CCSP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CCSP 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.19% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £481 - -
25th Percentile £489 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile £685 - -
England median daily rate £625 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% -15.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 578 327 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.26% 34.82% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 130 224
10th Percentile £193 £181 £206
25th Percentile £350 £253 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £628 £580 £638
90th Percentile £704 £675 £725
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 103 201
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.61 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.61 £27.47 £15.76
Median hourly rate £23.75 £63.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.30% +117.24% +38.10%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.25 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.50% +25.00% -20.00%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

CCSP job vacancy trend in the East of England

CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCSP

CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSP in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCSP in the East of England

CCSP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCSP

CCSP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Suffolk - 2 £503 - 2
Bedfordshire - 1 £710 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
CCSP
England

CCSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (50.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CISM
3 1 (25.00%) CRISC
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
3 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk