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 1 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 61 76
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 +22
Contract jobs citing CISSP 4 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.66% 0.55% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.00% 2.25% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £472 £510 £510
25th Percentile £487 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +12.00%
75th Percentile £569 - £698
90th Percentile £588 - £770
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +28.00%

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 200 178 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 33.00% 24.28% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 134 142
10th Percentile £350 £354 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £548 £688
90th Percentile £650 £600 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £38.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +29.17% +66.67%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in Leeds

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 and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CIMA
2 1 (25.00%) CISA
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) GCIH
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) GRC
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (25.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk