CCSA Contract Job Trends in England

Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 506 575
Rank change year-on-year +5 +69 +187
Contract jobs citing CCSA 18 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.062% 0.035% 0.025%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% 0.12% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 5
10th Percentile £340 £498 £365
25th Percentile £375 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -1.87% +32.10%
75th Percentile £479 £603 £635
90th Percentile £804 £625 £734
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -14.29% -1.87% +32.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CCSA 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 9,454 9,282 11,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.54% 29.70% 29.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,068 5,698 7,490
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £729 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 417 703
10th Percentile £17.69 £19.93 £17.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £51.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.93% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.00 £68.18 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £53.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% -12.87% +17.78%

CCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CCSA job vacancy trend in England

CCSA
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCSA

CCSA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSA in England over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCSA in England

CCSA
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCSA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCSA

CCSA
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 30 October 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 +13 7 £401 -28.80% 2
North of England -39 6 £601 +14.52% 1
North West -26 5 £725 +38.10%
South East +11 2 £450 -10.00% 1
Midlands -19 1 £450 -14.29%
West Midlands -23 1 £450 -14.29%
Yorkshire - 1 £310 - 1
CCSA
UK

CCSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) Network Security
2 11 (61.11%) Firewall
3 10 (55.56%) VPN
4 8 (44.44%) BGP
4 8 (44.44%) OSPF
4 8 (44.44%) VLAN
5 7 (38.89%) DHCP
5 7 (38.89%) DNS
5 7 (38.89%) LAN
5 7 (38.89%) SD-WAN
5 7 (38.89%) Wireless
6 6 (33.33%) WAN
7 5 (27.78%) Cisco Wireless
7 5 (27.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (27.78%) SSL
8 4 (22.22%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (22.22%) DMVPN
8 4 (22.22%) EIGRP
8 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
8 4 (22.22%) WLAN
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Network Security Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Network Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Network Security Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Security Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) CMDB
1 1 (5.56%) CSOC
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.56%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 6 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) SIEM
2 4 (22.22%) Zero Trust
3 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (5.56%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (5.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (5.56%) SOAR
5 1 (5.56%) Tech Ops
5 1 (5.56%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (88.89%) CCNP
3 4 (22.22%) CCSE
4 3 (16.67%) Check Point Certification
4 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) CCNA
5 2 (11.11%) Degree
6 1 (5.56%) CCIE
6 1 (5.56%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (5.56%) CCIE Security
6 1 (5.56%) CCNA CyberOps
6 1 (5.56%) CEH
6 1 (5.56%) CISM
6 1 (5.56%) CISSP
6 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.56%) JNCIA
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) CA Spectrum
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco
2 12 (66.67%) CheckPoint
3 9 (50.00%) Palo Alto
4 8 (44.44%) Meraki
5 6 (33.33%) Juniper
5 6 (33.33%) SolarWinds
5 6 (33.33%) Zscaler
6 5 (27.78%) F5
7 3 (16.67%) Fortinet
8 1 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (5.56%) EMC
8 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
8 1 (5.56%) IBM
8 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
8 1 (5.56%) Okta
8 1 (5.56%) Qualys
8 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
8 1 (5.56%) Tenable