CISSP Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CISSP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.88% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
Central London median daily rate £610 £630 £613
% change year-on-year -3.17% +2.86% -5.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14 10 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 34.15% 18.18% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 10
10th Percentile £350 £388 £173
25th Percentile £400 £416 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £454 £358
Median % change year-on-year +12.46% +26.85% -40.42%
75th Percentile £644 £484 £575
90th Percentile £650 £514 £621
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - -
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £39.47
% change year-on-year -15.38% -17.65% -8.48%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing CISSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing CISSP

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster - 2 £650 -
CISSP
Central London

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) CASP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SELinux