The first table below looks at the demand for CISSP in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CISSP over the 3 months to 24 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Rank - 63 60
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 0 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire - 0.688% 0.511%
As % of the Qualifications category - 2.597% 3.297%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 3
Average salary - £57,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +43.75%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Qualifications
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
168 154 91
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 28.62% 26.51% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 140 149 81
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,175 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
CISSP
West Midlands

CISSP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire CISSP Jobs Demand Trend

CISSP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CISSP across the Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire CISSP Salary Trend

CISSP
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CISSP.

1 2 (100.00%) COBIT
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) CISA
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 17799
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley

CISSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CISSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Information Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Information Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) COBIT
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 17799
2 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft