CCSP Contracts in Reading

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 91 81
Rank change year-on-year +27 -10 +19
Contract jobs citing CCSP 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.66% 0.090% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.23% 0.21% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £585 - -
25th Percentile £638 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £350
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +85.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £774 - -
90th Percentile £775 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £750 £650 £350
% change year-on-year +15.38% +85.71% -6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 179 476 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 29.34% 43.04% 34.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 254 237
10th Percentile £365 £413 £313
25th Percentile £469 £573 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £623
90th Percentile - £765 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 38 14
10th Percentile £39.73 £48.75 £57.88
25th Percentile £59.19 £57.75 £63.31
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.75 £70.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +1.59% -
75th Percentile - £87.49 £75.19
90th Percentile - £100.00 £78.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £70.00 £61.65 £64.90
% change year-on-year +13.54% -5.00% +208.68%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing CCSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for CCSP in Reading

CCSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCSP in Reading.

Daily rate trend for CCSP in Reading

CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSP in Reading over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCSP in Reading

CCSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (25.00%) OSCP
4 1 (25.00%) SANS
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
1 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (75.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Rapid7