CCSP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 338 449
Rank change year-on-year +40 +111 +161
Contract jobs citing CCSP 6 7 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.17% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 21
10th Percentile £534 £381 £600
25th Percentile £540 £488 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -20.00% +18.81%
75th Percentile - £684 £800
90th Percentile - £731 £813
UK median daily rate £750 £550 £725
% change year-on-year +36.36% -24.14% +14.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 - £80.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

CCSP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CCSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CCSP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CCSP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CCSP.

CCSP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CCSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) SMTP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) French Language
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Operational Security Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Operations Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Information Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Due Diligence
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (83.33%) CISSP
3 3 (50.00%) GCIH
4 2 (33.33%) CCNA
4 2 (33.33%) CEH
4 2 (33.33%) CISM
4 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (33.33%) OSCP
4 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (16.67%) CCNP
5 1 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (16.67%) CRISC
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CSIRT
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (16.67%) Darktrace
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Rapid7
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk