(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 274 360
Rank change year-on-year +3 +86 -64
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 1,051 1,389 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 1.33% 1.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.85% 4.05% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 810 1,030 1,048
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £54,063 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £102,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,569
% change year-on-year - -0.94% +0.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,286 34,290 41,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.76% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 15,306 18,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CISSP.

Salary trend for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISSP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +27 951 £71,858 +2.65% 209
UK excluding London -23 534 £60,000 - 118
London +59 462 £80,000 +6.67% 94
Work from Home -46 376 £72,500 +7.41% 112
North of England +78 154 £56,500 -5.83% 25
South West +10 120 £68,500 +1.48% 23
North West +51 104 £55,000 -4.86% 16
South East -21 102 £55,000 -8.33% 29
Midlands -52 61 £71,250 +16.33% 18
Scotland -63 48 £64,100 +6.83% 9
East of England +6 41 £54,000 -10.00% 8
West Midlands -51 39 £75,000 +25.00% 12
Yorkshire +75 36 £62,759 -3.45% 6
East Midlands +3 21 £65,750 +3.14% 6
North East +5 14 £79,842 +27.75% 3
Isle of Man -15 4 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Wales -6 3 £55,250 +4.25% 3
Northern Ireland +18 1 £57,500 +32.95% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

CISSP
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (0.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.19%) Apache
3 1 (0.095%) IIS
3 1 (0.095%) nginx
3 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 307 (29.21%) Azure
2 200 (19.03%) AWS
3 141 (13.42%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (4.28%) GCP
5 44 (4.19%) Azure Sentinel
6 42 (4.00%) SaaS
7 35 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 29 (2.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 27 (2.57%) PaaS
10 26 (2.47%) IaaS
11 21 (2.00%) Entra ID
12 14 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (1.24%) Power Platform
14 6 (0.57%) Azure Service Fabric
14 6 (0.57%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.38%) Amazon S3
15 4 (0.38%) Serverless
16 3 (0.29%) Mimecast
16 3 (0.29%) OneDrive
16 3 (0.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 261 (24.83%) Firewall
2 133 (12.65%) Network Security
3 72 (6.85%) Intrusion Detection
4 68 (6.47%) WAN
5 56 (5.33%) TCP/IP
6 53 (5.04%) LAN
7 50 (4.76%) VPN
8 37 (3.52%) SD-WAN
9 24 (2.28%) DNS
10 22 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (2.00%) Internet
12 17 (1.62%) Wireshark
13 10 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
13 10 (0.95%) Cisco IPT
13 10 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (0.86%) VoIP
15 6 (0.57%) 5G
16 5 (0.48%) DHCP
17 4 (0.38%) NetScaler
17 4 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.24%) Power BI
2 6 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (0.48%) Big Data
3 5 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.48%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.48%) Redis
4 4 (0.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (1.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.095%) AppScan
3 1 (0.095%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.095%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.095%) Snyk
3 1 (0.095%) Vagrant
General
1 294 (27.97%) Finance
2 276 (26.26%) Social Skills
3 121 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (9.61%) Legal
5 94 (8.94%) Law
6 62 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 53 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (4.28%) Military
8 45 (4.28%) Retail
9 36 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
10 35 (3.33%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.95%) Manufacturing
12 27 (2.57%) Banking
13 23 (2.19%) Marketing
14 22 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.95%) Back Office
17 9 (0.86%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.86%) Automotive
17 9 (0.86%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 209 (19.89%) Analyst
2 196 (18.65%) Architect
3 150 (14.27%) Security Architect
4 148 (14.08%) Security Analyst
5 145 (13.80%) Senior
6 138 (13.13%) Security Manager
7 119 (11.32%) Consultant
8 114 (10.85%) Lead
9 107 (10.18%) Security Consultant
10 99 (9.42%) Security Engineer
11 66 (6.28%) Information Manager
11 66 (6.28%) Information Security Manager
12 58 (5.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 52 (4.95%) IT Manager
14 47 (4.47%) Senior Analyst
15 46 (4.38%) Information Analyst
15 46 (4.38%) Information Security Analyst
16 43 (4.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 42 (4.00%) Lead Architect
18 37 (3.52%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.43%) OAuth
2 14 (1.33%) HTML
2 14 (1.33%) SAML
