(ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (ISC2 CCSP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for (ISC)2 CCSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 721 933
Rank change year-on-year -14 +212 -126
Permanent jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP 170 275 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.62% 0.81% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 137 212 173
10th Percentile £54,450 £31,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -15.63% +33.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £61,250 £64,750
% change year-on-year +22.45% -5.41% -10.07%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

(ISC)2 CCSP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,433 33,803 42,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.82% 32.57% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17,326 15,201 19,033
10th Percentile £28,290 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

(ISC)2 CCSP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing (ISC)2 CCSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP.

Salary trend for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 CCSP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing (ISC)2 CCSP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for (ISC)2 CCSP in the UK

(ISC)2 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 (ISC)2 CCSP within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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 +6 154 £77,500 +19.23% 16
London +83 80 £79,842 +14.06% 9
Work from Home +63 78 £75,000 - 8
UK excluding London -28 77 £75,000 +22.45% 8
North of England +63 40 £79,842 +22.83% 1
North West +1 21 £65,000 - 1
South East -23 20 £57,500 +76.92% 4
Yorkshire - 13 £79,842 -
South West -38 8 £55,000 -18.52% 1
North East +1 6 £79,842 -19.35%
West Midlands +15 4 £79,842 +30.35%
Midlands +12 4 £79,842 +30.35%
Scotland -65 4 £80,000 +23.31% 1
East of England +12 1 £75,000 +25.00% 2

(ISC)2 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 102 (60.00%) Azure
2 88 (51.76%) AWS
3 45 (26.47%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 15 (8.82%) Azure Sentinel
5 15 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.24%) GCP
7 10 (5.88%) PaaS
8 8 (4.71%) IaaS
8 8 (4.71%) SaaS
9 2 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.59%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.59%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 55 (32.35%) Firewall
2 47 (27.65%) WAN
3 33 (19.41%) SD-WAN
4 25 (14.71%) Network Security
5 22 (12.94%) TCP/IP
6 19 (11.18%) LAN
7 16 (9.41%) Intrusion Detection
8 14 (8.24%) Wireshark
9 7 (4.12%) VPN
10 6 (3.53%) Internet
11 1 (0.59%) Wireless
11 1 (0.59%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Snyk
1 1 (0.59%) Vagrant
General
1 64 (37.65%) Finance
2 27 (15.88%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.65%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (6.47%) Law
6 8 (4.71%) Retail
7 7 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.12%) Legal
8 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.59%) Automotive
11 1 (0.59%) Local Government
11 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.59%) Marketing
11 1 (0.59%) Military
11 1 (0.59%) Police
11 1 (0.59%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 78 (45.88%) Architect
1 78 (45.88%) Security Architect
2 43 (25.29%) Lead
3 30 (17.65%) Analyst
3 30 (17.65%) Security Analyst
4 28 (16.47%) Senior
5 27 (15.88%) Lead Architect
5 27 (15.88%) Lead Security Architect
6 23 (13.53%) Security Engineer
7 18 (10.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 13 (7.65%) Consultant
8 13 (7.65%) Security Consultant
9 12 (7.06%) Information Security Engineer
9 12 (7.06%) IT Architect
9 12 (7.06%) IT Security Architect
9 12 (7.06%) Security Manager
10 11 (6.47%) Senior Architect
10 11 (6.47%) Senior Security Architect
11 10 (5.88%) Information Security Analyst
11 10 (5.88%) Information Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.18%) OAuth
1 2 (1.18%) OpenID
1 2 (1.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (35.88%) Management Information System
2 46 (27.06%) Security Posture
3 45 (26.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 25 (14.71%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (8.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 15 (8.82%) Security Operations Centre
6 12 (7.06%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.71%) Cyberattack
8 7 (4.12%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.35%) PKI
10 3 (1.76%) IoT
10 3 (1.76%) NHS
10 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.18%) PMI
12 1 (0.59%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.59%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.41%) Windows
2 14 (8.24%) Android
2 14 (8.24%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.59%) Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (72.35%) Information Security
2 75 (44.12%) Cloud Security
2 75 (44.12%) Cybersecurity
3 68 (40.00%) Security Architecture
4 58 (34.12%) Application Security
5 48 (28.24%) Security Operations
6 42 (24.71%) Incident Response
7 40 (23.53%) OWASP
8 38 (22.35%) Identity Management
8 38 (22.35%) SIEM
9 36 (21.18%) Secure Coding
9 36 (21.18%) Security Management
10 34 (20.00%) Roadmaps
11 31 (18.24%) CI/CD
12 29 (17.06%) Agile
12 29 (17.06%) Identity Access Management
13 28 (16.47%) Regulatory Compliance
14 25 (14.71%) Zero Trust
15 24 (14.12%) Data Loss Prevention
16 21 (12.35%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.41%) Python
2 15 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.59%) Java
Qualifications
1 169 (99.41%) Cisco Certification
2 163 (95.88%) CISSP
3 144 (84.71%) CCSP
4 68 (40.00%) CISM
5 57 (33.53%) Azure Certification
6 55 (32.35%) CCSK
7 54 (31.76%) AWS Certification
8 48 (28.24%) Degree
9 24 (14.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 24 (14.12%) CEH
9 24 (14.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 18 (10.59%) CompTIA CySA+
10 18 (10.59%) SSCP
11 16 (9.41%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (8.82%) SANS
13 13 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (7.06%) Security Cleared
15 11 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
16 10 (5.88%) CISA
17 9 (5.29%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (64.12%) NIST
2 59 (34.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (15.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (15.88%) PCI DSS
4 18 (10.59%) GDPR
5 17 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 16 (9.41%) SOC 2
7 9 (5.29%) NIST 800
7 9 (5.29%) QA
8 5 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (2.94%) IASME
8 5 (2.94%) NCSC
9 3 (1.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (1.18%) GRC
10 2 (1.18%) ISO 22301
10 2 (1.18%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.59%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 34 (20.00%) Docker
2 15 (8.82%) Active Directory
3 14 (8.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.59%) LXC
Systems Management
1 41 (24.12%) Single Sign-On
2 34 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (8.24%) Nmap
4 4 (2.35%) CASB
5 2 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (37.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.82%) Cisco
3 14 (8.24%) Qualys
3 14 (8.24%) Rapid7
3 14 (8.24%) Splunk
3 14 (8.24%) Thycotic
4 9 (5.29%) Netskope
4 9 (5.29%) Symantec
4 9 (5.29%) Zscaler
5 8 (4.71%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (4.71%) Google
5 8 (4.71%) Palo Alto
6 7 (4.12%) CA
7 6 (3.53%) Blue Coat
7 6 (3.53%) CheckPoint
7 6 (3.53%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.18%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.18%) SAP
8 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.59%) Intel