CCSP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cisco Certified Security Professional (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 CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 126 147
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 +47
Contract jobs citing CCSP 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.056% 0.23% 0.076%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.90% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £551 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £635 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% - -
75th Percentile £574 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £563 £635 -
% change year-on-year -11.42% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 502 554 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.97% 25.92% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 324 321
10th Percentile £349 £337 £334
25th Percentile £425 £457 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £663 £645 £688
90th Percentile £738 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £20.55 £21.25 £29.39
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.25 £45.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.75 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -58.97% +55.08%
75th Percentile £29.50 £92.44 £75.63
90th Percentile £51.14 £112.00 £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £29.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.56% -50.42% +28.34%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

CCSP job vacancy trend in the City of London

CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

CCSP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7