CISSP Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing CISSP 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 2.22% - 0.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.70% - 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £565
Median % change year-on-year - - +107.34%
Gloucestershire median daily rate £738 £500 £565
% change year-on-year +47.50% -11.50% +51.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 54 176 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 60.00% 69.57% 82.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 85 87
10th Percentile £525 £413 £483
25th Percentile £553 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £733 £675 £700
90th Percentile £774 £723 £753
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £23.85
25th Percentile - - £30.38
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - £91.80
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £27.40 £30.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -8.67% -61.54% +30.00%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in Cheltenham

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing CISSP

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) PingFederate
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Ping Identity
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce