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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 530 552
Rank change year-on-year -53 +22 +57
Contract jobs citing CCSP 82 22 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.068% 0.046%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 13 11
10th Percentile £493 £538 £400
25th Percentile £513 £550 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +18.18% -14.06%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £625
90th Percentile £744 £850 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +20.45% -8.33% +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £54.50 -
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 16,518 10,025 12,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.33% 30.76% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,028 6,216 7,798
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £703 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 738 985
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £52.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.75% -41.51% -25.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.81 £75.00 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%

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 21 July 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 12 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 21 July 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 -41 66 £663 -1.85% 29
UK excluding London -81 33 £663 +20.45% 15
London -46 31 £663 -5.36% 13
Work from Home -40 28 £588 +6.82% 11
North of England - 23 £675 - 6
Yorkshire - 20 £675 - 2
East of England -19 4 £505 - 2
South East -69 3 £525 -4.55% 5
North West - 3 - - 4
South West -36 2 £520 -28.28% 2
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
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 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 54 (65.85%) Azure
2 47 (57.32%) AWS
3 28 (34.15%) GCP
4 19 (23.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 16 (19.51%) Entra ID
6 8 (9.76%) SaaS
7 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.88%) IaaS
8 4 (4.88%) PaaS
9 3 (3.66%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.66%) Serverless
10 2 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (2.44%) GitHub
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.22%) Cloudflare
11 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 40 (48.78%) Network Security
2 6 (7.32%) Firewall
3 3 (3.66%) VPN
4 2 (2.44%) LAN
4 2 (2.44%) WAN
5 1 (1.22%) Calico
5 1 (1.22%) DNS
5 1 (1.22%) MPLS
5 1 (1.22%) NGFW
5 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Snyk
2 1 (1.22%) GitLab
2 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 33 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 27 (32.93%) Finance
3 9 (10.98%) Banking
3 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.54%) Financial Institution
5 5 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Police
7 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Local Government
8 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (42.68%) Architect
2 31 (37.80%) Security Architect
3 26 (31.71%) Consultant
4 15 (18.29%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 13 (15.85%) Security Consultant
6 7 (8.54%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (7.32%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 6 (7.32%) Lead
7 6 (7.32%) Security Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Senior
8 5 (6.10%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 4 (4.88%) Azure Architect
10 3 (3.66%) Security Officer
10 3 (3.66%) Security Specialist
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Security Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.44%) Application Security Specialist
11 2 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 2 (2.44%) Lead Architect
11 2 (2.44%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) RESTful
2 3 (3.66%) SLSA
3 1 (1.22%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.22%) OAuth
3 1 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.22%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Security Posture
2 11 (13.41%) Private Cloud
3 8 (9.76%) Cloud Native
4 7 (8.54%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.54%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.88%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.66%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (3.66%) Data Fabric
6 3 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.44%) CMDB
7 2 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.44%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.44%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Linux
1 4 (4.88%) Windows
2 1 (1.22%) Android
2 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (67.07%) Threat Modelling
2 53 (64.63%) Cloud Security
3 34 (41.46%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (39.02%) DevSecOps
5 31 (37.80%) Vulnerability Management
6 30 (36.59%) Application Security
6 30 (36.59%) Security Architecture
6 30 (36.59%) SIEM
7 29 (35.37%) CI/CD
8 27 (32.93%) Identity Access Management
8 27 (32.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (30.49%) Architectural Patterns
10 22 (26.83%) Incident Response
10 22 (26.83%) Roadmaps
11 21 (25.61%) Cryptography
11 21 (25.61%) Zero Trust
12 19 (23.17%) DevOps
12 19 (23.17%) GAP Analysis
13 16 (19.51%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 16 (19.51%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.32%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.10%) Bash
2 5 (6.10%) Python
2 5 (6.10%) Search Processing Language
3 4 (4.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 82 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 80 (97.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 79 (96.34%) CISSP
4 47 (57.32%) CISM
5 23 (28.05%) Security Cleared
6 21 (25.61%) SC Cleared
7 14 (17.07%) CEH
8 12 (14.63%) OSCP
9 11 (13.41%) Azure Certification
10 8 (9.76%) Degree
10 8 (9.76%) GCIH
11 6 (7.32%) AWS Certification
12 5 (6.10%) CCSK
12 5 (6.10%) CISA
12 5 (6.10%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (6.10%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (6.10%) CSSLP
12 5 (6.10%) GCIA
12 5 (6.10%) GSEC
13 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (54.88%) NIST
2 33 (40.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (14.63%) GDPR
4 11 (13.41%) PCI DSS
5 10 (12.20%) COBIT
6 9 (10.98%) GRC
7 8 (9.76%) NCSC
8 3 (3.66%) SOC 2
9 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
10 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (1.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (1.22%) ISO 31000
10 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (1.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.22%) KVM
2 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (30.49%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.54%) Terraform
3 2 (2.44%) Ansible
3 2 (2.44%) CASB
4 1 (1.22%) Grafana
4 1 (1.22%) Istio
4 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.22%) SELinux
4 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.98%) Splunk
3 5 (6.10%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (4.88%) Google
4 4 (4.88%) IBM
4 4 (4.88%) Okta
4 4 (4.88%) Qualys
4 4 (4.88%) Tenable
5 3 (3.66%) Databricks
5 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.22%) Adobe
7 1 (1.22%) Apple
7 1 (1.22%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.22%) Sage
7 1 (1.22%) SAP
7 1 (1.22%) Symantec
7 1 (1.22%) Zscaler