CISSP Contracts in Birmingham

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 64 66
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 +22
Contract jobs citing CISSP 9 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.72% 0.39% 1.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.52% 1.35% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £600 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -6.12% +13.95%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £625
90th Percentile £645 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £626 £613
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.24% +13.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 138 223 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.44% 28.85% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 100
10th Percentile £148 £263 £303
25th Percentile £195 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £670 £538 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £21.66 £13.48 £11.70
25th Percentile £26.38 £16.08 £12.70
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +51.92% +55.22% -19.28%
75th Percentile £54.13 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £57.05 £55.88 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in Birmingham

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISSP in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for CISSP in Birmingham

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in Birmingham

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Akamai
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Cloudflare
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) JMeter
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) TestNG
1 2 (22.22%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IAM Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Security Advisor
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Web Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 2 (22.22%) OWASP
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Security Management
4 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) CEH
2 5 (55.56%) Degree
3 4 (44.44%) CISM
4 3 (33.33%) GIAC
5 2 (22.22%) CISA
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (11.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
6 1 (11.11%) PMP
6 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (33.33%) NIST
3 2 (22.22%) GRC
3 2 (22.22%) QA
4 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
4 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) F5
1 2 (22.22%) Imperva
2 1 (11.11%) Ariba
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Qualys
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow