(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 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 520 535
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP 145 45 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.14% 0.081%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.84% 0.44% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 24 12
10th Percentile £453 £426 £561
25th Percentile £510 £650 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £688 £773 £728
90th Percentile £769 £831 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £750 £625
% change year-on-year -17.07% +20.00% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £65.08 £47.15 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £49.25 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% - -
75th Percentile £104.00 £81.63 -
90th Percentile - £92.65 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.50 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 17,176 10,258 11,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.60% 31.41% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 6,403 6,889
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,375 840 647
10th Percentile £17.07 £17.87 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.03% -48.67% -9.26%
75th Percentile £72.54 £43.75 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.00 £76.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £52.35
% change year-on-year +88.87% -51.95% +0.88%

(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 21 September 2026.

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 21 September 2026.

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

(ISC)2 CCSP
Top 13 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 21 September 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
England -33 127 £600 -14.29% 192
UK excluding London -35 81 £622 -17.07% 76
Work from Home -32 47 £550 -21.43% 99
London -70 44 £568 -18.93% 133
North of England -34 34 £663 -1.85% 17
South East -39 30 £700 -7.89% 23
Yorkshire - 23 £675 - 5
North West -40 10 £600 -11.11% 11
South West -35 7 £550 -24.14% 12
West Midlands - 6 £450 - 6
Midlands - 6 £450 - 8
East of England -25 3 £608 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

(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 4 (2.76%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 90 (62.07%) Azure
2 85 (58.62%) AWS
3 49 (33.79%) GCP
4 19 (13.10%) Entra ID
5 14 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (8.97%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (8.97%) SaaS
7 8 (5.52%) IaaS
7 8 (5.52%) PaaS
8 7 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.83%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (4.83%) GitHub
9 5 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.76%) Serverless
11 3 (2.07%) AWS KMS
11 3 (2.07%) Azure AI
11 3 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 48 (33.10%) Network Security
2 10 (6.90%) Firewall
3 2 (1.38%) LAN
3 2 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.38%) VPN
3 2 (1.38%) WAN
4 1 (0.69%) 4G
4 1 (0.69%) 5G
4 1 (0.69%) Calico
4 1 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.69%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.69%) DNS
4 1 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.69%) MPLS
4 1 (0.69%) NGFW
4 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.69%) SSL
4 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.07%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.69%) Big Data
2 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (4.83%) GitLab
1 7 (4.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.38%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.38%) Snyk
3 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.69%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 71 (48.97%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.90%) Finance
3 17 (11.72%) Influencing Skills
4 15 (10.34%) Banking
5 11 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.90%) Aerospace
7 7 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.83%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.76%) Police
9 4 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.38%) Law
10 2 (1.38%) Local Government
10 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Legal
11 1 (0.69%) Military
11 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (33.79%) Architect
2 42 (28.97%) Security Architect
3 32 (22.07%) Consultant
4 21 (14.48%) Security Engineer
5 18 (12.41%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 16 (11.03%) Security Consultant
7 11 (7.59%) Senior
8 10 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 10 (6.90%) Lead
9 9 (6.21%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (5.52%) Analyst
10 8 (5.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Security Officer
12 6 (4.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 6 (4.14%) Security Specialist
13 5 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 5 (3.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 4 (2.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 4 (2.76%) Information Officer
14 4 (2.76%) Information Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.79%) Terraform
2 6 (4.14%) RESTful
3 5 (3.45%) SLSA
4 4 (2.76%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.76%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.07%) LDAP
5 3 (2.07%) OAuth
6 2 (1.38%) OpenID
6 2 (1.38%) SAML
7 1 (0.69%) .NET
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.69%) JWT
7 1 (0.69%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.48%) Security Posture
2 18 (12.41%) Management Information System
3 15 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 11 (7.59%) Data Centre
4 11 (7.59%) Operational Technology
5 10 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (6.90%) Onboarding
5 10 (6.90%) Public Cloud
6 9 (6.21%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (4.83%) Cyber Defence
7 7 (4.83%) Private Cloud
8 6 (4.14%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (3.45%) SCADA
10 4 (2.76%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (2.76%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (2.76%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (2.76%) PKI
10 4 (2.76%) Smartcard
11 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.66%) Linux
2 13 (8.97%) Windows
3 6 (4.14%) Unix
4 5 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.69%) Android
5 1 (0.69%) CentOS
5 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (65.52%) Cloud Security
2 86 (59.31%) Cybersecurity
3 73 (50.34%) Threat Modelling
4 65 (44.83%) Security Architecture
5 63 (43.45%) Vulnerability Management
6 51 (35.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 50 (34.48%) DevSecOps
8 49 (33.79%) SABSA
9 47 (32.41%) SIEM
10 44 (30.34%) CI/CD
11 43 (29.66%) Risk Management
12 39 (26.90%) Zero Trust
13 38 (26.21%) Application Security
14 36 (24.83%) Identity Access Management
15 34 (23.45%) TOGAF
16 33 (22.76%) Incident Response
16 33 (22.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 30 (20.69%) Roadmaps
18 29 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
18 29 (20.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.72%) PowerShell
1 17 (11.72%) Python
2 13 (8.97%) Bash
3 9 (6.21%) Bicep
4 5 (3.45%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (2.76%) Java
6 3 (2.07%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 145 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 140 (96.55%) CISSP
3 94 (64.83%) CCSP
4 84 (57.93%) CISM
5 54 (37.24%) Security Cleared
6 48 (33.10%) SC Cleared
7 23 (15.86%) Degree
8 21 (14.48%) CEH
8 21 (14.48%) CRISC
9 17 (11.72%) AWS Certification
9 17 (11.72%) Azure Certification
10 16 (11.03%) CISA
11 15 (10.34%) GIAC
12 14 (9.66%) CompTIA Security+
13 13 (8.97%) OSCP
14 11 (7.59%) GCIH
15 10 (6.90%) CCSK
16 9 (6.21%) GCIA
17 8 (5.52%) GSEC
17 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (55.17%) NIST
2 71 (48.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (16.55%) NCSC
4 22 (15.17%) GDPR
5 19 (13.10%) PCI DSS
6 15 (10.34%) GRC
7 14 (9.66%) NIST 800
8 11 (7.59%) COBIT
8 11 (7.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (6.21%) ISO 31000
10 6 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (3.45%) Def Stans
12 4 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (2.76%) ISO 9001
12 4 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
13 2 (1.38%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (1.38%) HIPAA
13 2 (1.38%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 15 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.76%) ISA Server
3 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.69%) KVM
4 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (22.76%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.90%) Ansible
3 7 (4.83%) CASB
4 2 (1.38%) QRadar
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Istio
5 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.03%) Google
3 14 (9.66%) Splunk
4 13 (8.97%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (5.52%) Cisco
6 7 (4.83%) Qualys
7 5 (3.45%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.76%) Centrify
8 4 (2.76%) F5
8 4 (2.76%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.76%) Tripwire
9 3 (2.07%) Databricks
9 3 (2.07%) VMware
10 2 (1.38%) AlgoSec
10 2 (1.38%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.38%) IBM
10 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.38%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.69%) Tenable
11 1 (0.69%) Thales