CISSP Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 251 316
Rank change year-on-year +14 +65 -28
Contract jobs citing CISSP 361 560 610
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.98% 1.11% 0.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.12% 3.99% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 400 419
10th Percentile £425 £500 £456
25th Percentile £500 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £741 £721
90th Percentile £784 £823 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 14
10th Percentile £29.04 £40.45 £36.21
25th Percentile £38.10 £57.61 £53.91
Median hourly rate £53.21 £72.69 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.80% +7.69% +3.85%
75th Percentile £68.31 £74.20 £70.81
90th Percentile £77.37 £79.48 £80.57
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £72.40 £67.50
% change year-on-year -68.23% +7.25% +5.47%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CISSP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in England

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CISSP in England

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in England

CISSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CISSP in England.

Hourly rate trend for CISSP in England

CISSP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CISSP in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CISSP in England

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London -3 200 £625 -3.85% 95
South West +30 49 £575 -11.54% 23
North of England +46 40 £575 +4.55% 24
North West +28 29 £676 +22.91% 15
South East -37 23 £529 -21.63% 29
Midlands +9 19 £626 +2.24% 18
West Midlands +20 18 £626 +2.24% 12
Yorkshire +18 8 £575 -6.12% 6
East of England +11 6 £600 +50.00% 8
North East - 3 £525 - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
CISSP
UK

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.28%) IIS
4 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 78 (21.61%) Azure
2 45 (12.47%) AWS
3 26 (7.20%) Azure Sentinel
4 22 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (4.71%) GCP
6 15 (4.16%) Entra ID
6 15 (4.16%) SaaS
7 14 (3.88%) IaaS
8 8 (2.22%) PaaS
9 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.83%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.55%) GitHub
10 2 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.55%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.28%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.28%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 48 (13.30%) Network Security
2 34 (9.42%) Firewall
3 8 (2.22%) SAN
4 7 (1.94%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.66%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (1.39%) DNS
6 5 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.39%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.11%) Internet
8 2 (0.55%) Broadband
8 2 (0.55%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.55%) HTTP
8 2 (0.55%) SNMP
8 2 (0.55%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) DHCP
9 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.28%) FTP
9 1 (0.28%) VPN
9 1 (0.28%) WAN
9 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.39%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.11%) Big Data
4 3 (0.83%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.55%) MySQL
5 2 (0.55%) Power BI
6 1 (0.28%) DB2
6 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Artifactory
1 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.83%) JIRA
2 2 (0.55%) Git
3 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 86 (23.82%) Finance
2 77 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 51 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.65%) Banking
6 20 (5.54%) Manufacturing
7 16 (4.43%) Financial Institution
8 15 (4.16%) Legal
8 15 (4.16%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.22%) Marketing
9 8 (2.22%) Military
10 7 (1.94%) Local Government
10 7 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.66%) French Language
12 5 (1.39%) Electronics
13 4 (1.11%) German Language
13 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.11%) Retail
14 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Police
Job Titles
1 97 (26.87%) Architect
2 81 (22.44%) Security Architect
3 66 (18.28%) Analyst
4 41 (11.36%) Lead
5 40 (11.08%) Security Engineer
6 39 (10.80%) Consultant
7 35 (9.70%) Security Analyst
8 34 (9.42%) Security Consultant
9 32 (8.86%) Security Manager
10 28 (7.76%) Project Manager
11 22 (6.09%) Senior
12 21 (5.82%) Security Project Manager
13 15 (4.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 14 (3.88%) SOC Analyst
14 14 (3.88%) SOC Engineer
15 13 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 12 (3.32%) Information Security Consultant
16 12 (3.32%) Risk Analyst
17 11 (3.05%) Lead Architect
17 11 (3.05%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.22%) OAuth
2 7 (1.94%) SailPoint
2 7 (1.94%) SAML
3 6 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.66%) OpenID
4 5 (1.39%) LDAP
5 4 (1.11%) Regular Expression
6 3 (0.83%) REST
7 2 (0.55%) J2EE
7 2 (0.55%) JSON
7 2 (0.55%) ModSecurity
7 2 (0.55%) Node.js
7 2 (0.55%) Servlets
7 2 (0.55%) SPML
7 2 (0.55%) XACML
7 2 (0.55%) XML
8 1 (0.28%) EJB
8 1 (0.28%) SOAP
8 1 (0.28%) Spring
8 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (21.33%) Management Information System
2 40 (11.08%) Security Posture
3 30 (8.31%) Security Operations Centre
4 23 (6.37%) Cyber Threat
5 20 (5.54%) Cyber Defence
6 13 (3.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 12 (3.32%) Operational Technology
8 9 (2.49%) PKI
9 8 (2.22%) CESG
9 8 (2.22%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.94%) Cyberattack
10 7 (1.94%) PMI
11 6 (1.66%) Cyber Security Posture
11 6 (1.66%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.39%) SCADA
13 4 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (1.11%) IoT
13 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.83%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.82%) Windows
2 12 (3.32%) Linux
3 4 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) AIX
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) CentOS
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (57.06%) Cybersecurity
2 143 (39.61%) Information Security
3 94 (26.04%) Risk Management
4 73 (20.22%) Security Architecture
5 69 (19.11%) SIEM
6 68 (18.84%) Cloud Security
7 63 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (16.34%) Security Operations
9 52 (14.40%) Incident Response
10 45 (12.47%) Computer Science
11 42 (11.63%) Identity Access Management
12 37 (10.25%) SABSA
12 37 (10.25%) TOGAF
13 36 (9.97%) Project Management
14 32 (8.86%) Security Management
15 30 (8.31%) Risk Assessment
16 29 (8.03%) Data Protection
17 28 (7.76%) Agile
17 28 (7.76%) Information Security Management
18 26 (7.20%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.16%) Python
2 13 (3.60%) Kusto Query Language
3 11 (3.05%) SQL
4 10 (2.77%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.94%) Java
6 4 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.83%) Bash
7 3 (0.83%) Perl
8 1 (0.28%) ABAP
8 1 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 226 (62.60%) CISM
2 107 (29.64%) CISA
3 83 (22.99%) Security Cleared
4 82 (22.71%) Degree
5 65 (18.01%) SC Cleared
6 58 (16.07%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (14.13%) CRISC
8 46 (12.74%) CEH
9 41 (11.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 39 (10.80%) CompTIA Security+
11 35 (9.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (8.03%) DV Cleared
13 24 (6.65%) SANS
14 22 (6.09%) GIAC
15 21 (5.82%) CCSK
16 17 (4.71%) CCNP
17 15 (4.16%) CISMP
18 14 (3.88%) CCSP
18 14 (3.88%) Master's Degree
19 12 (3.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (30.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 109 (30.19%) NIST
2 31 (8.59%) NCSC
3 29 (8.03%) GDPR
4 24 (6.65%) PCI DSS
5 23 (6.37%) COBIT
6 22 (6.09%) GRC
6 22 (6.09%) NIST 800
7 16 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 11 (3.05%) HIPAA
9 10 (2.77%) JSP 440
10 8 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (2.22%) RMADS
11 7 (1.94%) ISO 22301
12 6 (1.66%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (1.66%) QA
13 5 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (1.39%) ISO 31000
14 4 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 15 (4.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.83%) Docker
3 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.28%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 6 (1.66%) Kibana
1 6 (1.66%) logstash
1 6 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.39%) Nessus
2 5 (1.39%) QRadar
2 5 (1.39%) Terraform
3 4 (1.11%) PingFederate
4 2 (0.55%) Ansible
4 2 (0.55%) CASB
4 2 (0.55%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.55%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.28%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 87 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.26%) Cisco
3 16 (4.43%) Splunk
4 11 (3.05%) Google
5 8 (2.22%) SAP
6 7 (1.94%) Oracle
7 6 (1.66%) AlienVault
7 6 (1.66%) Qualys
7 6 (1.66%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.39%) ArcSight
8 5 (1.39%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.39%) Okta
9 4 (1.11%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.11%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.11%) Symantec
10 3 (0.83%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.55%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.55%) Carbon Black
11 2 (0.55%) Cybereason
11 2 (0.55%) Workday