CISSP Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 238 220
Rank change year-on-year +13 -18 +92
Contract jobs citing CISSP 287 349 577
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.18% 0.96% 1.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.76% 3.12% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 245 422
10th Percentile £424 £425 £486
25th Percentile £506 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £649
Median % change year-on-year - -7.51% +8.13%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £750
90th Percentile £750 £819 £835
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £49.60 £29.04 £56.90
25th Percentile £51.25 £38.10 £62.60
Median hourly rate £72.91 £53.21 £72.98
Median % change year-on-year +37.03% -27.10% +8.12%
75th Percentile £79.60 £68.31 £74.59
90th Percentile £84.90 £77.37 £81.38
UK median hourly rate £73.31 £23.00 £72.98
% change year-on-year +218.74% -68.48% +7.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,623 11,179 13,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.46% 30.71% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,841 6,938 8,950
10th Percentile £281 £313 £335
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 970 675
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -25.02% +30.35%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.28 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.15 £77.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -27.27% +25.14%

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 21 May 2025.

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 21 May 2025.

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 21 May 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
London +2 160 £650 +4.00% 283
South East +63 47 £550 +2.09% 111
Midlands +30 25 £513 -19.29% 22
South West +17 25 £600 +9.09% 48
West Midlands +22 21 £513 -20.54% 9
North of England -1 13 £625 +8.70% 71
East of England +29 7 £519 -9.74% 17
North West -11 7 £680 +0.59% 39
Yorkshire +14 5 £600 +6.67% 17
East Midlands +13 4 - - 12
North East -5 1 £625 +19.05% 16
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 8 (2.79%) Confluence
2 2 (0.70%) TPMS
3 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (25.78%) Azure
2 46 (16.03%) AWS
3 28 (9.76%) GCP
4 17 (5.92%) Azure Sentinel
5 13 (4.53%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (2.44%) SaaS
8 6 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.05%) Akamai
10 3 (1.05%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.05%) Cloudflare
10 3 (1.05%) OCI
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.70%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.35%) PaaS
12 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (17.42%) Firewall
2 41 (14.29%) Network Security
3 9 (3.14%) DNS
3 9 (3.14%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (3.14%) VPN
4 6 (2.09%) HTTP
5 5 (1.74%) DHCP
5 5 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.39%) Wireless
7 2 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.70%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.70%) SAN
7 2 (0.70%) SMTP
7 2 (0.70%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) LTE
8 1 (0.35%) PPP
8 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (4.18%) JIRA
2 4 (1.39%) Git
2 4 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.05%) GitLab
3 3 (1.05%) JMeter
3 3 (1.05%) Postman
3 3 (1.05%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.05%) Selenium
3 3 (1.05%) TestNG
3 3 (1.05%) Travis CI
4 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.35%) Metasploit
General
1 131 (45.64%) Social Skills
2 59 (20.56%) Finance
3 56 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.15%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.27%) Legal
6 15 (5.23%) Banking
7 13 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.79%) Military
10 7 (2.44%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.09%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.39%) Law
14 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.05%) French Language
14 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.05%) Retail
15 2 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
15 2 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (26.13%) Architect
2 62 (21.60%) Security Architect
3 38 (13.24%) Security Engineer
4 33 (11.50%) Consultant
5 31 (10.80%) Senior
6 28 (9.76%) Analyst
6 28 (9.76%) Security Consultant
7 24 (8.36%) Lead
8 23 (8.01%) Security Manager
9 12 (4.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 12 (4.18%) Senior Architect
9 12 (4.18%) Senior Security Architect
10 11 (3.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 11 (3.83%) IT Manager
10 11 (3.83%) Security Analyst
11 10 (3.48%) Enterprise Architect
11 10 (3.48%) Information Manager
12 9 (3.14%) Risk Manager
