CCSP Contracts in the South East

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 200 -
Rank change year-on-year +43 - -
Contract jobs citing CCSP 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.066% 0.090% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
England median daily rate £750 £575 £725
% change year-on-year +30.43% -20.69% +13.15%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,222 2,486 2,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.60% 44.73% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,412 1,432
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £438 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £623
90th Percentile £688 £735 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 213 145
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.52 £21.40
25th Percentile £26.13 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%
75th Percentile £70.63 £67.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £85.41 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing CCSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for CCSP in the South East

CCSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCSP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for CCSP in the South East

CCSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCSP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for CCSP in the South East

CCSP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSP within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +43 2 £550 +86.92% 2
Berkshire +31 2 £550 +86.92% 1
CCSP
England

CCSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) SANS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk