CCSE Contract Job Trends in Central London

Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for CCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 125 133
Rank change year-on-year -20 +8 +38
Contract jobs citing CCSE 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.038% 0.050% 0.084%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.20% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - -
75th Percentile £501 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £463 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -2.58% -11.63% -2.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

CCSE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 674 496 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.70% 24.74% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 329 320
10th Percentile £401 £356 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 6
10th Percentile £19.34 £25.04 £20.22
25th Percentile £22.64 £26.57 £20.29
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% -33.52%
75th Percentile £56.63 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £35.38
London median hourly rate £54.00 £26.41 £25.50
% change year-on-year +104.47% +3.57% -52.78%

CCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCSE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

CCSE job vacancy trend in Central London

CCSE
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CCSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CCSE

CCSE
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CCSE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CCSE

CCSE
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSE within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 July 2026. 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
City of London -14 1 £501 +0.10% 2
CCSE
London

CCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) 3PAR
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Forcepoint
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Micro