(ISC)2 CCSP Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - +82
Contract jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP 4 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.14% - 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.40% - 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £468 - £634
25th Percentile £475 - £741
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.86%
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
England median daily rate £650 £650 £700
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

(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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,005 782 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.72% 29.51% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 475 491
10th Percentile £250 £310 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £618 £600
90th Percentile £651 £718 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 32 41
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £17.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.45 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.13% +16.96%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £40.38 £52.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -51.95% -0.30% +16.67%

(ISC)2 CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

(ISC)2 CCSP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

(ISC)2 CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

(ISC)2 CCSP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 4
(ISC)2 CCSP
England

(ISC)2 CCSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) IPv4
1 4 (100.00%) IPv6
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) MPLS
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) WLAN
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) EIGRP
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) VLAN
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Network Design
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Management
2 3 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) CCIE
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) CCSP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CCIE Security
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) JNCIE
3 2 (50.00%) JNCIP
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (100.00%) Meraki
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Forcepoint
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper