CCSA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 385 451
Rank change year-on-year +58 +66 +63
Contract jobs citing CCSA 7 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.043% 0.017%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.12% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile - £450 £515
25th Percentile - £497 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +8.60%
75th Percentile - £558 £675
90th Percentile £550 £580 -
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CCSA 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 4,548 7,661 7,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.60% 37.01% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,780 4,410 5,340
10th Percentile £210 £269 £280
25th Percentile £390 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +0.19% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 936 667
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.96
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -18.12% +54.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.09 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +28.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSA in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for CCSA in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCSA in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCSA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CCSA in the UK excluding London

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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 CCSA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +36 5 £450 -17.05%
North West +10 1 £650 +23.81%
North of England +10 1 £650 +23.81% 1
South West - 1 - -
CCSA
UK

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) Network Security
3 5 (71.43%) BGP
3 5 (71.43%) OSPF
3 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
3 5 (71.43%) VLAN
3 5 (71.43%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Proactive Monitoring
1 5 (71.43%) Security Monitoring
1 5 (71.43%) Security Operations
1 5 (71.43%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) CCSE
2 5 (71.43%) CCNP
2 5 (71.43%) Check Point Certification
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco
3 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) Aruba
4 1 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
4 1 (14.29%) Ruckus Wireless
4 1 (14.29%) Zscaler