CASP Contracts in the UK excluding London

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CASP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 391 446
Rank change year-on-year +57 +55 -
Contract jobs citing CASP 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.010% 0.009%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.022% 0.026% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £600 £560
25th Percentile - £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% 0.00% -
75th Percentile - £600 £625
90th Percentile - £600 £640
UK median daily rate £493 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -17.92% 0.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CASP 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,603 7,551 7,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.74% 36.87% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,818 4,355 5,173
10th Percentile £210 £270 £287
25th Percentile £388 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £677 £725 £712
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 415 932 644
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.52 £13.94
25th Percentile £21.01 £16.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -18.12% +56.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.06 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £38.27 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -4.33% -25.93% +28.57%

CASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CASP in the UK excluding London

CASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CASP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CASP in the UK excluding London

CASP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CASP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Scotland - 1 £485 -
CASP
UK

CASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Log Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OSINT
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight