CISSP Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 202 205
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +122
Contract jobs citing CISSP 160 199 346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.28% 1.12% 1.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.98% 4.64% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 140 260
10th Percentile £450 £421 £500
25th Percentile £513 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% -5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £775
90th Percentile £843 £825 £838
England median daily rate £625 £600 £648
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.34% +7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £52.67 - £43.33
25th Percentile £63.04 - £49.44
Median hourly rate £78.40 - £60.25
75th Percentile £86.15 - £70.44
90th Percentile £91.46 - £76.18
England median hourly rate £73.31 £53.21 £72.69
% change year-on-year +37.79% -26.80% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in London

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISSP in London.

Daily rate trend for CISSP in London

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in London

CISSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CISSP in London.

Hourly rate trend for CISSP in London

CISSP
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CISSP in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CISSP in London

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -1 19 £645 +3.20% 23
South London +8 3 - -
West London +10 1 - - 4
East London -1 1 £550 -15.38% 2
North London - 1 £413 -
CISSP
England

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.63%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 49 (30.63%) Azure
2 34 (21.25%) AWS
3 18 (11.25%) GCP
4 12 (7.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 10 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.50%) SaaS
8 2 (1.25%) Akamai
8 2 (1.25%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.25%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.25%) OCI
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.63%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.50%) Network Security
2 27 (16.88%) Firewall
3 6 (3.75%) DNS
3 6 (3.75%) HTTP
4 4 (2.50%) VPN
5 3 (1.88%) DHCP
5 3 (1.88%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.88%) Wireless
6 2 (1.25%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.25%) SAN
6 2 (1.25%) SMTP
7 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.13%) JIRA
2 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.63%) Git
3 1 (0.63%) GitLab
3 1 (0.63%) Metasploit
General
1 73 (45.63%) Social Skills
2 44 (27.50%) Finance
3 21 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.50%) Legal
4 12 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (5.63%) Banking
7 5 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.50%) Law
9 3 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.25%) French Language
10 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.25%) Military
11 1 (0.63%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Police
11 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (29.38%) Architect
2 41 (25.63%) Security Architect
3 21 (13.13%) Lead
4 20 (12.50%) Analyst
5 18 (11.25%) Consultant
6 17 (10.63%) Security Consultant
6 17 (10.63%) Security Engineer
6 17 (10.63%) Senior
7 13 (8.13%) Security Manager
8 11 (6.88%) Senior Architect
8 11 (6.88%) Senior Security Architect
9 10 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 10 (6.25%) Security Analyst
10 9 (5.63%) IT Manager
10 9 (5.63%) Risk Manager
11 8 (5.00%) IT Risk Manager
12 7 (4.38%) Business Analyst
13 6 (3.75%) Enterprise Architect
13 6 (3.75%) Operations Manager
13 6 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.13%) SailPoint
2 3 (1.88%) OAuth
2 3 (1.88%) SAML
3 2 (1.25%) .NET
3 2 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.25%) LDAP
3 2 (1.25%) OpenID
3 2 (1.25%) React
4 1 (0.63%) JBoss Seam
4 1 (0.63%) Node.js
4 1 (0.63%) REST
4 1 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.75%) Management Information System
2 19 (11.88%) Security Posture
3 13 (8.13%) Insider Threat
4 10 (6.25%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.50%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.88%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.88%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.88%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.88%) PKI
8 3 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.25%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.25%) Windows
2 6 (3.75%) Linux
2 6 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.25%) AIX
3 2 (1.25%) Solaris
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (53.13%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (31.88%) Risk Management
3 46 (28.75%) Information Security
4 45 (28.13%) Cloud Security
5 44 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (25.00%) Incident Response
7 33 (20.63%) Security Architecture
8 30 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
9 28 (17.50%) Identity Access Management
10 27 (16.88%) Risk Assessment
11 26 (16.25%) Data Loss Prevention
12 25 (15.63%) SIEM
12 25 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (15.00%) Security Operations
14 23 (14.38%) Computer Science
15 19 (11.88%) Agile
15 19 (11.88%) Penetration Testing
15 19 (11.88%) SABSA
16 18 (11.25%) Roadmaps
16 18 (11.25%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.25%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.00%) Python
3 8 (5.00%) Bash
4 6 (3.75%) Java
5 3 (1.88%) PHP
6 2 (1.25%) SQL
6 2 (1.25%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.63%) C++
7 1 (0.63%) Groovy
7 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.63%) Perl
7 1 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (55.63%) CISM
2 45 (28.13%) Degree
3 36 (22.50%) CRISC
4 35 (21.88%) CISA
4 35 (21.88%) Security Cleared
5 30 (18.75%) SC Cleared
6 21 (13.13%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (11.88%) CEH
8 17 (10.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 16 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 14 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (6.88%) AWS Certification
12 11 (6.88%) GCIH
12 11 (6.88%) GIAC
13 10 (6.25%) Azure Certification
13 10 (6.25%) CCSP
14 8 (5.00%) DV Cleared
14 8 (5.00%) SANS
15 7 (4.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (44.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 71 (44.38%) NIST
2 40 (25.00%) GDPR
3 22 (13.75%) HIPAA
4 16 (10.00%) SOC 2
5 13 (8.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (7.50%) GRC
7 11 (6.88%) NIST 800
8 10 (6.25%) PCI DSS
9 8 (5.00%) SLA
10 6 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 6 (3.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (3.13%) NCSC
12 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (1.25%) COBIT
13 2 (1.25%) EU AI Act
14 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (0.63%) IAG
Systems Management
1 10 (6.25%) CASB
2 5 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.25%) Nagios
4 2 (1.25%) QRadar
4 2 (1.25%) SCCM
4 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.63%) Ansible
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.63%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.63%) Grafana
5 1 (0.63%) Nessus
5 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) Puppet
5 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (25.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.63%) CyberArk
2 9 (5.63%) Google
2 9 (5.63%) Okta
3 7 (4.38%) Qualys
3 7 (4.38%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.75%) Splunk
5 5 (3.13%) Ping Identity
5 5 (3.13%) Zscaler
6 4 (2.50%) Tenable
7 3 (1.88%) Ariba
7 3 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.88%) Darktrace
7 3 (1.88%) SAP
8 2 (1.25%) Aruba
8 2 (1.25%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.25%) Cisco
8 2 (1.25%) F5
8 2 (1.25%) Imperva
8 2 (1.25%) Infoblox