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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 538 566
Rank change year-on-year -43 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing CCSP 91 25 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.077% 0.041%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.54% 0.25% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 16 8
10th Percentile £484 £486 £374
25th Percentile £514 £650 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £738 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.34% +28.26% -8.29%
75th Percentile £688 £778 £666
90th Percentile £721 £850 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £750 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
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 16,812 10,171 11,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.37% 31.27% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,258 6,292 7,204
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £623 £638
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,264 819 732
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.98 £15.11
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £48.77 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.90% -47.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £87.00 £71.66 £76.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +89.03% -49.70% -

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 September 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 11 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 September 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 -61 74 £600 -17.24% 106
UK excluding London -66 47 £600 -20.00% 44
North of England - 34 £663 - 14
Work from Home -36 33 £550 -15.38% 55
London -60 26 £600 -7.69% 74
Yorkshire - 24 £675 - 3
North West - 9 £600 - 10
South East -67 6 £550 -26.67% 8
East of England -20 4 £505 - 2
South West -40 2 £520 -28.28% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.10%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 59 (64.84%) Azure
2 54 (59.34%) AWS
3 28 (30.77%) GCP
4 13 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 13 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 10 (10.99%) SaaS
6 6 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (4.40%) IaaS
7 4 (4.40%) PaaS
8 3 (3.30%) Azure AI
8 3 (3.30%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.30%) Serverless
9 2 (2.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.20%) GitHub
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.20%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 47 (51.65%) Network Security
2 9 (9.89%) Firewall
3 3 (3.30%) VPN
4 2 (2.20%) LAN
4 2 (2.20%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (2.20%) WAN
5 1 (1.10%) 4G
5 1 (1.10%) 5G
5 1 (1.10%) Calico
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.10%) DNS
5 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.10%) MPLS
5 1 (1.10%) NGFW
5 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.10%) GitLab
1 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.10%) JIRA
1 1 (1.10%) Snyk
General
1 42 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 31 (34.07%) Finance
3 13 (14.29%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Police
7 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Local Government
9 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (37.36%) Architect
2 29 (31.87%) Consultant
2 29 (31.87%) Security Architect
3 18 (19.78%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 14 (15.38%) Security Consultant
5 9 (9.89%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (9.89%) Lead
5 9 (9.89%) Security Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Senior
7 6 (6.59%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 4 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Information Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Information Security Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Security Officer
9 3 (3.30%) SOC Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) Terraform
2 8 (8.79%) RESTful
3 5 (5.49%) SLSA
4 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.10%) OAuth
4 1 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.10%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.10%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Security Posture
2 10 (10.99%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.99%) Management Information System
2 10 (10.99%) Private Cloud
3 8 (8.79%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.59%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.40%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.30%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.30%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.30%) Data Fabric
6 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Linux
1 5 (5.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Android
2 1 (1.10%) Unix
2 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.93%) Cloud Security
2 56 (61.54%) Threat Modelling
3 45 (49.45%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (37.36%) DevSecOps
6 33 (36.26%) Security Architecture
6 33 (36.26%) Vulnerability Management
7 29 (31.87%) CI/CD
8 28 (30.77%) Application Security
8 28 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
9 27 (29.67%) SIEM
10 26 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
10 26 (28.57%) Zero Trust
11 25 (27.47%) Cryptography
11 25 (27.47%) Roadmaps
12 24 (26.37%) Incident Response
13 22 (24.18%) SABSA
14 21 (23.08%) GAP Analysis
14 21 (23.08%) Risk Management
15 20 (21.98%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.79%) Python
2 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.59%) Bash
4 5 (5.49%) Bicep
4 5 (5.49%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 91 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 90 (98.90%) CISSP
3 89 (97.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 52 (57.14%) CISM
5 24 (26.37%) Security Cleared
6 23 (25.27%) SC Cleared
7 13 (14.29%) Azure Certification
7 13 (14.29%) CEH
8 12 (13.19%) AWS Certification
8 12 (13.19%) OSCP
9 10 (10.99%) GCIH
10 8 (8.79%) Degree
11 7 (7.69%) CCSK
11 7 (7.69%) CISA
11 7 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (7.69%) CRISC
11 7 (7.69%) GCIA
12 6 (6.59%) CompTIA CySA+
12 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (5.49%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (51.65%) NIST
2 39 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (16.48%) GDPR
3 15 (16.48%) PCI DSS
4 10 (10.99%) GRC
4 10 (10.99%) NCSC
5 9 (9.89%) COBIT
6 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.20%) ISO 31000
6 2 (2.20%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.10%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (1.10%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) Docker
3 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.10%) ISA Server
3 1 (1.10%) KVM
3 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (27.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.40%) Ansible
3 3 (3.30%) CASB
4 1 (1.10%) Grafana
4 1 (1.10%) Istio
4 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.79%) Splunk
3 6 (6.59%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (5.49%) Cisco
4 5 (5.49%) Google
5 4 (4.40%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.30%) AlgoSec
6 3 (3.30%) Databricks
6 3 (3.30%) IBM
7 2 (2.20%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.20%) Qualys
7 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.10%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.10%) Centrify
8 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.10%) Netlify
8 1 (1.10%) Okta
8 1 (1.10%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.10%) Tenable
8 1 (1.10%) Zscaler