CCSE Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for CCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 99 -
Rank change year-on-year -46 - -
Contract jobs citing CCSE 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.068% 0.27% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £513 £450 -
% change year-on-year +13.89% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

CCSE 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,340 550 1,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 45.67% 36.62% 41.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 315 583
10th Percentile £301 £313 £213
25th Percentile £400 £437 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +0.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £621
90th Percentile £655 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 33 108
10th Percentile £17.36 £19.73 £18.35
25th Percentile £24.41 £32.05 £41.88
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £58.65
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% +4.85% -8.13%
75th Percentile £85.63 £70.00 £70.81
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.41 £87.14
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.13 £57.35
% change year-on-year -3.72% -0.39% +0.82%

CCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCSE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

CCSE job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CCSE
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCSE

CCSE
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCSE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCSE

CCSE
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSE within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £463 - 1
CCSE
South East

CCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) NOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Presales
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSM
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) VMware