CCSE Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 259 183 167
Rank change year-on-year -76 -16 -
Contract jobs citing CCSE 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.013% 0.050% 0.048%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.050% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £391 -
25th Percentile - £434 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% -2.38% -
75th Percentile - £584 £538
90th Percentile - £624 -
England median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -5.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,995 1,212 1,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.74% 30.22% 25.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 727 627
10th Percentile £313 £305 £306
25th Percentile £408 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.10% -2.44%
75th Percentile £604 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 92 128
10th Percentile £21.33 £17.44 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.71 £21.02 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% +15.39% -46.30%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.34 £51.22
90th Percentile £71.50 £70.16 £69.83
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

CCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

CCSE job vacancy trend in the North of England

CCSE
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CCSE

CCSE
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CCSE

CCSE
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West -42 1 £456 -11.02% 2
CCSE
England

CCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE Security
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSA
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AlgoSec
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto