CSSLP Contracts in the Midlands

(ISC)² Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (ISC2 CSSLP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for CSSLP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CSSLP 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.040% - 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% - 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £694
25th Percentile - - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £725
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £581 £725
% change year-on-year +11.97% -19.93% +22.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

CSSLP 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 794 823 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.38% 31.06% 25.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 522 498
10th Percentile £181 £300 £313
25th Percentile £352 £363 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -5.16% +12.11%
75th Percentile £575 £621 £613
90th Percentile £646 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 48 19
10th Percentile £17.87 £12.93 £12.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.53 £17.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +9.41% +2.79%
75th Percentile £31.00 £51.91 £31.63
90th Percentile £50.00 £53.98 £65.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

CSSLP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CSSLP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CSSLP in the Midlands

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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 CSSLP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 August 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 - 1 £800 - 2
CSSLP
England

CSSLP
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) TestDirector
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SLA