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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 569 674
Rank change year-on-year +57 +105 +166
Contract jobs citing CCSA 22 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.037% 0.018%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.23% 0.12% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 9
10th Percentile £360 £465 £385
25th Percentile £391 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £459 £552 £675
90th Percentile £530 £575 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +41.18%

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 9,498 12,868 14,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.99% 29.81% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,860 7,945 9,899
10th Percentile £275 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £701 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 635 1,115 731
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.19 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.15 £40.94 £55.33
Median % change year-on-year -31.24% -26.00% +24.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £43.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -36.92% -19.87% +53.33%

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 30 June 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 7 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 30 June 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 +64 22 £450 -14.29% 27
London +62 12 £400 -23.81% 15
UK excluding London +36 10 £450 -14.29% 12
South East +54 6 £450 -17.05% 3
North West +13 3 £650 +23.81% 5
North of England +7 3 £650 +23.81% 7
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) Firewall
1 20 (90.91%) Network Security
2 18 (81.82%) BGP
2 18 (81.82%) OSPF
3 17 (77.27%) VLAN
3 17 (77.27%) VPN
4 10 (45.45%) DHCP
4 10 (45.45%) DNS
4 10 (45.45%) WAN
5 9 (40.91%) EIGRP
5 9 (40.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 9 (40.91%) LAN
5 9 (40.91%) Wireless
6 8 (36.36%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (36.36%) SD-WAN
6 8 (36.36%) SSL
7 7 (31.82%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
7 7 (31.82%) WLAN
8 6 (27.27%) DMVPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Aviation
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Security Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Administrator
2 5 (22.73%) Network Administrator
2 5 (22.73%) Network Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Network Security Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) Security Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Check Point Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Check Point Support
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Firewall Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Firewall Support
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (31.82%) Proactive Monitoring
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
3 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
3 6 (27.27%) SIEM
4 5 (22.73%) Patch Management
5 2 (9.09%) Change Management
5 2 (9.09%) High Availability
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (4.55%) Agile
6 1 (4.55%) ITIL
6 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.55%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (4.55%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (4.55%) Service Management
6 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.55%) Tech Ops
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (4.55%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (90.91%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (86.36%) CCNP
3 9 (40.91%) CCSE
4 6 (27.27%) Check Point Certification
5 3 (13.64%) CCNA
6 2 (9.09%) JNCIA
6 2 (9.09%) JNCIS
6 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Ansible
1 6 (27.27%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Cisco
2 18 (81.82%) CheckPoint
3 10 (45.45%) F5
3 10 (45.45%) Juniper
4 9 (40.91%) Meraki
5 8 (36.36%) Palo Alto
5 8 (36.36%) SolarWinds
6 3 (13.64%) Zscaler
7 1 (4.55%) Aruba
7 1 (4.55%) Blue Coat
7 1 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
7 1 (4.55%) McAfee
7 1 (4.55%) Ruckus Wireless