Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCSE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 677 837
Rank change year-on-year +96 +160 -155
Contract jobs citing CCSE 4 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.028% 0.014%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.031% 0.10% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile - £475 £396
25th Percentile £513 £538 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +34.62%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £538
90th Percentile - £615 £603
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £555 £425
% change year-on-year -5.41% +30.59% +15.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCSE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,023 15,853 18,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.41% 27.29% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,036 10,577 12,473
10th Percentile £305 £330 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £744 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,068 826 761
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.25 £13.75
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £61.53 £68.48 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.55 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.41
% change year-on-year -18.12% +59.18% -7.63%

CCSE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSE in the UK

CCSE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CCSE in the UK

CCSE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CCSE in the UK

CCSE
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 CCSE within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 +91 3 £525 -4.55% 1
UK excluding London +70 3 £525 -5.41% 1
North of England - 2 £525 - 1
London +79 1 £525 -4.55%
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
North West - 1 £525 - 1
Scotland - 1 £525 -

CCSE
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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCSA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) McAfee