CISSP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 77 92
Rank change year-on-year -36 +15 +12
Contract jobs citing CISSP 7 15 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.30% 1.16% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.19% 3.56% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £512 £165 £511
25th Percentile £525 £308 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £638 - £603
90th Percentile £690 £525 £609
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £84.50 -
England median hourly rate £86.11 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +49.76% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 589 421 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.52% 32.56% 28.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 162 152
10th Percentile £183 £198 £201
25th Percentile £400 £363 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.60% -6.10%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £650 £588
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 141 134
10th Percentile £17.29 £16.30 £16.30
25th Percentile £40.75 £18.87 £23.51
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -30.23% +104.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £67.85
England median hourly rate £52.52 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +108.82% -54.27% -

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in the East of England

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CISSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CISSP

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in the East of England

CISSP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CISSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CISSP

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 September 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -20 3 £625 +151.00% 3
Cambridgeshire -1 2 £550 - 2
Bedfordshire 0 1 £710 +42.00% 4
Suffolk -10 1 £505 -8.18% 2
CISSP
England

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (14.29%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Security Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) e-Learning
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
1 5 (71.43%) Security Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) Programme Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) SABSA
3 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
4 2 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (28.57%) Privileged Identity Management
4 2 (28.57%) Programme Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CISM
2 3 (42.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (42.86%) CCSP
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) CRISC
4 1 (14.29%) ISACA
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) ISA99
2 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Zscaler
3 1 (14.29%) Apple
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) IFS
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow