CCSP Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 156 178
Rank change year-on-year -53 +22 +47
Contract jobs citing CCSP 3 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.064% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.21% 0.55% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £433 £650 £486
25th Percentile £441 £658 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £680 £614
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +10.84% -1.84%
75th Percentile £484 £733 £627
90th Percentile £490 £750 £628
England median daily rate £459 £680 £627
% change year-on-year -32.54% +8.45% +4.50%

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,451 1,085 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.95% 30.21% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 618 798
10th Percentile £249 £220 £255
25th Percentile £400 £357 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £628
90th Percentile £696 £677 £703
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 68 80
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.02 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.16 £22.59 £29.58
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +78.92%
75th Percentile £61.09 £52.05 £46.89
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.92 £55.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.21% -7.50% +16.67%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

CCSP job vacancy trend in the North of England

CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

CCSP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

CCSP
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 CCSP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Yorkshire -40 3 £464 -31.73%
CCSP
England

CCSP
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Compliance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (100.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes