(ISC)² Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (ISC2 CSSLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CSSLP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 693 846
Rank change year-on-year +114 +153 -157
Contract jobs citing CSSLP 7 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.009% 0.022%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.054% 0.032% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 15
10th Percentile £413 £703 £543
25th Percentile £450 £706 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.97% +11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £700
90th Percentile £650 - £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £725 £611
% change year-on-year -17.24% +18.61% -2.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CSSLP 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 13,058 15,818 18,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.36% 27.19% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,064 10,556 12,460
10th Percentile £308 £330 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.62% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,068 806 768
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.23 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.46
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +24.26% +14.36%
75th Percentile £61.60 £67.50 £57.91
90th Percentile £75.55 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% -

CSSLP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CSSLP in the UK

CSSLP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CSSLP in the UK

CSSLP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CSSLP over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CSSLP in the UK

CSSLP
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CSSLP within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +111 7 £588 -18.97% 3
Work from Home +117 6 £575 -20.69% 1
London +96 6 £575 -17.86% 3
UK excluding London +64 1 £600 -17.24%
North of England - 1 £600 -
Yorkshire - 1 £600 -

CSSLP
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Multimedia
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Contracts Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Security Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Supply Chain Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security
2 4 (57.14%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) OWASP
3 3 (42.86%) Secure Coding
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Business Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Cryptography
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Dynamic Code Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Supply Chain Management
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CISSP
2 6 (85.71%) CISM
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) CCIE
4 2 (28.57%) CCIE Security
4 2 (28.57%) CCIE Service Provider
4 2 (28.57%) CCNA
4 2 (28.57%) CCNP
4 2 (28.57%) CCSP
4 2 (28.57%) CEH
4 2 (28.57%) CISA
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (28.57%) CREST Certified
4 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) COBIT
3 2 (28.57%) ISO 22301
3 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) IBM