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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CSSLP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 904 967 1187
Rank change year-on-year +63 +220 -315
Permanent jobs citing CSSLP 3 28 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.028% 0.030%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.011% 0.084% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 41
10th Percentile - £68,500 £63,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £84,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +14.20% +39.66%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £106,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £40,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -42.86% -18.60%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,264 33,185 42,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.68% 32.68% 26.87%
Number of salaries quoted 17,216 14,890 18,866
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CSSLP in the UK

CSSLP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CSSLP over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CSSLP in the UK

CSSLP
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CSSLP within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +98 3 £85,000 -8.85% 2
England +66 3 £85,000 -8.85% 2
Work from Home +66 2 £85,000 -5.56%

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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Information Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Security Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Supply Chain Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Supply Chain Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) IT Governance
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) CCIE
2 2 (66.67%) CCIE Security
2 2 (66.67%) CCIE Service Provider
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) CISA
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CISM
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) COBIT
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce