The first table below looks at the demand for CISSP in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CISSP over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Rank 58 77 79
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +2
Contract jobs citing CISSP 12 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.446% 0.376% 0.095%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.797% 1.176% 0.260%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £550 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £475 £410
% change year-on-year
-10.52% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.38 -
All Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
207 340 385
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.94% 31.95% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 130 132
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £220 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 10
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -5.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
CISSP
Berkshire

CISSP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CISSP across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Reading CISSP Jobs Demand Trend

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CISSP across the Reading region.

Reading CISSP Daily Rate Trend

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CISSP across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading CISSP Daily Rate Histogram

CISSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing CISSP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CISSP.

1 20 (80.00%) CISA
1 20 (80.00%) Information Security
2 19 (76.00%) CISM
3 10 (40.00%) Firewall
3 10 (40.00%) SQL
3 10 (40.00%) Symantec
3 10 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (40.00%) Network Security
4 6 (24.00%) Finance
5 5 (20.00%) Tivoli
5 5 (20.00%) CA
5 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 5 (20.00%) Oracle
5 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (20.00%) CCSA
5 5 (20.00%) PCI DSS
5 5 (20.00%) CESG
5 5 (20.00%) CESG CLAS
5 5 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 5 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (16.00%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
7 3 (12.00%) UNIX
7 3 (12.00%) Windows
7 3 (12.00%) Internet
7 3 (12.00%) Project Management
7 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
7 3 (12.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (12.00%) CCSE

CISSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing CISSP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CISSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.000%) J2EE
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) Firewall
1 10 (40.00%) Network Security
2 3 (12.00%) Internet
2 3 (12.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.000%) VPN
3 2 (8.000%) SSL
3 2 (8.000%) LAN
3 2 (8.000%) WAN
3 2 (8.000%) IPsec
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.000%) Legal
3 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Consultant
2 9 (36.00%) Risk Consultant
3 5 (20.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Security Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Security Support Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) Information Security Consultant
6 2 (8.000%) Network Consultant
6 2 (8.000%) Network Security Consultant
6 2 (8.000%) Designer
7 1 (4.000%) Information Security Architect
7 1 (4.000%) Compliance Manager
7 1 (4.000%) Security Manager
7 1 (4.000%) Business Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Information Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) CESG
1 5 (20.00%) CESG CLAS
2 2 (8.000%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) UNIX
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Information Security
2 5 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 5 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 4 (16.00%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (12.00%) Project Management
4 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.000%) Data Protection
5 2 (8.000%) Data Architecture
5 2 (8.000%) V-Model
5 2 (8.000%) Security Architecture
5 2 (8.000%) Test Strategy
5 2 (8.000%) Database Security
5 2 (8.000%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (8.000%) Data Modelling
5 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.000%) ITIL
6 1 (4.000%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.000%) Software Testing
6 1 (4.000%) IT Governance
6 1 (4.000%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (80.00%) CISA
2 19 (76.00%) CISM
3 5 (20.00%) CCSA
3 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (12.00%) CCSE
6 2 (8.000%) ISEB
7 1 (4.000%) SSCP
7 1 (4.000%) GIAC
7 1 (4.000%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Symantec
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) CA
2 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (8.000%) Cisco
3 2 (8.000%) Juniper
3 2 (8.000%) Blue Coat
3 2 (8.000%) Sourcefire
3 2 (8.000%) F5