CASP Contract Job Trends

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CASP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 - 623
Rank change year-on-year - - +190
Contract jobs citing CASP 8 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.023% - 0.024%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.070% - 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 6
10th Percentile £380 - £544
25th Percentile £432 - £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.14%
75th Percentile £575 - £689
90th Percentile £650 - £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 - £620
% change year-on-year - - +18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £87.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £87.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,464 10,743 13,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.79% 29.25% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,305 6,534 8,588
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 £715 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £517 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.14% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 491 753
10th Percentile £17.24 £18.63 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.08 £24.18 £26.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -13.68% +18.89%
75th Percentile £43.75 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £48.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -47.80% -7.15% +15.31%

CASP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CASP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CASP job vacancy trend in the UK

CASP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CASP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CASP

CASP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CASP over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CASP in the UK

CASP
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 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
UK excluding London - 6 £483 - 7
England - 4 £530 - 7
Scotland - 4 £485 -
London - 2 £650 - 1
South East - 2 £410 - 5

CASP
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 6 (75.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (75.00%) OSINT
1 6 (75.00%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Use Case
3 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Threat Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) SABSA
4 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) CISSP
2 6 (75.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) GCIH
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) GCIA
4 2 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (25.00%) CCSP
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (25.00%) CREST Certified
4 2 (25.00%) CSSLP
4 2 (25.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) ArcSight