(ISC)2 CCSP Contract Job Trends

(ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (ISC2 CCSP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 519 547
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +189
Contract jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP 50 32 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.088% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.44% 0.30% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 15 53
10th Percentile £416 £578 £515
25th Percentile £440 £630 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £729 £720 £765
90th Percentile £773 £729 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £690 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +6.15% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £39.10 - -
25th Percentile £43.38 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.44 - -
90th Percentile £88.98 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £100.00 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

(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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,360 10,694 13,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.81% 29.28% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,236 6,499 8,519
10th Percentile £300 £310 £302
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £714 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £516 £534
% change year-on-year -3.10% -3.37% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 982 485 749
10th Percentile £17.32 £18.66 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.06 £24.18 £26.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.63 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.14 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £47.84 £51.89
% change year-on-year -47.43% -7.80% +15.31%

(ISC)2 CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

(ISC)2 CCSP job vacancy trend in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

(ISC)2 CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing (ISC)2 CCSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing (ISC)2 CCSP

(ISC)2 CCSP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 6 November 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
England +19 47 £650 - 63
London +5 25 £588 -16.07% 30
Work from Home +24 20 £613 -5.77% 25
UK excluding London -34 18 £690 +6.15% 48
South East +5 7 £750 +15.38% 34
North of England -32 5 £581 -8.82% 3
Yorkshire -25 4 £488 -25.00%
Midlands - 4 £500 - 8
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 6
South West +9 1 £725 +11.54%
East of England -14 1 - - 1
North West -17 1 £675 +8.00% 3

(ISC)2 CCSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (68.00%) Azure
2 31 (62.00%) AWS
3 25 (50.00%) GCP
4 12 (24.00%) Entra ID
5 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (6.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.00%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (4.00%) Google Workspace
9 2 (4.00%) IaaS
9 2 (4.00%) Mimecast
9 2 (4.00%) PaaS
10 1 (2.00%) Akamai
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.00%) OCI
10 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.00%) Firewall
2 12 (24.00%) Network Security
3 6 (12.00%) DNS
4 5 (10.00%) HTTP
5 4 (8.00%) BGP
5 4 (8.00%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (8.00%) IPv4
5 4 (8.00%) IPv6
5 4 (8.00%) LAN
5 4 (8.00%) MPLS
5 4 (8.00%) OSPF
5 4 (8.00%) SD-WAN
5 4 (8.00%) VXLAN
5 4 (8.00%) WAN
5 4 (8.00%) Wireless
5 4 (8.00%) WLAN
6 3 (6.00%) EIGRP
6 3 (6.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (6.00%) SMTP
6 3 (6.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 16 (32.00%) Finance
2 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Legal
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Architect
2 17 (34.00%) Security Architect
3 9 (18.00%) Security Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Network Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Security Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Security Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Security Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Forensic Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) .NET
1 4 (8.00%) OpenID
1 4 (8.00%) SAML
2 3 (6.00%) OAuth
2 3 (6.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (4.00%) React
3 2 (4.00%) YAML
4 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.00%) EJB
4 1 (2.00%) JCE
4 1 (2.00%) JSON Web Signature
4 1 (2.00%) JWT
4 1 (2.00%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 6 (12.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (8.00%) PKI
6 3 (6.00%) IoT
6 3 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.00%) STIX
7 2 (4.00%) YARA
8 1 (2.00%) BYOD
8 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Windows
2 7 (14.00%) Linux
3 5 (10.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.00%) Unix
5 1 (2.00%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) Cloud Security
2 23 (46.00%) Zero Trust
3 22 (44.00%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (40.00%) DevSecOps
5 19 (38.00%) SIEM
6 18 (36.00%) CI/CD
6 18 (36.00%) Threat Modelling
7 17 (34.00%) Security Architecture
7 17 (34.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 16 (32.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 16 (32.00%) Incident Response
9 15 (30.00%) Information Security
10 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (26.00%) TOGAF
11 12 (24.00%) Roadmaps
11 12 (24.00%) Strategic Thinking
12 10 (20.00%) Computer Science
12 10 (20.00%) DevOps
12 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
13 9 (18.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (12.00%) Bash
4 5 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (8.00%) Java
6 2 (4.00%) PHP
6 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (88.00%) CISSP
3 32 (64.00%) CCSP
4 16 (32.00%) CISM
5 14 (28.00%) AWS Certification
6 13 (26.00%) Degree
7 11 (22.00%) Azure Certification
8 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
9 8 (16.00%) CEH
9 8 (16.00%) GCIH
10 6 (12.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 4 (8.00%) CCIE
12 4 (8.00%) CCNP
12 4 (8.00%) GCFA
12 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
12 4 (8.00%) OSCP
13 3 (6.00%) CCNA
13 3 (6.00%) CSSLP
13 3 (6.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (62.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (58.00%) NIST
3 22 (44.00%) GDPR
4 19 (38.00%) PCI DSS
5 7 (14.00%) NCSC
5 7 (14.00%) PSD2
6 4 (8.00%) HIPAA
6 4 (8.00%) SOC 2
7 3 (6.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (6.00%) NIST 800
7 3 (6.00%) RMADS
8 2 (4.00%) GRC
9 1 (2.00%) COBIT
9 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (2.00%) JSP 440
9 1 (2.00%) SLA
9 1 (2.00%) SOC 1
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.00%) Docker
3 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.00%) Firmware
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.00%) Terraform
3 4 (8.00%) Ansible
3 4 (8.00%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.00%) CSIRT
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.00%) Nessus
5 2 (4.00%) CASB
5 2 (4.00%) EnCase
5 2 (4.00%) FTK
5 2 (4.00%) SELinux
6 1 (2.00%) Istio
6 1 (2.00%) linkerd
6 1 (2.00%) Nmap
6 1 (2.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (14.00%) Cisco
4 6 (12.00%) Google
5 5 (10.00%) Darktrace
5 5 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 5 (10.00%) Zscaler
6 4 (8.00%) F5
6 4 (8.00%) Fortinet
6 4 (8.00%) Meraki
7 3 (6.00%) SolarWinds
7 3 (6.00%) VMware
8 2 (4.00%) Forcepoint
8 2 (4.00%) Juniper
8 2 (4.00%) Okta
8 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
8 2 (4.00%) Tenable
9 1 (2.00%) OneTrust
9 1 (2.00%) Tanium
9 1 (2.00%) Thales