CISSP Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 28 31
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 -
Contract jobs citing CISSP 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.88% 0.58% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.88% 1.82% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £538 - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £450
75th Percentile £706 - -
90th Percentile £733 - -
North West median daily rate £600 £680 £676
% change year-on-year -11.76% +0.59% +39.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 51 55 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 14.96% 31.79% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 33 33
10th Percentile £154 £171 £166
25th Percentile £186 £213 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% +16.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £639 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £673 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 16
10th Percentile £18.30 £14.52 £12.54
25th Percentile £20.25 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.44 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.61% -3.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £34.24
90th Percentile £28.90 £18.72 £44.16
North West median hourly rate £52.78 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year +62.38% +102.37% -59.85%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in Merseyside

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing CISSP

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in Merseyside over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in Merseyside

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
Liverpool -19 3 £625 - 2
CISSP
North West

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response Lead
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CREST Certified
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) GCFA
2 1 (33.33%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk