CCSE Contract Job Trends in England

Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 481 505
Rank change year-on-year -133 +24 +108
Contract jobs citing CCSE 12 25 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.026% 0.090% 0.042%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.082% 0.29% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 11
10th Percentile £447 £312 £475
25th Percentile £456 £361 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £469 £463 £550
90th Percentile £478 £590 -
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £75.65 - -
25th Percentile £75.88 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - -
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CCSE 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 14,556 8,744 10,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.74% 31.46% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,821 5,471 6,463
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £431 £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 - -0.24% -4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,125 677 751
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £15.10
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.32 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +102.78% -41.51% -21.82%

CCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CCSE job vacancy trend in England

CCSE
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCSE

CCSE
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCSE

CCSE
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 CCSE within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East -73 6 £463 +2.78% 2
London -79 5 £463 +35.11% 3
North West -42 1 £456 -11.02% 2
North of England -76 1 £456 -11.02% 2
CCSE
UK

CCSE
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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
4 1 (8.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (41.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (41.67%) VSAN
4 3 (25.00%) Network Security
4 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (25.00%) VXLAN
5 2 (16.67%) LAN
5 2 (16.67%) WAN
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (8.33%) IPsec
6 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
6 1 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (8.33%) SSL
6 1 (8.33%) TACACS
6 1 (8.33%) VLAN
6 1 (8.33%) Wireless
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
2 5 (41.67%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) NOC Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Change Management
3 5 (41.67%) Load Balancing
3 5 (41.67%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (41.67%) Presales
3 5 (41.67%) SIEM
4 2 (16.67%) Bill of Materials
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Security Management
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Compliance Management
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) ITSM
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) CCNP
1 11 (91.67%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (41.67%) CCSM
3 4 (33.33%) Degree
4 3 (25.00%) CCSA
4 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CCIE
5 1 (8.33%) CCIE Security
5 1 (8.33%) CCSP
5 1 (8.33%) CISSP
5 1 (8.33%) GCIA
5 1 (8.33%) GCIH
5 1 (8.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 11 (91.67%) Cisco
2 11 (91.67%) Palo Alto
3 10 (83.33%) Fortinet
4 5 (41.67%) VMware
5 4 (33.33%) Aruba
5 4 (33.33%) Juniper
6 1 (8.33%) 3PAR
6 1 (8.33%) AlgoSec
6 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
6 1 (8.33%) Forcepoint
6 1 (8.33%) HP
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (8.33%) Trend Micro
6 1 (8.33%) Zscaler