(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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 271 356
Rank change year-on-year -1 +85 -56
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 1,059 1,384 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.33% 1.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.87% 4.07% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 814 1,030 1,049
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +2.94% +4.62%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year - -3.61% +3.75%

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 27,370 34,026 41,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.72% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 17,307 15,226 18,969
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,776 £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 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -

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 29 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 29 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 +22 958 £72,500 +3.57% 230
UK excluding London -28 538 £60,000 - 128
London +64 465 £80,000 +6.67% 101
Work from Home -45 379 £72,500 +7.41% 117
North of England +60 156 £56,500 -5.04% 30
South West -3 121 £68,500 +1.48% 23
North West +46 106 £55,000 -4.86% 18
South East -45 102 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Midlands -44 61 £71,250 +14.00% 19
Scotland -48 48 £64,100 +6.83% 8
East of England +9 41 £54,000 -10.00% 10
West Midlands -45 39 £75,000 +25.00% 12
Yorkshire +72 36 £62,759 -3.45% 7
East Midlands +4 21 £65,750 +3.14% 7
North East +3 14 £79,842 +27.75% 5
Wales -7 4 £58,000 +9.43% 3
Isle of Man -15 4 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Northern Ireland +17 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 (0.094%) IIS
3 1 (0.094%) nginx
3 1 (0.094%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 308 (29.08%) Azure
2 201 (18.98%) AWS
3 141 (13.31%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (4.25%) GCP
5 44 (4.15%) Azure Sentinel
6 42 (3.97%) SaaS
7 35 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
8 29 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
9 27 (2.55%) PaaS
10 26 (2.46%) IaaS
11 21 (1.98%) Entra ID
12 14 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (1.23%) 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 (0.28%) Mimecast
16 3 (0.28%) OneDrive
16 3 (0.28%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 262 (24.74%) Firewall
2 135 (12.75%) Network Security
3 72 (6.80%) Intrusion Detection
4 68 (6.42%) WAN
5 56 (5.29%) TCP/IP
6 53 (5.00%) LAN
7 50 (4.72%) VPN
8 37 (3.49%) SD-WAN
9 25 (2.36%) DNS
10 22 (2.08%) Internet
10 22 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (1.61%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
12 10 (0.94%) Cisco IPT
12 10 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (0.94%) VoIP
13 7 (0.66%) 5G
14 5 (0.47%) DHCP
15 4 (0.38%) NetScaler
15 4 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.23%) Power BI
2 6 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (0.47%) Big Data
3 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.47%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.47%) Redis
4 4 (0.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.094%) AppScan
3 1 (0.094%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.094%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.094%) Snyk
3 1 (0.094%) Vagrant
General
1 298 (28.14%) Finance
2 277 (26.16%) Social Skills
3 122 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (9.54%) Legal
5 95 (8.97%) Law
6 62 (5.85%) Public Sector
7 54 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (4.25%) Military
8 45 (4.25%) Retail
9 36 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (3.40%) Telecoms
10 31 (2.93%) Manufacturing
11 27 (2.55%) Banking
12 24 (2.27%) Marketing
13 22 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.94%) Back Office
16 9 (0.85%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.85%) Automotive
16 9 (0.85%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 209 (19.74%) Analyst
2 197 (18.60%) Architect
3 150 (14.16%) Security Architect
4 148 (13.98%) Security Analyst
4 148 (13.98%) Senior
5 138 (13.03%) Security Manager
6 119 (11.24%) Consultant
7 115 (10.86%) Lead
8 107 (10.10%) Security Consultant
9 101 (9.54%) Security Engineer
10 66 (6.23%) Information Manager
10 66 (6.23%) Information Security Manager
11 58 (5.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 52 (4.91%) IT Manager
13 47 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
14 46 (4.34%) Information Analyst
14 46 (4.34%) Information Security Analyst
15 44 (4.15%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 43 (4.06%) Lead Architect
17 37 (3.49%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.42%) OAuth
2 14 (1.32%) HTML
2 14 (1.32%) SAML
3 10 (0.94%) Web Services
4 9 (0.85%) REST
