CISSP Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 105 83
Rank change year-on-year -19 -22 +74
Contract jobs citing CISSP 40 27 51
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.29% 1.08% 1.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.70% 3.78% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 44
10th Percentile £413 £500 £455
25th Percentile £441 £550 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £615
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +0.81% +18.27%
75th Percentile £705 £635 £741
90th Percentile £793 £788 £768
England median daily rate £537 £625 £618
% change year-on-year -14.08% +1.21% -1.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,081 715 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.97% 28.50% 29.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 432 502
10th Percentile £258 £263 £271
25th Percentile £400 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £663 £720 £687
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 31 42
10th Percentile £17.02 £17.00 £17.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.15 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.92 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.13% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CISSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CISSP

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in the Midlands

CISSP
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CISSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CISSP

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Midlands -13 30 £650 +2.36% 8
East Midlands -17 10 £437 -27.17% 5
CISSP
England

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (12.50%) GCP
4 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (7.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.50%) IaaS
8 1 (2.50%) PaaS
8 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) Firewall
2 6 (15.00%) Network Security
3 5 (12.50%) DNS
3 5 (12.50%) VPN
4 4 (10.00%) BGP
4 4 (10.00%) IPv4
4 4 (10.00%) IPv6
4 4 (10.00%) LAN
4 4 (10.00%) MPLS
4 4 (10.00%) OSPF
4 4 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 4 (10.00%) VXLAN
4 4 (10.00%) WAN
4 4 (10.00%) WLAN
5 3 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (7.50%) DHCP
5 3 (7.50%) EIGRP
5 3 (7.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (7.50%) VLAN
5 3 (7.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Power BI
1 5 (12.50%) Tableau
2 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) TestDirector
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 7 (17.50%) Architect
3 6 (15.00%) Lead
3 6 (15.00%) Network Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 4 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) SailPoint Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Security Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (5.00%) SIEM Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Build Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) IT Security Officer
7 1 (2.50%) Operations Director
7 1 (2.50%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) SailPoint
2 4 (10.00%) REST
2 4 (10.00%) SOAP
3 2 (5.00%) OAuth
4 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.50%) LDAP
4 1 (2.50%) Lucene
4 1 (2.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.00%) PKI
3 3 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.50%) SCADA
4 2 (5.00%) CSOC
4 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.50%) MISP
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 14 (35.00%) Agile
4 11 (27.50%) Zero Trust
5 9 (22.50%) Cloud Security
5 9 (22.50%) Security Operations
6 8 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 7 (17.50%) AI
7 7 (17.50%) Analytics
7 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (17.50%) Information Security
7 7 (17.50%) IT Audit
8 6 (15.00%) Anomaly Detection
8 6 (15.00%) Kanban
8 6 (15.00%) Network Architecture
8 6 (15.00%) Network Design
8 6 (15.00%) Security Architecture
9 5 (12.50%) DevSecOps
9 5 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.00%) BeanShell
3 4 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.50%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (67.50%) CISM
2 13 (32.50%) Degree
3 11 (27.50%) CISA
4 9 (22.50%) GIAC
5 8 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
7 6 (15.00%) CCIE
7 6 (15.00%) CCNP
7 6 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (12.50%) AWS Certification
8 5 (12.50%) CEH
9 4 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (10.00%) CCSP
9 4 (10.00%) CREST Certified
10 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
10 3 (7.50%) CCIE Security
10 3 (7.50%) CRISC
10 3 (7.50%) PCI QSA
11 2 (5.00%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (45.00%) NIST
2 17 (42.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (22.50%) PCI DSS
4 8 (20.00%) GDPR
5 7 (17.50%) COBIT
5 7 (17.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 7 (17.50%) NIST 800
6 4 (10.00%) QA
7 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
9 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Ansible
1 6 (15.00%) RSA Archer
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.00%) QRadar
4 1 (2.50%) Fluentd
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Kibana
4 1 (2.50%) logstash
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Rsyslog
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 7 (17.50%) Rapid7
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.00%) Palo Alto
4 5 (12.50%) Alteryx
5 4 (10.00%) Cisco
5 4 (10.00%) F5
5 4 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (10.00%) Meraki
6 3 (7.50%) SolarWinds
6 3 (7.50%) VMware
7 2 (5.00%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.00%) Forcepoint
7 2 (5.00%) Juniper
7 2 (5.00%) Splunk
8 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.50%) IBM
8 1 (2.50%) SAP
8 1 (2.50%) Tenable
8 1 (2.50%) Workday