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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 736 821
Rank change year-on-year +81 +85 +266
Permanent jobs citing CCSP 37 160 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.58% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 23 130 125
10th Percentile £49,350 £52,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £63,125 £56,390 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £79,842 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +18.28% +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £84,919 £81,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £95,250 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £66,853 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.73% +57.30% -30.33%

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 25,404 27,420 33,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.81% 27.84% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11,182 17,336 15,221
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CCSP in the UK

CCSP
Top 13 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 1 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 +67 34 £87,500 +12.90% 39
London +64 28 £90,000 +16.13% 17
UK excluding London +145 8 £55,000 -17.73% 25
Work from Home +126 8 £87,500 +16.67% 26
East of England +58 2 £61,000 -18.67% 13
North of England +53 2 £63,496 -20.47% 2
Scotland +127 1 £50,890 +1.80%
South East +91 1 £62,500 +8.70% 9
Midlands +79 1 £34,000 -57.42% 1
Yorkshire +64 1 £71,991 -9.83%
West Midlands +47 1 £34,000 -57.42% 1
North West +18 1 £55,000 -31.11% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 4 (10.81%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) Azure
2 20 (54.05%) AWS
3 16 (43.24%) GCP
4 6 (16.22%) Entra ID
5 5 (13.51%) Azure AKS
5 5 (13.51%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (13.51%) SaaS
6 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (8.11%) GitHub
7 3 (8.11%) Miro
8 2 (5.41%) IaaS
8 2 (5.41%) PaaS
9 1 (2.70%) Akamai
9 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) Network Security
2 8 (21.62%) Firewall
3 3 (8.11%) VPN
4 1 (2.70%) LAN
4 1 (2.70%) NGFW
4 1 (2.70%) SAN
4 1 (2.70%) VoIP
4 1 (2.70%) WAN
4 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.70%) HBase
1 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 15 (40.54%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Law
4 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Legal
5 3 (8.11%) Marketing
6 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Aviation
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Security Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Security Manager
2 7 (18.92%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Manager
4 5 (13.51%) Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Security Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Security Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) IT Architect
5 4 (10.81%) IT Security Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Risk Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Technical Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Technology Risk Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (8.11%) RESTful
3 1 (2.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 17 (45.95%) Security Posture
2 12 (32.43%) Management Information System
3 6 (16.22%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.11%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (8.11%) Machine to Machine
4 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.11%) PKI
4 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Windows
2 6 (16.22%) Linux
3 5 (13.51%) VMS
4 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Cloud Security
2 17 (45.95%) Information Security
3 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
3 14 (37.84%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (35.14%) Agile
5 11 (29.73%) DevSecOps
5 11 (29.73%) Identity Access Management
5 11 (29.73%) Vulnerability Management
6 10 (27.03%) Incident Response
6 10 (27.03%) Security Architecture
7 9 (24.32%) Data Protection
8 8 (21.62%) ITIL
8 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (18.92%) Change Management
9 7 (18.92%) Data Loss Prevention
9 7 (18.92%) Data Security
9 7 (18.92%) Project Management
9 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
10 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (16.22%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Python
2 13 (35.14%) PowerShell
3 10 (27.03%) Bash
4 6 (16.22%) R
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (81.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 27 (72.97%) CISSP
4 18 (48.65%) Degree
5 11 (29.73%) CISM
6 10 (27.03%) CCSK
7 9 (24.32%) AWS Certification
8 7 (18.92%) CISA
9 6 (16.22%) CEH
9 6 (16.22%) GCIH
10 5 (13.51%) OSCP
11 3 (8.11%) CCNA
11 3 (8.11%) CCNP
11 3 (8.11%) FFIEC
12 2 (5.41%) GCIA
12 2 (5.41%) GIAC
12 2 (5.41%) GREM
12 2 (5.41%) GSEC
12 2 (5.41%) SANS
12 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (51.35%) NIST
2 13 (35.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (29.73%) GDPR
4 8 (21.62%) PCI DSS
5 5 (13.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (10.81%) GRC
7 3 (8.11%) COBIT
7 3 (8.11%) SOC 2
8 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
9 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.70%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) HDFS
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) CASB
2 9 (24.32%) Terraform
3 5 (13.51%) Istio
3 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.51%) linkerd
4 4 (10.81%) CSIRT
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (8.11%) Progress Chef
5 3 (8.11%) Puppet
6 1 (2.70%) Nessus
6 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Google
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) VMware
2 4 (10.81%) Zscaler
3 3 (8.11%) Alibaba
3 3 (8.11%) Cisco
3 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.11%) Symantec
4 1 (2.70%) Aruba
4 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.70%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.70%) Dell
4 1 (2.70%) EMC
4 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.70%) Netskope
4 1 (2.70%) Okta
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) Sybase
4 1 (2.70%) Tenable