CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CASP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 705 888 943
Rank change year-on-year +183 +55 +258
Permanent jobs citing CASP 4 24 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.023% 0.020%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.086% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile £52,850 £49,750 £56,500
25th Percentile £54,125 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -13.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile - - £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CASP 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 27,102 27,804 32,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.91% 26.92% 33.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,972 17,251 14,583
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,546 £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%

CASP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CASP in the UK

CASP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CASP.

Salary trend for CASP in the UK

CASP
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CASP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 +138 4 £57,500 -11.54% 1
UK excluding London +181 3 £57,500 - 2
Work from Home +104 3 £57,500 -19.30% 19
Midlands - 2 £57,500 -
West Midlands - 2 £57,500 -
London +107 1 - -
East of England +36 1 £52,000 -

CASP
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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) NGFW
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) VoIP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Aviation
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISM
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CISMP
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (25.00%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (25.00%) PMP
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) McAfee
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) VMware