Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 683 669 882
Rank change year-on-year -14 +213 +140
Permanent jobs citing CCSP 51 136 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% 0.61% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 43 109 97
10th Percentile £55,500 £52,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £70,673 £56,809 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -4.11%
75th Percentile £88,750 £84,919 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,246 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% +25.00% -4.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 26,801 22,458 33,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 44.72% 29.16% 30.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9,982 14,882 15,608
10th Percentile £35,750 £28,500 £31,277
25th Percentile £45,628 £39,085 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £50,672
% change year-on-year +9.59% -1.33% +1.34%

CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCSP over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for CCSP in the UK

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 CCSP within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 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 -12 44 £80,000 +10.34% 9
London +5 26 £87,500 +20.69% 6
Work from Home +30 20 £81,250 +8.33% 19
UK excluding London +28 19 £72,246 -3.67% 3
East of England +8 6 £73,750 -1.67%
South West +61 5 £65,000 +18.18% 1
North of England +9 4 £75,996 -4.82% 1
Yorkshire +33 3 £80,000 +14.41% 1
Midlands +6 2 £45,750 -42.70% 1
Scotland +49 1 £50,890 +1.80%
South East +25 1 £115,000 +100.00%
West Midlands +1 1 £34,000 -57.42% 1
North West -9 1 £55,000 -31.11%
East Midlands - 1 £57,500 -

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 1 (1.96%) Confluence
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.98%) Azure
2 18 (35.29%) AWS
3 8 (15.69%) Entra ID
3 8 (15.69%) GCP
4 6 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (9.80%) Azure AKS
6 3 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.96%) IaaS
8 1 (1.96%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.96%) SaaS
8 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.96%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 21 (41.18%) Network Security
2 14 (27.45%) Firewall
3 8 (15.69%) VPN
4 7 (13.73%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.84%) LAN
7 1 (1.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.96%) HBase
1 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Snyk
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Subversion
General
1 24 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (29.41%) Finance
3 12 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Banking
7 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Architect
2 13 (25.49%) Security Architect
3 11 (21.57%) Security Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Senior
5 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 6 (11.76%) Security Specialist
6 5 (9.80%) Analyst
6 5 (9.80%) Consultant
6 5 (9.80%) Security Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Security Consultant
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Security Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Security Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.96%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 15 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 11 (21.57%) Security Posture
3 6 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 6 (11.76%) PKI
4 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
5 4 (7.84%) Cyberattack
6 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.92%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.96%) IoT
8 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (27.45%) Windows
2 13 (25.49%) Linux
3 5 (9.80%) VMS
4 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (45.10%) Cloud Security
3 22 (43.14%) Information Security
4 19 (37.25%) Incident Response
5 18 (35.29%) Security Architecture
6 17 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
7 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (29.41%) Application Security
9 14 (27.45%) Vulnerability Management
10 12 (23.53%) Roadmaps
11 11 (21.57%) Threat Modelling
12 10 (19.61%) Project Management
12 10 (19.61%) Risk Management
13 9 (17.65%) Computer Science
13 9 (17.65%) Data Protection
13 9 (17.65%) TOGAF
13 9 (17.65%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (15.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 7 (13.73%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.49%) Python
2 11 (21.57%) Bash
2 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.96%) Bicep
3 1 (1.96%) C#
3 1 (1.96%) C++
3 1 (1.96%) Java
3 1 (1.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (84.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 42 (82.35%) CISSP
4 25 (49.02%) Degree
5 18 (35.29%) CISM
6 11 (21.57%) AWS Certification
6 11 (21.57%) SC Cleared
6 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
7 9 (17.65%) CEH
8 8 (15.69%) Azure Certification
9 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (13.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (11.76%) CISA
10 6 (11.76%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (9.80%) CRISC
11 5 (9.80%) OSCP
12 4 (7.84%) GCIH
12 4 (7.84%) ISACA
12 4 (7.84%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (41.18%) NIST
2 15 (29.41%) GDPR
3 14 (27.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (19.61%) PCI DSS
5 6 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (9.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (7.84%) COBIT
7 4 (7.84%) IASME
7 4 (7.84%) QA
8 2 (3.92%) GRC
9 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.96%) NCSC
9 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (21.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.92%) Docker
3 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.96%) HDFS
4 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) CASB
2 7 (13.73%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (13.73%) Terraform
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (9.80%) Istio
4 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.80%) linkerd
5 4 (7.84%) CSIRT
6 1 (1.96%) Nessus
Vendors
1 18 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco
3 2 (3.92%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (3.92%) Netskope
3 2 (3.92%) VMware
3 2 (3.92%) Zscaler
4 1 (1.96%) Blue Coat
4 1 (1.96%) Capita
4 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.96%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.96%) Dell
4 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.96%) Okta
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.96%) Sybase
4 1 (1.96%) Symantec