(ISC)2 CCSP Contract Job Trends in the South West

(ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (ISC2 CCSP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for (ISC)2 CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 120 146
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 +32
Contract jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP 2 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.086% 0.28% 0.068%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.53% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £659 -
25th Percentile £713 £673 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £715 £618
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +15.79% +7.39%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £676
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £680 £650
% change year-on-year -22.79% +4.62% +3.59%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

(ISC)2 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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,306 1,124 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.98% 53.27% 55.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 704 1,024
10th Percentile £275 £338 £371
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £729
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 84 170
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £35.70
25th Percentile £20.82 £58.94 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £61.95
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +5.74% -4.70%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.50 £77.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%

(ISC)2 CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing (ISC)2 CCSP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

(ISC)2 CCSP job vacancy trend in the South West

(ISC)2 CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing (ISC)2 CCSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing (ISC)2 CCSP

(ISC)2 CCSP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Wiltshire -13 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 £725 - 1
(ISC)2 CCSP
England

(ISC)2 CCSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) IT4IT
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle