CISSP Contracts 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 121 122
Rank change year-on-year +28 +1 +60
Contract jobs citing CISSP 25 10 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.26% 0.37% 0.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.16% 1.17% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 22
10th Percentile £379 £535 £501
25th Percentile £450 £614 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £640 £613
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% +4.49% +6.06%
75th Percentile £628 £671 £750
90th Percentile £668 £810 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £649
% change year-on-year - -7.51% +8.13%

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 601 857 899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.37% 31.84% 27.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 540 579
10th Percentile £150 £230 £279
25th Percentile £285 £325 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £613
90th Percentile £700 £682 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 69 55
10th Percentile £17.95 £13.20 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.51 £17.00 £12.91
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +23.25% -
75th Percentile £34.98 £42.50 £37.66
90th Percentile £57.05 £56.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £37.25 £40.00 £53.61
% change year-on-year -6.88% -25.39% +29.63%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in the Midlands

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CISSP in the Midlands

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in the Midlands

CISSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CISSP in the Midlands

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 22 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
West Midlands +25 21 £513 -20.54% 9
East Midlands +7 4 - - 11
CISSP
England

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (12.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) Akamai
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) Network Security
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.00%) DMZ
4 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) GitLab
2 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) JMeter
2 3 (12.00%) Postman
2 3 (12.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (12.00%) Selenium
2 3 (12.00%) TestNG
2 3 (12.00%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Legal
4 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Consultant
2 4 (16.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Security Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.00%) Information Assurance Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Information Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Service Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Tester
5 1 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Head of Security
5 1 (4.00%) Security Advisor
5 1 (4.00%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (16.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (12.00%) Operational Technology
3 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (8.00%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.00%) CCTV
5 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 9 (36.00%) SIEM
5 7 (28.00%) Incident Response
6 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (24.00%) Information Security
6 6 (24.00%) ITIL
7 5 (20.00%) Agile
7 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (16.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
8 4 (16.00%) DevOps
8 4 (16.00%) Security Operations
8 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (12.00%) API Testing
9 3 (12.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.00%) C#
4 3 (12.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) CISM
2 10 (40.00%) Degree
3 9 (36.00%) CEH
4 8 (32.00%) CISA
5 6 (24.00%) GIAC
6 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 4 (16.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (16.00%) SANS
8 3 (12.00%) ISTQB
9 2 (8.00%) CRISC
9 2 (8.00%) ISACA
9 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
9 2 (8.00%) PMP
10 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
10 1 (4.00%) CCNA
10 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (4.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (28.00%) NIST
3 4 (16.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (16.00%) GDPR
3 4 (16.00%) GRC
3 4 (16.00%) QA
4 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (8.00%) NIST 800
6 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (4.00%) ISO 31000
6 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kibana
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (8.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.00%) Proofpoint
2 2 (8.00%) Tenable
3 1 (4.00%) Ariba
3 1 (4.00%) F5
3 1 (4.00%) Imperva
3 1 (4.00%) Qualys
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow