CCSK Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for CCSK qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CCSK 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.20% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £486 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 - -
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £502 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Sheffield

CCSK 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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 193 56 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 19.32% 17.67% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 41 42
10th Percentile £393 £220 £400
25th Percentile £447 £328 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -16.84% -10.42%
75th Percentile £609 £529 £639
90th Percentile £688 £650 £718
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £447 £525
% change year-on-year +11.86% -14.86% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £21.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.44 - -
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.30% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.29 £18.50 -
% change year-on-year +31.30% - -

CCSK
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCSK relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

CCSK job vacancy trend in Sheffield

CCSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) SBOM
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft