(ISC)² Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISC2 ISSEP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ISSEP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 701 835
Rank change year-on-year +121 +134 -146
Contract jobs citing ISSEP 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.013% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.20%
75th Percentile £713 - £713
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £675
% change year-on-year - - +10.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ISSEP 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 13,062 15,771 18,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.38% 27.24% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,064 10,528 12,395
10th Percentile £307 £330 £331
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 £627
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 1,069 814 765
10th Percentile £13.82 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.45 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% +2.12%

ISSEP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ISSEP in the UK

ISSEP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ISSEP in the UK

ISSEP
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISSEP within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 - 2 £675 - 1
Work from Home +118 1 £675 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 - - 3
South East - 1 - - 1

ISSEP
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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk