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 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 522 553
Rank change year-on-year -56 +31 +33
Contract jobs citing CCSP 85 29 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.088% 0.048%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.28% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 17 10
10th Percentile £476 £487 £391
25th Percentile £513 £550 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +13.04% -8.51%
75th Percentile £688 £773 £638
90th Percentile £760 £850 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £638 £625
% change year-on-year +3.92% +2.00% +28.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £56.00 -
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 16,695 10,238 11,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.39% 31.11% 29.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,175 6,323 7,429
10th Percentile £350 £282 £313
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,244 786 855
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.48
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -41.51% -23.21%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.00 £74.38 £77.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -44.11% -16.15%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -85 68 £663 -1.85% 49
UK excluding London -77 35 £663 +3.92% 23
London -39 31 £650 - 24
Work from Home -39 30 £550 - 24
North of England - 24 £675 - 5
Yorkshire - 20 £675 - 1
East of England -12 4 £505 - 2
South East -70 4 £713 +9.62% 8
North West - 3 - - 3
South West -45 2 £520 -28.28% 5
Midlands - 1 £450 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 2

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 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.88%) Azure
2 47 (55.29%) AWS
3 26 (30.59%) GCP
4 19 (22.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 16 (18.82%) Entra ID
6 8 (9.41%) SaaS
7 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.71%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.71%) IaaS
8 4 (4.71%) PaaS
9 3 (3.53%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.53%) Serverless
10 2 (2.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (2.35%) GitHub
10 2 (2.35%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.18%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 41 (48.24%) Network Security
2 6 (7.06%) Firewall
3 3 (3.53%) VPN
4 2 (2.35%) LAN
4 2 (2.35%) WAN
5 1 (1.18%) 4G
5 1 (1.18%) 5G
5 1 (1.18%) Calico
5 1 (1.18%) DNS
5 1 (1.18%) MPLS
5 1 (1.18%) NGFW
5 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.53%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Snyk
2 1 (1.18%) GitLab
2 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 36 (42.35%) Social Skills
2 27 (31.76%) Finance
3 9 (10.59%) Banking
3 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.24%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Police
7 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.18%) Local Government
8 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (41.18%) Architect
2 31 (36.47%) Security Architect
3 26 (30.59%) Consultant
4 15 (17.65%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 13 (15.29%) Security Consultant
6 8 (9.41%) Lead
7 7 (8.24%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (8.24%) Senior
8 6 (7.06%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 4 (4.71%) Azure Architect
11 3 (3.53%) Analyst
11 3 (3.53%) Security Officer
11 3 (3.53%) Security Specialist
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Security Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) SOC Analyst
11 3 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.53%) Technical Leader
12 2 (2.35%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) RESTful
2 3 (3.53%) SLSA
3 1 (1.18%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.18%) OAuth
3 1 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.18%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.82%) Security Posture
2 11 (12.94%) Private Cloud
3 7 (8.24%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.24%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.24%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.71%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.53%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.53%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (3.53%) Data Fabric
6 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.35%) CMDB
7 2 (2.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.35%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.35%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.18%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Windows
2 4 (4.71%) Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (63.53%) Cloud Security
1 54 (63.53%) Threat Modelling
2 37 (43.53%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (37.65%) DevSecOps
4 31 (36.47%) SIEM
4 31 (36.47%) Vulnerability Management
5 30 (35.29%) Application Security
6 29 (34.12%) CI/CD
6 29 (34.12%) Security Architecture
7 28 (32.94%) Identity Access Management
7 28 (32.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (28.24%) Architectural Patterns
9 23 (27.06%) Cryptography
9 23 (27.06%) Incident Response
10 22 (25.88%) Roadmaps
10 22 (25.88%) Zero Trust
11 19 (22.35%) DevOps
12 18 (21.18%) GAP Analysis
13 17 (20.00%) Risk Management
13 17 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.06%) Python
3 5 (5.88%) Bash
3 5 (5.88%) Search Processing Language
4 4 (4.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 85 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 83 (97.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 83 (97.65%) CISSP
3 49 (57.65%) CISM
4 26 (30.59%) Security Cleared
5 24 (28.24%) SC Cleared
6 15 (17.65%) CEH
7 13 (15.29%) OSCP
8 11 (12.94%) Azure Certification
9 9 (10.59%) Degree
9 9 (10.59%) GCIH
10 6 (7.06%) AWS Certification
10 6 (7.06%) CISA
10 6 (7.06%) CompTIA CySA+
10 6 (7.06%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (5.88%) CRISC
11 5 (5.88%) GCIA
11 5 (5.88%) GSEC
12 4 (4.71%) CSSLP
12 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (54.12%) NIST
2 35 (41.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (15.29%) GDPR
4 11 (12.94%) PCI DSS
5 10 (11.76%) COBIT
5 10 (11.76%) GRC
6 9 (10.59%) NCSC
7 3 (3.53%) SOC 2
8 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (1.18%) ISO 31000
9 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.18%) KVM
2 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (30.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) CASB
5 1 (1.18%) Grafana
5 1 (1.18%) Istio
5 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Splunk
3 5 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (4.71%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) IBM
4 4 (4.71%) Okta
4 4 (4.71%) Qualys
4 4 (4.71%) Tenable
5 3 (3.53%) Databricks
5 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.35%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.18%) Adobe
7 1 (1.18%) Apple
7 1 (1.18%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.18%) Sage
7 1 (1.18%) SAP
7 1 (1.18%) Symantec
7 1 (1.18%) Zscaler