(ISC)2 CCSP Jobs

(ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (ISC2 CCSP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for (ISC)2 CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 751 709
Rank change year-on-year +114 -42 +296
Permanent jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP 65 156 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.24% 0.56% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 30 128 203
10th Percentile £54,700 £55,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £67,212 £61,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,842 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +18.28% -15.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,875 £100,000 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £66,853 £64,750
% change year-on-year +0.97% +3.25% -4.78%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

(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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,184 27,860 32,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.68% 26.87% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,043 17,264 14,482
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,364 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

(ISC)2 CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing (ISC)2 CCSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP.

Salary trend for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +79 48 £75,000 -6.06% 57
UK excluding London +139 29 £67,500 +0.97% 25
London +63 28 £87,500 +9.38% 36
North of England +10 12 £75,000 -6.06% 11
North West -8 11 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Work from Home +58 7 £71,991 -4.01% 50
Northern Ireland - 6 - -
Scotland +122 4 - - 4
South East +62 3 £62,500 +8.70% 3
South West +108 2 £51,058 +2.12% 3
Midlands +62 1 £67,500 -15.46% 2
West Midlands +53 1 £67,500 -15.46% 1
Yorkshire +44 1 £71,991 -9.83% 4
East of England - 1 £52,000 - 4

(ISC)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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.62%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) Azure
2 21 (32.31%) AWS
3 16 (24.62%) GCP
4 6 (9.23%) SaaS
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.15%) IaaS
5 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (4.62%) GitHub
6 3 (4.62%) Miro
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.08%) PaaS
7 2 (3.08%) Serverless
7 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (29.23%) Firewall
2 14 (21.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 10 (15.38%) Network Security
4 3 (4.62%) VPN
5 1 (1.54%) LAN
5 1 (1.54%) NGFW
5 1 (1.54%) SAN
5 1 (1.54%) VoIP
5 1 (1.54%) WAN
5 1 (1.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.54%) HBase
1 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) JIRA
2 1 (1.54%) Subversion
General
1 45 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 32 (49.23%) Finance
3 20 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (26.15%) Legal
5 8 (12.31%) Banking
6 7 (10.77%) Law
6 7 (10.77%) Retail
7 5 (7.69%) Local Government
8 3 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.62%) Marketing
9 2 (3.08%) Aviation
10 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.54%) Military
10 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Architect
2 18 (27.69%) Risk Manager
2 18 (27.69%) Security Architect
3 14 (21.54%) Operations Manager
4 13 (20.00%) Senior
5 11 (16.92%) Security Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Security Manager
6 6 (9.23%) Senior Manager
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Consultant
8 4 (6.15%) IT Architect
8 4 (6.15%) IT Director
8 4 (6.15%) IT Security Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Technology Risk Manager
9 3 (4.62%) IT Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Senior IT Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.62%) RESTful
2 2 (3.08%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.54%) .NET
3 1 (1.54%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.54%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (52.31%) Security Posture
2 22 (33.85%) Management Information System
3 14 (21.54%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (20.00%) Social Media
4 13 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 8 (12.31%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
7 3 (4.62%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (4.62%) Machine to Machine
7 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
7 3 (4.62%) PKI
7 3 (4.62%) Virtual Team
8 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
8 2 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.62%) Windows
2 13 (20.00%) Windows Vista
3 3 (4.62%) Linux
4 2 (3.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (69.23%) Information Security
2 38 (58.46%) Risk Management
3 35 (53.85%) Cloud Security
4 31 (47.69%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (41.54%) Project Management
7 23 (35.38%) DevSecOps
8 21 (32.31%) Agile
8 21 (32.31%) Incident Response
9 20 (30.77%) Computer Science
9 20 (30.77%) Data Protection
10 19 (29.23%) Security Architecture
11 18 (27.69%) SIEM
12 17 (26.15%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (24.62%) Risk Assessment
13 16 (24.62%) Vulnerability Management
14 15 (23.08%) CI/CD
14 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (21.54%) Collaborative Culture
15 14 (21.54%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.31%) Python
2 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.23%) R
3 3 (4.62%) Bash
4 2 (3.08%) Bicep
4 2 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.54%) C#
5 1 (1.54%) C++
5 1 (1.54%) Java
5 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (98.46%) Cisco Certification
2 59 (90.77%) CISSP
3 34 (52.31%) CISA
4 33 (50.77%) Degree
5 30 (46.15%) CCSP
5 30 (46.15%) CISM
6 18 (27.69%) Master's Degree
7 16 (24.62%) CompTIA Security+
8 15 (23.08%) CEH
9 14 (21.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (21.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 13 (20.00%) DBS Check
11 10 (15.38%) AWS Certification
12 9 (13.85%) CCSK
13 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
14 3 (4.62%) FFIEC
14 3 (4.62%) GIAC
14 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
15 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (3.08%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (64.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (52.31%) NIST
3 20 (30.77%) GDPR
4 17 (26.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (9.23%) QA
6 5 (7.69%) PCI DSS
7 3 (4.62%) GRC
7 3 (4.62%) SOC 2
8 2 (3.08%) COBIT
8 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.54%) HDFS
3 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Terraform
2 6 (9.23%) CASB
3 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.62%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.62%) Puppet
5 2 (3.08%) Istio
5 2 (3.08%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.46%) Google
3 4 (6.15%) VMware
4 3 (4.62%) Alibaba
4 3 (4.62%) Cisco
4 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.62%) Symantec
4 3 (4.62%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.54%) Aruba
5 1 (1.54%) Dell
5 1 (1.54%) EMC
5 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) Sybase