12 9 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.79%) IT Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.44%) SailPoint
2 6 (2.09%) OAuth
2 6 (2.09%) SAML
2 6 (2.09%) Web Services
3 4 (1.39%) LDAP
3 4 (1.39%) OpenID
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Axis
4 3 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.70%) .NET
5 2 (0.70%) Kafka
5 2 (0.70%) React
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss Seam
6 1 (0.35%) Node.js
6 1 (0.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.07%) Management Information System
2 35 (12.20%) Security Posture
3 18 (6.27%) Operational Technology
4 15 (5.23%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (4.53%) Insider Threat
6 11 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.14%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.14%) Security Operations Centre
8 8 (2.79%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.09%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.39%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.39%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.39%) PKI
11 4 (1.39%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.70%) IBM Mainframe
12 2 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.36%) Windows
2 18 (6.27%) Linux
3 9 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.09%) zOS
5 5 (1.74%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.70%) AIX
7 2 (0.70%) Solaris
8 1 (0.35%) Android
8 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (51.92%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (32.75%) Risk Management
3 80 (27.87%) Information Security
4 79 (27.53%) Incident Response
5 77 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (20.56%) Cloud Security
7 56 (19.51%) SIEM
8 51 (17.77%) Security Architecture
9 50 (17.42%) Vulnerability Management
10 43 (14.98%) Computer Science
11 40 (13.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (13.59%) Security Operations
13 38 (13.24%) Risk Assessment
14 37 (12.89%) Roadmaps
15 35 (12.20%) Agile
16 33 (11.50%) Identity Access Management
17 32 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
18 30 (10.45%) Data Loss Prevention
19 29 (10.10%) TOGAF
20 28 (9.76%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (10.80%) PowerShell
1 31 (10.80%) Python
2 13 (4.53%) Bash
3 10 (3.48%) Java
4 6 (2.09%) SQL
5 3 (1.05%) C#
5 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.05%) PHP
5 3 (1.05%) Ruby
6 2 (0.70%) C++
6 2 (0.70%) Perl
6 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.35%) Groovy
7 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 149 (51.92%) CISM
2 82 (28.57%) Degree
3 74 (25.78%) Security Cleared
4 58 (20.21%) CISA
4 58 (20.21%) SC Cleared
5 46 (16.03%) CEH
6 44 (15.33%) CRISC
7 38 (13.24%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (10.10%) CompTIA Security+
9 27 (9.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 23 (8.01%) GIAC
11 22 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (7.32%) DV Cleared
13 18 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (5.92%) CCSP
15 16 (5.57%) GCIH
15 16 (5.57%) SANS
16 15 (5.23%) Azure Certification
17 13 (4.53%) OSCP
18 12 (4.18%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (40.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 111 (38.68%) NIST
3 62 (21.60%) GDPR
4 29 (10.10%) PCI DSS
5 28 (9.76%) HIPAA
6 21 (7.32%) GRC
7 17 (5.92%) SOC 2
8 14 (4.88%) NIST 800
9 13 (4.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 13 (4.53%) NCSC
10 12 (4.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (3.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (2.79%) SLA
13 7 (2.44%) JSP 440
14 6 (2.09%) COBIT
14 6 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (2.09%) QA
15 5 (1.74%) RMADS
16 4 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 17 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.09%) Docker
2 6 (2.09%) RACF
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) NFS
4 1 (0.35%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (3.83%) CASB
2 10 (3.48%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.39%) QRadar
5 3 (1.05%) CSIRT
5 3 (1.05%) Kibana
5 3 (1.05%) Nessus
6 2 (0.70%) Ansible
6 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.70%) SELinux
6 2 (0.70%) Terraform
7 1 (0.35%) Grafana
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.35%) OPNET
7 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.53%) CyberArk
3 11 (3.83%) Google
4 10 (3.48%) Okta
4 10 (3.48%) Splunk
5 8 (2.79%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.44%) IBM
6 7 (2.44%) Qualys
6 7 (2.44%) Tenable
7 6 (2.09%) Zscaler
8 5 (1.74%) Cisco
8 5 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (1.74%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.39%) Ariba
9 4 (1.39%) Aruba
9 4 (1.39%) F5
9 4 (1.39%) Oracle
9 4 (1.39%) SAP
9 4 (1.39%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.05%) Infoblox