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 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 155 180 204
Rank change year-on-year +25 +24 +67
Contract jobs citing CCSP 5 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.062% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.35% 0.14% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £585 £605 £395
25th Percentile £638 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +8.70% +53.33%
75th Percentile £774 £638 £688
90th Percentile £775 £645 £755
England median daily rate £700 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +6.12%

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 1,437 2,176 2,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.39% 44.76% 37.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 1,368 1,301
10th Percentile £244 £350 £280
25th Percentile £415 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £623
90th Percentile £664 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 182 116
10th Percentile - £17.86 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.75 £49.40
Median hourly rate £27.76 £57.35 £60.82
Median % change year-on-year -51.60% -5.70% +35.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.39 £73.62
90th Percentile £81.00 £87.46 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for CCSP in the South East

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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

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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 16 August 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
Berkshire +15 5 £750 +15.38% 2
Thames Valley +9 5 £750 +15.38% 2
CCSP
England

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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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 5 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (80.00%) Information Security
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Data Privacy
3 3 (60.00%) Data Security
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (20.00%) OSCP
4 1 (20.00%) SANS
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
1 4 (80.00%) PCI DSS
1 4 (80.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Rapid7