CCSP Contracts

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 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 560 614
Rank change year-on-year +27 +54 +219
Contract jobs citing CCSP 22 20 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.049% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.16% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 51
10th Percentile £538 £405 -
25th Percentile £550 £497 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £630
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.70% +0.80%
75th Percentile £750 £613 £750
90th Percentile £850 £706 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £486
% change year-on-year -8.33% +23.46% -20.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £81.63 - -
90th Percentile £92.65 - -
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 10,117 12,301 14,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.92% 29.95% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,249 7,751 9,802
10th Percentile £277 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +2.71%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £701 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 744 970 724
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.24 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.38 £20.75 £25.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -25.00% +27.63%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.34 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% -21.82% +37.36%

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 23 July 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCSP over the 6 months to 23 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Top 8 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 23 July 2025. 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 +50 19 £675 +22.73% 22
London +29 15 £700 +27.27% 11
Work from Home +29 10 £550 - 13
UK excluding London +19 5 £550 -8.33% 13
South East +29 2 £550 -8.33% 7
South West +34 1 £725 - 4
Scotland - 1 £535 -
East of England - 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) AWS
3 9 (40.91%) GCP
4 5 (22.73%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (13.64%) IaaS
5 3 (13.64%) PaaS
6 2 (9.09%) SaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
7 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (59.09%) Network Security
2 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
3 4 (18.18%) DNS
4 3 (13.64%) HTTP
4 3 (13.64%) SMTP
5 2 (9.09%) Firewall
6 1 (4.55%) BGP
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (4.55%) LAN
6 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
6 1 (4.55%) VPN
6 1 (4.55%) WAN
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Financial Institution
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) French Language
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Architect
1 6 (27.27%) Security Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Security Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) IT Security Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Security Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Operational Security Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Operations Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Security Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Security Operations Manager
5 2 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.55%) OpenID
1 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 6 (27.27%) Management Information System
3 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 2 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (9.09%) PKI
5 1 (4.55%) BYOD
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (54.55%) SIEM
2 12 (54.55%) Vulnerability Management
3 11 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 9 (40.91%) Cloud Security
4 9 (40.91%) Data Loss Prevention
5 8 (36.36%) Penetration Testing
5 8 (36.36%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 7 (31.82%) SOAR
6 7 (31.82%) Threat Modelling
6 7 (31.82%) TOGAF
7 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 6 (27.27%) DevSecOps
7 6 (27.27%) Due Diligence
7 6 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (27.27%) Incident Response
7 6 (27.27%) Information Security
7 6 (27.27%) Privileged Access Management
7 6 (27.27%) Security Architecture
8 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
1 3 (13.64%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (90.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 17 (77.27%) CISSP
4 10 (45.45%) GCIH
5 7 (31.82%) CISM
6 6 (27.27%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (27.27%) Degree
7 5 (22.73%) CCNA
7 5 (22.73%) CEH
7 5 (22.73%) OSCP
8 4 (18.18%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (9.09%) CASP
9 2 (9.09%) CREST Certified
9 2 (9.09%) CRISC
9 2 (9.09%) CSSLP
9 2 (9.09%) GCIA
9 2 (9.09%) GIAC
9 2 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (4.55%) CISMP
10 1 (4.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (68.18%) NIST
2 13 (59.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (27.27%) SLA
4 4 (18.18%) GDPR
5 2 (9.09%) GRC
5 2 (9.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (9.09%) NCSC
5 2 (9.09%) NIST 800
5 2 (9.09%) SOC 2
6 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
6 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.64%) CSIRT
3 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) SELinux
4 1 (4.55%) Istio
4 1 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (4.55%) linkerd
4 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (18.18%) Google
3 4 (18.18%) Zscaler
4 2 (9.09%) Darktrace
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Okta
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.55%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) Tanium