3 10 (0.95%) Web Services
4 9 (0.86%) REST
5 8 (0.76%) ModSecurity
6 7 (0.67%) web3js
7 6 (0.57%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.57%) SOAP
8 5 (0.48%) Middleware
9 4 (0.38%) Kafka
10 3 (0.29%) OpenID
11 2 (0.19%) .NET
11 2 (0.19%) EDI
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
12 1 (0.095%) J2EE
12 1 (0.095%) LDAP
12 1 (0.095%) Lightning Web Components
12 1 (0.095%) RESTful
12 1 (0.095%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 295 (28.07%) Management Information System
2 144 (13.70%) Security Posture
3 115 (10.94%) Cyber Threat
4 64 (6.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 59 (5.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 54 (5.14%) Cyberattack
7 51 (4.85%) Data Centre
8 36 (3.43%) Onboarding
9 35 (3.33%) Operational Technology
9 35 (3.33%) PKI
10 31 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.28%) Public Cloud
12 22 (2.09%) Product Ownership
13 17 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
14 16 (1.52%) Cloud Native
14 16 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (1.52%) IoT
15 13 (1.24%) Client/Server
15 13 (1.24%) iPhone
16 10 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.85%) Windows
2 38 (3.62%) Linux
3 22 (2.09%) Unix
4 14 (1.33%) Android
4 14 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.33%) Mac OS X
5 11 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.38%) CentOS
6 4 (0.38%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.38%) Solaris
6 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.38%) zOS
7 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (65.56%) Cybersecurity
2 575 (54.71%) Information Security
3 268 (25.50%) Risk Management
4 261 (24.83%) Incident Response
5 194 (18.46%) Security Architecture
6 192 (18.27%) SIEM
7 191 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
8 177 (16.84%) Security Operations
9 171 (16.27%) Cloud Security
10 169 (16.08%) Computer Science
11 140 (13.32%) Vulnerability Management
12 136 (12.94%) Roadmaps
13 134 (12.75%) Application Security
14 130 (12.37%) Security Management
15 124 (11.80%) ITIL
16 116 (11.04%) Incident Management
17 109 (10.37%) Penetration Testing
18 104 (9.90%) Data Protection
19 90 (8.56%) Agile
20 89 (8.47%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 70 (6.66%) Python
2 45 (4.28%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.81%) Bash
4 18 (1.71%) SQL
5 7 (0.67%) Java
6 4 (0.38%) C
6 4 (0.38%) R
6 4 (0.38%) Scala
7 2 (0.19%) C#
7 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.095%) C++
8 1 (0.095%) Groovy
8 1 (0.095%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 602 (57.28%) CISM
2 322 (30.64%) Degree
3 213 (20.27%) Cisco Certification
4 211 (20.08%) CISA
5 177 (16.84%) CRISC
6 166 (15.79%) Security Cleared
7 164 (15.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 142 (13.51%) CCSP
9 125 (11.89%) CEH
10 119 (11.32%) CompTIA Security+
10 119 (11.32%) SC Cleared
11 95 (9.04%) Azure Certification
12 91 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 91 (8.66%) GIAC
13 85 (8.09%) AWS Certification
14 75 (7.14%) CESG Certified Professional
15 69 (6.57%) CompTIA CySA+
16 62 (5.90%) Master's Degree
17 60 (5.71%) CCSK
18 56 (5.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 364 (34.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 321 (30.54%) NIST
3 125 (11.89%) GDPR
4 122 (11.61%) PCI DSS
5 100 (9.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 80 (7.61%) GRC
7 54 (5.14%) COBIT
8 53 (5.04%) NCSC
9 50 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 40 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 27 (2.57%) SOC 2
12 23 (2.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 21 (2.00%) HIPAA
13 21 (2.00%) NIST 800
14 14 (1.33%) RMADS
15 11 (1.05%) JSP 440
15 11 (1.05%) QA
16 9 (0.86%) Data Quality
17 7 (0.67%) ISO 31000
17 7 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.24%) Docker
3 14 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.095%) LXC
7 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 50 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.28%) Single Sign-On
3 24 (2.28%) Ansible
4 20 (1.90%) CASB
4 20 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.43%) Nessus
6 14 (1.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 14 (1.33%) Nmap
7 9 (0.86%) SCCM
8 5 (0.48%) Grafana
8 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.48%) SCOM
9 4 (0.38%) QRadar
9 4 (0.38%) Terraform
10 3 (0.29%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.29%) Suricata
11 1 (0.095%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 223 (21.22%) Microsoft
2 39 (3.71%) Splunk
3 38 (3.62%) Cisco
4 34 (3.24%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.04%) Qualys
6 26 (2.47%) Palo Alto
7 23 (2.19%) Dell
8 21 (2.00%) CyberArk
9 20 (1.90%) Google
10 18 (1.71%) Oracle
11 17 (1.62%) Rapid7
12 15 (1.43%) Meraki
12 15 (1.43%) SAP
13 14 (1.33%) Alibaba
13 14 (1.33%) Thycotic
14 12 (1.14%) Citrix
15 11 (1.05%) VMware
15 11 (1.05%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.95%) CheckPoint
16 10 (0.95%) CrowdStrike