CISSP Contract Job Trends in Leeds

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 61 66
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +19
Contract jobs citing CISSP 8 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.77% 0.73% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.29% 2.37% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £581 £472 £505
25th Percentile £591 £487 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £622 £569 £538
90th Percentile £624 £588 £545
West Yorkshire median daily rate £613 £525 £620
% change year-on-year +16.67% -15.32% +10.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 243 169 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.30% 30.73% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 131 124
10th Percentile £313 £300 £288
25th Percentile £424 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £492 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £548
90th Percentile £675 £600 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £492 £485
% change year-on-year -3.46% +1.44% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £19.62 - -
25th Percentile £19.69 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £27.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -6.29% +83.33% -50.04%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in Leeds

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CISSP

CISSP
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CISSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CISSP

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Security Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (50.00%) OWASP
2 4 (50.00%) Security Management
2 4 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) CISM
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (50.00%) CCSP
3 4 (50.00%) CEH
3 4 (50.00%) OSCP
4 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (25.00%) CRISC
5 2 (25.00%) PMI Certification
5 2 (25.00%) PMP
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (12.50%) CCNA
6 1 (12.50%) CCNP
6 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) NIST
2 4 (50.00%) COBIT
2 4 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (25.00%) GRC
4 1 (12.50%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco