CCSK Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 0.18% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.98% - -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £502 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 205 72 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 18.81% 19.51% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 45 44
10th Percentile £397 £220 £380
25th Percentile £448 £328 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -14.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £609 £529 £616
90th Percentile £688 £650 £714
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £501
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.09% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - -
Median hourly rate £24.29 £18.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.30% - -
75th Percentile £25.77 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.56 £21.00 £15.09
% change year-on-year +16.94% +39.21% -58.95%

CCSK
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

CCSK job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

CCSK
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSK within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Sheffield - 2 £502 - 1
CCSK
Yorkshire

CCSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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