CCSE Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
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 CCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 117 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing CCSE 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.043% 0.11% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% 0.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £508 -
25th Percentile £500 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -
75th Percentile £501 £594 -
90th Percentile - £613 -
Central London median daily rate £501 £550 -
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 599 424 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.01% 24.30% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 283 294
10th Percentile £402 £404 £372
25th Percentile £459 £458 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.53% -7.61%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £528 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.09% +4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £18.50 £23.62 -
25th Percentile £22.56 £26.04 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £45.33 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -29.26% +117.75% -59.58%
75th Percentile £58.58 £72.81 £24.20
90th Percentile £69.70 £89.13 £25.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.92 £29.07 £25.99
% change year-on-year -0.52% +11.87% -49.54%

CCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

CCSE job vacancy trend in the City of London

CCSE
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCSE

CCSE
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCSE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCSE

CCSE
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:

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