CCSP Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 75 106
Rank change year-on-year -56 +31 +24
Contract jobs citing CCSP 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.15% 0.32% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.67% 1.33% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £433 £656 -
25th Percentile £441 £665 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £680 £600
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +13.33% +54.84%
75th Percentile £484 £715 -
90th Percentile £490 £736 -
England median daily rate £463 £680 £600
% change year-on-year -31.99% +13.33% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 447 225 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.86% 23.86% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 152 233
10th Percentile £313 £220 £313
25th Percentile £424 £308 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £574 £600
90th Percentile £700 £698 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 15
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.35 £12.53
25th Percentile £15.94 £15.75 £12.64
Median hourly rate £24.36 £18.64 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.74% +24.23% -63.08%
75th Percentile £57.44 £38.75 £18.88
90th Percentile £67.68 £41.00 £48.96
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.54% - +2.62%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCSP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

CCSP job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

CCSP
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CCSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CCSP

CCSP
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CCSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CCSP

CCSP
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSP within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
West Yorkshire -20 3 £464 -31.73% 2
CCSP
England

CCSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (100.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes