network infrastructure on the success of...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 21 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Role: Maintaining and monitoring the Network, including firewalls, VPNs and Avaya based VoIP... Use of Incident and Change management tools (ServiceNOW) Cisco equipment configuration skills including ASA, and...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £45,000 per annum + 10% Bonus + 7% On-Call + Full Bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
There will also be Configuration and Upgrade of existing Network equipment, Network Trend Analysis and Capacity planning... A certification will be highly desirable including CCNA/CCNP/CCSP. Any...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £1 per annum + Negotiable+Company Benefits
Posted: 8 May 2013
Kent
CCIE, CCNP, CCNP voice, CCSP, Unified Communications, call manager, CUCM, Unity, CUC, UCCX, UCCE, Contact Centre, MeetingPlace, Telepresence, ARC, IPT. Cisco Unified Communications Consultant... experience in implementation and...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £50,000 to £70,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Avon Somerset Wilts Bristol, South West
You will also provide specialist network security support to other teams within Technical Operations (including the second line Technical Operations Shift Engineering team) as well as a number...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: £45 -50k plus 5% bonus and 10% on-call allowance.
Posted: 21 May 2013
Essex
CCIE, CCNP, CCNP voice, CCSP, Unified Communications, call manager, CUCM, Unity, CUC, UCCX, UCCE, Contact Centre, MeetingPlace, Telepresence, ARC, IPT... experience in implementation and support of Cisco IP...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £50,000 to £70,000 per annum + car + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
CCIE, CCNP, CCNP voice, CCSP, Unified Communications, call manager, CUCM, Unity, CUC, UCCX, UCCE, Contact Centre, MeetingPlace, Telepresence, ARC, IPT... experience in implementation and support of Cisco IP...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £50,000 to £70,000 per annum + car + bonus + pension
Posted: 21 May 2013
Surrey
CCIE, CCNP, CCNP voice, CCSP, Unified Communications, call manager, CUCM, Unity, CUC, UCCX, UCCE, Contact Centre, MeetingPlace, Telepresence, ARC, IPT... experience in implementation and support of Cisco IP...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £50,000 to £70,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Buckinghamshire
CCIE, CCNP, CCNP voice, CCSP, Unified Communications, call manager, CUCM, Unity, CUC, UCCX, UCCE, Contact Centre, MeetingPlace, Telepresence, ARC, IPT... experience in implementation and support of Cisco IP...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £50,000 to £70,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hertfordshire
CCIE, CCNP, CCNP voice, CCSP, Unified Communications, call manager, CUCM, Unity, CUC, UCCX, UCCE, Contact Centre, MeetingPlace, Telepresence, ARC, IPT... experience in implementation and support of Cisco IP...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £50,000 to £70,000 per annum + car + pension + bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013