(ISC)2 CCSP Contract Job Trends in London

(ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (ISC2 CCSP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for (ISC)2 CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 357 365
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +167
Contract jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP 22 12 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.080% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.54% 0.31% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 31
10th Percentile £416 £595 £550
25th Percentile £423 £625 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £713
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -8.77% +9.62%
75th Percentile £574 £700 £788
90th Percentile £726 £708 £875
England median daily rate £525 £680 £650
% change year-on-year -22.79% +4.62% +3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £38.15 - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £62.75 - -
90th Percentile £63.05 - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

(ISC)2 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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,089 3,889 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.42% 25.81% 23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,847 2,456 3,016
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £669
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 58 89
10th Percentile £20.65 £20.88 £19.20
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.06 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £37.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.62% -29.05% +11.70%
75th Percentile £59.88 £59.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.21% -7.50% +16.67%

(ISC)2 CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing (ISC)2 CCSP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

(ISC)2 CCSP job vacancy trend in London

(ISC)2 CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing (ISC)2 CCSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing (ISC)2 CCSP

(ISC)2 CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for (ISC)2 CCSP in London

(ISC)2 CCSP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing (ISC)2 CCSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing (ISC)2 CCSP

(ISC)2 CCSP
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for (ISC)2 CCSP in London

(ISC)2 CCSP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP within the London region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Central London 0 3 £660 +3.94% 1
West London -16 2 £423 -39.64%
(ISC)2 CCSP
England

(ISC)2 CCSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (40.91%) GCP
4 7 (31.82%) Entra ID
5 6 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.09%) IaaS
7 2 (9.09%) Mimecast
7 2 (9.09%) PaaS
7 2 (9.09%) SaaS
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.55%) AWS KMS
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (4.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Firewall
1 5 (22.73%) Network Security
2 4 (18.18%) HTTP
3 3 (13.64%) DNS
3 3 (13.64%) SMTP
3 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
4 2 (9.09%) S/MIME
4 2 (9.09%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Legal
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Security Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Security Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Security Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Architect
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Security Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Security Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Security Manager
5 2 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) YAML
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (9.09%) OAuth
3 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 2 (9.09%) OpenID
3 2 (9.09%) SAML
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
1 3 (13.64%) STIX
1 3 (13.64%) YARA
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Cloud Security
2 11 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 10 (45.45%) Data Loss Prevention
3 10 (45.45%) SIEM
4 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 8 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
5 7 (31.82%) DevSecOps
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (27.27%) Security Architecture
6 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
7 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
7 5 (22.73%) Information Security
7 5 (22.73%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (22.73%) Use Case
7 5 (22.73%) Zero Trust
8 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
8 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (18.18%) SOAR
8 4 (18.18%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
3 6 (27.27%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (18.18%) Bash
4 4 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (81.82%) CISSP
3 13 (59.09%) CCSP
4 7 (31.82%) CEH
4 7 (31.82%) Degree
4 7 (31.82%) GCIH
5 6 (27.27%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (22.73%) CISM
7 4 (18.18%) OSCP
8 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
8 3 (13.64%) CCNA
8 3 (13.64%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (13.64%) GCFA
8 3 (13.64%) GCIA
9 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
9 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
9 2 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (4.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (40.91%) NIST
3 8 (36.36%) GDPR
4 5 (22.73%) PCI DSS
5 3 (13.64%) HIPAA
5 3 (13.64%) SOC 2
6 2 (9.09%) GRC
7 1 (4.55%) COBIT
7 1 (4.55%) NCSC
7 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) CSIRT
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) CASB
3 2 (9.09%) Nessus
3 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) Google
3 4 (18.18%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (13.64%) Darktrace
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco
5 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 2 (9.09%) Tenable
6 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.55%) Okta
6 1 (4.55%) Rapid7
6 1 (4.55%) Tanium
6 1 (4.55%) Zscaler