5 8 (0.76%) ModSecurity
6 7 (0.66%) web3js
7 6 (0.57%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.57%) SOAP
8 5 (0.47%) Middleware
9 4 (0.38%) Kafka
10 3 (0.28%) OpenID
11 2 (0.19%) .NET
11 2 (0.19%) EDI
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
12 1 (0.094%) J2EE
12 1 (0.094%) JSON
12 1 (0.094%) LDAP
12 1 (0.094%) Lightning Web Components
12 1 (0.094%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 295 (27.86%) Management Information System
2 145 (13.69%) Security Posture
3 115 (10.86%) Cyber Threat
4 64 (6.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 59 (5.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 54 (5.10%) Cyberattack
7 51 (4.82%) Data Centre
8 36 (3.40%) Onboarding
9 35 (3.31%) Operational Technology
9 35 (3.31%) PKI
10 31 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (2.36%) Public Cloud
12 22 (2.08%) Product Ownership
13 17 (1.61%) Cloud Native
13 17 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
14 16 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (1.51%) IoT
15 13 (1.23%) Client/Server
15 13 (1.23%) iPhone
16 10 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.78%) Windows
2 38 (3.59%) Linux
3 22 (2.08%) Unix
4 14 (1.32%) Android
4 14 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.32%) Mac OS X
5 11 (1.04%) 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
1 692 (65.34%) Cybersecurity
2 577 (54.49%) Information Security
3 271 (25.59%) Risk Management
4 261 (24.65%) Incident Response
5 195 (18.41%) Security Architecture
6 192 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (18.13%) SIEM
7 179 (16.90%) Security Operations
8 173 (16.34%) Cloud Security
9 171 (16.15%) Computer Science
10 140 (13.22%) Vulnerability Management
11 136 (12.84%) Roadmaps
12 135 (12.75%) Application Security
13 131 (12.37%) Security Management
14 126 (11.90%) ITIL
15 116 (10.95%) Incident Management
16 110 (10.39%) Penetration Testing
17 106 (10.01%) Data Protection
18 90 (8.50%) Agile
19 89 (8.40%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 71 (6.70%) Python
2 45 (4.25%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.79%) Bash
3 19 (1.79%) SQL
4 8 (0.76%) Java
5 5 (0.47%) C
5 5 (0.47%) R
5 5 (0.47%) Scala
6 2 (0.19%) C#
6 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.094%) C++
7 1 (0.094%) Groovy
7 1 (0.094%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 606 (57.22%) CISM
2 324 (30.59%) Degree
3 213 (20.11%) CISA
3 213 (20.11%) Cisco Certification
4 179 (16.90%) CRISC
5 166 (15.68%) Security Cleared
6 164 (15.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 142 (13.41%) CCSP
8 125 (11.80%) CEH
9 119 (11.24%) CompTIA Security+
9 119 (11.24%) SC Cleared
10 95 (8.97%) Azure Certification
11 92 (8.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 91 (8.59%) GIAC
13 85 (8.03%) AWS Certification
14 75 (7.08%) CESG Certified Professional
15 69 (6.52%) CompTIA CySA+
16 62 (5.85%) Master's Degree
17 60 (5.67%) CCSK
18 57 (5.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 365 (34.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 324 (30.59%) NIST
3 127 (11.99%) GDPR
4 122 (11.52%) PCI DSS
5 100 (9.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 81 (7.65%) GRC
7 54 (5.10%) COBIT
7 54 (5.10%) NCSC
8 50 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 40 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 28 (2.64%) SOC 2
11 23 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 21 (1.98%) HIPAA
12 21 (1.98%) NIST 800
13 14 (1.32%) RMADS
14 11 (1.04%) JSP 440
14 11 (1.04%) QA
15 9 (0.85%) Data Quality
16 7 (0.66%) ISO 22301
16 7 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (4.72%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.21%) Docker
3 14 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.094%) LXC
7 1 (0.094%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.094%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 50 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.25%) Single Sign-On
3 24 (2.27%) Ansible
4 20 (1.89%) CASB
4 20 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.42%) Nessus
6 14 (1.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 14 (1.32%) Nmap
7 9 (0.85%) SCCM
8 5 (0.47%) Grafana
8 5 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.47%) SCOM
9 4 (0.38%) QRadar
9 4 (0.38%) Terraform
10 3 (0.28%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.28%) Suricata
11 1 (0.094%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 223 (21.06%) Microsoft
2 39 (3.68%) Splunk
3 38 (3.59%) Cisco
4 35 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.02%) Qualys
6 26 (2.46%) Palo Alto
7 23 (2.17%) Dell
8 21 (1.98%) CyberArk
9 20 (1.89%) Google
10 18 (1.70%) Oracle
11 17 (1.61%) Rapid7
12 15 (1.42%) Meraki
12 15 (1.42%) SAP
13 14 (1.32%) Alibaba
13 14 (1.32%) Thycotic
14 12 (1.13%) Citrix
15 11 (1.04%) VMware
15 11 (1.04%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.94%) CheckPoint
16 10 (0.94%) CrowdStrike