CISSP Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing CISSP 8 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.82% 2.30% -
As % of the Qualifications category 10.13% 9.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £469 £534 -
25th Percentile £498 £576 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £612 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% - -
75th Percentile £633 £609 -
90th Percentile £644 £626 -
Cheshire median daily rate £525 £575 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 79 42 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 27.82% 24.14% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 37 17
10th Percentile £309 £356 £416
25th Percentile £352 £390 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% +6.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £492 £575 £548
90th Percentile £550 £600 £587
Cheshire median daily rate £469 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -12.83% +2.48% +5.00%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in Knutsford

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing CISSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing CISSP

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in Knutsford over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in Knutsford

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) SSH
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Snyk
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Log Correlation
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Ticket Management
4 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CISM
2 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) MCSA
2 2 (25.00%) MCSE
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CISA
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) GSEC
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (12.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) CASB
2 2 (25.00%) Fluentd
2 2 (25.00%) Nessus
3 1 (12.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Cribl.io
3 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (25.00%) Remedy
3 2 (25.00%) Tenable
4 1 (12.50%) ArcSight
4 1 (12.50%) Checkmarx
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) Veracode