CCSA Contracts

Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 572 708
Rank change year-on-year +70 +136 +133
Contract jobs citing CCSA 18 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.023% 0.017%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.075% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 9
10th Percentile £378 £450 £383
25th Percentile £400 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £675
90th Percentile £615 £578 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +8.60%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,993 13,316 16,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.72% 30.57% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,686 8,190 10,861
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £533 £530
% change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 1,076 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%

CCSA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCSA.

Daily rate trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCSA.

Hourly rate trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +66 18 £450 -15.09% 1
London - 12 £450 -
UK excluding London +60 6 £450 -14.29% 2
South East +45 4 £450 -17.05% 1
Work from Home +39 1 £549 +21.89% 5
North of England +18 1 £650 +23.81%
North West +17 1 £650 +23.81%
South West - 1 - -

CCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 17 (94.44%) Firewall
2 14 (77.78%) Network Security
2 14 (77.78%) VPN
3 12 (66.67%) BGP
3 12 (66.67%) OSPF
3 12 (66.67%) VLAN
4 9 (50.00%) WAN
5 8 (44.44%) LAN
6 6 (33.33%) DHCP
6 6 (33.33%) DNS
6 6 (33.33%) EIGRP
6 6 (33.33%) Wireless
7 5 (27.78%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (27.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (27.78%) SD-WAN
7 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
8 4 (22.22%) SSL
8 4 (22.22%) WLAN
9 3 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (16.67%) DMVPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Aviation
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Network Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) Network Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Check Point Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Check Point Support
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall Support
3 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Security Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) CatOS
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Network Monitoring
1 5 (27.78%) Proactive Monitoring
1 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (22.22%) Security Operations
2 4 (22.22%) SIEM
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) High Availability
3 3 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
5 1 (5.56%) Agile
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.56%) Matrix Organization
5 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.56%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.56%) Service Management
5 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (77.78%) CCNP
3 8 (44.44%) CCSE
4 5 (27.78%) CCNA
4 5 (27.78%) Check Point Certification
5 2 (11.11%) JNCIA
5 2 (11.11%) JNCIS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.56%) Degree
6 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) CA Spectrum
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Cisco
2 16 (88.89%) CheckPoint
3 7 (38.89%) F5
3 7 (38.89%) SolarWinds
4 6 (33.33%) Juniper
4 6 (33.33%) Meraki
5 5 (27.78%) Palo Alto
6 2 (11.11%) Infoblox
6 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.56%) Arista
7 1 (5.56%) Aruba
7 1 (5.56%) Blue Coat
7 1 (5.56%) Citrix
7 1 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
7 1 (5.56%) ForeScout
7 1 (5.56%) McAfee
7 1 (5.56%) NetScout
7 1 (5.56%) Ruckus Wireless
7 1 (5.56%) Zscaler