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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 666 762 811
Rank change year-on-year +96 +49 +327
Permanent jobs citing CCSP 36 145 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.52% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 18 121 119
10th Percentile £51,006 £52,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,809 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £79,842 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% +18.28% +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,375 £100,000 £91,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £61,206 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +9.30% -8.20%

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 27,184 27,860 32,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.68% 26.87% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,043 17,264 14,482
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,364 £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%

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 31 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 31 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 +78 34 £87,500 +9.59% 20
London +69 28 £90,000 +12.72% 7
UK excluding London +123 8 £62,500 +2.11% 15
Work from Home +59 5 £87,500 +9.59% 32
South East +62 2 £62,500 +8.70% 3
North of England +6 2 £63,496 -20.47% 2
Scotland +117 1 £50,890 +1.80% 2
Midlands +62 1 £67,500 -15.46%
West Midlands +53 1 £67,500 -15.46%
Yorkshire +44 1 £71,991 -9.83%
North West -12 1 £55,000 -31.11% 1
East of England - 1 £52,000 - 9
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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) AWS
3 14 (38.89%) GCP
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (13.89%) SaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub
6 3 (8.33%) Miro
7 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.56%) IaaS
7 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.56%) PaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Akamai
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) Network Security
2 8 (22.22%) Firewall
3 3 (8.33%) VPN
4 1 (2.78%) LAN
4 1 (2.78%) NGFW
4 1 (2.78%) SAN
4 1 (2.78%) VoIP
4 1 (2.78%) WAN
4 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.78%) HBase
1 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 20 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 17 (47.22%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (22.22%) Banking
5 7 (19.44%) Law
6 5 (13.89%) Local Government
6 5 (13.89%) Retail
7 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (8.33%) Legal
7 3 (8.33%) Marketing
8 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.78%) Aviation
9 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Senior
2 8 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Architect
4 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Security Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) IT Architect
5 4 (11.11%) IT Security Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Risk Manager
5 4 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Technology Risk Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Audit Manager
6 3 (8.33%) IT Director
6 3 (8.33%) IT Security Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) IT Security Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Senior IT Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) RESTful
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.78%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (52.78%) Security Posture
2 9 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (8.33%) Machine to Machine
4 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.33%) PKI
4 3 (8.33%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.78%) IoT
6 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 5 (13.89%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) VMS
4 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (50.00%) Agile
3 17 (47.22%) Information Security
4 15 (41.67%) Cloud Security
5 13 (36.11%) Project Management
6 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
6 11 (30.56%) Mentoring
7 9 (25.00%) Risk Management
8 8 (22.22%) Business Development
8 8 (22.22%) Data Protection
8 8 (22.22%) DevSecOps
8 8 (22.22%) ITIL
9 7 (19.44%) Change Management
9 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (19.44%) Time Management
9 7 (19.44%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (16.67%) Computer Science
10 6 (16.67%) Data Security
10 6 (16.67%) SDLC
10 6 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (16.67%) Bash
3 6 (16.67%) R
4 2 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.78%) Bicep
5 1 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) C++
5 1 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (83.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 28 (77.78%) CISSP
4 23 (63.89%) Degree
5 14 (38.89%) CISM
6 9 (25.00%) CCSK
7 6 (16.67%) AWS Certification
7 6 (16.67%) CISA
8 5 (13.89%) CEH
8 5 (13.89%) GCIH
8 5 (13.89%) Master's Degree
9 4 (11.11%) OSCP
10 3 (8.33%) CCNA
10 3 (8.33%) CCNP
10 3 (8.33%) FFIEC
11 2 (5.56%) GCED
11 2 (5.56%) GCIA
11 2 (5.56%) GIAC
11 2 (5.56%) GSEC
11 2 (5.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (55.56%) NIST
2 15 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (13.89%) GDPR
3 5 (13.89%) QA
4 4 (11.11%) PCI DSS
5 3 (8.33%) COBIT
5 3 (8.33%) GRC
5 3 (8.33%) SOC 2
6 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
7 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (2.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) HDFS
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) CASB
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) CSIRT
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 3 (8.33%) Puppet
4 2 (5.56%) Istio
4 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.56%) linkerd
5 1 (2.78%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Google
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) VMware
2 4 (11.11%) Zscaler
3 3 (8.33%) Alibaba
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco
3 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.33%) Symantec
4 1 (2.78%) Aruba
4 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.78%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.78%) Dell
4 1 (2.78%) EMC
4 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.78%) Netskope
4 1 (2.78%) Okta
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Sybase
4 1 (2.78%) Tenable