(ISC)2 CCSP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

(ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (ISC2 CCSP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for (ISC)2 CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 120 144
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 +50
Contract jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.12% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 0.76% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £632 - -
25th Percentile £635 £710 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £720 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% +43.90% -24.53%
75th Percentile £735 £729 -
90th Percentile £744 - -
Central London median daily rate £655 £720 £500
% change year-on-year -8.96% +43.90% -24.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

(ISC)2 CCSP 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 430 523 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.60% 25.12% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 307 351
10th Percentile £325 £352 £340
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £670 £660 £688
90th Percentile £738 £768 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile £20.55 £23.10 £23.45
25th Percentile £25.75 £27.00 £31.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -30.11% +7.54%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £51.14 - £71.55
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -14.62% +80.56% -58.37%

(ISC)2 CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing (ISC)2 CCSP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

(ISC)2 CCSP job vacancy trend in the City of London

(ISC)2 CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing (ISC)2 CCSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing (ISC)2 CCSP

(ISC)2 CCSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) STIX
1 1 (50.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (50.00%) Red Team
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) GCFA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft