CCSP Contracts in England

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 619 739
Rank change year-on-year +102 +120 -128
Contract jobs citing CCSP 18 44 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.087% 0.056%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 28 25
10th Percentile £284 £536 £539
25th Percentile £428 £600 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +15.47% +29.90%
75th Percentile £600 £759 £675
90th Percentile £739 £813 £765
UK median daily rate £550 £750 £631
% change year-on-year -26.67% +18.86% +20.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CCSP 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 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSP in England

CCSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CCSP in England

CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSP in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCSP in England

CCSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CCSP in England

CCSP
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 CCSP within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +76 8 £550 -26.67% 9
South East - 4 £600 - 3
North of England +30 1 £600 +10.34% 1
West Midlands +26 1 £750 +7.14% 1
Yorkshire +20 1 £600 +54.84%
Midlands +19 1 £750 +7.14% 1
South West - 1 - - 1
CCSP
UK

CCSP
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
1 3 (16.67%) Internet
1 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) Broadband
2 2 (11.11%) SNMP
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) BGP
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
3 1 (5.56%) FTP
3 1 (5.56%) HTTP
3 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.56%) OSPF
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) tcpdump
3 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Information Officer
1 4 (22.22%) Information Security Officer
1 4 (22.22%) Security Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Security Officer
2 3 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Operational Technology
2 4 (22.22%) IoT
2 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 3 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
4 2 (11.11%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (5.56%) BBC
5 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Information Security
2 10 (55.56%) Cloud Security
3 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
4 7 (38.89%) SABSA
5 5 (27.78%) Security Architecture
5 5 (27.78%) SIEM
6 4 (22.22%) Ethical Hacking
6 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
7 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
8 2 (11.11%) Adaptive Security
8 2 (11.11%) Agile
8 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
8 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
8 2 (11.11%) Presales
8 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 2 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
8 2 (11.11%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Perl
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (77.78%) CISSP
3 11 (61.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 10 (55.56%) CISM
5 9 (50.00%) CCNP
6 7 (38.89%) CCSK
6 7 (38.89%) CEH
6 7 (38.89%) CISA
7 6 (33.33%) CCNA
8 4 (22.22%) Degree
8 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
9 3 (16.67%) CRISC
10 2 (11.11%) CCIE
10 2 (11.11%) CCIE Security
10 2 (11.11%) CCIE Service Provider
10 2 (11.11%) CISMP
10 2 (11.11%) CSSLP
10 2 (11.11%) GIAC
10 2 (11.11%) SANS
10 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (44.44%) NIST
2 5 (27.78%) GRC
2 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (16.67%) NIST 800
4 2 (11.11%) COBIT
4 2 (11.11%) GDPR
5 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (5.56%) CSIRT
1 1 (5.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) McAfee
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk