CCSA Contracts in England

Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 651 776
Rank change year-on-year +112 +125 -157
Contract jobs citing CCSA 9 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.010% 0.020%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.078% 0.036% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile £450 £348 £396
25th Percentile £497 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +20.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £525
90th Percentile £580 - £610
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CCSA is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,565 13,831 15,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.20% 27.69% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,138 9,255 10,137
10th Percentile £310 £333 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 986 738 684
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.13 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +38.16% -
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.48 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.71
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSA in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CCSA in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCSA in England.

Hourly rate trend for CCSA in England

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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 CCSA within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
South East +25 5 £543 -9.58%
North of England +28 2 £525 -12.50% 1
North West +26 1 £525 -12.50% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
East of England - 1 £450 -
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UK

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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 7 (77.78%) Network Security
2 6 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
2 6 (66.67%) VPN
3 5 (55.56%) LAN
3 5 (55.56%) WAN
3 5 (55.56%) Wireless
4 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (77.78%) Incident Management
3 5 (55.56%) Service Management
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Change Management
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
6 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) CCNP
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (77.78%) JNCIA
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (22.22%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (77.78%) Juniper
2 7 (77.78%) Palo Alto
3 6 (66.67%) Blue Coat