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 9 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 470 538
Rank change year-on-year -73 +68 +143
Contract jobs citing CCSA 5 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.015% 0.038% 0.029%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.044% 0.13% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 8
10th Percentile £380 £500 £443
25th Percentile £425 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +7.48% +58.52%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £575
90th Percentile £698 - £593
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £535
% change year-on-year -21.74% +7.48% +44.11%

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 11,330 7,853 11,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.04% 30.19% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,529 4,752 7,394
10th Percentile £313 £300 £298
25th Percentile £419 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 884 380 885
10th Percentile £15.75 £20.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.26 £21.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% +8.27% +2.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.34 £82.28 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -37.13% -13.38% +2.62%

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 9 February 2026.

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 9 February 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 -45 2 £400 -30.43%
Midlands - 1 £450 -
North West - 1 £803 -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £803 -
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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CSOC
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (20.00%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE Security
3 1 (20.00%) CCSE
3 1 (20.00%) CEH
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) Meraki
3 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (20.00%) EMC
4 1 (20.00%) Forcepoint
4 1 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Okta
4 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (20.00%) Qualys
4 1 (20.00%) Rapid7
4 1 (20.00%) Tenable
4 1 (20.00%) Zscaler