CCSA Contracts

Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 674 823
Rank change year-on-year +108 +149 -112
Contract jobs citing CCSA 13 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.018% 0.021%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.10% 0.065% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 7
10th Percentile £455 £385 £396
25th Percentile £500 £500 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £558 £675 £525
90th Percentile £575 - £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% +41.18% +15.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCSA is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,878 15,332 19,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.88% 27.19% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,012 10,240 12,718
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,103 747 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.72 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.57
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.41 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +14.01%

CCSA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCSA.

Daily rate trend for CCSA in the UK

CCSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCSA.

Hourly rate trend for CCSA in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCSA within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +104 12 £525 -12.50% 6
UK excluding London +56 11 £525 -12.50% 3
Work from Home +108 6 £525 -12.50% 3
South East +14 5 £543 -9.58%
North of England +31 3 £525 -12.50% 3
North West +17 2 £525 -12.50% 2
London +98 1 £525 +31.25% 3
Scotland +40 1 £525 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
Midlands - 1 £525 -
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
East of England - 1 £450 -

CCSA
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:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Network Security
2 9 (69.23%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (46.15%) Cisco ISE
3 6 (46.15%) Firewall
3 6 (46.15%) VPN
4 5 (38.46%) LAN
4 5 (38.46%) WAN
4 5 (38.46%) Wireless
5 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (53.85%) Incident Management
3 5 (38.46%) Service Management
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Change Management
5 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
5 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) SIEM
6 1 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) CCNP
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
3 7 (53.85%) JNCIA
4 3 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (23.08%) CCIE
4 3 (23.08%) CCNA
4 3 (23.08%) CCSE
4 3 (23.08%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (76.92%) Palo Alto
3 7 (53.85%) Juniper
4 6 (46.15%) Blue Coat
5 3 (23.08%) AlgoSec
5 3 (23.08%) F5
5 3 (23.08%) Fortinet