Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCSK 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 696 851 945
Rank change year-on-year +155 +94 +245
Permanent jobs citing CCSK 13 61 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.059% 0.017%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.048% 0.22% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 7 51 12
10th Percentile £39,750 £40,250 £64,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £56,809 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £79,842 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -14.84% +13.64%
75th Percentile £107,500 £84,919 £111,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £85,000 £125,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £79,842 £70,750
% change year-on-year -40.51% +12.85% -14.24%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCSK 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%

CCSK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSK in the UK

CCSK
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CCSK in the UK

CCSK
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for CCSK in the UK

CCSK
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCSK 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 +111 13 £82,500 +3.33%
London +109 10 £102,500 +28.38%
UK excluding London +153 3 £47,500 -40.51% 2
South West +102 3 £47,500 +9.20%
Work from Home +82 2 £68,750 -13.89% 2

CCSK
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 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) Azure
3 8 (61.54%) GCP
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (15.38%) IaaS
5 2 (15.38%) PaaS
5 2 (15.38%) SaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Akamai
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 4 (30.77%) Law
5 3 (23.08%) Legal
5 3 (23.08%) Marketing
6 2 (15.38%) Banking
7 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 6 (46.15%) Senior Manager
3 5 (38.46%) Security Engineer
4 4 (30.77%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
5 3 (23.08%) Data Manager
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection Engineer
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection Manager
5 3 (23.08%) Internal Audit Manager
5 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
5 3 (23.08%) IT Security Engineer
5 3 (23.08%) IT Security Manager
5 3 (23.08%) Risk Manager
5 3 (23.08%) Security Analyst
5 3 (23.08%) Security Manager
5 3 (23.08%) Senior Audit Manager
5 3 (23.08%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (23.08%) Senior IT Engineer
5 3 (23.08%) Senior Risk Manager
5 3 (23.08%) Technology Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Security Posture
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (23.08%) PKI
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Team
3 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 2 (15.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) IoT
4 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
4 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Cloud Security
2 9 (69.23%) Information Security
3 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) Data Protection
4 6 (46.15%) DevSecOps
4 6 (46.15%) Risk Management
5 5 (38.46%) Internal Audit
6 4 (30.77%) SABSA
6 4 (30.77%) Security Architecture
7 3 (23.08%) Business Development
7 3 (23.08%) Change Management
7 3 (23.08%) Data Security
7 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (23.08%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (23.08%) ISMS
7 3 (23.08%) ITIL
7 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 3 (23.08%) Release Management
7 3 (23.08%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (69.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 9 (69.23%) CCSP
3 8 (61.54%) CISSP
4 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
4 5 (38.46%) CISA
5 4 (30.77%) Degree
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (15.38%) CCNA
6 2 (15.38%) CCNP
6 2 (15.38%) FFIEC
6 2 (15.38%) GCED
6 2 (15.38%) GCIA
6 2 (15.38%) GCIH
6 2 (15.38%) GIAC
6 2 (15.38%) GREM
6 2 (15.38%) GSEC
6 2 (15.38%) SANS
7 1 (7.69%) ACSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) NIST
2 5 (38.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (7.69%) COBIT
5 1 (7.69%) GDPR
5 1 (7.69%) GRC
5 1 (7.69%) NCSC
5 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) CASB
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) Zscaler
3 3 (23.08%) Symantec
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
5 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
5 1 (7.69%) Netskope
5 1 (7.69%) Okta