CCSP Contract Job Trends

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 507 556
Rank change year-on-year -59 +49 +66
Contract jobs citing CCSP 69 19 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.066% 0.044%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 11 12
10th Percentile £493 £535 £405
25th Percentile £514 £550 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% +13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £666
90th Percentile £761 £850 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +20.45% -12.00% +28.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £77.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £100.00 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 15,370 9,004 12,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.51% 31.12% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,200 5,648 8,016
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £645
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,120 527 1,101
10th Percentile £16.49 £17.57 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.84 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.05 £41.23
% change year-on-year +48.21% -22.27% -21.47%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CCSP job vacancy trend in the UK

CCSP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSP over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCSP

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 CCSP within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 -82 56 £663 +1.92% 30
London -54 29 £663 -5.36% 10
UK excluding London -72 28 £663 +20.45% 26
Work from Home -23 24 £550 - 19
North of England - 20 £675 - 8
Yorkshire - 17 £675 - 5
East of England -31 4 £505 - 2
North West - 3 - - 2
South East -60 1 - - 9
South West - 1 £600 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £385 -
Midlands - 1 £450 - 1

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:

Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 48 (69.57%) Azure
2 41 (59.42%) AWS
3 26 (37.68%) GCP
4 16 (23.19%) Azure Sentinel
5 13 (18.84%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.25%) SaaS
7 4 (5.80%) GitHub
7 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.35%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.35%) IaaS
8 3 (4.35%) PaaS
9 2 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.90%) OCI
10 1 (1.45%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.45%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (1.45%) Google Gemini
10 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 34 (49.28%) Network Security
2 6 (8.70%) Firewall
3 3 (4.35%) LAN
3 3 (4.35%) VPN
3 3 (4.35%) WAN
4 2 (2.90%) MPLS
4 2 (2.90%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.45%) Calico
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (1.45%) Internet
5 1 (1.45%) NGFW
5 1 (1.45%) SNA
5 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.45%) Wireless
5 1 (1.45%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Snyk
2 2 (2.90%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 28 (40.58%) Social Skills
2 22 (31.88%) Finance
3 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.04%) Banking
5 7 (10.14%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Police
7 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Local Government
8 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (37.68%) Architect
2 23 (33.33%) Consultant
2 23 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 13 (18.84%) Security Consultant
4 12 (17.39%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 6 (8.70%) Security Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 5 (7.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 5 (7.25%) Lead
7 4 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Security Officer
8 3 (4.35%) Security Specialist
8 3 (4.35%) Senior
8 3 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.90%) Application Security Specialist
9 2 (2.90%) Applications Specialist
9 2 (2.90%) Network Consultant
9 2 (2.90%) Network Security Architect
9 2 (2.90%) Network Security Consultant
9 2 (2.90%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) RESTful
2 3 (4.35%) SLSA
3 2 (2.90%) .NET
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.45%) OAuth
4 1 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.45%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.84%) Security Posture
2 9 (13.04%) Private Cloud
3 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.70%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.80%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.80%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (4.35%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.90%) CMDB
7 2 (2.90%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.90%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.45%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.45%) IoT
8 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Linux
1 3 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Android
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 46 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 29 (42.03%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (39.13%) Application Security
4 26 (37.68%) DevSecOps
5 25 (36.23%) CI/CD
5 25 (36.23%) Security Architecture
6 24 (34.78%) Identity Access Management
6 24 (34.78%) Vulnerability Management
7 22 (31.88%) SIEM
8 21 (30.43%) Architectural Patterns
9 19 (27.54%) Cryptography
10 18 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (26.09%) Zero Trust
11 17 (24.64%) DevOps
12 16 (23.19%) Roadmaps
13 14 (20.29%) Data Protection
13 14 (20.29%) Incident Response
13 14 (20.29%) TOGAF
14 13 (18.84%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.70%) Python
2 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.80%) Search Processing Language
3 3 (4.35%) Bash
4 2 (2.90%) Java
5 1 (1.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 69 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 66 (95.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 65 (94.20%) CISSP
4 39 (56.52%) CISM
5 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
6 16 (23.19%) SC Cleared
7 11 (15.94%) CEH
7 11 (15.94%) OSCP
8 8 (11.59%) Degree
9 7 (10.14%) Azure Certification
10 6 (8.70%) CCSK
10 6 (8.70%) GCIH
11 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (7.25%) CSSLP
12 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
12 4 (5.80%) CISA
12 4 (5.80%) CRISC
12 4 (5.80%) GCIA
12 4 (5.80%) GSEC
13 3 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (55.07%) NIST
2 27 (39.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (15.94%) GDPR
3 11 (15.94%) PCI DSS
4 8 (11.59%) COBIT
4 8 (11.59%) NCSC
5 7 (10.14%) GRC
6 3 (4.35%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (1.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (1.45%) ISO 31000
7 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.45%) KVM
2 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (31.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.70%) Terraform
3 3 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Istio
4 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.45%) SELinux
4 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.59%) Splunk
3 4 (5.80%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (5.80%) Google
3 4 (5.80%) Okta
3 4 (5.80%) Qualys
3 4 (5.80%) Tenable
4 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.90%) IBM
5 2 (2.90%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.90%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.45%) Adobe
6 1 (1.45%) Apple
6 1 (1.45%) Broadcom
6 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.45%) Netlify
6 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.45%) Zscaler