(ISC)2 CCSP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

(ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (ISC2 CCSP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for (ISC)2 CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 92 113
Rank change year-on-year -56 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.15% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 0.48% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -40.32% +3.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £500 £788 -
90th Percentile £523 - -
England median daily rate £525 £665 £700
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

(ISC)2 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 994 414 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.35% 31.22% 32.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 724 274 387
10th Percentile £325 £160 £263
25th Percentile £412 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £563 £618 £575
90th Percentile £650 £704 £652
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 17 45
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.50 £22.33
Median hourly rate £21.46 £23.60 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.07% -17.19% +42.50%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £65.25 £39.14 £67.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £51.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year -46.60% +29.01% -20.16%

(ISC)2 CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing (ISC)2 CCSP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

(ISC)2 CCSP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

(ISC)2 CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing (ISC)2 CCSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing (ISC)2 CCSP

(ISC)2 CCSP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Coventry - 5 £463 -
Solihull - 1 - -
(ISC)2 CCSP
England

(ISC)2 CCSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) BGP
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) IPv4
1 4 (57.14%) IPv6
1 4 (57.14%) LAN
1 4 (57.14%) MPLS
1 4 (57.14%) OSPF
1 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
1 4 (57.14%) VPN
1 4 (57.14%) VXLAN
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
1 4 (57.14%) WLAN
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) EIGRP
2 3 (42.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (42.86%) VLAN
2 3 (42.86%) Wireless
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 5 (71.43%) Network Architect
3 4 (57.14%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Management Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (85.71%) Security Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) Zero Trust
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) Network Architecture
3 4 (57.14%) Network Design
3 4 (57.14%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
4 3 (42.86%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
4 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
4 3 (42.86%) Network Management
4 3 (42.86%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (100.00%) CISSP
2 5 (71.43%) AWS Certification
2 5 (71.43%) CCSP
3 4 (57.14%) CCIE
3 4 (57.14%) CCNP
4 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
4 3 (42.86%) CCIE Security
4 3 (42.86%) Degree
5 2 (28.57%) JNCIE
5 2 (28.57%) JNCIP
5 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 1 (14.29%) CISM
6 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) GDPR
1 6 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (85.71%) NIST
2 4 (57.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (14.29%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (42.86%) VMware NSX
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) F5
1 4 (57.14%) Fortinet
1 4 (57.14%) Meraki
1 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
2 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Forcepoint
3 2 (28.57%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Okta
4 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow