Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 672 798
Rank change year-on-year +95 +126 -153
Contract jobs citing CCSP 21 47 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.079% 0.057%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.29% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 34
10th Percentile £288 £536 £538
25th Percentile £425 £600 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £631
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +18.86% +20.19%
75th Percentile £600 £759 £675
90th Percentile £735 £813 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £650 £630
% change year-on-year -7.69% +3.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCSP 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 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCSP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Top 11 Contract 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 27 April 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 +102 18 £575 -23.33% 16
London +76 8 £550 -26.67% 9
UK excluding London +63 8 £600 -7.69% 10
Work from Home +111 7 £600 -20.00% 8
South East - 4 £600 - 3
North of England +30 1 £600 +10.34% 1
West Midlands +26 1 £750 +7.14% 1
Yorkshire +20 1 £600 +54.84%
Midlands +19 1 £750 +7.14% 1
South West - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 2

CCSP
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 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) DNS
1 5 (23.81%) Firewall
1 5 (23.81%) Network Security
2 3 (14.29%) Internet
3 2 (9.52%) Broadband
3 2 (9.52%) NGFW
3 2 (9.52%) SNMP
3 2 (9.52%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) BGP
4 1 (4.76%) DHCP
4 1 (4.76%) EIGRP
4 1 (4.76%) FTP
4 1 (4.76%) HTTP
4 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.76%) OSPF
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.76%) tcpdump
4 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Legal
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
1 5 (23.81%) Security Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Information Officer
2 4 (19.05%) Information Security Officer
2 4 (19.05%) Security Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Security Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Security Officer
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Network Security Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Security Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Information Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Operational Technology
2 4 (19.05%) IoT
2 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 4 (19.05%) Security Posture
3 3 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (9.52%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (4.76%) BBC
5 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Cloud Security
1 12 (57.14%) Information Security
2 10 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (42.86%) SABSA
4 7 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 5 (23.81%) Security Architecture
5 5 (23.81%) SIEM
6 4 (19.05%) Ethical Hacking
6 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
7 3 (14.29%) Agile
7 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
7 3 (14.29%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 3 (14.29%) ITIL
7 3 (14.29%) Security Operations
8 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (9.52%) Presales
8 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
8 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Perl
1 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (80.95%) CISSP
3 14 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 10 (47.62%) CISM
5 9 (42.86%) CCNP
6 7 (33.33%) CCSK
6 7 (33.33%) CEH
6 7 (33.33%) CISA
7 6 (28.57%) CCNA
8 5 (23.81%) Degree
9 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
10 3 (14.29%) CRISC
11 2 (9.52%) CCIE
11 2 (9.52%) CCIE Security
11 2 (9.52%) CCIE Service Provider
11 2 (9.52%) CISMP
11 2 (9.52%) CSSLP
11 2 (9.52%) GIAC
11 2 (9.52%) SANS
11 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (38.10%) NIST
3 5 (23.81%) GRC
3 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (14.29%) NIST 800
5 2 (9.52%) COBIT
5 2 (9.52%) GDPR
6 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
6 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (4.76%) CSIRT
1 1 (4.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Zscaler
3 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) McAfee
3 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk