CISSP Contract Job Trends in Chester

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CISSP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.49% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 5.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £563 £550 £688
% change year-on-year +2.27% -20.06% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 38 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 28.36% 23.08% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 6
10th Percentile £365 - £320
25th Percentile - - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £458
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -29.00% -8.45%
75th Percentile £588 £463 £497
90th Percentile £688 £650 £619
Cheshire median daily rate £465 £422 £450
% change year-on-year +10.19% -6.22% -6.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £22.30 £36.55 -
25th Percentile £27.24 £55.10 -
Median hourly rate £32.23 £86.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.53% - -
75th Percentile £35.02 - -
90th Percentile £36.03 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £36.26 £32.50 £20.33
% change year-on-year +11.57% +59.86% -49.18%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in Chester

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing CISSP

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk