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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 487 522
Rank change year-on-year -134 +35 +79
Contract jobs citing CCSA 3 25 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.090% 0.033%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.021% 0.29% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 10
10th Percentile £428 £333 £498
25th Percentile £433 £381 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £448 £469 £550
90th Percentile £453 £720 £594
UK median daily rate £456 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +1.33% -14.29% -12.50%

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 14,481 8,747 10,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.69% 31.47% 30.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,770 5,471 6,455
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £433 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £526
% change year-on-year - -0.19% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,126 677 736
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £15.10
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -47.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.32 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%

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
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 17 August 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
London -83 2 £425 +6.18% 1
North West -43 1 £456 -29.85% 1
North of England -74 1 £456 -19.11% 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (33.33%) TACACS
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Security Management
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Compliance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCSE
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE Security
3 1 (33.33%) CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) GCIA
3 1 (33.33%) GCIH
3 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) AlgoSec
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (33.33%) Zscaler