CCSP Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 452 519
Rank change year-on-year -85 +67 +78
Contract jobs citing CCSP 44 23 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.094% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.34% 0.30% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 16 14
10th Percentile £475 £563 £284
25th Percentile £513 £673 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +30.43% -14.81%
75th Percentile £731 £788 £600
90th Percentile £775 £850 £739
UK median daily rate £638 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% +36.36% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £54.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £54.50 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CCSP 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 13,042 7,638 11,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.37% 31.33% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,753 4,846 7,100
10th Percentile £340 £289 £307
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 440 984
10th Percentile £17.08 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.29 £18.10
Median hourly rate £47.50 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +10.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £71.75 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.44 £81.42 £76.47
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -25.93%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CCSP job vacancy trend in England

CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCSP

CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSP in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCSP in England

CCSP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCSP

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 4 May 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 -37 25 £650 -23.53% 13
North of England -52 13 £663 -7.34% 9
Yorkshire -38 11 £663 -7.34% 4
East of England - 4 £505 - 4
North West -37 2 - - 5
South East -56 1 - - 2
West Midlands -62 1 £450 -41.94% 5
Midlands -72 1 £450 -41.94% 5
CCSP
UK

CCSP
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 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (75.00%) Azure
2 28 (63.64%) AWS
3 18 (40.91%) GCP
4 14 (31.82%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (18.18%) Entra ID
6 5 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (11.36%) SaaS
7 4 (9.09%) GitHub
7 4 (9.09%) IaaS
7 4 (9.09%) PaaS
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.82%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (6.82%) OCI
9 2 (4.55%) AWS KMS
9 2 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.27%) Cloudflare
10 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (54.55%) Network Security
2 3 (6.82%) VPN
3 2 (4.55%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Snyk
2 3 (6.82%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.82%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Banking
4 6 (13.64%) Financial Institution
4 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Architect
1 14 (31.82%) Consultant
2 13 (29.55%) Security Architect
3 9 (20.45%) Security Consultant
4 7 (15.91%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 6 (13.64%) Security Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 4 (9.09%) Lead
7 3 (6.82%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 3 (6.82%) Security Specialist
8 2 (4.55%) Application Security Specialist
8 2 (4.55%) Applications Specialist
8 2 (4.55%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Cloud Consultant
8 2 (4.55%) Network Consultant
8 2 (4.55%) Network Security Consultant
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) RESTful
2 3 (6.82%) .NET
3 2 (4.55%) SLSA
4 1 (2.27%) eBPF
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.27%) REST
4 1 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Security Posture
2 7 (15.91%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.55%) CMDB
4 2 (4.55%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (4.55%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.27%) IoT
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (70.45%) Cloud Security
2 25 (56.82%) Threat Modelling
3 20 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 20 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (40.91%) Application Security
4 18 (40.91%) DevSecOps
4 18 (40.91%) Security Architecture
5 17 (38.64%) Vulnerability Management
6 14 (31.82%) Identity Access Management
6 14 (31.82%) SIEM
7 13 (29.55%) DevOps
8 12 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
8 12 (27.27%) Cryptography
9 11 (25.00%) Data Protection
9 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (25.00%) Zero Trust
10 10 (22.73%) Security Testing
11 9 (20.45%) AI
11 9 (20.45%) Incident Response
11 9 (20.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (6.82%) Java
3 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.27%) Bash
4 1 (2.27%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 44 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (93.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 40 (90.91%) CISSP
4 23 (52.27%) CISM
5 10 (22.73%) OSCP
6 9 (20.45%) CEH
6 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
7 8 (18.18%) Degree
8 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
9 5 (11.36%) AWS Certification
9 5 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
10 4 (9.09%) CCSK
10 4 (9.09%) SANS
11 3 (6.82%) CRISC
11 3 (6.82%) CSSLP
11 3 (6.82%) GCIH
12 2 (4.55%) CISMP
12 2 (4.55%) GIAC
12 2 (4.55%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (54.55%) NIST
2 17 (38.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (27.27%) PCI DSS
4 8 (18.18%) GDPR
5 6 (13.64%) COBIT
6 4 (9.09%) GRC
7 3 (6.82%) NCSC
7 3 (6.82%) SOC 2
8 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (2.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (2.27%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) SELinux
3 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) Splunk
3 4 (9.09%) Okta
3 4 (9.09%) Qualys
3 4 (9.09%) Tenable
4 3 (6.82%) Google
4 3 (6.82%) Rapid7
5 2 (4.55%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.55%) IBM
5 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.27%) Adobe
6 1 (2.27%) Broadcom
6 1 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.27%) Netlify
6 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.27%) Sage
6 1 (2.27%) Symantec