CISSP Contracts in Edinburgh

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 62 63 101
Rank change year-on-year +1 +38 +17
Contract jobs citing CISSP 5 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 1.10% 0.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.94% 5.66% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £583 £546 £440
25th Percentile £613 £563 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £595 £461
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% +29.07% -27.69%
75th Percentile £719 £608 £589
90th Percentile £738 - £636
Scotland median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 127 159 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.32% 19.51% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 89 126
10th Percentile £237 £179 £166
25th Percentile £400 £370 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £513
90th Percentile £600 £646 £606
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 5
10th Percentile £21.00 £15.43 £21.42
25th Percentile £21.61 £16.31 £21.67
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.75 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.58% -65.87% +9.47%
75th Percentile £28.38 £45.00 £54.50
90th Percentile £45.80 £60.00 £62.30
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £40.94 £21.47
% change year-on-year -44.13% +90.73% -49.57%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in Edinburgh

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for CISSP in Edinburgh

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in Edinburgh

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Security Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CEH
1 4 (80.00%) OSCP
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) GCIH
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) COBIT
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (20.00%) Qualys
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) VMware