CISSP Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 27 40
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing CISSP 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 1.04% 1.65% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.17% 2.11% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £476 -
25th Percentile £675 £477 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £508 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% - -
75th Percentile £725 £536 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £563 £550 £667
% change year-on-year +2.27% -17.54% -4.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Basingstoke

CISSP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 257 142 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 89.24% 78.02% 82.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 126 45
10th Percentile - £406 £421
25th Percentile £500 £479 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £620
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -7.26% +3.33%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £721 £738
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £550 £591
% change year-on-year -2.27% -6.88% +2.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £24.65
25th Percentile - £34.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile - £36.00 £33.75
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £23.58 £35.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -32.64% -41.67% -

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CISSP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

CISSP job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing CISSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing CISSP

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) S/MIME
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
1 3 (100.00%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
1 3 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) GIAC
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Thales