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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 71 66
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing CISSP 8 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.77% 0.46% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.03% 1.45% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £581 £475 £560
25th Percentile £591 £496 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £536 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -10.62% -4.00%
75th Percentile £622 £571 £625
90th Percentile £624 £588 £640
West Yorkshire median daily rate £613 £536 £670
% change year-on-year +14.21% -19.96% +11.67%

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 264 207 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 25.26% 31.41% 24.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 156 130
10th Percentile £363 £350 £288
25th Percentile £420 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £591 £549 £538
90th Percentile £688 £663 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £19.69 - £19.05
25th Percentile £26.99 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 - £34.50
75th Percentile - - £46.50
90th Percentile - - £52.35
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Security Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
1 2 (25.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Information Security
3 3 (37.50%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (25.00%) OWASP
4 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (25.00%) Programme Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Security Management
4 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) CISM
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CCSP
3 2 (25.00%) CEH
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CRISC
3 2 (25.00%) OSCP
3 2 (25.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (25.00%) PMP
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) NIST
2 5 (62.50%) PCI DSS
3 3 (37.50%) GDPR
3 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (25.00%) COBIT
4 2 (25.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft