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

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 - 1214
Rank change year-on-year - - -316
Permanent jobs citing ISSEP 4 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% - 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% - 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 11
10th Percentile £68,000 - £63,000
25th Percentile £83,750 - £65,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 - £81,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 - -
90th Percentile - - £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -16.42%

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,423 33,905 42,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.66% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 17,333 15,229 18,987
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for ISSEP in the UK

ISSEP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISSEP over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ISSEP in the UK

ISSEP
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISSEP within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England - 4 £95,000 - 1
London - 3 £95,000 -
East of England - 1 £60,000 -
UK excluding London - 1 £60,000 - 3

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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (75.00%) SOAR
2 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) ISSAP
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk