Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCSA 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 690 897 951
Rank change year-on-year +207 +54 +244
Permanent jobs citing CCSA 19 15 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.015% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.070% 0.054% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 11
10th Percentile £61,500 £51,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £88,750
90th Percentile - £77,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +45.45% -8.33% +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCSA 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%

CCSA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCSA over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCSA 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 +162 18 £80,000 +23.08%
UK excluding London +193 9 £80,000 +45.45%
London +117 7 £80,000 +14.29%
North of England +56 5 £80,000 +77.78%
Yorkshire +62 3 £80,000 +77.78%
Midlands +80 2 £80,000 +45.45%
North West - 2 £80,000 -
West Midlands +51 1 £80,000 +45.45%
South West - 1 £80,000 -
Wales - 1 £58,500 -
East Midlands - 1 £80,000 -

CCSA
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 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Visio
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 16 (84.21%) Firewall
1 16 (84.21%) WAN
2 15 (78.95%) Network Security
2 15 (78.95%) SD-WAN
3 12 (63.16%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (31.58%) LAN
4 6 (31.58%) VPN
5 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (21.05%) MPLS
6 3 (15.79%) BGP
6 3 (15.79%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (15.79%) IPsec
6 3 (15.79%) NX-OS
6 3 (15.79%) OSPF
6 3 (15.79%) VXLAN
6 3 (15.79%) WLAN
7 1 (5.26%) VoIP
7 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (5.26%) Wireless
7 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Consultant
1 11 (57.89%) Network Consultant
1 11 (57.89%) Network Security Consultant
1 11 (57.89%) Security Consultant
1 11 (57.89%) Security Technical Consultant
1 11 (57.89%) Technical Consultant
1 11 (57.89%) Technical Security Consultant
2 7 (36.84%) Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Data Centre Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Data Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Network Operations Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.26%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) Change Management
3 4 (21.05%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
4 3 (15.79%) Runbook
5 2 (10.53%) Change Control
5 2 (10.53%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (10.53%) Inventory Management
5 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
5 2 (10.53%) Low Latency
5 2 (10.53%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 2 (10.53%) Validation
6 1 (5.26%) B2B
6 1 (5.26%) ITIL
6 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (5.26%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Bash
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) CCNP
1 19 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (31.58%) CCSE
3 5 (26.32%) CCIE
3 5 (26.32%) Degree
4 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
4 4 (21.05%) CCNA
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) COBIT
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 19 (100.00%) Cisco
2 15 (78.95%) Fortinet
3 13 (68.42%) Palo Alto
4 3 (15.79%) Dynatrace
4 3 (15.79%) F5
4 3 (15.79%) Meraki
4 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
4 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
5 2 (10.53%) Arista
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft