CASP Contracts in England

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CASP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 540 651
Rank change year-on-year +57 +111 +126
Contract jobs citing CASP 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.005% 0.004%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.026% 0.017% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £600 £560
25th Percentile £475 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% 0.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £600 £625
90th Percentile - £600 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% 0.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CASP 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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

CASP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CASP in England

CASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CASP in England.

Daily rate trend for CASP in England

CASP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CASP within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London - 2 £500 -
CASP
UK

CASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) ISMS
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISA
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable